Comments on: Channel 4 wins Undercover Mosque case http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/05/14/channel-4-wins-undercover-mosque-case/ Watching. Pointing. Laughing. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Mead http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/05/14/channel-4-wins-undercover-mosque-case/comment-page-1/#comment-149844 Jason Mead Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:31 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=1023#comment-149844 The claims by the CPS and the West Midlands police that the Channel 4 TV program, Undercover Mosque, was a “distortion” and “out-of-context” have been clearly shown as a blatant attempt at censorship in the name of “community cohension.” As succinctly pointed out by David Henshaw, the managing director of Hardcash Productions, what exactly “is the correct context for arguing that women are born deficient, homosexuals should be thrown off mountains and that 10-year-old girls should be hit if they refuse to wear the hijab?” Now that it has finally been established that the program was actually a true representation of 'preachers' inciting child abuse, sex descrimation and murder may I ask if there will now be any prosecutions of the “preachers” for inciting hatred against homosexuals? Shouldn’t the apology by the CPS and the police now mean that the decision-makers in those organisations be dismissed. Shouldn’t there also be a full, independent public enquiry into the abuse of a public office by the CPS and the police? If Mediawatchwatch will kindly put these questions to both organisations, MPs in Birmingham and the Home Office then I, for one, would be very grateful. The claims by the CPS and the West Midlands police that the Channel 4 TV program, Undercover Mosque, was a “distortion” and “out-of-context” have been clearly shown as a blatant attempt at censorship in the name of “community cohension.” As succinctly pointed out by David Henshaw, the managing director of Hardcash Productions, what exactly “is the correct context for arguing that women are born deficient, homosexuals should be thrown off mountains and that 10-year-old girls should be hit if they refuse to wear the hijab?”

Now that it has finally been established that the program was actually a true representation of ‘preachers’ inciting child abuse, sex descrimation and murder may I ask if there will now be any prosecutions of the “preachers” for inciting hatred against homosexuals? Shouldn’t the apology by the CPS and the police now mean that the decision-makers in those organisations be dismissed. Shouldn’t there also be a full, independent public enquiry into the abuse of a public office by the CPS and the police?

If Mediawatchwatch will kindly put these questions to both organisations, MPs in Birmingham and the Home Office then I, for one, would be very grateful.

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