On 15th May 2008 when the matter came to the High Court, West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service apologised to the makers of the documentary for accusing them of distortion and agreed to a payment of £100,000. The statement, released to the media by West Midlands Police, after the High Court hearing, said they now accepted there had been no evidence that Channel 4 or the documentary makers had "misled the audience or that the programme was likely to encourage or incite criminal activity".
It added that the Ofcom report showed the documentary had "accurately represented the material it had gathered and dealt with the subject matter responsibly and in context". The police statement concluded: "We accept, without reservation, the conclusions of Ofcom and apologise to the programme makers for the damage and distress caused by our original press release." The same statement was later posted on the Crown Prosecution Service website.
Kevin Sutcliffe, deputy head of current affairs at Channel 4, said the apology was a vindication of the programme team in exposing extreme views. "Channel 4 was fully aware of the sensitivities surrounding the subject matter but recognised the programme's findings were clearly a matter of important public interest. "The authorities should be doing all they can to encourage investigations like this, not attempting to publicly rubbish them for reasons they have never properly explained," he said. Channel 4 boss Julian Bellamy said they had had no choice but to pursue action when the police and CPS refused to withdraw their remarks.
I've lived in Germany for a couple of years now, travelled widely in the continent, and I have friends from many countries. I'm baffled as to how anyone can think radical Islam is undermining anything in Europe.
flipflop wrote:I personally disagree with faith schools, and this Labour government seems to love them. But they won't be around after the next election.
Slam wrote: What's interesting is the amount of conflict between the various Islamist, Wahabbi and Salafi groups. They bitch as much about each other as they do the West.
marie-angelique wrote:thanks for the book recommendation slam, i'll check it out.flipflop wrote:I personally disagree with faith schools, and this Labour government seems to love them. But they won't be around after the next election.
and these are paid for by the state, right?
over here you can choose to send your kids to religious schools, but you have to pay for the whole thing yourself. i would be appalled if my tax dollars were paying for religious education of any flavor.
flipflop wrote:They get funding from the government yes, many also have high educational standards. It's a national disgrace. And, if the example shown by the "Undercover Mosque" programme - which was carried out by one covert reporter in that hotbed of harmony and multi-culturalism: Birmingham and it's Green Lane mosque - is anything to go by, then some of the people associated with educating young muslims are very unsavoury characters indeed. Faith schools are wrong, should be abolished and ALL children in the UK should receive a secular education - if they want religion instruction then their parents can give it to them.
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marie-angelique wrote:flipflop wrote:They get funding from the government yes, many also have high educational standards. It's a national disgrace. And, if the example shown by the "Undercover Mosque" programme - which was carried out by one covert reporter in that hotbed of harmony and multi-culturalism: Birmingham and it's Green Lane mosque - is anything to go by, then some of the people associated with educating young muslims are very unsavoury characters indeed. Faith schools are wrong, should be abolished and ALL children in the UK should receive a secular education - if they want religion instruction then their parents can give it to them.
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sorry to hear it. and of course if you are against it you get called a racist, right?
flipflop wrote:I don't, ALL faith schools need to be either completely privatised or closed down.
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i am just curious what people think of the premise of this book. i already know what penta thinks [oh, yeah?] ... hope that some other voices chime in.
snaark wrote:According to this article in the Economist, of the 140 Islamic schools in the UK, only 7 are state funded.
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/ ... id=7891293
After the London bombings in July 2005 the prime minister changed tack. He listened to voices within his own party, including that of a Muslim peer, Lady Uddin, who argued that it was hypocritical to support other faith schools while denying Muslims a free religious education within the state system. And official scrutiny should eradicate poor teaching and questionable political activities. Since then the number of Muslim state schools has increased and more await approval.
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