{"id":4522,"date":"2017-04-10T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T09:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2017-04-10T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T09:14:26","slug":"bravery-in-the-face-of-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4522\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravery in the Face of Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A viral photo of a woman smiling at an English Defence League (EDL) protester in Birmingham was snapped after she stepped in to defend a “fellow Brummie”, she has told the BBC.<\/p>\n

The image of Saffiyah Khan has been shared thousands of times since it was taken at Saturday’s demonstration.<\/p>\n

Ms Khan, from Birmingham, said she had intervened when she saw another woman surrounded by about 25 men.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Ms Khan, who was born in the UK and is half-Pakistani, half-Bosnian, said she “wasn’t intimidated in the slightest”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not surprised she wasn’t intimidated. Why would she be? The EDL might occupy the knuckle-dragging end of the political right\u00a0but they don’t go in for beating people up at protests, let alone young women. One might be able to imagine circumstances where confronting a bunch of protesters would<\/em> be intimidating, but going up against of middle-aged white men in Britain? Nah. Never in a million years was she going to come to harm, and she knew it.<\/p>\n

She added: “He put his finger in my face. It was very aggressive. A police officer was there and the man took his finger out of my face. I wouldn’t have responded violently.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Had the circumstances been slightly different she’d have found herself arrested for breaching the peace.<\/p>\n

The picture was shared by, among others, Piers Morgan, who called it “photo of the week”, and Birmingham Labour MP Jess Phillips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People need their heroines, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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