Monday, January 22, 2007

Horrifying TV

A horrifying six-part investigation of the goings-on inside a British mosque: must viewing, available on YouTube at

Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFQWuk4nuo
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuCLC8kjWCI
Part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5t5EqWX92k
Part 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMztM0Z7BYE
Part 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Zv3BUmwqs
Part 6: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjvNScmTQA

Even more amazing than the undercover footage: the utter silence of the British media on the subject. Here is Melanie Phillips:

[W]ith a few honourable exceptions the programme passed almost without comment in either the media or Parliament, with the ‘serious’ broadsheets particularly conspicuous by their silence. Today’s Sunday Telegraph at least punctures this silence to report that Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, the head of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, called for imams and mosque leaders to be questioned amid claims that forces were reluctant to act.

He also expressed concern that a Muslim primary school teacher, secretly filmed while he delivered a diatribe against Jews, Christians and ‘filthy non-Muslim doctors’, has been allowed to remain in his job… The school confirmed that it was investigating the remarks but said: ‘We have always found him to be a dedicated and committed teacher throughout his employment. He has never expressed religiously or racially intolerant views whilst teaching at Al-Noor.’

Mr Siddiqui said that he was ‘astonished’ at the school’s stance, but claimed it was indicative of a wider trend: ‘If a blind person refuses to accept he is blind, then no one can help him. British Muslims have a problem and it needs to be recognised. If it is, then we can isolate the few extremist individuals, and the entire community will stop being stigmatised.’

Americans are absolutely astounded by Britain’s indifference to such revelations. What will it take to wake the Brits up? they ask. Good question.

01/22 08:20 PM