Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 Assalamu Alaikum, Channel 4 plans to air a show on Saudi involvement in UK Da'wah on the 1st of September (lovely Ramadaan gift). The show as with all their programmes is pretty much one sided and heavily edited. Shaikh Khalid Yassin, whose views have been taken out of context has challenged them to a open ended interview.. You can read his letter here (third post). Please show your support by sending an email / letter to Hardcash. Pass this on to as many people as possible. Read more about it here: www.challengeyoursoul.com We urge all members & readers of this topic to fill out the following template with your name and send to the following emails: hardcash@hardcashproductions.com JTomalin@channel4.co.uk ksutcliffe@channel4.co.uk nigel.abbas@btinternet.com Template: ---------------------------------------------------- Dear Hardcash production, I, the undersigned, call on hardcash production, to cease and desist your continuous development of Islamophobic and Xenophobic programmes. Furthermore I demand that hardcash production broadcast a Live and unedited interview with Shaykh Khalid Yasin, where you can pose these allegations directly to the Shaykh and allow him the opportunity to respond in an appropriate and fair manner. Best regards, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 "Hardcash Productions Ltd" wrote: BY FAX, EMAIL AND POST Private and Confidential 12 August 2008 Dear Sheikh Yasin, Dispatches TX. 1 September 2008 Hardcash Productions is an independent production company making a programme for Channel 4's current affairs series Dispatches, which is due to be broadcast on 1 September 2008. The film investigates claims that the Saudi Arabian religious establishment, with the involvement of the Saudi Arabian government, is promoting a theology of intolerance, separatism and extremism around the world and, in particular, in Britain. As part of the investigation, we have looked into the activities of some mainstream British Islamic organisations which have strong links to the Saudi Arabian religious establishment and government. As you are aware, in a Dispatches investigation in January 2007 entitled Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, undercover reporters purchased DVDs of your speeches at the official bookshop of the Islamic Cultural Centre and London Central Mosque. These DVDs contained intolerant comments aimed at the beliefs of Jews and Christians, and claims that AIDS was a Western and Christian plot. At the time, the ICC promised to remove your speeches from the bookshop pending an investigation into the content, but our reporters have returned and found they continue to sell your works. They bought a number of titles by you which continue to contain similar radical, intolerant comments. In particular, we intend to include within our programme the following comments by you in a DVD entitled "Building a Muslim Community", copyright "One Islam Productions", in which you praise the beheadings practised in Saudi Arabia, saying: "At least I say, we Muslims should have that kind of power all over the world". You say Muslims all over the world should have the power to implement an extreme version of sharia law, which includes public beheadings, amputations, lashings and crucifixions, saying; "and then people can see, people without hands, people can see in public heads rolling down the street, people can see in public people got their hands and feet from opposite sides chopped off and they see them crucified, they see people get punished they see people put up against the pole ?.. and because they see it, it acts as a deterrent for them because they say I don't want that to happen to me". We intend to include your comments within the programme in the context of revealing that the ICC/Regents Park Mosque official bookshop continues to sell material which is promoting a radical, intolerant ideology which, amongst other things, promotes an extreme version of sharia law practised in Saudi Arabia. We also note in the film that you learned Arabic in Saudi Arabia. If you wish to comment on the above please let us have any comments in writing, to be edited into the broadcast programme, by no later than noon on Tuesday, 26 August. After that time, we will not be able to guarantee that your comments are incorporated. Yours sincerely, Andrew Smith Producer Hardcash Productions Fax: 0207 253 2761 Email: hardcash@hardcashproductions.com Copy: Jan Tomalin, Controller, Legal and Compliance, Channel 4 (Fax: 0207 306 8367, Email: JTomalin@channel4.co.uk ) Kevin Sutcliffe, Deputy Head, News & Current Affairs (Fax: 020 7306 8359, Email: ksutcliffe@channel4.co.uk ) Nigel Abbas, Media Lawyer (Email: nigel.abbas@btinternet.com , Fax: 0871 661 7061) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 14/08/08 Dear Mr. Smith: I am replying to you only as a courtesy, and not because I am concerned about your intended broadcast. I expect, in fact, I