{"id":397745,"date":"2019-03-01T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/harmless-fun-or-racist-analysts-clash-on-use-of-isis-bride-shamima-begum-as-shooting-target-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:27:06","slug":"harmless-fun-or-racist-analysts-clash-on-use-of-isis-bride-shamima-begum-as-shooting-target-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/harmless-fun-or-racist-analysts-clash-on-use-of-isis-bride-shamima-begum-as-shooting-target-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmless fun or racist? Analysts clash on use of ISIS bride Shamima Begum as shooting target \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.03\/thumbnail\/5c792817dda4c8627a8b4568.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        The decision by a UK shooting range to use the image of ISIS bride Shamima Begum as a target has sparked heated debate over whether it is offensive to Muslims. Others argue the complaints actually do Muslim women a disservice.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Slamming such <em>\u201charmless fun\u201d<\/em> was Raza Kazim of the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Speaking to RT, he said the target embodied a <em>\u201cracist environment\u201d<\/em> that was growing in the UK which was encouraging attacks on Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/452563-begum-isis-shooting-range\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">\u2018Light-hearted fun\u2019: UK shooting range uses ISIS bride Shamima Begum image as target<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxs\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xs\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/m\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/l\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/article\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxl\/5c769191fc7e9356228b458b.png 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firing back, political commentator Andre Walker suggested Kazim should apologize to British Muslim women for suggesting the <em>\u201cterrorist\u201d<\/em> Begum was anything like them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe can take a hike, I don\u2019t care about her and I don\u2019t care about this idea that she ought to sit there and be so offended. Poor old me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full debate below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/452742-begum-shooting-target-debate\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision by a UK shooting range to use the image of ISIS bride Shamima Begum as a target has sparked heated debate over whether it is offensive to Muslims. Others argue the complaints actually do Muslim women a disservice. Slamming such \u201charmless fun\u201d was Raza Kazim of the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Speaking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}