TWEETS OF THE WEEK: SYRIA

<div class="field_article_author"><div><b>Written By:</b></div>Editor </div><p><strong>In a week that saw papers enter a frenzy over tweets apparently written by fighters in Syria and Iraq, and the White House stepped up airport security measures despite admitting that there is no specific threat, It appeared that Channel 4 News in a debate between an aid worker and fighter-trainer in Syria on one side and an MP and think tank fellow on the other, was the only place where the cooling balm of reasoned discussion could be witnessed.</strong></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Young Muslim men discouraged from fighting in Syria, by imams they don&#39;t respect, told to do so from gov that drops bombs on muslims</p>&mdash; AssedBaig (@AssedBaig) <a href="https://twitter.com/AssedBaig/statuses/482528113973538816">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>&quot;You keep talking about Brits being radicalised. What about Brits who serve in the Israeli army? Won&#39;t they be radicalised?&quot; Tauqir <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/c4news?src=hash">#c4news</a></p>&mdash; Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/statuses/484043713266855936">July 1, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>British aid worker Tauqir fears he&#39;ll be arrested if he comes back to the UK &quot;Schedule 7 is a breach of human rights&quot; etc <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JihadDebate?src=hash">#JihadDebate</a></p>&mdash; Majid Freeman (@Majstar7) <a href="https://twitter.com/Majstar7/statuses/484044801265127425">July 1, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Destination Syria - my latest documentary dir by <a href="https://twitter.com/SuemayOram">@SuemayOram</a> - across BBC from tomorrow &gt; <a href="http://t.co/P21VLnrGV5">pic.twitter.com/P21VLnrGV5</a></p>&mdash; Catrin Nye (@CatrinNye) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatrinNye/statuses/484639123253497856">July 3, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/jonsnowC4">@jonsnowC4</a> asks if Tauquir Sharif wants to one day return to UK: I&#39;d love to return home but I&#39;d be sitting in a prison cell&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jihaddebate?src=hash">#jihaddebate</a></p>&mdash; Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) <a href="https://twitter.com/Channel4News/statuses/484044326306328576">July 1, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>&#39;12,000 foreign fighters&#39; waging war against Assad in Syria <a href="http://t.co/x5eVrV6Atn">http://t.co/x5eVrV6Atn</a></p>&mdash; ITV News (@itvnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/itvnews/statuses/484746212860387328">July 3, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>