What Do You Think Channel 4

[chrisgel]

Is hoping to gain by this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2353250/Channel-4-broadcast-daily-Muslim-prayer-Ramadan-month.html

I'm curious as to why they are doing this. I would imagine that most Muslims would already have something in place and would also presume judging by some of the comments (Yes I know it's the Mail but their readers are viewers too)
that this will alienate some.
So I can only see a lose/lose situation here.
Any thoughts?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Muslims who live in the far north may have a bit of a problem , they would have to fast for 6 months and eat what they like for 6 months. ///

Be very careful what you say modeller, there are some on here who will take you seriously.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

I had already stated many times that it was just a humorous remark, but others deemed to make more out of it than was intended.

So I say to you and all those who you defend, when you all show the same sentiments and respects that you demand that I show you, then I will certainly be prepared to respect others equally.

In reply to your input.

/// instead you have to take yet another opportunity to put yourself higher than everyone else. How snobbish of you. ///

If you believe that I seek yet another opportunity to put myself higher than everyone else, I can only say that impression must come only from someone that possesses an obvious inferiority complex.

So therefore it is not I who is snobbish, which you also rudely put, but yourself being rather paranoid.

[jim360]

Ha-ha. Me with an inferiority complex!

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/channel-4-to-provoke-viewers-who-associate-islam-with-terrorism-with-live-call-to-prayer-during-ramadan-8682121.html

/// The broadcaster will provide extensive coverage of the Muslim period of prayer to challenge those who associate the religion with extremism and
terror ///

And how is that going to happen?

Could it be while they are at prayer they cannot be seen associated with extremism and terror?

A JOKE, a JOKE, a JOKE, I hasten to add

[emmie]

it's early, but i still think it's a daft idea.

[emmie]

why would channel 4 think to wind up DM readers, for goodness sake. as it's a channel watched by many, one assumes, wouldn't they have something to say about it, those non DM readers.

[FredPuli43]

It's a good job they don't have to get up in the morning so as to go to work?

"They" is inclusive.

Where is the joke in that AOG ? Is it that Muslims don't go to work? If not, what is it?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4992722/Channel-4-plans-to-screen-Muslim-call-to-prayer-every-day-during-Ramadam-as-its-more-relevant-than-Diamond-Jubilee.html

Oh dear haven't any of the usual suspects commented yet on The Sun's humorous approach to this story?

[sp1814]

AOG

No...just...

No...

I know it may have been funny to you, but in order for it to have traction humour-wise, it would need to 'speak to the truth' or 'confirm our prejudices'.

Because Muslims are not generally regarded as workshy, the joke failed.

You may have meant it to be humorous, but it went askew.

Joke:

Q. Do you know how the Grand Canyon was formed ?
A. A Scot dropped a penny in a golf hole.

Non-joke:

Q. Do you know how the Grand Canyon was formed ?
A. A Peruvian dropped a penny in a golf hole.

Unless a demographic is (fairly or, in most cases, unfairly) associated with a particular character trait, the joke doesn't work.

But then again, it's easy to say something's a joke once people call you out on it.

[emmie]

must admit this is not remotely funny...

[sp1814]

AOG

Oh dear haven't any of the usual suspects commented yet on The Sun's humorous approach to this story?

Perhaps we don't read The Sun?

[sir.prize]

Additionally, on the first day of Ramadan, Channel 4 will also air 20-second bursts of the chant at four other prayer times. It will break into its regular schedule, interrupting programmes, to give the 20-second bursts at 1.11pm, 5.26pm, 9.20pm and 10.49pm.

Channel 4 recently came under fire after giving airtime to militant ranting radical Anjem Choudary. His latest boast is Islam is the fastest growing idealogy in the country - by some accounts Britain could be Muslim country by 2015! So now they are 'employing' Hassen Rasool to spout his chants live on television. And the Islamic Emergency Defence group say ''We want to see Sharia law in the UK.''

All sounds nice and cosy for the future.


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[boxtops]

How could we tell it was supposed to be humorous, AOG? - you didn't put a :-)

[sp1814]

2015?

You mean the year after next?

Is he on crack?

[sir.prize]

^^^ there you are AOG, the voice of the people - aka The Sun.

[jim360]

It has to be said, once the prayers start appearing through the day as well then it becomes a bit more invasive. Especially as it is interrupting regular coverage, apparently. I'll remember to switch on in the first day of Ramadan so I can get suitably annoyed.

[emmie]

no he is an Allah fearing good Muslim, why would he be on crack, that would have been in his student party days when he wasn't called Anjem but Jimmy, or some such western name.

[FredPuli43]

"To spout his chants" sir.prize? The man's a muezzin. Whose chants do you mean? Choudry's? They are no more Choudry's than they are of any Muslim. What next? Are you going to condemn a Cantor chanting as supporting Zionist militancy, or a Catholic priest conducting prayers and responses as thereby supporting the IRA?

[modeller]

You had better make the best of this event because it wont come round again on the same day for another 33 years.

[emmie]

?? ^^