Tuesday, 27 September 2016

"Facebook friends of Syrian refugee marrying female British aid worker from Calais Jungle"

The story of a Syrian refugee who contacted British aid worker, 17 years his senior, was reunited using Facebook. They last studied together in Syria, and so suspicions grew from friends whether their love was genuine, that refugee Hamoude Kahlil was simply using Sarah for citizenship. The fact of Sarah Gayton (as pointed out by the article) lives in a £800,000 home in Chiswick, west London, perhaps makes their assumptions more plausible, yet still discriminating and prejudice in a way.

  • Over 3 million refugees have fled from Syria
  • 6.6 million are displaced
  • estimated 20,000 Syrian refugees in UK
Point being, social network Facebook has helped these two reunite and keep in touch, genuine love or not it is not anybody's business, and they do not pose a threat. What however poses a threat are for example Islam extremists/radicals/ISIS, who shamelessly put up posts of recruitment, therefore from any humane point of view people have every right to say there is a moral panic and that this form of contact is an issue. Prime examples include from late last year, November 2015, where two teens fled Austria to join ISIS, and were later 'beaten to death for trying to escape from Syria'. A similarly shocking story which also happened most, most recently in August this year, was when an ISIS bride, only 17 from the UK, was killed while again trying to flee from Syria. 

Bottom line of things, ISIS and these young girls had been together, influenced by the power of social networks like Facebook, and perhaps as a result Facebook will need to better their monitoring. 

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