Last night, Channel 4 bravely defied the West Midlands Police and showed a followup to Undercover Mosque, cunningly titled Undercover Mosque: The Return (forum)

If you are in the UK, for the next couple of weeks you can download the full high quality programme from 4OD.

If not, here is a youtube playlist showing the full programme in 5 chunks

But that’s not all that some representatives from the religion of peace have been up to:

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2580350/Teenage-boys-forced-to-whip-themselves-during-Muslim-ceremony.html

Syed Mustafa Zaidi, a devout Muslim, forced two teenage boys to whip themselves with a Zanjeer Zani - a wooden-handled implement fitted with five chains, each of them bearing a curved knife - during a religious ceremony.

In it Zaidi is seen repeatedly flailing at his own body with the multi-bladed instrument. His back is soon reduced to a mass of cuts, with blood running down onto his jeans.

At one point he is taken out of the throng because of concerns about the injuries he had inflicted upon himself.

Minutes later, his back now covered by a white T shirt, he is apparently seen to approach the younger of his alleged victims.

The child joins men in the centre of the room and begins to ritually beat himself with the Zanjeer.

Elsewhere in the video men - and some boys - are seen beating their chests so violently with their hands that they inflict bright red marks.

At set times in the ceremony some of the men break into a chant before swinging their individual Zanjeers in order to gouge wounds into their backs.

They occasionally withdraw to have dressings applied to the cuts. At other points helpers spray the devotees with antiseptic.

By the time the ceremony is over one man, his back bloodied, is slumped against a black drape. Others are weeping and wailing as the fervour of the ceremony rises to a crescendo.

The court heard that once the ceremony was under way Zaidi struck himself so forcefully with the Zanjeer that other devotees “feared for his safety to such an extent that they sought to calm him down”.

The older of the two alleged victims was among those who approached him. Zaidi is said to have responded by washing his Zanjeer and handing it to the boy so he could use it.

According to the prosecution, the child “felt he had no choice but to do so”. He was pulled away after inflicting a number of lacerations to his back. Zaidi then allegedly turned to the other boy, took off his top and put the Zanjeer in his hand.

So is it any wonder that Pat Condell’s articulate voice of reason and clarity continues to be #1 in so many categories on youtube? Here’s his latest:

No wonder it is….

#1 - Most Discussed (This Week) - News & Politics
#1 - Most Discussed (Today)
#1 - Most Discussed (Today) - News & Politics
#1 - Most Discussed (Today) - News & Politics - Global
#1 - Most Responded (Today)
#1 - Most Responded (Today) - News & Politics
#1 - Most Responded (Today) - News & Politics - Global
#1 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics
#1 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics - Australia
#1 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics - Canada
#1 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics - Ireland
#1 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics - Netherlands
#1 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics - New Zealand
#1 - Top Favorites (This Week) - News & Politics
#1 - Top Favorites (Today)
#1 - Top Favorites (Today) - News & Politics
#1 - Top Favorites (Today) - News & Politics - Global
#1 - Top Rated (This Week)
#1 - Top Rated (This Week) - News & Politics
#1 - Top Rated (This Week) - News & Politics - Global
#1 - Top Rated (Today)
#1 - Top Rated (Today) - News & Politics
#1 - Top Rated (Today) - News & Politics - Global
#2 - Most Discussed (This Month) - News & Politics
#2 - Most Discussed (This Week)
#2 - Most Discussed (Today) - Global
#2 - Most Responded (This Week) - News & Politics
#2 - Most Viewed (Today) - News & Politics - South Korea
#2 - Top Rated (This Month) - News & Politics
#2 - Top Rated (Today) - Global

Tags: islam,pat condell,patcondell,Politics,poltical correctness,video,youtube
Categories: Politics, political_correctness, religion, video
No Comments »

Please, take a moment to enjoy the following scientific videos…it’s a playlist, so select another video by moving the mouse over the video.

