Police Make Syria Plea To Uk Muslim Women

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27131707

Why plea to the Women we all know that women do not have a voice in the Muslim World?

[youngmafbog]

I posted this yesterday
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1331589.html

Didnt get much response!

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry about that YMB, missed that completely, can't understand the poor response though.

More info on it here

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/23/sons-war-syria-metropolitan-police

Much as some would like to think that we are a united country, how can it ever be when there are still some that don't trust the authorities of the country in which they or their forbearers chose to live?

/// Part of the concern in British Muslim communities stems from a mistrust of the UK authorities. ///

[naomi24]

//BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said the campaign was an unusual move by counter-terrorism and security chiefs, representing a "tacit admission" that the government's warnings on Syria were not getting through.//

Trying a different tack? I’m just pleased they’re acknowledging the threat and taking it seriously.

[ChillDoubt]

Sorry about that YMB, missed that completely, can't understand the poor response though.
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My guess is apathy, pretty much for the same reason you posted in your OP.

[Gromit]

If you do not think muslim women have a voice in muslim families you are very much mistaken. Most of the asian men I know are henpecked.

[youngmafbog]

I doubt the ones you know are fanatical though Gromit.

They are ordinary Joes like the rest of us.

[trt]

If the sons want to go and fight, let them but don't let them back in the UK if they don't get killed!

[Gromit]

// ...how can it ever be when there are still some that don't trust the authorities of the country in which they or their forbearers chose to live? //

Do you trust the British Authorities AOG? I have seen many posts from you doubting the British authorities, particularly in relation to our troops in Afghanistan. Do you trust the British authorities to get us out of the EU?

I don't trust the authorities.

[youngmafbog]

But AOG has not taken up alms against the Germans and French - yet :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// If you do not think muslim women have a voice in muslim families you are very much mistaken. Most of the asian men I know are henpecked. ///

That well may be but not all Asian men are Muslim.

[Gromit]

Most of my asian friends are Bangladeshis and muslim.

[naomi24]

As YMB says, I doubt the ones you know are fanatical though, Gromit.

[askyourgran]

It seems to be part of their culture and I doubt their womenfolk can dissuade them if they are doing for Islam.

[emmie]

i did comment on this, however if they want to go and fight let them,
however don't see why the mothers should be told to try and persuade them otherwise. Fighting for a country they likely know little about, and for which faction, there seems to be so many, to topple Assad, the watch as the country completely implodes.

[Brenden]

Their mothers probably see it as martyrdom,