Sorry for the late notice, I only just found myself.This edition of the current affairs series examines the intimidation and violence that faces many British Muslims who choose to convert to Christianity. Reporter Anthony Barnett meets former Muslims who now live under threat from members of their former communities and have to practice their new faith in secret. Certain Islamic texts demand that apostates - people who convert away from Islam - be severely punished and it is a crime that warrants the death penalty in some countries.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Dispatches Ch4 UK 8pm
Heads up, Dispatches is about to start in the UK, entitled Unholy War
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First instance of "no compulsion in religion", quoted, of course, out of context, at only 20:10.
Didn't take long did it?
Monty
One of the american groups "we've discovered" some might say "spying" on muslims "looking to convert them" - he says - to head of Bradford mosque.
"We raised our concerns" about the missionaries targeting muslims ...
Rather infuriating.
When the presenter is referring to "vulnerable muslims", it almost equates with the islamic interpretation of conversion to islam as being evil.
Why on earth do they have to have this moral relativist approach the whole time?
It's amazing they haven't found a way of blaming the muslim violence on the jooooos....
I was brought up Catholic, and I am well aware that it is the duty of Christians to spread the gospel. Why are they wasting airtime on this divergence from the subject of the program?
Is it because they are shying away from confronting the real source of the murder and mayhem? There is no shortage of cowardly attacks on individuals by whole gangs of muslims armed with primitive weapons, why is that being glossed over?
Monty
Gawd Strewth!
Can't believe my ears. The radical imam is actually saying "things could be worse, 95% of us could be murderous. As it stands only 36% of us are".
Well ain't that reassuring?
Monty
Haha. Yes. And the usual moral equivalence with the evil of christian missionary work on muslims in britain, and the violent response of muslims to converts. At the end "religious leaders" are doing enough, insinuating both christian and muslim leaders are partly responsible for this problem.
Well Antony Barnett of Ch4, that was risible. As a piece of investigative journalism, it bottled out disgracefully. I don't rate the evangelicals much, but at least they have the courage to face and tackle the problem.
Monty
Radical imams often seem to be not just delusional but quite stupid to boot.
I have read accounts of the Bishop of Rochester being far more outspoken about the problem. He seemed muted in that programme, but perhaps he sensed it was going to be a whitewash and a travesty, so kept his powder dry. Wise.
Monty
Yeh, well we wont know, maybe edited out. Ch4 are no doubt slightly cautious, after the CPS insanely sought to prosecute ch4 for showing imams preach hatred "out of context"..
Shows yet another similarity between Islam and the Mafia. Leave either of them and you get rubbed out.
Still, I suppose it demonstrates just how strong the disincentives have to be to prevent people from leaving a cult that worships a meteorite and venerates a child-molester, and expects you to grovel to the bogeyman five times a day and if you aren't one of the first in the mosque you have to sniff the pebble-wiped arse of the guy on the row in front while you're doing it.
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