No wonder they voted Bush in, twice…

Tags: conspiracy,conspiracy-files,stupidity,video,youtube
Categories: video
1 Comment »

Genius b3ta user “Coast of Yemen” made a Goatse-style logo - and the BBC showed it!
As the video doesn’t seem to last 5 minutes on Youtube, here it is:

You can download the original Flash video (3.4Mb), and if you need a player, I recommend FLVPlayer

Note: The BBC felt obliged to issue an apology

More…

I also appeared to have found a French theme park Goatse from a trip to Park Asterix about 12 years ago.

Tags: b3ta,bbc,goatse,video
Categories: funnies
1 Comment »

It wasn’t so long ago that I blogged about Maddox’s great Titanic Conspiracy video, had a chuckle, and moved on.

Then last week, I saw that the BBC had to issue a rebuttal because they’d been inundated with mentals suggested the BBC was in on the plot, and they’ve built this whole bizarre story on the basis that the newsreader said “apparently” instead of “we’ve been told” about some building that fell down 20 minutes later. Interesting reading the comments in that blog to see just how much psychiatric help people need.

I now see WHY the black helicopter brigade are picking on the BBC - I saw a repeat on BBC Four just now of a show broadcast earlier this year as part of The Conspiracy Files season about the 9/11 attack on the USA.
I’m sure there’s a copy on Youtube, but they did a nice job on debunking most of the conspiracies - in particular, one of the theories goes that Flight 93 was shot down. The whole conspiracy is based on the fact that some guy used Google Maps to measure the distance from one side of a lake to the other, came up with 6 miles - even though the map measured the road ROUND the lake, not the flight path distance of a mile!
Here’s a direct link to that particular one, plus all the others in the programme.

This has all been hashed out and thrashed out so many times, but here Alex Jones from Infowars on a rant

Here’s a Youtube Video which attempts to debunk popular mechanic’s debunking of loose change

Here’s the editor of Popular Mechanics talking about their debunking of the theories.

Here’s the original conspiracy video, Loose change (See also Wikipedia article)

And here’s a nice hatchet job on the second edition of the above..
Screw Loose Change

Anyway, if you’re able to read this far without needing someone to wipe your drool (Hawking excluded) and shine the tinfoil on your head, you can probably draw your own conclusion - if in doubt, get Occam’s Razor out.

Tags: 911,alex-jones,bbc,conspiracy-files,Dylan-Avery,infowards,loose-change,popular-mechanics,video,youtube
Categories: Politics, new york
No Comments »

Been a bit of a week for religious lunacy.

Earlier this week, evangelist Jerry Falwell was, er, “called home” as the BBC reports. By all accounts, the world’s problems lay on the shoulders of gay people and women who don’t want to burden the world with an unwanted child. Here’s a quote about the attacks of 911

The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

Then there was “The Panorama Incident”. Having been followed round all week, been shown horrible videos and had his questions constantly evaded and avoided, the film maker flips his lid a bit. Good for him!

And here’s the entire programme
Also, checkout the Panorama site.

So, if you were ever wondering about the truth behind Scientology, who better to cover the issue than South Park?

Then there’s the poor girl who had to fight in court to be allowed to travel to the UK for an abortion, simply because Catholocism is so cruel that is would have forced this girl to give birth to a foetus with half a head which would have died almost immediately upon birth.

But if you want TRUE religious nuttyness, look no further than Westboro Baptist Church as investigated recently by Louis Theroux on BBC2
Endofthetimes.net
godhatesamerica.com
thesignsofthetimes.net
Please note I do NOT endorse the above three links! I just think people should know what’s out there…

ADDED: 25/May/2007. Hear of Pat Condell? Check out his Youtube channel. Every video is worth a watch, particularly the one on religion in the UK.
And here’s his rebuttal when the “Peace Commision” in Berkley, California went nuts over his right to free speech…

Tags: abortion,christianity,fundamentalism,godhatesamerica,Ireland,Jerry-Falwell,moral-majority,Panorama,Scientology,video,westboro,youtube
Categories: religion
No Comments »