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| The fluffy world of Radio 4 Interfaith debate: while the world around is besieged by Islamism, Islamoterrorism and even Islam itself. |
It was interesting to hear Muhammad Ansar,
the BBC’s very own “media representative” of Islam and all Muslims, on BBC
Radio 4’s ‘Beyond Belief’ (28.1.2013); which was focussing on the subject of
the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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| Muhammad Ansar wants to extend sharia blashemy law to, well, criticism of Muhammad Ansar. |
Basically, Muhammad Ansar is not quite what
he seems. Then again, in the discussion he let a few cats out of the bag. The only
two men he mentioned by name, Yusuf Qaradawi and Norman Finklestein, are
generally regarded as extremists, by all those on the outside, in their own respective
fields. Qaradawi was quoted, by “Mo” Ansar, as saying that Muslims should make
a distinction between Zionism/Israel and the Jews/Judaism; and yet this man is
on record, very many times, of articulating the most extreme anti-Jewish
statements you can imagine. More to the point, Qaradawi said, in 2009, that the
Holocaust was Allah’s punishment of the Jews. (‘… Allah has… punished them for
their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler.’)
Norman Finklestein is an extreme leftist who
has made a living out of trying to destroy Israel. Not only that. He is
"only Jewish on his parents' side" (as someone once put it). He is
only racially Jewish. And as leftists like Finklestein keep on telling us; race
doesn't account for anything. So his Jewish DNA (if there is such a thing) shouldn't
account for anything either. (He once said his mother was a “typical Jew” in
the way she pushed her way to the front of queues!)
The general debate had the air of an
Islington or a BBC-presenters’ dinner party at which the niceness of the
guests, and the niceness of the dinner party itself, was expected to transfer
itself into the wider world. Being nice to Islamists, as with being nice to
Hitler in the 1930s, simply doesn’t work. Being nice and pious about Islam, and
blaming everything on Islamism rather than Islam, is simply false. And that deceit,
or self-deceit, is ultimately proving to be highly dangerous in the world
outside these nice BBC Radio 4 dinner parties (or discussion programmes).
Just as very many BBC employees and
controllers appeased Hitler in the 1930s (e.g., by banning Churchill’s
prescient words about Nazism/Hitler); so they are appeasing dangerous men and
dangerous ideologies now – all except Nick Griffin and the “far right”, that
is.
*) Note: Muhammad Ansar has been trying to impose
sharia blasphemy law on Twitter of late. It seems that sharia law
shouldn't only encompass the kuffar "caricaturing the Prophet" and
suchlike, but also the caricaturing of individual Muslims. Specifically,
the caricaturing of Muhammad Ansar himself. That is, has his recent campaign against Twitter "hate crimes against Islam" got anything to do
with the fact that another Twitterer, MoDawahMoParody (king of dawah), parodies Ansar himself - in brilliant fashion?
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