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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

— Taslima Nasrin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

— Barack Obama

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

— Billy Corgan

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— Nouriel Roubini

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— Mohamed ElBaradei

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

— Maajid Nawaz

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

— Muhammad Yunus

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

— Hooman Majd

I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.

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