Ikke helt korrekt, - C4 lavede tidligere på året et program med optagelser
fra moskeer i England, flest med skjult kamera. Det var grove sager der blev
prædiket:
Among the things said by the preachers and publicized were that girls of ten
should be hit to force them to wear hijab; women are inferior to men and
their testimony is worth half that of men; men are in charge of women and
should not be allowed to leave the house without permission; Muslims should
live in the UK as a state within a state; secular law should be done away
with; Muslims will become dominant in the UK; and this political dominance
is decreed by Allah; Muslims have a duty to destroy the British political
system; those responsible for killing British soldiers in Afghanistan are
heroes: "The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his
shoulders." It is difficult to see how the offensiveness of all this can be
neutralized by contextualization
Og der var mange flere, fx om jøder der alle skulle dræbes og så en
gryntelyd fra imamen, - se længere uddrag fra The Telegraph. - og find evt.
hele TV-udsendelsen på Nettet.
Channel 4 havde givet alle imamer ret til at komme med kommentarer, men
ingen meldte sig, og de har nu sendt politiet 56 timers råbånd, og vil gerne
høre i hvilken kontekst, de rablende udtalelser havde været i orden - intet
svar.
Politiet og rigsadvokaten har derimod meldt C4 til pressenævnet, men siger
de ikke vil forsøge at få en straffedom over C4. Altså moskeernes
prædikanter blev meldt til politiet, og politiet reagerer ved at beskylde
kanal 4 for udbredelse af "racehad" ved at vise hvad der bliver sagt.
Naturligvis *kunne* der have været tale om en forvrænget historie, men denne
er folk enige om simpelthen taler for sig selv, intet kan bortforklare hvad
der bliver prædiket til de mange tuside tilhørere.
By Charles Moore
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 11/08/2007
There are lots of stories running at the moment about how television
makes things up to suit its purposes. It was into this pattern that
prominent press reports on Thursday appeared to fit. The reports said that
the Crown Prosecution Service and the West Midlands police had decided that
a programme called Undercover Mosque, made for Dispatches on Channel 4, had
"completely distorted" the remarks of Muslim preachers featured in the
programme. The CPS and the police announced that they were making a
complaint about the programme to the television regulator, Ofcom.
Few seemed to notice what a strange story this was. Why is it the
business of the CPS or the police to make complaints, which are nothing to
do with the law, about what appears on television? Aren't they supposed to
be fighting crime, not acting as television critics?
When you poke around a bit, the story becomes a little clearer, but no
less strange.
After the programme appeared earlier this year, many people who
watched it were horrified by the extremism it depicted. It was, indeed,
horrifying. The programme, all of whose material was collected, sometimes
covertly, from British mosques, mainly in Birmingham, showed film, DVDs and
internet messages from Islamist sermons and speeches. One preacher speaks of
a British Muslim soldier killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan and says: "The
hero is the one who separated his head from his shoulders." Another says
that all Jews will be killed at the end of time, and makes a snorting noise
as if imitating a pig.
One pronounces that woman is "deficient" and that homosexual men
should be "thrown off the mountain", another that children should offer
themselves for Islamic martyrdom, a third that Aids was deliberately spread
in Africa by Christian missionaries who slipped it into inoculations.
As a result of all this, people, including, I believe, local MPs,
asked the police to investigate the preachers to see if prosecutions for
crimes of racial hatred could be brought against them. C4 itself did not ask
for these investigations, but co-operated with police inquiries.
But then, on Wednesday, without any warning to Channel 4, the CPS and
the West Midlands police issued their fatwa. Not only had they investigated,
and decided, as they were entitled to do, that there were no charges to
bring against people featured in the programme: they also announced that
they had investigated the programme itself for stirring up racial hatred.
Again, they had decided not to press charges. But, said West Midlands
police smugly, they had pursued the making of the programme "with as much
rigour as the extremism portrayed within the documentary itself". They had
concluded that comments had been "broadcast out of context" and so they and
the CPS had complained to Ofcom.
"Hurra, vi kapitulerer" som en tysk bog hedder.
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