Indigo Jo on January 17th, 2010

I didn’t watch the Muslim Driving School programme, which was on BBC2 last Tuesday (at the right time to clash with Defamation, which I reviewed in my last entry), but I finally got round to seeing it just now, and I was pleasantly surprised. It was all shown in the north of England around […]

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Indigo Jo on January 15th, 2010

Defamation, a documentary researched and presented by the Israeli journalist Yoav Shamir, was part of More4’s True Stories slot and was on Tuesday night. The idea that anti-Semitism was somewhat overhyped and used to muzzle criticism of Israel is not new, but what many people don’t know is how obsessed the media and state […]

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Indigo Jo on July 12th, 2009

Does God Hate Women? is a 178-page tirade by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, editors of the atheist website Butterflies and Wheels, co-authors of A Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense and both senior editors on The Philosophers’ Magazine, on religious misogyny, with a particular focus on Muslims (more than on Islam, as we will see insha […]

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Revelations: Islamic school (Channel 4, 5th July 2009) was an 50-minute documentary following two Muslim girls in Nottingham through a year at a fee-paying Islamic school (a mixed primary with an all-girls secondary). The younger girl is Asian, and her parents want an Islamic education for her after seeing how her older sister has […]

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Indigo Jo on April 10th, 2009

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Indigo Jo on December 9th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on October 27th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on September 21st, 2008

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Indigo Jo on July 21st, 2008

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Indigo Jo on July 20th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on July 5th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on March 30th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on January 25th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on January 18th, 2008

I’m sure Michael Moore needs no introduction to most of my audience: many of us have been painfully aware of his clumsy attacks on the Bush administration since about 2000. I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 almost as soon as it opened in London, and was disappointed to see a list of factual errors in the film, which ruined its impact for me (from a conservative source, but the list is well-referenced). Another criticism of his stance, from an Afro-American Muslim woman on a Yahoo list I used to read, was that he was concerned with “disarming minorities” and that anyone of a minority who consented to being disarmed was a fool. This film, however, is about a rather less controversial topic - American medicine, and the stranglehold he claims the insurance industry have on it.

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Indigo Jo on November 3rd, 2007

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Indigo Jo on November 1st, 2007

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Indigo Jo on September 16th, 2007

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Indigo Jo on September 15th, 2007

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Indigo Jo on July 10th, 2007

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