now, i haven’t seen the “dispatches” programme yet, it’s on my sky+ box waiting to be viewed. however, i was quite amused to be warned by one naeem darr, who i understand is some sort of spokesman for our old friends the muslim safety forum, to have my complaint ready. helpfully, he then went on to provide me with a set of points to complain about to channel 4 and jim kirkpatrick mp. i reproduce his email in full – and include in bold the bits which he appears to know before broadcast:
Dispatches Islamophobic documentary
Channel 4’s Dispatches is due to broadcast a damaging and misleading programme on Monday 1st March at 8pm. For nearly a year the programme had undercover reporters attending events (including private meetings) of Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) and passing themselves off as Muslims and friends, but acting as agents provocateurs to solicit replies to use against IFE.
Here’s another blog gem from the irrepressible Sunny “Browner Than Thou” Hundal.
It’s yet more proof, if such were needed, which shows how Hundal only looks at everything through a white/brown lens. In this case, Hundal suggests that Amnesty’s campaign for the IRA in the 70s happened without outcry because the IRA were white. He introduces a second point that Amnesty requested a moratorium on Timothy McVeigh without controversy only because he was a white supremacist – not a brown Islamist supremacist!
Someone explain to Sunny, the difference between Amnesty and the IRA and Amnesty and CagePrisoners, which he intentionally fails to grasp, is that Amnesty campaigned for the former’s legal/civil rights. They didn’t share platforms with the IRA and marginalise and suspend internal critics of this policy.
The trailer from ‘Four Lions’, Chris Morris’ jihadi satire.
By turns Ealing comedy, tragedy, thriller, buddy movie and satire, Four Lions isn’t well served by the tonal shifts, but is always watchable for the performances of Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay and Adeel Akhtar as the jihadis. Their internecine warfare brings the biggest laughs, and there is much fun to be had from the trademark Morris doggerel; bilious, surreal convoluted outpourings coated in invective that spill out in Urdu (the gang switches between Urdu and English).
While we’re on the subject of Chris Morris, here’s one of his best:
well, no surprises here – ray hanania, writing in the jerusalem post, finds plenty to criticise about the sort of activist that is perpetuating the sad situation in the gaza strip, in the now-established tradition of leftie imbeciles sucking up to clerical fascists as an act of anti-imperialist egotism.
and, of course there’s none more egotistical that our good friend, saddam-fancying cat-impersonator ”gorgeous george”.
george laps it up
These are strange bedfellows in the Palestinian extremist camps, religious fanatics shoulder-to-shoulder with secular extremists like the Popular Front and the rejectionists led by the activists and fawned on by the Arab media that mistakenly believe “freedom” means embracing the most extremist activists.
you never spoke a truer word, ray. for G!D’s sake, please keep doing this. palestine needs your sanity, rationality and humanity, rather than serving to remind us all of the intransigence and lack of compassion for real human beings – other than as symbols of something-or-other-from-la-la-land-ideology – demonstrated by these smug, self-satisfied self-publicists:
although the mainstreammedia has already picked up the story, we’re sure that the good folk of wootton bassett would nonetheless appreciate a message of support. it appears that they are the latest stop on the publicity circuit for everyone’s favourite islamist nutjobs, the al-muhajigoon squad. predictably, the edl have vowed to picket the mosques frequented by the leader of the group that currently calls itself “islam4uk” and, no doubt, stephen gash of “sioe” has ordered an extra copy of “soldier of fortune” magazine in his excitement.
in the spirit that got these imbeciles to cancel their most recent demo and, naturally, in tribute to the recent foiling of the detroit pants bomber, i humbly propose the following:
let all who wish to show this truly grotesque man up as the nasty, ridiculous bigot he is – FLY THE UNDERPANTS!
There is one simple reason for cautious confidence in the future of British Islam, and the ultimate unlikelihood of Islamist politics taking deep, widespread roots in our pluralistic parliamentary democracy. Whenever you hear of some depressing new gambit to rally British Muslims to an absurd sectarian agenda, its origins and organisation can invariably be traced to the same coterie of individuals. For this band of Brothers, such activism is a labour of love, the fruit of sleepless nights and schoolboy daydreams. But there are only about fifteen of them.
And so it is with the Hamas-inspired bid to have Tzipi Livni arrested on British soil and the side-car campaign to have the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund revoked. On the 13th December the Islamic Human Rights Commission and the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign cobbled together a demonstration outside the Hendon Hall hotel to coincide with a JNF conference which Livni was due to attend. The IHRC called on the likeminded to register their discontent at JNF “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” and Tzipi Livni’s “responsibility for the Israeli onslought [sic] on Gaza”.
it appears that the mainstream orthodox rabbinical council of america has picked a fight with the powerful chabad / lubavitch movement over the perennial problem about whether the last lubavitcher rebbe is dead, or the messiah, or both, or what. obviously, there is a slight problem with jews who start believing that the messiah has already come if the relevant prophecies haven’t been fulfilled. similarly, if the messiah in question hasn’t rebuilt the Temple, hasn’t ingathered the exiles of the jewish people or has, in fact, shuffled off this mortal coil and run down the curtain to join the choir invisibule, but his followers start coming out with terms like “occultation” and claiming he isn’t really dead and has Divine powers, G!D forbid, it does start to look a tiny bit like, well, er, christianity.
If confirmation was needed, the recent decision of the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, not to travel to Copenhagen for the UN climate change summit “in retaliation” for Danish cartoons depictions of the prophet Muhammad underscores the widely-held view that the Sudanese Islamist regime is packed with thugs, crooks and terminally dim buffoons.
The Sudanese head of state faces an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) last March accusing him of orchestrating war crimes in Darfur. Despite making several trips in the region, Bashir has so far avoided all states that have ratified the ICC statute.
However the threat of arrest is not what deters the President. At least not according to the loud-mouthed Sudanese ambassador to the UN, Abdel-Mahmood Abdel-Haleem. The ambassador is a man known for living in a hallucinogenic atmosphere of hyperbole on a planet far, far removed from reality. Speaking to BBC World’s Hardtalk, Abdel-Haleem became characteristically over-excited:
Even before he solved the intractable I/P conflict in the 2nd quarter of his first term, brought everlasting peace to the North/South Korea schism in the first half of his second term and fought back the Islamists and installed stable secular, liberal democracies in 14 Arab nation states in his third term, President Barak Obama has won the 2009 Noble Peace Prize!
Paul Reynolds of the BBC says:
The award is certainly unexpected and might be regarded as more of an encouragement for intentions than a reward for achievements.
After all, the president has been in office for a little over eight months and he might hope to serve eight years. His ambition for a world free of nuclear weapons is one that is easier to declare than to achieve and a climate control agreement has yet to be reached.
although the 
