Mo Farah isn’t who he says he is

[SnottyLottie]

news.sky.com/story/sir-mo-farah-reveals-the-truth-about-how-he-came-to-the-uk-12650126

My mind is actual blown after reading that. Poor man to have to go through such an ordeal. I wonder what ever happened to the real Mohammad Farah? ☹️

Hope this doesn’t effect his citizenship or anything.

We really don't appreciate how privileged we are in this country.

I'm looking at DD now and imagining her at the age of 10. It's heartbreaking.

Very courageous of him to speak out. It would be great if this changed people's attitude to asylum seekers but sadly the way things are going I don't think that's likely.

At the end of the day we are all human and I don't think most of us can begin to imagine being in a situation where you have to send your young child away to what you think is safety only for them to be exploited.

It must make his family life here with his wife and kids all the more precious.

It would have been an ideal opportunity for Nadim
Zahawi to praise his teachers, wouldn't it?

The BBC article says he was sent to school when he was 12 and eventually confided in his PE teacher who contacted Social Services and arranged for him to be fostered into a Somali family. So he was with the original family for at least 3 years, having arrived when he was 9.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62123886

Oh OK it could be my tragic hidden backstory detector. Is that better? Although actually what he was telling us was bullshit wasn't it.

Oh OK it could be my tragic hidden backstory detector. Is that better? Although actually what he was telling us was bullshit wasn't it.

What is the need? He doesn't need to air his traumatic family history to you.

@ancientgran 'course you did, whilst the whole world was celebrating Mo and the London Olympics, You alone were thinking "mmmmm something dodgy about him.. dark skin? i don't know but i don't believe him"

Mo Farrah is proving yet again, what an error it is to have such harsh policies toward people fleeing war etc.

😂

Exactly. He must have lived in fear of one of the tabloids getting hold of the story and plastering it all over the place. This way, he has has had control over where, when and how his story has been told.

I wondered if his motivation for talking about this is the the CV Rwanda policy. But maybe he was trying to get one step ahead of the tabloids.

I think my remarks have been taken out of context. When I wrote that I felt he didn't come across well in interviews - I mean I always felt he was entitled, arrogant, ready to ignore allegations about his cheating coach. Not that he was hiding some massive secret.

That's not what was said.

Under our rules he wouldn't have been accepted any other way. Our rules are often wrong. He was lucky in that the lie he had to live under opened up citizenship.

What's it got to do with Zahawi? He's Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Whatever any background to this may be, my DC are around the age he was when he came here, I can't even imagine, absolutely horrific.

Can't imagine what he endured at 9, separated from his mother and treated like a domestic servant in a hostile household. All the more reason why people traffickers need to be deterred.

His dm features on the programme it'll be interesting to hear her side, had she tried to contact him for years via the list of names he'd been given or what I wonder.

He has a knighthood, I would have thought they would have picked it up as believe they do some sort of vetting. It is very sad and I am sure unfortunately quite common.

@Phos
Yeah he's been Chancellor for all of 6 days!
Prior to this he was Secretary of State for Education.

Well, if all you do is deter the traffickers, where does that leave people like Mo Farrah?

Its all very well saying they must stay in the first safe country they arrive in but thats hardly fair and leads to terrible conditions for refugees to live in, Spain/Greece do not have the wealth to care for them all.

We need to open up means for people to come here, France has offered to set up a processing centre but the UK has refused to discuss it.

In many cases, its the actions of the US and UK that have led to so many people fleeing conflict - Afghanistan, Libya & Iraq.

I agree but I also wonder about other children who must have trafficked who didn’t have his ‘luck’.

'Well, if all you do is deter the traffickers, where does that leave people like Mo Farrah?'

Well not being a domestic servant, unloved in a foreign country at 9yrs old separated from his dm for starters. Yes he went on to Olympic glory but that is of course the exception not the norm, most don't get saved by PE teachers and l bet most do not live happily ever after. The trafficking is the problem here not the fact he kept his true identity secret.

I know I shouldn't have read the Daily Mail comments but I did.

There are people out there that want to punish and criminalize children that have been trafficked into slavery.

These people exist. They walk among us.

But he has and before that he told another story and because I felt something was off about it I didn't feel comfortable with what he was saying. Sorry I detected something not right about it all.

I looked too out of sheer nosiness...I genuinely can't believe so many people unashamedly really think like that! It's actually quite scary.

What a load of bull. I don't believe a word of what you have said.

So sad. What happened to him and carrying that, through life, pretending something different. What a world.

I can't bring myself to read the Daily Mail comments, but I can imagine what they're like. It's hard to believe that people are so lacking in compassion for innocent children who have been so horribly exploited.

Some people are just vile, though, and utterly lacking in humanity. I used to work with children who had been trafficked. Their stories were horrific. They had been so much, and yet they still had to endure so much hate and discrimination, even in a supposedly safe haven. Its sickening.