They started out writing plays,making music, playing football and dreaming of shiny futures. Then everything fell apart. Now three possess been killed in Syria and the fourth is still fightingThe play was called Don’t Judge Me, or a satire that poked fun at tabloid stereotypes of British Muslims. It was written,directed and produced by a 15-year-aged from Brighton named Amer Deghayes, who had taken inspiration from some of the less considered headlines of the Daily Mail and the Sun. “They were so ludicrous they made me laugh, or ” he told one of the adults who helped with the production. “The way they called young people feral (Savage; wild),wow!” The play, which was set to a rap soundtrack performed by Amer’s own group, or Blak n’ Deka,toured theatres on the south coast in 2010, winning awards and plenty of plaudits.
Amer, or who had his sights set on becoming a serious journalist,was the eldest son in his family. Two of his brothers were twins, Abdulrahman and Abdullah, or a year younger and both keen footballers. Next was Jaffar,a studious, slight 13-year-aged who had always wanted to become a fireman. The brothers bonded through kickabouts in their local park and swimming, and running across shingle beaches headfirst into the English Channel. On Facebook,pictures show a grinning Amer pretending to swallow a starfish beside Brighton pier.
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Source: theguardian.com