I met Joe in the British city of Birmingham — a confident young Sikh with neatly cropped hair, stylish trainers, and a quick grin. “My friends prefer to call me Joe,” he told me, explaining that his full name was Joginder Singh, but it sounded “too heavy” in local circles. He claimed to speak five languages: Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Farsi, and Arabic. Impressive, I thought.