am certain, that your intended broadcast, will contain the usual anti-Islamic rhetoric and soundbites that are designed to provoke an already conditioned public into a fear about the Islamic system, and a fear and contempt for Muslims in general. As for the constant use of the words "intolerant" and "extremism", I think that you, and your colleagues at Channel 4, or HardCash Productions, have been indelibly and consistently exhibiting the most vehement and malicious religious intolerance and journalistic extremism, of nearly anyone in the entire television industry of the United Kingdom! Not only are you inaccurate, but you are scandalous, unethical and merchants of jounalistic vomit. Your motives are not morally driven, nor aimed at the intellectualization of your viewers. Rather, you are resorting to the use of cheap sensational journalism, to exploit an unaware and pre-conditioned public, in order to make the "bottom line" profit that sustains your "Channel 4 - HardCore" vomit factory. Your allegations of my statements on a DVD, titled "Building a Muslim Community", and I must say allegations, because, in every lecture, writing, or communication of any kind, there is something called the "context", which can only be appreciated when someone objectively, sincerely, and intellectually, forms an opinion, after making a comprehensive and thorough examination. I want to remind you, that capital punishment, including, but limited to: decapitation, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electrocution, and hanging by the neck, has been, and is still resorted to by Governments and States throughout the modern world as both a punishment and a deterrent for criminal behavior in the society. It is not a practice limited to Muslim countries, whether past or present. Whatever statements I made in that lecture was aimed at reforming the Muslim people, the Muslim society, and the Muslim world, to know that Islam is not merely a system of religious rituals and theological observances, but is a comprehensive system of Law and Justice, legislated by Almighty God, and adjudicated by the Sovereign Islamic State, when there exists such a state. Due to historically documented conspiracies between criminal Muslim States and the immoral empirical ambitions of countries like Great Britain (as the United Kingdom was referred to at that time) and the United States of America, the legitimate ambition to have and sustain a Sovereign Islamic State in the world, has been almost completely annihilated and in most Muslim countries today, criminalized. If you call yourselves educating and alarming the UK society about radical, Saudi-based intolerance and extremism, why are you using my alleged words "to Muslims", "about Muslims" and the reformation and development of their countries and societies, to make your *******ized point? I have visited Saudi Arabia for Hajj and Umrah, and yes, I have learned some Arabic there, but does that make me a purveyor of what you characterize for your illicit media purposes as a "Saudi - based theology based upon intolerance, separatism, and extremism? Suppose you or some other "good Christian visited Ireland, and studied their language, would that itself an indictment of your support for what used to be at one time, the very criminal, intolerant, separatist, and extremist Irish Republican Army? Of couse not! So why the double and blatantly hypocritical standards? I am not, and have never been a supporter or a promoter of Saudi Arabian government policy or religious rhetoric, and most objective intellectuals in the world of multi-media would know that, except you and your ignorant Islamophobic colleagues. As for the alleged promise of the bookstore in the Islamic Cultural Centre at the Regents Park Mosque, to stop selling my DVD's based upon your now very infamous "Dispatches Series", titled: "Undercover Mosques", if they made such a promise,(which I have no evidence that they did) that would have been very shameful, cowardly, unIslamic, and unconstitutional! Firstly, because that bookstore is privately owned, and secondly, because it is the constitutional right of every person in a free and democratic society like the United Kingdom, to express any view they wish, so long as it is not politically seditious, inciting hatred, promoting violence, maligning or attacking any lifestyle or religion, or seeking to commit or conspire to commit, any act of terrorism. I can say without the least reservation - I have never, and will never knowingly support or advocate any such behavior! Why doesn't "Channel 4, and your HardCore", "Hard4Cash" Group, collaborate and review some of the hundreds of magazines and periodicals that are sold on newstands and bookstores all over the United Kingdom and Europe, promoting and endorsing, pornography, gambling, pedophilia, bestiality, violent sports, mercenary activities, bigotry, and other forms of unsocial behaviors? Why... because, the simple fact is that it freedom of