Britz

(This is a program shown on British Television a while ago, I have been meaning to comment.)

I would like to state, nothing I say here is motivated by racism. I am not at all racist. I believe all people should be judged absolutely only by their actions. I don't have a problem with stereo types "women are bad at maths", "French people smell". These are often well founded, however, if I find a woman who's good at maths, I'd hire her for a maths intensive job. If I found a French person who didn't smell, I'd believe it. No, what I say is based on religious hatred. Religious hatred based on actions taken by religious people. I appreciate there are a lot of "Christians" who are not homophobic. I don;t hate them. I just think they're stupid. See earlier post: I hate Christians... for an explination of why it is okay for me to hate organised religion.

Synopsis of the second half, coutesy of the Chanel 4 Website: "Nasima is a medical student in Leeds who becomes increasingly alienated and angered by Britain's foreign and domestic policy after witnessing at first hand the relentless targeting of her Muslim neighbours and peers."

HERE BE SPOILERS

I didn't watch all of Britz, just the second half. Now, I didn't have any quarrel with Muslims, although I did think this might be though ignorance. Britz made me dislike Muslims more. It is designed to show how poorly we treat Muslims in this country, or something. They show how they keep Nasima's friend under house arrest because they think she might kill innocent children, or something. They then show how when Nasima finally picks up the courage to tell her parents about her non-muslim boyfriend, and admits to having sex with him, her parents take her to India and try to force her into an arranged marriage. Her Boyfriend tries to come and save her, and they kill him. She runs away to suicide bomber training camp.

Man, the British government are so awful, allowing that innocent girl to be raised by those Muslims. What a failure of the domestic system. Was anyone else thinking that? I mean, they killed her boyfriend. They drove her to become a suicide bomber. This girl was university age, and they shipped her of to India to a forced marriage and killed the man she loved, just for loving her. Man, the British government are so fucking out of line! I'm not chritisizing Muslims, because I don't think they would really do that. It's just that the directors and authors of this program seem to be a little misdirected. That's not the story I would use to convince people that these people are civilized and we should combat terror legislation. A good story would be if they had her become a suicide bomber because of how they treated her friend, rather than because her Muslim parents were cunts, donchathink? Or, possibly, a story were she wasn't a suicide bomber, would imply we should trust Muslims not to bomb us? The overall message of this piece is "Musims are fucked up, and will probably kill us over their own domestic issues". Well done, Peter Kosminsky. (Director).