Hate is on both sides,on many levels, whether you admit it or not.
You live in U.K so i understand why you wont like those questions......i would be very uncomfortable if some white bigot view me with suspicions just because i am going to mosque or have beard. And about ethnicity, why you should respond so rudely? Quran says it is for pehchan, you are born with it, wear it like a badge. Some people merely use it for identity , some organize themselves into a community on the basis of this identity, again nothing wrong with it.....you live in europe, you know better how people of same culture and origin prefer to cling with each other when they are away from their original homelands, it gives them warmth , the matter is of trust and reliability......it comes natural to you
Want to hear something funny?
When someone in the UK asks those questions, i will tell them that I am a practicing Muslim, openly and freely.
Because the people here are far more civilized, their minds are WAY above the mentality of racial division, ethnic fault lines, religious conflicts.
That little part of my post about identity, that's what I would say in Pakistan. Here I can say it, without any effect.
Oh and I am ever so sorry if I come across as rude, I do not mean to be. This stuff gets my blood boiling, to see such petty differences making people throttle each other in our great nation.
Sure, of course, the ethnicity and races, like to keep to each other, sure, fine. But where ego comes in, that's where it all goes wrong. Bhai, listen closely, because if there's one thing in life I've learnt, only one thing, it's to control one's ego in all situations, even in your thoughts,
ego should be beaten to an absolute minimum. You see where ego becomes involved, you have people looking down on other races, claiming superiority of their's and that leads to division.
Is there any wonder why in our nation we kill each other over such little differences, we are 'the land of the pure' not 'the land of the Punjabis, the Pukhtun, the Sindhi, the Baloch, the Muhajir etc etc'
You are a pukhtun, be proud of it, but do not let your
ego (nafs) take control of your identity and better judgement.