Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Muslim Aaqil Ahmed appointed head of BBC religious broadcasting
Ahmed's most recent efforts on Channel 4 were The Qur’an and The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World.
The appointment of bearded Aaqil Ahmed comes at a time of deepening worries among Christian leaders that their faith is being sidelined and downgraded by brown people.Last year the BBC gave the job of producing its most popular and longrunning religious programme, Songs of Praise, to a Sikh, Tommy Nagra.
IMO: At least the BBC haven't hired Richard Dawkins to run religious broadcasting. Dawkin's views are inconsistent, have logical faults and are deeply unacceptable even to many freethinkers. One fault in the present appointment might be that Ahmed seems rather anti-Shia, but at least I do not think he is Wahabi. Moderate Sunni and Shia Muslims believe that Wahhabism has nothing to do with Islam and that it is a concept created by the global powers to fuel extremism.It is to be therefore hoped that Ahmed will at least be of some use. He is probably more appropriate than some repressive "gay Christian" or absurd right wing RC.
The appointment of bearded Aaqil Ahmed comes at a time of deepening worries among Christian leaders that their faith is being sidelined and downgraded by brown people.Last year the BBC gave the job of producing its most popular and longrunning religious programme, Songs of Praise, to a Sikh, Tommy Nagra.
IMO: At least the BBC haven't hired Richard Dawkins to run religious broadcasting. Dawkin's views are inconsistent, have logical faults and are deeply unacceptable even to many freethinkers. One fault in the present appointment might be that Ahmed seems rather anti-Shia, but at least I do not think he is Wahabi. Moderate Sunni and Shia Muslims believe that Wahhabism has nothing to do with Islam and that it is a concept created by the global powers to fuel extremism.It is to be therefore hoped that Ahmed will at least be of some use. He is probably more appropriate than some repressive "gay Christian" or absurd right wing RC.
# posted by uv : 9:28 PM
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