speech, even though most of it is clearly immoral and socially destructive! You and your colleagues are not only hypocritical and exploitive bigots, you are audacious liars and opportunistic media vermin, who have never allowed anyone whom you attack, the chance to respond on your actual television platform, which is the subject of my concluding remarks. You has cleverly invited me to respond in writing, to what you will be broadcasting by television. What you don't say, is that you will pick and choose from even that written response, to try to find further flaws and ammunition for your "stealth attack" and character assassination! It doesn't really matter, what part you choose to mutilate, the response in it's entirety will be broadcast on seventeen television platforms around the world, and made available to hundreds of magazines and periodicals, for their comparison edification. I will utilize my relationship with these media platforms to counter your evil intent. In addition to that, I am challenging "Channel 4 and Hard4Cash (or HardCore) Ltd. to an unedited open-ended interview, to discuss my views and responses to their media productions, past and present! If you do not accept, hundreds of millions viewers will be aware of your one-sided, prejudicial campaigns against Islam and Muslims! I await your response, whatever it may be... Shaykh Khalid Yasin Chairman Purpose Media Group Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cabdow Posted August 25, 2008 Jazaaka-Allah khair sister for bringing this into our attention. I'm a big fan of Shaikh Khalid Yasin and the great work he does for Islam (he is beyond Masha-Allah) I sincerely do hope that channel4/Hardcashproduction, do give the shaikh the interview that he requested of them (with out any cowardly editing) And also, give him the chance to defend himself on where he stands on this 'BASELESS' issue that they accused him of. I like this part where the Shaikh is challenging them;) I am challenging "Channel 4 and Hard4Cash (or HardCore) Ltd. to an unedited open-ended interview, to discuss my views and responses to their media productions, past and present! If you do not accept, hundreds of millions viewers will be aware of your one-sided, prejudicial campaigns against Islam and Muslims! P.s: Please let us show our support by sending them the E-mail. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 ^Thanks bro. Don't forget to pass it on aswell. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ibtisam Posted August 25, 2008 Blessed yeah I saw this campaign. What do you think is going to happen?? I doubt they will give him air, if they do they will edit it to make him look like a raving nutter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 I love Shaikh Khaled. I remember reading a transcript he gave a radio station in Australia about the Sharia. Very polite and articulate, Masha Allah. He wants the chance to do it again. I doubt these ****** will change their approach to the Muslim community but I think that we should at least let them know how we feel. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ibtisam Posted August 25, 2008 ^^^YEah it would be nice to see a debate! He will kick ***! P.s. Clear your inbox lady! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 ^He so would. Inbox is cold and empty. Bring shaah.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dhubad. Posted August 25, 2008 Maashallah Sheikh Khalid Yasin is one my favourite Daaci, he is very articulate and can put across his view politely but I don't think they will give him that chance coz if they did it will a public humiliation for them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ibtisam Posted August 25, 2008 ^^SEnd an e-mail anyway. Its already written just send it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aaliyyah Posted August 25, 2008 Love shiekh khalid yasin as well. May allah swt reward him for his good deeds... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 ^Ameen. Dhubad, They need to know just the type of man Khaled Yassin is. He's not one of those id*iots (Abu Hamza and co) that don't have the love and respect of the community. It doesn't matter if they act on it... In fact if you go back to his response, he said: It doesn't really matter, what part you choose to mutilate, the response in it's entirety will be broadcast on seventeen television platforms around the world, and made available to hundreds of magazines and periodicals, for their comparison edification. I will utilize my relationship with these media platforms to counter your evil intent. This is going to be fun, Insha Allah! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unknown1 Posted August 25, 2008 no no blessed. Abu Hamza and co arent id'iots! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted August 25, 2008 ^I've already displayed exceptional kindness by agreeing with you once today. Don't push it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
