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Mr Moo

• 05:48:43 am on July 8, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: British Muslims, documentary, islamophobia, media, UK, united kingdom

  This is a really important programme to watch. It can be watched it on Channel 4’s website if one has missed it. [Link]
  There is an associated webpage and pamphlet

  The classic scene is the journalist showing headlines that have appeared in newspapers here in the UK, with the words ‘Jew’ or ‘Black’ substituted for ‘Muslim’, and seeing the double standards.

   

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  aziz 6:25 am on July 8, 2008 | #

  good god.

  What the Sun had done was
  to take a local story about a piece
  of vandalism, probably caused by
  local snobbery about the presence
  of soldiers – and convert it into
  another kind of story altogether
  about evil Muslims. This case is
  far from unique. As we discovered
  while researching this pamphlet,
  is in fact typical of reporting of
  the Muslim communities across
  large parts of the mainstream
  British media.

  I had no idea it was so insidious. This happens here in the US but mostly only in the right wing media, which apart from the Washington Times, is far from mainstream. Even Fox News doesn’t dare go that far so brazenly.

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  zahed 10:28 am on July 9, 2008 | #

  there was a bit of controversy in the papers before this programme aired, when an excerpt from MP Shahid Malik (first Muslim minister in the government) said that Muslims were the “new Jews”. seeing his quote in context on the show, with its impassioned (non-Muslim) host bringing up a lot of disturbing parallels about what is acceptable in public discourse.

  for the ‘mericans: the breadth of documentary programming available here in prime time is startling… some very bad, most very good. this was one of the best (on the anniversary of 7/7, no less)

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  zahed 10:45 am on July 9, 2008 | #

  typing on the train… sorry for the typos. btw, the online rebroadcasts are normally limited to those in the UK.

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