Channel 4 Fake News is at it again, asking us to get out the violins, shed tears and open the taxpayer’s wallet for a family of asylum seekers. We are also asked to suspend all sense of logic.
The family fled Aleppo in 2020, at that point a divided City. On the one hand there were the militant Islamists who closed down the Cathedral, executed Christians who tried to pray and chucked various sorts off rooftops. In the other Side the forces of President Assad who respected Christians but committed their own war crimes, albeit in private.
The folks Channel 4 platform fled Assad so they might just be Islamist extremists. Those who controlled Eastern Aleppo were part of a then proscribed terror group. I am not 100% sure that I would have allowed them unto the UK back in 2020. But we are where we are.
Now they want permanent asylum in the UK. But hang on, Assad has gone to be replaced by the Islamist forces who once controlled East Aleppo and now run the whole country.
As if you are in any doubt as to who this family supports, the flag behind them is that of the new regime. So they support the Government of Syria yet demand asylum in the UK from that regime in the UK with the support of C4 and others.
At the risk of being heartless, can anyone at all explain the logical basis of all of this? Of why these folks are not on a one way flight to Damascus?
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“I don’t want to die as a refugee in this country” says Afraa Hashem, a Syrian woman who arrived in the UK in 2020.
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 17, 2025
Afraa and her family have applied for Indefinite Leave to Remain and have been waiting for a response for ten months.
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