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BroHanif
06/05/03 at 18:01:20
I ask everyone on this board to send an email to the BBC directors. The spooks drama is going to cause outrage in the community. Some sisters in Birmingham have already been assaulted. After reading this please send an email and make dua to Allah that this show is not aired.

BBC says calls of complaint are flooding in, and if they continue they are thinking of pulling the hate Drama, as MPAC steps up pressure ! Today Birmingham's largest Mosque issues ALERT in conjunction with MPAC..read more below.

STOP THE BBC SHOWING THIS HATE NOW !

On Monday 9th June at 9pm BBC1 will be showing the second episode of series 2 of its Bafta award nominated drama Spooks. This episode was shown last Monday evening on the satellite and cable station BBC 3 at 10.30pm.

MPAC have received a number of complaints about the subtle and flagrant Islamophobia in this programme. The episode details from the BBC web site are: -

Mosque
An MI5 agent is tortured inside a mosque in Birmingham after finding out it is being used for training suicide bombers. MI5 then recruits Algerian spy Ibhn Khaldun (Alexander Siddig) to infiltrate the group and he learns an attack is imminent.

Put simply the program is Anti-Arab, Anti-Muslim and panders to the whims of the right wing Zionist portrayal of all practising Muslims as terrorists, willing to kill infidel innocents as a fundamental of their faith.

The programme shows the following: -

A Muslim child carries out a suicide bombing in a Birmingham school;
Madrassahs teach children to hate the west and train them to become suicide Bombers;
quotes like "I will go straight to paradise if I kill just one Infidel" are used, said by a young boy of 16 who had explosives on his person while standing in a playground in Birmingham;
The first Muslim Spy that infiltrates the Mosque is caught and beaten to death;
A Westernised Algerian brother, fair skin, light styled beard, offers his services to spy for MI5;
All the “bad guys” have beards and wear turbans;
The Imam (Mullah) is arrested for Charity fraud when they can find no other evidence against him;
Asylum seekers are shown as fanatics abusing the system;
Imams are referred to as Mullahs;
There is no good aspect of Islam shown.

The impression is always apparent that all Muslims are terrorists, except the ones that immerse themselves into the West and its ways. Not for one second is it felt that the “hero” is a good Muslim, his moral fibre comes from the west not Islam.
[B]
Needless to say there are no Muslim actors in the cast. All this programme does is demonise and dehumanise Muslims and Islam. It is based in a real city with a real Muslim community - Birmingham. This is the first step on a very dangerous path, identify the enemy, demean, dehumanise and something to fear / kill. Is there any better claim to incitement to racial hatred? [/B]

There is plenty of evidence, both real and anecdotal that following programmes like these the level of racial tension and attacks increase.  Our hijab-wearing sisters are spat at in front of their children, and we suffer unprovoked verbal taunts and physical assaults.

WE WANT THIS ISLAMAPHOBIC RACIST HATE MOVIE DROPPED BEFORE IT IS SHOWN THIS COMING MONDAY

So what can you do:

1.      Be calm, be polite: Ring the BBC complaints line on 08700 100 222 and ask them not to air this programme. Make sure you get a reference number from the person you speak to.


2.      Email a complaint and demand that the BBC as a public service broadcaster cancel this programme.
The email addresses to write to are:


Gareth.neame@bbc.co.uk
greg.dyke@bbc.co.uk
Howard.Brenton@bbc.co.uk
drama@bbc.co.uk

please remember to blind copy (bcc) MPAC on your mails info@mpacuk.org or media@mpacuk.org

3.      Phone Kudos productions and ask to speak to Jane Featherstone – 0207 580 8686. If you speak to Kate Waterstone insist that you speak to Jane.  

4.      Check the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/credits.shtml and ring the BBC to speak to the personnel listed. Switchboard number 0208 743 8000. ask for Mr Neame. Please note that the director is one Bharat Nalluri. Ask them how they could make such an Islamophobic programme. Ask who the Islamic advisor to the show was and get the contact details for them.  

5.   Print this alert out and ask that your local Mosque protest in an official capacity citing the increase in attacks against Mosques that will ensue. Also ask your Mosque if you can place this on their notice board or announce this issue at Jummah prayer. We spoke to the Chairman of Birmingham central mosque Mohammed Naseem and he agreed with us that action had to be taken and made a note of the relevant telephone numbers to call to inform the congregation of 6000 strong at Jummah tomorrow. Make sure your mosque is in the front line too.

6.   Contact Bruce Vander, senior co-ordinator with BBC information 0208 576 4929, to further register your dismay and disgust that such a programme was ever made let alone aired.

email alert from Mpac UK

Salaams

Hanif
NS
Re: UK Muslims to get Sept 11th battering
humble_muslim
06/09/03 at 21:32:04
AA

Man, this is sick!  And I thought the tide has turned for Muslims in the uk!
NS
Re: UK Muslims to get Sept 11th battering
Nafisa
06/10/03 at 07:38:54
[slm]

So, did anyone watch the programme last night?  The plot was about as convincing as the [i]"mullah's" [/i]beard.  I wanted to see the bit where the muslim kid tries to blow up his school or something but i think I missed it.  It was reaaaaally boring so i switched off.  
Re: UK Muslims to get Sept 11th battering
Twilight
06/10/03 at 10:17:42
[slm]
it wasn't just the mullah's beard but also the accent  ??? where was that meant to be frm.......
I also only watched the begining then got fed-up and switched channels. did anyone watch the whole program, what are your impressions of it?

From what i did see, I agree with Nafisa it was boring  ::)
T


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