The Satanic Verses:

[vetuste_ennemi]

Thirty Years on. BBC2 9.00pm

Look forward to this. Advertised as (stress added by VE) as "a return to Yorkshire where the protest first began to examine the lasting effects the book has had on the community".

Wonder what spin the Beeb will put on the story. Presumably we'll be seeing lots of "moderate" Muslims - and a few less so.

PS: Anybody wath Panorama this week on trans-gender medicine? Surprisingly fairly presented. A rogue producer must have snuck himself in.

[ChillDoubt]

Thanks for the heads-up VE, I’ll set my reminder for that.

[Spicerack]

That was the first example of Islamic Extremism I can remember in this country. It certainly radicalised a lot of Muslim youngsters.
|With hindsight we should have rounded them up and deported them)

[Mamyalynne]

The Trans Kids - Medicine Matters was very informative and interesting.

[Old_Geezer]

Bought the book. Tried reading it. One of those once you put it down you can't pick it up.

[Spicerack]

^ditto.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I managed better: I got to the last twenty pages or so before saying "you've done more than your duty here, VE".

No book-burning barbarian in Bradford would have read.

[vetuste_ennemi]

...read it.

[ladybirder]

I hope Spath is watching this.

[ChillDoubt]

Maybe it’s time I got round to reading it.

Have only ever given up on one book, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
It was dire IMHO.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Don't bother, ChilledOut.

Strange irony that once feted Hampstead lefty gets bounty puton his head by mad mullahs and has to be protected by the country he's now living in and hates.

Nothing in the book, by the way, that any normal balanced person would want to kill for. Nothing like this, for instance:

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/blasphemy-trial

Says a lot about Islam and many of its adherents that
so would kil a man for writing a view that as an act of piety.

Of course, if there were a case today on the issue of blasphemy, the John Mortimer QCs (see above) would be prosecuting rather than defending the blasphemers. (EUCR on Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff)

[vetuste_ennemi]

...for writing a book and view that...

[ChillDoubt]

Indeed.
They can’t even see the irony of pronouncing a death sentence on a man for writing a book of fiction.....about a book of fiction.

As for the two idiots at the end of the programme.......

[Bigbad]

I do remember this, but in those days, Muslims only seemed to live in areas that were nowhere near me.
How different it is today.
To see the 30 year old footage of them all going loopy over a book, and wanting to kill the author would be a joke if it wasn’t for the fact that the religion is still mired in the same ridiculous ideas.

I found the presenter irritating.
I had to keep telling him that words like “get” and “got” have a letter t at the end!

[Khandro]

Getting a Muslim closet - apologist to present a programme on The Satanic Verses was a tedious, wasted opportunity.

When I heard him summing up, telling me how Muslims are an 'essential part of British society', and I look at the film of the large groups of men in their beards, nightshirts and little hats, speaking in foreign tongues on the streets of English towns and cities, I always would like to ask them, "and how do you earn you living sir?"

[naomi24]

I confess I too abandoned the book before I’d finished it, but I have the programme recorded. I did, however, catch a snippet of the end of it and I might be mistaken but I got the impression that this is one to delight apologists which means it isn’t worth an hour of my time. Am I wrong?

[Bigbad]

I couldn’t have watched it without having something to do whilst watching it (if that makes sense), naomi.
It just showed me that a) they must be bonkers for believing all that crap and b) how many there are now in the UK.
But I already knew that.

[Spicerack]

If I was that reporter I'd avoid that 15th storey balcony of his.
Still, shouldn't take the police long to catch the big bully who snatched the book and set it alight.

[naomi24]

Never mind the book. The phrase ‘The Satanic Verses’ in itself is a major embarrassment to Islam.

Bigbag, Unless I’ve seen the programme I’m not qualified to comment so I’ll take a look this afternoon. This could be one of those moments to say “Won’t be long”.

[naomi24]

Khandro, //Getting a Muslim closet - apologist to present a programme on The Satanic Verses was a tedious, wasted opportunity.//

I dread to think what the reaction of those he spoke to might have been had a non-Muslim carrying the book asked the same questions.

There are a few here who would benefit from watching it.

[douglas9401]

I heard a radio programme a few days ago and the gist seemed to be that the bold Salman was a bit of a fruit loop and could be a stranger to the truth if it would benefit him.