Nu kan vi uden TV også se Joost van der Valks Wilders portræt med engelsk lydspor, som DR 2 viste den 8. februar. Den kommer vidt omkring – fra Daniels Pipes og Pamela Geller i USA til kirurgen Arie Eldhad i Israel og Lars Hedegaard i Danmark, som filmen kalder “Wilders´guru” (!) Den anser, at Wilders er problemet, ikke symptomet, og den forsøger ikke udpræget at være en objektiv skildring. For eksempel benytter den sig flere gange af Sheikh Khalid Yasin, første gang min. 12:30, og kalder ham en “muslimsk leder der rejser rundt og afradikaliserer unge.” Det var ikke lige hvad vi så, da han talte i Korsgadehallen på Nørrebro for præcis et år siden. Sheikh Khalid Yasin går ind for sharia-stat, påstår USA stod bag 9-11, hævder AIDS spredes i Afrika via FN og kristne missionærer, mener homoseksuelle skal dø, ligesom han ikke mener muslimer bør have ikke-muslimske venner. Kan man leve med den slags misinformation, kan man godt se den. En film der skulle ramme lige i plet i DR-Politiken-Guardian-DN- segmentet uden at tilføje noget væsentligt nyt. Vi kan roligt være urolige, selvom vi er det af helt forskellige grunde. Filmen undgår ikke at blive et portræt af et Holland og et Europa på vej mod noget, man ikke tør nævne ved navn, uanset hvad man mener, er årsag og virkning. Vi lader et par franskmænd nedenfor udtrykke det. CBN er også vinklet, bestemt ikke mere, men anderledes. (GoV The BBC Breaches Its Charter.)

CBN i Frankrig: »Our politicians are leading us to war«

Dale Hurd: Europe’s Multiculturalism Leading to Civil War?

Bruce Bawer: The Guardian spiller ‘Backlash’-kortet

Want a journalism job in the left-wing media? Here’s one tip: if Muslims carry out a terrorist attack or commit some other brutal offense, do your best to focus not on this action, i.e. on what has actually happened, but rather on what might happen in response – namely, a violent “backlash” against innocent Muslims by dangerous right-wing Islamophobes whose racist hatred threatens multicultural harmony.

Never mind that such “backlashes” virtually never actually occur. There’s always the possibility that they might – right?

Today’s example: a documentary on Britain’s Channel 4 shows a man at an Islamic school hitting and kicking kids in Koran class, and another man at another Islamic school saying that Hindus “drink piss” and counselling his audience to “stay away” from infidels “the same way you should stay away from a serpent or a snake.”

So how does the Guardian report this? In an article blandly headlined “Mosque school arrest following Channel 4 documentary,” it includes the above information. How can it not? But it also gives us to this extraordinary comment by Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming:

“If Channel 4 thinks this is a school where racism and intolerance is accepted in any way, they have got their facts seriously wrong. [The school] have already had hate mail, and now they are having to close for the safety of their pupils. This kind of documentary is ideal fodder for the [far-right] English Defence League. Channel 4 is putting the safety of children at risk by criticising a school which is doing its job properly.”

In other words, the kids aren’t endangered by a teacher who’s beating them – they’re endangered by Channel 4 and the EDL, neither of which, as far as I know, has yet to be accused of beating Muslim children. […] Bruce Bawer: Backlash!

UK: Rend os i konventionerne

Skal det nogensinde komme til et opgør med overstatslig, landsskadelig formynderi må et stort land der ikke sådan lige kan sættes i Poul Nyrup Rasmussens skammekrog gå forrest. I bedste fald vil det føre til en ketchupeffekt af trods (LFPC).

European judges will not have the final say on whether prisoners should be given the vote, the Attorney General said last night.

In a sign of the Government’s growing anger over prisoner voting, Dominic Grieve hinted that Britain could seek to limit the power of the European Court of Human Rights over the issue – and even withdraw from its jurisdiction altogether. […] Euro judges ‘will not have final say’ on prisoner vote, vows Attorney General (as he hints of withdrawal from European court)