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Muslims protest TV show on bombers
Reuters/UK.yahoo.com ^ | June 9 2003

Posted on 06/09/2003 2:23:14 PM PDT by veronica

Muslim groups have protested the screening of a television thriller that depicts a school for suicide bombers in a mosque, saying it would incite hatred against their communities.

"We can't deny that the BBC have a right to screen a drama -- it is topical," said Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain.

But the treatment of the subject "panders to very negative stereotypes of Imams, Muslim students and mosques" and may lead to attacks on Muslims, he said.

The BBC was to air later on Monday on its main channel an episode of the intelligence drama "Spooks", screened on a digital channel last week, showing a mosque in the central city of Birmingham teaching boys how to become suicide bombers.

The BBC said it would not pull the episode, noting that it was fiction and it also casts some Muslims in a positive light.

"It is about a dangerous extremist, perverting traditional teaching and a brave, devout man who is prepared to give his life to stop it," a BBC spokeswoman said.

"(Security services) MI5 are shown to be powerless without his help and that of the Islamic community."

Muslim groups said they feared negative media depictions of their communities would spark anti-Islamic attacks, already on the upswing since the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.

Many British Muslims, who make up 1.6 million of a total population of 58 million people, have said they feel increasing hostility against them since the September 11 attacks.

Militant clerics, like Abu Hamza al-Masri in London, who praised the strikes on the U.S. also fanned animosity against the majority of Muslims, according to moderates.


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1 posted on 06/09/2003 2:23:14 PM PDT by veronica
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2 posted on 06/09/2003 2:27:45 PM PDT by keithtoo (Luvya Dubya)
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To: veronica
negative media depictions of their communities

Is this an admission that their communities are all terrorist communities? I had thought that bomber orgs were kind of underground sub cults even in Islamic states.

3 posted on 06/09/2003 2:28:33 PM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: veronica
Wah! There have been alot of shows that cast every other faiths in a bad light, and they don't even blow people up! get over it.
4 posted on 06/09/2003 2:32:35 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: veronica
Why is it that the Muslim community have no trouble making their voices heard regarding anything "anti-muslim", yet we barely hear a whisper against the extremists of their religion? We heard them loud and clear celebrating 9-11, and that's all I need to know about their "religion of peace".
5 posted on 06/09/2003 2:36:14 PM PDT by bjcintennessee
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To: veronica
Yeah, I think these Muslim groups need to realize that we don't resort to violence as easily as they do.
6 posted on 06/09/2003 2:40:12 PM PDT by StringTheory
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To: keithtoo
Good one. Gallows humor...
7 posted on 06/09/2003 2:42:14 PM PDT by veronica (How's about a Palestinian state inside France? It could be called "Francenstine"...)
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"panders to very negative stereotypes of Imans, Muslim students and mosques"

Who is this joker trying to lie to? Maybe a few attacks on these mosques, radical Imans and muslim students would make these terrorists wise up and stop their putrid hate speeches. Below is what the newly installed Iman in Rome had to say about the "religion that promotes violence":

"The new Imam of the Grand Mosque of Rome, the largest in Europe, called for the "victory of Islamic fighters in Palestine, Chechnya and other areas of the world" in his sermon last Friday. He called for Allah's help in "the destruction of the homes and destruction of the enemies of Islam", for their "annihilation", and "the victory everywhere of the Nation of Islam."

Yep, every last one of those imams need a real good dose of their own medicine while their preaching their vile, putrid speeches in their so-called buildings. Down with these radical imans, mosques and muslims!
8 posted on 06/09/2003 2:59:53 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: veronica
Tough!
9 posted on 06/09/2003 3:04:35 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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Maybe a few attacks on these mosques, radical Imans and muslim students..... would make these terrorists wise up and stop their putrid hate speeches.

Actually that is what they want, then their rhetoric would really have meaning.

We are beyond that, in a nation of laws.

Although another MAJOR attack and all bets are off.
10 posted on 06/09/2003 3:05:04 PM PDT by tet68 (Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
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"The new Imam of the Grand Mosque of Rome, the largest in Europe...

Hmmm...that big, huh? Sounds like someone needs to talk with that DIY'er who's putting a cruise missile together in his garage..

11 posted on 06/09/2003 3:06:03 PM PDT by MarineDad
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To: keithtoo
LOL!!
12 posted on 06/09/2003 3:08:12 PM PDT by WOSG (We liberated Iraq. Now Let's Free Cuba, North Korea, Iran, China, Tibet, Syria, ...)
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To: veronica
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/doc/children1.html

http://server12.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?format=wm&s=E64DD387F6024904834D8CBB81D7074D&ci=13016&ClipMediaID=19021

http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/doc/madeinjenin1.html

http://server12.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?format=wm&s=990A37EFE4CB11D5B9C4000629396D69&ci=1222&ak=23878115

http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/doc/syriaterror1.html

Wow, lots of terror clips are coming up in google searches!
13 posted on 06/09/2003 3:08:40 PM PDT by Calpernia (Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.)
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If they don't pull the program, the Muslims will bomb the BBC to show how false the portrayal is.
14 posted on 06/09/2003 3:35:41 PM PDT by Michael2001 (Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever)
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If they don't pull the program, the Muslims will bomb the BBC to show how false the portrayal is.

And Reuters will call the bombers freedom fighters....

15 posted on 06/09/2003 3:39:13 PM PDT by veronica (How's about a Palestinian state inside France? It could be called "Francenstine"...)
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To: keithtoo
Hear! Hear!
If islam is such a great religion (and it is NOT), why are millions of muslims migrating to Europe, USA, and South America? Simple. To find what is NOT available to them in the muslim dominated countries they left: FREEDOM and OPPORTUNITY! There are relatively few converts, in relation to the overall number of migrants, in the non-muslim countries. But once they have settled into a non-muslim host, they immediately demand we, the non-muslims, accord them every freedom we have enjoyed for centuries. SICKENING when we allow them to dominate the agenda.
16 posted on 06/09/2003 6:15:08 PM PDT by Tahoe3002
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Truth hurts. While I can't condone unprovoked attacks on muslins, Jesus didn't say what to do after the other cheek was struck...
17 posted on 06/09/2003 6:34:10 PM PDT by appalachian_dweller (That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kindom and glory. [I Thess. 2:12])
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Funny how Jesus picked a part of the body you only have 2 of...he didn't pick fingers...or toes...or hairs on your head...he picked 'cheek'. Regardless of the higher ones or lower ones...you only have two.
18 posted on 06/09/2003 8:43:49 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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But the treatment of the subject "panders to very negative stereotypes of Imams, Muslim students and mosques" and may lead to attacks on Muslims, he said.

Oh really? well then maybe the Muslim community should wise up to what effect their failure to denounce their brethren's actions is having.

19 posted on 06/09/2003 10:49:17 PM PDT by Wil H
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LOL!!!
20 posted on 06/10/2003 3:43:51 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kindom and glory. [I Thess. 2:12])
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