Younis acknowledges that she doesn't match the stereotype of a "typical" special agent. Sometimes, she will be sitting in a company waiting room when her interview subject enters. "They look around the room and ask the secretary, 'Where's the FBI agent?' It's happened a few times. Some people might get annoyed. To me, it's really funny."From an interesting article about Foria Younis, the daughter of a Pakistani Muslim family who comes originally from Hackney and is now an FBI agent.
Although she is unusually valuable to the FBI as a Muslim woman, the power of her agency badge, she finds, trumps all other aspects of her identity. "When you tell people you're FBI, everything else - whether you're male or female, your height, your colour - becomes secondary. That FBI identity is very powerful." ...Read the rest.She shies away from only one line of questioning - how she sees British Muslim society. Asked if she could have taken the same path if her family had not emigrated, perhaps joining MI5 or Scotland Yard, she frowns. She is anxious not to wrong her country of birth, but wants to acknowledge the debt she feels she owes to America.