Muslims are a small minority in Trinidad and Tobago – around five percent. The majority are of Indian descent, although there is a growing number of Muslims hailing from the African population.

At midday, after a two-hour wait for crates of bottled water and vats of petrol to load, the horn blows and the ferry slowly chugs away from the port at Kingstown, the capital of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

One of the greatest ironies that has come out of our contemporary existence is how we have managed to make an infinitely interconnected, globalised world filled with unimaginably closeminded individuals and communities.