The Web Sheikh and the Muslim Mums
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How much do mums know about the messages being preached to their children? BBC World Service journalist Shaimaa Khalil meets a group of Muslim mums in London to talk about the everyday fears of parents who worry that extreme interpretations of Islam, often via online preachers, may be infecting the minds of their sons and daughters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Ma'hma, nice to meet you. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, I'm Shaima Khalillo. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm in a house in North London with a group of mothers, |
| 0:09.0 | and if you're looking from the outside, |
| 0:11.0 | this could easily look like a book or film club to you but we're here to talk |
| 0:15.5 | about their children and Islam. My name is Amal I came in this country 27 years ago I |
| 0:21.9 | got four children the oldest one she's 20, the second one is 13, 12 and 10. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah and it feels like Switzerland with all the greenery. My name is Daga. I came here like when I was six. I've got two kids. One is seven and the other one is four. |
| 0:38.0 | My name is Sadjida. I came to the UK in 1967. I have three children. I'm also a grandmother two or three |
| 0:48.6 | year old. My name is Sarah and I came to this country a long time ago in 1973. I have seven |
| 0:57.0 | kids halls together. I'm Nadia. I've been here since 72. My kids, I mean, they're just British Asians. |
| 1:06.5 | All the mothers here are Muslim. We've come together to discuss how they talk to their |
| 1:10.4 | children about their faith and their fears that their children might |
| 1:14.3 | become radicalized. Why are you still in the West? What does the West have to offer you? |
| 1:18.4 | Why does that filthy despicable country have to offer you? |
| 1:21.4 | Nothing for this. I'm with just a new brothers. |
| 1:24.0 | You all know who you are. |
| 1:25.0 | Up north Midlands, wherever you may be, the sincere brother. |
| 1:28.0 | Come to jihad and feel the honor we are feeling. |
| 1:30.0 | Feel the happiness that we're feeling. |
| 1:33.0 | Come to the lands of jihad, live amongst us. |
| 1:36.0 | Voices from extremist groups intent on the violent destruction of Western society |
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