{"id":25552,"date":"2018-02-02T16:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=25552"},"modified":"2018-02-02T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T16:45:24","slug":"new-tv-documentary-uniting-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/new-tv-documentary-uniting-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"New TV Documentary on Uniting Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC One West Midlands will broadcast a new TV show on February 2 at 7.30pm in how to turn strangers into friends which will be led by a woman whose family have suffered anti-Muslim violence<\/p>\n<p>Aysha Iqbal is a community worker determined to change that.<\/p>\n<p>She wants to bring people together regardless of race or religion.<\/p>\n<p>Her own family have suffered anti-Muslim violence and she has been promoting integration all her life.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the Westminster attack Aysha was in London giving a talk on empowering Muslim Women.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a backlash against Muslims, Aysha returned to Birmingham and organised a peace vigil to denounce terrorism and attempt to unite the city.<\/p>\n<p>Aysha tells the programme: \u201cOur city is strong and undivided and stands against extremism in all its guises.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary follows Aysha as she tries to bring the two communities together and the hurdles she faces along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC One West Midlands will broadcast a new TV show on February 2 at 7.30pm in how to turn strangers into friends which will be led by a woman whose family have suffered anti-Muslim violence Aysha Iqbal is a community worker determined to change that. She wants to bring people together regardless of race or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112,109],"tags":[761],"class_list":["post-25552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","category-tv-soap","tag-ayesha-iqbal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}