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The Satanic Verses:
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Thirty Years on. BBC2 9.00pm
Look forward to this. Advertised as (stress added by VE) as "a return to Yorkshire where the protest first began to examine the lasting effects the book has had on the community".
Wonder what spin the Beeb will put on the story. Presumably we'll be seeing lots of "moderate" Muslims - and a few less so.
PS: Anybody wath Panorama this week on trans-gender medicine? Surprisingly fairly presented. A rogue producer must have snuck himself in.
Look forward to this. Advertised as (stress added by VE) as "a return to Yorkshire where the protest first began to examine the lasting effects the book has had on the community".
Wonder what spin the Beeb will put on the story. Presumably we'll be seeing lots of "moderate" Muslims - and a few less so.
PS: Anybody wath Panorama this week on trans-gender medicine? Surprisingly fairly presented. A rogue producer must have snuck himself in.
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Don't bother, ChilledOut.
Strange irony that once feted Hampstead lefty gets bounty puton his head by mad mullahs and has to be protected by the country he's now living in and hates.
Nothing in the book, by the way, that any normal balanced person would want to kill for. Nothing like this, for instance:
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Says a lot about Islam and many of its adherents that
so would kil a man for writing a view that as an act of piety.
Of course, if there were a case today on the issue of blasphemy, the John Mortimer QCs (see above) would be prosecuting rather than defending the blasphemers. (EUCR on Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff)
Strange irony that once feted Hampstead lefty gets bounty puton his head by mad mullahs and has to be protected by the country he's now living in and hates.
Nothing in the book, by the way, that any normal balanced person would want to kill for. Nothing like this, for instance:
https:/
Says a lot about Islam and many of its adherents that
so would kil a man for writing a view that as an act of piety.
Of course, if there were a case today on the issue of blasphemy, the John Mortimer QCs (see above) would be prosecuting rather than defending the blasphemers. (EUCR on Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff)
I do remember this, but in those days, Muslims only seemed to live in areas that were nowhere near me.
How different it is today.
To see the 30 year old footage of them all going loopy over a book, and wanting to kill the author would be a joke if it wasn’t for the fact that the religion is still mired in the same ridiculous ideas.
I found the presenter irritating.
I had to keep telling him that words like “get” and “got” have a letter t at the end!
How different it is today.
To see the 30 year old footage of them all going loopy over a book, and wanting to kill the author would be a joke if it wasn’t for the fact that the religion is still mired in the same ridiculous ideas.
I found the presenter irritating.
I had to keep telling him that words like “get” and “got” have a letter t at the end!
Getting a Muslim closet - apologist to present a programme on The Satanic Verses was a tedious, wasted opportunity.
When I heard him summing up, telling me how Muslims are an 'essential part of British society', and I look at the film of the large groups of men in their beards, nightshirts and little hats, speaking in foreign tongues on the streets of English towns and cities, I always would like to ask them, "and how do you earn you living sir?"
When I heard him summing up, telling me how Muslims are an 'essential part of British society', and I look at the film of the large groups of men in their beards, nightshirts and little hats, speaking in foreign tongues on the streets of English towns and cities, I always would like to ask them, "and how do you earn you living sir?"
Khandro, //Getting a Muslim closet - apologist to present a programme on The Satanic Verses was a tedious, wasted opportunity.//
I dread to think what the reaction of those he spoke to might have been had a non-Muslim carrying the book asked the same questions.
There are a few here who would benefit from watching it.
I dread to think what the reaction of those he spoke to might have been had a non-Muslim carrying the book asked the same questions.
There are a few here who would benefit from watching it.
