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Show empathy to the situation of others. UK unrest 2 Look at the consequences of actions and how a community can be damaged. Investigate conflict in communities, showing sensitivity. Consider how diversity groups in society can come together in the aftermath of a tragedy. Values focus – mutual respect and tolerance, rule of law, individual liberty.
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In 2011, there was unrest in Birmingham city centre, part of wider riots across the UK. The three innocent gentlemen below were killed by a car that hit them as they protected property from the rioters.
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Watch the video clip at the bottom of the webpage below, showing a speech from the father of one of the men killed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14481061 What do you notice about the father’s speech? Why do you think the speech was so powerful? Tariq Jahan is non-judgmental. He is not seeking revenge. His concern is to avoid further injury or suffering. He speaks of people as one, irrespective of race or ethnicity. Do you think this is unusual? Do Tariq's words have greater power and authority because of his devastating personal loss?
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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wrote a poem, Birmingham, for Tariq Jahan. Explore different levels of tone and the meaning of "nobody's children" in the last line. After the evening prayers at the mosque, came the looters in masks, and you three stood, beloved in your neighbourhood, brave, bright, brothers, to be who you were – a hafiz is one who has memorised the entire Koran; a devout man – then the man in the speeding car who purposefully mounted the kerb … I think we all should kneel on that English street, where he widowed your pregnant wife, Shazad, tossed your soul to the air, Abdul, and brought your father, Haroon, to his knees, his face masked in only your blood on the rolling news where nobody's children riot and burn.
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