This bit pissed me off: "The council does not employ a single full-time official to deal specifically with the needs of Brighton’s Muslim community."
Why the feck should they?
I don't imagine the council need an official to specifically deal with the needs of The Jewish/Catholic/Hindu/Buddhist/Jedi lot so why do Muslims need one?
I spent a good half hour reading that article and what I got from is that a troubled family with a bully Dad produced a couple of shitty kids who were bullied and then became bullies. Had no direction as they dossed about in school and caused too much trouble to get anywhere in life.
Spent a lot of time watching Islamic (maybe extremist?) videos online, were likely influenced by (extremist) family members and fecked off to Syria to try and find some purpose in life. Unfortunately the 'good' brother followed suit, that's the only tragedy in the story. He could have done alright.
It looked as though the council and police worked very hard to try and sort them out but the bully Dad, weak Mum and scared kids didn't allow any work to be done.
Quite.
This might make some people on here fall over in shock but what I took out of that article was firstly that it is dripping in bias - the racist attacks and NF chapter are presented as fact but the Dad's abuse isn't even though the family was rehoused. Probably got libel laws to thank for that one. Secondly they weren't radicalised by Brighton - they were radicalised by shitty parenting.