How Islam conquered my mother’s fear of cats

She’d always found them evil and scary, but when I wanted a cat in lockdown I appealed to my mum’s faithCats are perfect to most people, but not to my 42-year-old mother. She is just like any of my 17-year-old friends’ parents – she is spirited, sparky, generous and can be feisty when she needs to be. She cooks arguably the best chicken parmesan in the world, and also has impeccable taste in Bollywood music. But there is one annoying trait that makes her different from th