v_e, no, I didn’t watch it simply because I can’t bear to watch any more. I’ve seen enough.
It strikes me that we are creating a very sick society because in our efforts to embrace the culture of Islam we are rapidly losing sight of our own moral compass. This is a society where it’s become fashionable to champion the rights of all and so we present vehement opposition to the president of the USA because of something he said long before he took office - and yet not only do we ignore the plight of women within Islam, we actively defend the most oppressive of costumes, and have no objection to the existence of Sharia courts where appalling discrimination against women is the order of the day. We have the mayor of London claiming that criticism of FGM is a ‘hate crime’ (acknowledgement to Talbot for that one), and no one says a dickie bird. Nothing. All these champions think he’s a good bloke! And then we have the media wheeling out on a regular basis designer Muslim women with their designer headgear - telling us this is what Islam is all about – and ‘we’ (I use that word loosely) agree that Islam has to be a happy place because Nadia whatever-her-name-is, is a nice smiley lady who teaches us to cook – and any Muslim who isn’t like Nadia-whatever-her-name-is, isn’t really a Muslim because they’re the ones who are misinterpreting their book. How these people know that is anyone’s guess because in my experience every single one of the westerners I’ve come across who offer these arguments have gleaned their impression of Islam, not from serious study, but from the positive propaganda offered by the media or from the odd Muslim they think they ‘know’. When all of the people who are feeding the population of this country this garbage, and when all of the people who are hoodwinked by it, including the rabidly marching, banner-waving, Sandi Toksvigs of this world and all the other celebrities parading the red carpet in their posh frocks and claiming “Me too”, say “Them too” - then I’ll listen.