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Related: About this forumChannel 4 cancels screening of film questioning Islam's origins
Broadcaster calls off event at its HQ citing security fears after documentary Islam: The Untold Story drew 1,000 complaints
Ben Quinn
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 September 2012 11.04 EDT
Channel 4 has cited concerns over security as the reason for cancelling a planned screening at its headquarters this week of a documentary film questioning the origins of Islam.
Islam: The Untold Story, which claimed there was little written contemporary evidence about the origin of the religion, sparked more than 1,000 complaints to Channel 4 and the media regulator after it was broadcast two weeks ago.
Its presenter, the historian Tom Holland, was also the focus of substantial criticism, as well as abuse, on Twitter.
The channel said in a statement on Tuesday: "Having taken security advice we have reluctantly cancelled a planned screening of the programme, Islam: The Untold Story. We remain extremely proud of the film, which is still available to view on 4oD."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/11/channel-4-cancels-screening-islam
atreides1
(16,093 posts)If they planned to show a documentary about how the Christian church decided what was and wasn't going to be doctrine...more killing and torture then Jason, Freddie, and Michael Myers would be able to handle!
It's unfortunate no one has the guts to make that documentary...
dmallind
(10,437 posts)When businesses decide not to invest in new opportunities for fear of religious zealotry, religion throttles and begins to exercise control over the economy.
Just as the much further step down the same road where religion throttles and controls laws as in the US.
Control by religion needs to be stopped wherever it is found.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)and why they wanted to screen it there, after they had already shown it on TV, I'm not sure - the Telegraph puts it as:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9535854/Channel-4-cancels-Islam-documentary-screening-after-presenter-threatened.html
It seems to be about threats against Tom Holland. The programme is still available online in the UK (I watched it last night) and is scheduled to be shown again on Channel 4at 1:05am (about 4 hours from now).
I can't say the programme showed what he was thinking as 'history'. He said he couldn't find non-Muslim references to Muhammed until decades after the Arabs started conquering other regions like Iraq, Syria or Palestine; however, such references are claimed, within a few years of Muhammed's death, at the same time as those conquests. He should have addressed these in the programme, rather than never mentioning them. He said Mecca was only mentioned once in the Koran; but didn't tell us that Medina is mentioned twice, which puts his hypothesis that Ishmael's shrine (ie the Kaaba, to which the Hajj pilgrimage was made, even before Muhhamed) was somewhere near the Dead Sea into big trouble.
EvilAL
(1,437 posts)a movie about whatever the hell they want without worrying about insecure Muslims murdering them. This is just insane. Scare people with fear of retaliation in order to get your way.. there's a word for that.