WTF. C4 to broadcast daily Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan next month

[Mich the Tester]

I think he adopted a German name because he thinks its more Nazi-like, somehow.
Not the sharpest tool in the box - but what do you expect from someone who thinks people should be forced to sell him a kebab in Ramadan, if he's hungry.


You couldn't make it up.

Yep, he's a more entertaining cretin than proggy though.

[sasguru]

... before those nasty bearded kebab shop owners from Swindon force me to watch ramadan on channel 4.

Feck me, Dim has a beard?

[Mich the Tester]

Feck me, Dim has a beard?

No, I'm just confused.

I'm off now.

For real. 'till tomorrow.

[d000hg]

So long as the Christmas Midnight mass service from Westminster Abbey is broadcast in Muslim nations I have no problem with this.

I bet it gets more viewers than Songs of Praise... this whole "Christian nation" thing is crap.

If it's of interest to enough of the population to get the viewing figures, what's the problem? I mean I'm speaking as a 'radical' Christian who thinks Islam is a false religion and even I see no issue... we have a larger (actively) Muslim population than (actively) Christian in all likelihood.

[sasguru]

...I mean I'm speaking as a 'radical' Christian who thinks Islam is a false religion ...

Yeah your book written by a bunch of humans is more correct than their book written by another bunch of humans.
If you grew up in Thailand you'd shave your head and wear saffron robes - but one thing would remain the same, you'd still be the same annoying git.

[BrilloPad]

I'm off

I wondered what that smell was.

[lilelvis2000]

Well. My point is not that C4 should not give airtime to Muzz indoctrination, if they want so. My point is that it should give airtime to the EDL/BNP if they really want to give a voice to the "under-represented" and all that pseudo-Marxist stuff.

But they won't. They actually follow the official line of the Establishment, "Islam is peace", etc. So they are not being provocative. They are conformists.

Rubbish. C4 has shown more undercover reports of Radical Imams than all the other stations combined. They even show that crazy Four Lions movie. Wanna bet they show that on Eid?

The conformists are BBC, ITV et al who put Christianity in our faces and piss on other religions whenever they can.

[darmstadt]

We will be forced to Muslim indoctrination, something that before 1945 was 100% alien to this country.

There have been Muslims long before that time.

There are references to Islamic scholars in the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1386).

Following the Crusades against Islam, Britain became friendly with some Islamic countries. Queen Elizabeth I, for example, asked the Ottoman Sultan Murad for naval assistance against the Spanish Armada.

The first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim was John Nelson, who converted to Islam at some point in the 16th Century.

A 1641 document refers to "a sect of Mahomatens" being "discovered here in London". There were also a few conversions to Islam during the period, and a few years later, in 1649, came the first English version of the Qur'an, by Alexander Ross.

In the 18th and 19th Centuries there were a number of converts to Islam amongst the English upper classes, including Edward Montagu, son of the ambassador to Turkey.

The first large group of Muslims in Britain arrived about 300 years ago. They were sailors recruited in India to work for the East India Company, and so it's not surprising that the first Muslim communities were found in port towns.

Ships' cooks came too, many of them from Sylhet in what is now Bangladesh. There are records of Sylhetis working in London restaurants as early as 1873.

Some Muslim sailors decided to stay in Britain and simply left their ships without going through any formal immigration procedure.

The next wave of Muslim immigration to Britain followed the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The increase in trade caused a demand for men to work in ports and on ships.

Most of these immigrants came from the Yemen, probably because Aden was the main refuelling stop for ships between Britain and the Far East, and many of the seamen later settled in the port cities of Cardiff, Liverpool, South Shields, Hull, and London. There are now an estimated 70-80,000 Yemenis living in Britain, who form the longest-established Muslim group in Britain.

An example is the Yemeni community of South Shields, which began at the end of the 19th century when Yemenis working as stokers on steamships moved ashore and set up boarding houses in the dock area.

The first mosque in Britain is recorded as having been at 2 Glyn Rhondda Street, Cardiff, in 1860.

[Mich the Tester]

I wondered what that smell was.

I'm back from a quick 35km blast. Now I really do smell.

[Mich the Tester]

There have been Muslims long before that time.

Oi! Stop that! Don't pollute this place with facts!