tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14422435.post6992000985739474249..comments2024-10-25T13:58:36.797+01:00septicislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03369157723084834549noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14422435.post-15335842195936360562009-02-12T11:46:00.000+00:002009-02-12T11:46:00.000+00:00I've watched the film and it just consists of (for all I know) real footage of muslims doing or saying bad things.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what the best way to react would be if a film were made showing the KKK and implying all white people are like this. Hiding it away, refusing to allow people to see it, and deporting the film-maker would rather smack of a cover-up and make people wonder what there is to hide. Surely it would be better (and rather trivial) to make the obvious point that most people are not like that and just move on?<BR/><BR/>Apparently the Lords are still going to watch his film anyway, so it just makes everybody look stupid. It would have been better if they'd let him travel all the way there and then walked out as his film played to an empty room. The film isn't so much offensive as pointless, because the point it implies is not valid. It certainly, in my opinion, falls short of the level of inciting hatred – there should remain a very high bar before someone's views can be silenced.<BR/><BR/>I'm not comfortable with the reaction of top muslims to this. It will only strengthen the perception that muslims want to use the law to silence criticism of Islam. Was this even newsworthy before people tried to censor it?<BR/><BR/>And do we even have the power to ban a Dutch citizen from coming to the UK?Tom Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09903923157306717004noreply@blogger.com