I’ve been searching the news sites but surprisingly have found absolutely no outraged cries denouncing the BBC because of its Islamophobia, racism, anti-Muslim bigotry, discrimination and misuse of licence-payers’ money to stoke anti-Muslim feeling with the blackest of racist propaganda from the usual sources such as the somewhat creepy Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Muslim Council of Britain.
Surprising because the BBC has been filming a series, Caliphate-UK, that portrays a Britain that has fallen to an Islamic invasion and is under the yoke of a monstrous, inhumane and fascist-like Muslim regime. The actor Rufus Sewell, who plays an ISIS-like extremist given a position of command in the UK, says that ‘I think reducing Muslims to stereotypical extremists and headchopping radicals screaming ‘Allah Akbar’ as a kind of easy entertainment takes us away from the important fact that they were human beings. Islam is not populated by all the evil people in the world. Radicalisation happened to a lot of normal people…it could happen again. It nearly happened here. What’s vital is that you get the story of the human beings being sucked into an evil world-view without knowing it as Muslims often are. That’s one of the things that makes it so timely what we are doing now.’
Maeve Dermody who plays Sewell’s Christian sex slave, says the rise in Islamic supremacist narratives across the world makes this warning from an imagined history unusually pertinent saying “We have such a diminishned sense of history.”
So yes…the Caliphate….a warning from history that we should do more than switch on as if it were merely the latest in historical, dramatic TV entertainment.
Oh, wait, my mistake, should have gone to Specsavers….the BBC is going to broadcast a new series depicting Britain under the jackboot of a Nazi regime…SS-GB, from a Len Deighton book from 1978…..naturally this is not timed nor intended to be a commentary on Brexit or Leave voters…the BBC is definitely not likening those who support Brexit to Nazis nor trying to imply that Brexit and opposition to the Liberal gangsterism that dominates now is leading to the 1930’s. No, no, no.
However others aren’t quite so dishonest…
Rufus Sewell in the Sunday Times….
“I thnk reducing Nazis to werewolves and zombies and vampires and aliens, as a knd of entertainment, takes us away from the important fact that they were human beings. Germany was not populated at that time by all the evil people in the world. It happened to a lot of normal people. It could happen again. It nearly happened here. What’s vital is that you get the story of the human beings being sucked into an evil-world view without knowing it. That’s one of the things that makes it so timely that we’re doing it now.”
Maeve Dermody fellow actor…“The rise in nationalist sentiment around the world makes this warning from an imagined history unusually pertinent….we have such a diminished sense of history.”
The BBC is using licence money to pump out a viciously racist and political slander against Brexit and those who voted for it in what is the blackest form of propaganda. Who are the real fascists? They are making this BBC series. Brexit an ‘evil world view’? Only on the BBC.