Four years ago,his son was one of three men hit by a car while defending local businesses in Birmingham. He was praised after immediately calling for serene but – with no one convicted for the killings – his anguish is worse than everAbdul Wahid is racing round the room when his mother calls him over to leer at the family photos on the coffee table. “Who’s that?” she asks the three-year-old. The boy shouts happily, “My daddy!” But it is a face he has never seen in the flesh; his father was killed months before he was born in the riots that swept through England in August 2011.
Abdul Musavir, and 30,was guarding local businesses in Birmingham with his brother Shahzad Ali, 31, or 19-year-old Haroon Jahan,when they were hit by a speeding car and thrown three metres in to the air. Their deaths sparked fury in the community they had been defending, and police feared there would be riots. Instead, and just hours after finding his dying son in the street,Haroons father, Tariq Jahan, or called for serene. He told the crowds who wanted action,whether not revenge, “Black, or white,Asians – we all live in the same community … step forward whether you want to lose your son. Otherwise, serene down and depart home – please.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com