To think that you can not blame police if you take your daughter on extremist rallies.

[Amylovesgalaxyeggs]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3027035/Father-runaway-jihadi-schoolgirl-filmed-burning-flag-protest-admits-attending-says-took-daughter-demonstration-just-13.html

It just gets worse and worse doesn't it. I can't beleive this family has the cheek to blame schools, police and border forces when the cause of his daughter going to Syria is your own fault.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3027035/Father-runaway-jihadi-schoolgirl-filmed-burning-flag-protest-admits-attending-says-took-daughter-demonstration-just-13.html

Will try and find another news article

I don' think yabu.

Posters are going to complain you didn't put a daily mail link warning in the thread title though.

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4402901.ece

They can see it's a dm link before clicking on it thought. It's not a hidden link.

Seeing a variety of articles about this family and their extremism makes me wonder if they really are unhappy about the daughter's decision, or if they are just trying to avoid the focus being on them.

I think radicalisation doesn't happen in a vacuum. Either the girls were in a vulnerable home environment or their families were that way inclined anyhow. I feel someone who is secure in themselves would be less likely to get radicalised, and that would mean a supportive home environment.

I've linked to the times as well

They are the problem. Complete arrogance on their part to assume this would never come out.

It is arrogance and greed I suspect they would of sued for compensation if it wasn't for this coming out.

YANBU at all. The "poor us" mentality, wanting sympathy as the shocked family "how can this have happened to us". The arrogance that they thought all this would never come out, just sickens me.

Why is there such a reluctance to accept responsibility for ones own actions, ones own influence for good or bad that you have on your DC as a parent. OK this is the very extreme end of that but in all sorts of other ways too people just won't take responsibility.

It pisses me off that they got an apology. Although I do suspect the police knew and it was a pr stunt, so they looked like they were supporting the family till it came out.

The mock shock, is designed to spread the fear that no one can tell where the threat will come from. Its designed to make everyone else feel that it can happen anywhere at anytime and you can't predict where or when. Its a terror tactic on its own. It is also, as pp, said a way to try and bleed more money out of the country.

I don't like the flag burning but I don't think a protest outside the Saudi embassy = supporting terrorism.

Given the Saudi record on human rights I'm sure you'll find all sorts of people have done that- Peter Tatchell for example on several occasions.

Another DM article on this?

This thread discusses, at length, issues when his attendance at demonstrations was first reported.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2342027-To-not-be-the-least-bit-suprised-by-this-Jihadi-schoolgirls

If the only rally he took her on was to protest the Saudi human rights record.against Africans, then that is a long way from extremist.

However his own views certainly need a lot more scrutiny. And obviously it is not the fault of the police!

I've been to loads of anti war demos and US flags are often burned. I am no extremist.
Flags were burned at the huge Feb 15th 2003 demo. That didn't make the million or so attending extremists.
Also, the demo outside the Saudi embassy was about the Saudi treatment of Ethiopians so irrelevant.
I didn't think the police should have apologised tho.

I feel that if Amira has any brothers or sisters then they need taking into care. Clearly the father has no concept of keeping his children safe from harm if he take his kids to such extreme protests with extreme preachers.

I suspect that the Amira's parents are complicit with the girls going to Syria.

I have been on a few demos, none involving burning anything. I think burning books and flags makes demonstrators look deranged.

I think flag burning is a disgrace. No peaceful protest can retain the 'peaceful' tag, when flags are being burned.

A flag is only a piece of material. The issue with certain protestors is the speakers who incite hatred and violence. No decent parent would take a child to such a demo knowingly. Or if there is an extremist speaker at a demo then a decent parent would take their children home.