Cops back down over mosque documentary
Today’s grovelling apology by the West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service – not to mention the “six figure” libel damages, is of course most welcome. It will also, hopefully, bring an end once and for all to the cops’ efforts to act as TV censors.
Channel 4 and the producers of Undercover Mosque , the Dispatches programme referred to Ofcom by the cops, have been vindicated. The cops started out investigating the race hatred, incitement to violence and bigotry being preached in various “mainstream” mosques, including the Green Lane Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham. For some reason that has never been fully explained, they then turned their attention to the producers of the programme, accusing them of selective editing and distortion. The programme makers were accused of undermining community relations. The CPS reviewing lawyer Bethan David claimed that “in this case we have been dealing with a heavily edited television programme, apparently taking out of context aspects of speeches which in their totality could never provide a realistic prospect of any convictions.” Seizing on this, the preachers and their apologists made much of how they had, supposedly, been taken “out of context”; to which, one can only echo the words today, of David Henshaw, the boss of the company that made the programme: “No one has explained what (is) the correct context for arguing that women are ‘born deficient’, that homosexuals should be thrown off mountains and that 10-year-old girls should be hit if they refuse to wear the hijab.”
Judge for yourself, if you’ve a strong stomach:
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 15, 2008 at 11:10 pm
That nutjob sounds like John G and his party cadres.
I am Kafir and proud! Fuck islam, fuck judaism, catholicism and the proddy offshoots and fuck all the religious mysticificatory crap — and fuck the imbeciles that adhere to or have any sympathy to the shite.
voltaires_priest said,
May 15, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Brilliantly insightful analysis as ever there, O sagely mysterious “Free Us From Idiot Analyses” one.
voltaires_priest said,
May 15, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Oops, missed out the Wayne’s World brackets “not” after.
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 15, 2008 at 11:29 pm
what part of the idiots shit do you agree with you fucking moron?
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 15, 2008 at 11:31 pm
…This being a comments box and all…
You thick piece of vermin.
voltairespriest said,
May 15, 2008 at 11:39 pm
The day you have the guts to unban me from your site and comment under your own (nick)name here, you misanthropic shithead, I might dignify that with an answer. Until then, you keep on preaching the B52 liberal gospel with the word “cunt” and the odd homo-erotic paean to Chris Hitchens thrown in – oh sorry I mean “Carry on telling the world about Real Marxism”.
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 16, 2008 at 12:07 am
Simply repressing the contrary elements of the paradox that is yourself isn’t going to help anyone Voltaires Pantyline.
You utter, vile. simplistic fuckwit.
Love and hate have a dialectical relationship. Every “I hate you” reveals a deep seated love and passion for that object which arouses the passions (you love me in other words). Each insult hurled on this blog is an open cry, “I care!” (I love Him). Should all of this love be censored (because its expression is inverted)?
Love thy neighbour? I think not. Adorno once noted that universal love bears the mark of apathetic distance. You are an apathetic scumbag — and a fool, and a dickhead etc.
Lobby Ludd said,
May 16, 2008 at 12:29 am
Well, it’s nice to see that Will is ‘getting help’ with his problems, unfortunately his identification with his Freudian(ish) analyst is something he has yet to overcome. Early days.
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 16, 2008 at 12:40 am
Fobby Fludd — what a wankstain. The sheets are ruined.
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 16, 2008 at 12:52 am
http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2008/05/14/question-and-answer/
voltaires_priest said,
May 16, 2008 at 7:17 am
See William, a tendency to splatter a drunken comment with sub-Freudian bollocks and miscontextualised quotes from Frankfurt School theorists doesn’t do your cause any good at all. In fact in most people’s eyes it just makes you look like a twat. Which is hardly surprising given the facts on the ground.
Now go look at some Hitchens porn, there’s a good lad.
KB Player said,
May 16, 2008 at 7:25 am
Another visit from the feral kid on the estate, I see.
Good result re the Dispatches programme – couldn’t believe the farce the West Midlands Police instigated. I bet the actions of the police in this instance suddenly made them defenders of truth and justice among some quarters.
voltaires_priest said,
May 16, 2008 at 7:31 am
“Feral kid on the estate” is probably a kind description of our favourite drivelling weirdo, Hitchens groupie and occasional commenter.
Quite agree re the programme, heh yes I can imagine Respect’s “We are all! Dixon of Dock Green!” chants already.
Andrew Coates said,
May 16, 2008 at 9:09 am
Given that Jim actually lives in Brum (I forgive thee for losing my brilliant diatribe against the Green Party btw), can he not elaborate a bit on this? I mean my blister is a lecturer at Brimigham University and she says that the Islamists have quite a bit of infleunce in the city. Just as bit on this subject I had an exchange with Mike Marqusee at the 68andallthat Event his weekend and tried to explain what the GIA were in Algeria: Mike seems to have the notion that Islamicists are some kind of counter-cultural fluffy-bunnies who just need time to become socialists…
Error: need I mention the up to 400,00 dead in Algeria?
free us from idiot analyses said said,
May 16, 2008 at 10:34 am
PS. KB Player’s voice needs putting down.
voltaires_priest said,
May 16, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Andrew; I’m not at all sure what happened to your post – as far as I can see I never received it, and I understand Jim believes the same of himself. If you still have it, email it to me and I’ll put it up – or I could set you up your own login if you prefer.
KB Player said,
May 16, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I thought this Midlands Mosque Mess Up wasn’t getting much coverage but it did appear on tonight’s News Quiz:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/newsquiz
Sandi Toksvig:- Jeremy, who should be charged with wasting their own time?
Jeremy Hardy:- This is West Midlands Police. . . they have a long record of getting things very badly wrong of course, the West Midlands Police . . .Channel 4 made a documentary about a serious subject . . . They tackled prejudice by extreme preachers in certain mosques in Birmingham and some of these preachers were saying virulently homophobic, anti-semitic and sexist things and the plod, the Babylon in the West Midlands were supposed to investigate the preachers with the possibility of prosecuting them, got confused and thought that they were supposed to prosecute the programme for using colour television in a built up area or something and they investigated the programme saying that these things had been taken out of context. . . [lots of remarks about the crappiness of Channel 4 in general]
Sandi Toskvig:- Police and prosecutors have had to pay Channel 4 a six figure sum after they wrongly accused the broadcaster of faking a television expose of extremist preachers. The police investigated the clerics but after getting nowhere asked prosecutors if they could charge Channel 4 for stirring up racial hatred instead. I love the way policing works these days. “Oh sorry love, we couldn’t find your attacker so instead we’re going to charge you for bleeding over your own upholstery.”