I arrange to meet Sagheer Afzal, author of The Reluctant Mullah, after meeting him at a book signing in Leicester. He is well mannered and eager to to talk about his book which has been recently been published. Fed up with the books he was reading, the former  Science teacher, Afzal took up writing as a therapeutic exercise to escape the harsh and often abusive environment of the secondary school classroom.
The story follows the antics of dreamer and ever the optimist, Musa – who after a silly prank made in …