Comments on: Tin Tin, Islam and Human Zoo

By: bob

bob — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:02:39 +0000

I was disappointed in Channel 4, because they had previously shown Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days series, which included the episode where a white devout American Christian had to live as a Muslim (in America) for 30 days.

It was great to see his enlightenment, and so frustrating to see his treatment by his (non-Muslim) compatriots.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:59:53 +0000

It stands to basic reasoning that with adherents numbered a billion people should Muslims like the fanatics in C4 be in the majority Muslims would have made mincemeat out of the world long ago.

Of course demonisation of The Other always has to happen in a state of war. If you do not somehow dehumanise the Other how can you mistreat them? How could we possibly have double standards in world politics if Muslims had the same rights as us. They are obviously the Star Trek equivalent of the Borg and cannot be trusted. How could you put nice people in Guatanamo? No. The Muslims have to be demonised to justify the hatred and the theft of oil.

I am a Muslim, a convert, and I have found nothing but nobility and tranquility in it. Muslims who practice what the Prophet (saw) taught are dignified creatures who work towards solving pain and suffering, not inflicting it.

The media is biased. We are the new Reds.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:54:53 +0000

I agree - these programmes often seem to want to stir up trouble rather than fix problems. While we were watching it I said to Katy there ought to be a follow-up programme doing the same thing for extreme Christianity e.g. in America - the people who attack abortion clinics and kill the people who work there, or think that homosexuality is “the biggest problem facing our country today” i.e. not climate change, poverty, obesity…

By: Em

Em — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:15:03 +0000

and to tie that up a bit more, if you had been watching Junior Mastermind last night, there was a girl on there called Tintin!

We watched that C4 programme too, I wonder just how realistic it was, or just how carefully it was editted. I am not doubting there are people out there with those views, as there are in most walks of religion at the more extreme end. I just wonder how representative that program really was. M and I spent a while discussing it, and wondering if the only difference between that brand of extremism and christian extremism was the call to arms? But then once you start to think about witch burning, jew gassing, car bombing to ’save animal rights’ and various other extreme behavious I’m not sure how helpful it is just to point it out. Rather than look to exploring if it is a problem, and if so what we should do about it.

Sorry bit of a tired ramble there!