Khaliyl, 35, musician:

"Where I grew up, in Battersea, we were influenced by Hip-Hop. It was a rebellious form of expression. And artists like Chuck D referred to black leaders turning to Islam, like Farrakhan. We would listen to tapes of Farrakhan's speeches, and they weren't racist, they had Hip-Hop's fire. So when a Jamaican guy dressed in robes came and talked about the Quran at the night-clubs, we were curious. He started pointing out the discrepancies in the Bible, and my dad is a pastor at the Pentecostal church in Brixton so I grew up reading the Bible. I had to know more, and when I read the Quran, it was like a blueprint of myself. Suddenly, we were thug youth being welcomed to Muslim circles and invited to speakers' corner."