{"id":8287,"date":"2015-06-29T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/29\/humza-arshads-extremism-tour\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:16:08","slug":"humza-arshads-extremism-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/29\/humza-arshads-extremism-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Humza Arshad\u2019s Extremism Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famous for his YouTube comedy videos, Humza Arshad has now turned his attention to a tour to deter schoolgirls from joining extremism. The tour is being backed by the families of female students that have already fled to Syria. <\/div>\n

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The Diary of a Badman star has already attracted worldwide attention after teaming up with the Metropolitan Police.<\/div>\n

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So far, he has so far visited around 40 London schools and reached more than 20,000 pupils.<\/div>\n

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The internet star, who is friends with the brother of one of the missing Bethnal Green Academy pupils believed to have joined Islamic State, said their disappearance increased his \u201cpersonal motivation\u201d to do something.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI found out (that the girls had gone missing) two days before we started the tour. I wouldn\u2019t say it was the perfect time but it\u2019s so important right now because…\u00a0 as you can see, there\u2019s been such an increase in people flying off.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cA big part is social media. They put out those propaganda videos… a lot of parents these days can\u2019t monitor what their kids are watching … I\u2019m not going to blame the parents. It\u2019s hard in this day and age to know what your kids are doing. They (the girls\u2019 families) are supporting what I\u2019m doing and I support them as well.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Described recently by the Washington Post as \u201cBritain\u2019s most potent new force in the war with the Islamic State for hearts and minds\u201d he is also in talks about taking the tour to the US.<\/div>\n

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Arshad puts his success down to his ability to use comedy to connect with teenagers. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s unique but it\u2019s a different way of handling something. It entertains and it\u2019s that icebreaker.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Comedian Has Backing from Families Famous for his YouTube comedy videos, Humza Arshad has now turned his attention to a tour to deter schoolgirls from joining extremism. The tour is being backed by the families of female students that have already fled to Syria. \u00a0 The Diary of a Badman star has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","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=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}