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Is the BBC scared of making jokes about Muslims?

April 3, 2008 12:50 pm

At the time of writing, Pat Condell’s website at has been taken offline by Homestead with the message:”Sorry, the site you requested has been disabled” , not “exceeded bandwidth” or anything like that.Update! Don’t worry - I went up to Mount Sensible, and I saw a bespectacled wise man who passed me a couple of tablets and said

“Lo! For I am simply changing my host and not to worry about it”.

So there you go. No conspiracy. Got me worried though!Also, some Youtube users are reducing Pat’s viewcount and popularity by stealing his content, worst offender being janelite007 I’ve already left a message on this person’s channel. Please do the same.Also, can everyone please send the following message to Youtube.

Hi - theYoutube user patcondell is having his videos stolen by the user janelite007Eg., this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxbYBIlT6VEIs identical to this original video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_qelW5qp4I feel this violates policy and users should be redirected to v=W3_qelW5qp4 and the views transferred.

Talking of Freedom of Speech(or lack of it)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7326476.stm

Comedian and writer Ben Elton has said the BBC is too “scared” to broadcast jokes about Muslims for fear of provoking radical Islamists.Elton, in an interview with Christian magazine Third Way, added that the broadcaster would “let vicar gags pass but would not let imam gags pass”.He said fear rather than “moral sensibilities” fuelled decisions about what material was appropriate.

So here’s a video:

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Categories: funnies, islam, political_correctness
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Fitna

March 27, 2008 9:59 pm

Released on Liveleak - 6 million views so far (new version released, so counter reset). Make your own mind up. (See mirror below)

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To quote Liveleak:

A person has a simple, clear choice about whether to view this film. No one is being forced to view it and nor is it being broadcasted on every channel on their television set. If you click on media simply to be annoyed, it is pointless to blame others for your choice.

If liveleak goes down, you can watch it below…

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Update: Pat Condell’s take on the situation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_qelW5qp4

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Pat Condell on appeasing Islam

March 9, 2008 1:27 pm

Another one from Pat - with subtitles too!

Associated books:

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Danish Muhammad cartoon reprinted

February 13, 2008 8:36 am

Very brave:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/13/muhammadcartoons

Danish newspapers today reprinted a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad, a day after three people were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill the man who drew it.

When the image was originally printed by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper as part of a series of 12 in 2005, it sparked global protests and violent demonstrations in Muslim countries.

The newspaper reprinted the cartoon today, saying it wanted to show its commitment to freedom of speech after yesterday’s arrests.

“We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend,” Berlingske Tidende, based in Copenhagen, said.

Some background

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Hamza to be extradited

February 7, 2008 8:24 am

Only 5 years too late…

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Sentence to death for reading.

January 23, 2008 6:29 pm

I wonder how long it will be like this in the UK?

An Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death by a provincial court for distributing “blasphemous” material.

Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, was arrested in 2007 after downloading material from the internet relating to the role of women in Islamic societies

That’ll be the peace and mercy, then….

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“Muslim Britain is becoming one big no-go area” - Michael Nazir-Ali

January 12, 2008 3:19 pm

From The Times (read the full article via the link)

Perhaps it had to be someone like Michael Nazir-Ali, the first Asian bishop in the Church of England, who would break with convention and finally point out the elephant in the room.

His comments last week about the growing stranglehold of Muslim extremists in some communities revived debate about the future of multiculturalism and provoked a flurry of condemnation. Members of all three political parties immediately clamoured to dismiss him. “I don’t recognise the description that he’s talked about – no-go areas and people feeling intimidated,” said Hazel Blears, the communities secretary.

A quick call to her Labour colleague John Reid, the former home secretary, would almost certainly have helped her to identify at least one of those places. Just over a year ago Reid was heckled by the Muslim extremist Abu Izzadeen in Leytonstone, east London, during a speech on extremism, appropriately. “How dare you come to a Muslim area,” Izzadeen screamed.

That picture is mirrored outside London. One of our country’s biggest and most deprived Muslim areas is Small Heath, in Birmingham, where Dr Tahir Abbas, director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, was raised. With a dominant Asian monoculture, low social achievement and high unemployment, Small Heath is precisely the kind of insular and disengaged urban ghetto Nazir-Ali was talking about.

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