Reply With QuoteSad to see Muslims bullying a TV channel. Is there something their afraid of?
Channel 4 cancels controversial Islam The Untold Story documentary after threats
Channel 4 cancels controversial screening of Islam: The Untold Story documentary after presenter Tom Holland is threatened
Islam: The Untold Story received over 1,000 complaints when it was first broadcast at the end of August, with presenter Tom Holland receiving numerous furious messages on Twitter.
Channel 4 has cancelled a repeat screening of a controversial documentary on the history of Islam after its presenter was threatened.
Islam: The Untold Story received around 1,200 complaints when it was first broadcast at the end of August, with presenter Tom Holland receiving numerous furious messages on Twitter.
A Channel 4 spokeswoman said: “Having taken security advice, we have reluctantly cancelled a planned screening of the programme Islam: The Untold Story. We remain extremely proud of the film which is still available to view on 4oD.”
Islam: The Untold Story investigated the origins of the religion, claiming there was little written evidence about the Prophet Mohammed and questioning the authenticity of many of the stories in the Koran.
It examined claims that rather than Islam's doctrine emerging fully-formed in a single text, the religion instead developed gradually over many years with the expansion of Arabic empires.
Despite Channel 4’s statement, those attempting to watch the documentary on 4OD were met with an error message.
Tom Holland, a historian who wrote the best sellers Rubicon and Persian Fire defended the documentary, saying Islam is “a legitimate subject of historical inquiry”.
The was much criticism however, with Iranian State media calling it an insult to Islam and the Islamic Education and Research Academy (IERA) accusing Holland making “baseless assumptions” and engaging in “selective scholarship”.
Holland himself received countless angry message on Twitter, with some of them personally threatening.
One message sent to him read: “You might be a target in the streets. You may recruit some bodyguards, for your own safety.”
Channel 4 subsequently sought security advice and a decision to pull a repeat screening of the documentary this Thursday was taken.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...d-8125641.html
Link for them there foreigners
http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
I wonder if the embassy attacks had anything to do with this? Channel 4 has usually stood firm against threats from Muslims.
Sad to see Muslims bullying a TV channel. Is there something their afraid of?
Sadly, the link doesnt work for me. Anyone successful?
Being fed alive to pigs.Originally Posted by shermbodius
Welcome to the Dhimmitude, cant show anything which might enrage the Religion of Peace or they will kill you in the name of the prophet (PBUH). Its your fault
Quoted for truth. Bull Sh!t!
i got a couple days off because of this.
I'm pretty sure I read about this on Tuesday before the attacks were underway.
It's on channel 4 now
Try this link:
http://mrctv.org/videos/islam-untold-story
It is working for me.
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Pussies. I'm from a muslim family, but damn ! do I hate when people get scared of the screaming mob of idiots !!
Channel 4 shouldn't be impressed by them. No one should be scared by a religion in our time. In France, fringe catholics tried to storm a play because it defaced Jesus.
Well, it's true that they were fringingly fringy... Muslims, I admit, have more people being "fringe" (so much you'd wonder if there's any fringe at all...)
Still, don't use 1200 calls and threats as the proof each and every muslim is like that. I'm kinda tired of having to do PR all the time to differentiate myself from my bearded stupid co-religioners... FVCK ! I'd even say I'm borderline atheist !
Thanks a lot! I've been trying to see this for days!
The problem is that we see more bad than good from practitioners of the Muslim faith. There are extremist Christians too, but at least the vast majority of Christians make an effort to distance themselves from the extremists and trivialize their stupidity. Islam seems to be a free for all and naivety and stupidity appear to reign supreme. Its difficult to want to accept and trust Muslims as a whole if the only thing we ever see or hear from them is trouble.
p.s: this is not meant to be a intolerant remark, its just the truth from my perspective. I have no issues with religion and people who choose to believe in a God, however I do have a problem when religion is used as a cloak for their acts, be it Muslims, Christians, Judaism, etc. To put it simply, religion should be left at home.
I Thought it was ok. There was no slating of Islam, just some facts.
Its like when somebody points out all the errors is Christianity. Most true believers would just go "isnt gods work great".
No offence taken, I agree with you on most points.
Just tired of scared stares when I say my first name... (caucasian white, blue eyes, no accent... arabic first name...)
BTW, not being a racist, but many arabs I've met first thought "You're jew ?" when meeting me. WTF does it matter !!!??? Even got stones thrown at me... I don't feel much sympathy for the Middle-East thanks to these blockheads. Always reacting instead of thinking !
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