This man deserves a 'peace price'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.thesun.co....ending-community.html

Seeing and hearing this fathers voice of reason on TV last night, puts the whole of this rioting into insignificance.

Here is a man who has just lost his son, murdered by a gang of vicious savages in a hit and run episode.

This man's son along with two other Asians were mowed down by a gang of blacks just for the hell of it.

But did Tariq Jahan and his family march on the police station demanding answers, as some others did which in turn sparked off a nationwide riot?

No, but instead in his time of grief, he went out onto the street to appeal to his community for calm and not to start a race riot between Asians and blacks.

He should be nominated for a 'peace price'.

[jackthehat]

Prize, even?

[Gromit]

// I would have thought 'words of sanity' was praise enough. //

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I am interested why it has taken you 3 days to conclude what everyone was saying on thursday.

We have already had 2 threads on him.

http://www.theanswerb...094.html#.TkaDEnOlA5g

http://www.theanswerb...065.html#.TkaCj3OlA5g

[hc4361]

I very much admire this man and his family.
He reminds me of the man whose daughter was killed in the bombing in Enniskillen, Gordon Wilson.

[Frank97]

I see that three people have been arrested over the incident, I hope the police do a better job of getting a conviction han they did with this case
http://www.burnham-on.../police-15-7-05.shtml
Both denied they were driving at the time even though one of them was seen on cctv not 200yds before the accident and the police failed to get a conviction.
Seems to me that if all three deny they were driving they'll get away with it.

[Brenden]

Why should it interest you Gromit, it is nothing to do with you what AOG does, and yes I remember the whole of that thread.

[Brenden]

Did we not agree not to sink to low levels when discussing this mans bravery.

[Mamyalynne]

Apologies if this has already been posted, but it moved me.


After the evening prayers at the mosque,

came the looters in masks,

and you three stood,

beloved in your neighbourhood,

brave, bright, brothers,

to be who you were –

a hafiz is one who has memorised

the entire Koran;

a devout man –

then the man in the speeding car

who purposefully mounted the kerb …





I think we all should kneel

on that English street,

where he widowed your pregnant wife, Shazad,

tossed your soul to the air, Abdul,

and brought your father, Haroon, to his knees,

his face masked in only your blood

on the rolling news

where nobody's children riot and burn.

Carol Ann Duffy

[Gromit]

That is brilliant mamyalynne. Very powerful, thank you for posting it.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes I thought it was very profound too Gromit.

[Brenden]

What is it with you housemouse, responding to a thread is not compulsory, I would not dream of hounding an aber to reply to something, what he does is his own business the same as yours. As I said to Gromit, we agreed not to sink to low levels when discussing this man.

[boxtops]

That poem is excellent - this is what the Poet Laureate is supposed to do, compose words for current important events.

[Brenden]

I am content with my views and I am sure you are and AOG is with his, no problem. But to argue on this page when you feel this man is so brave is ridiculous.