Via IACN's TV circular, Channel 4 has a programme on tonight called What Muslims Want as part of its Dispatches slot; it's on at 8pm and lasts an hour:
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions facing our country today: to what extent do Muslims in Britain pose a threat to this country and its values? There is a growing fear that the 1.6 million Muslims in Britain are rejecting the majority liberal, tolerant beliefs in this country for a radicalised version of Islam in which violence can be justified.
Also, C4's graveyard-slot excuse for Muslim TV, "Shari'ah TV", is on this week:
- Midnight tonight - "From Guantánamo to Forest Gate", self-explanatory
- 00:35, tomorrow night - "Growing Up Muslim in Britain", which "looks at the reality of growing up as a Muslim in 21st-century Britain, dealing with the contradictions and dilemmas arising from living in a liberal society and being Islamic. Can Shariah give guidance to young Muslims trying to find their way in a modern western society? Is it simply a clash of culture or is there room for accommodation?"
- 11:55pm 10th August, "Futuristic Islam": "How does Islam cope in the world of scientific breakthroughs and new technology? How can a code for life written 1,400 years ago help with a world driven by scientific breakthroughs unimaginable in the days of the Prophet? Science can now create life, change life and cheat death. Can Shariah Law have anything relevant to say about it all? And what does Shariah say about the future of Islam itself: will it change to adapt to 21st-century living?"
I've put up a little something on this, including a link to Jon Snow's article in the Sunday Times. You might also want to read the loooong discussion over at Pickled Politics.
There is a growing fear that the 1.6 million Muslims in Britain are rejecting the majority liberal, tolerant beliefs in this country for a radicalised version of Islam in which violence can be justified.
Laughing darkly at the irony while Lebanon is being bombed because Western countries have taken up belief in a radicalized version of democracy in which violence against innocents is justified.
"Laughing darkly at the irony while Lebanon is being bombed because Western countries have taken up belief in a radicalized version of democracy in which violence against innocents is justified."
One of the best one-sentence summaries I've heard about thsi sick mess in Lebanon. Thank you. It's like many Americans today are drugged the same way Stalin's thugs were drugged when they murdered tens of millions of people, always rationalizing away the killings with some dimwit excuse or another for it. Always fun to go and kill some brown people far away for the TV images, I guess.
http://khalidali.bravehost.com/the_nubian_manifesto.htm
Laughing darkly at the irony while Lebanon is being bombed because Western countries have taken up belief in a radicalized version of democracy in which violence against innocents is justified.
Western support for Israel in its bombing of Lebanon is nothing to do with democracy. It is motivated by a "West versus Rest" worldview that sees Israel as a "Western" country in the Middle East.