SteveGrenard
20th January 2007, 06:41 PM
Tonight on CNN Christiane Amanpour was featured in an interesting and what I at least, felt was a balanced report on the activity of Islamic radicals in Britain; and what is being done by moderate muslims to counteract their attempts to recruit young muslims into their visions of jihad or holy war in Britain as well as overseas. There was an interesting side discussion on whether or not the koran condones or calls for acts of violence. It was truly an amazing expose :
On covering the radical side there was coverage of Omar Brooks and Aniem Choudray among others:
In our investigation, we found shocking evidence of the bigotry, intolerance and hatred preached by some Muslim fundamentalists in the UK. We met men like Anjem Choudary of the now-banned Al-Mahajiroon extremist group, who denounces democracy and predicts Britain will be ruled by Sharia, Islamic law.
He publicly distances himself from suicide bombings here in the UK, mindful of Britain's tough new anti-terrorism laws, yet we filmed him openly condoning violent Jihad abroad.
"I happen to be in an ideological and political war," Choudary said. "My brothers in al Qaeda and other Mujahedeen are involved in a military campaign." (Watch a call for Islamic law in Britain
Scary stuff.
And from those moderate muslims who are trying to stop the radicalization of Islam in Britain there was equally impressive coverage:
This hate-speech and the attempt by extremists to recruit young disaffected Muslims on London's deprived streets and even on university campuses is beginning to motivate the "other voices of Islam" to try to seize back their religion, which they say has been hijacked. (Watch moderate Muslims fight back )
I hope they prevail. The video of some of this report is available on the CNN website for those who missed it:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/warwithin.amanpour/index.html
On covering the radical side there was coverage of Omar Brooks and Aniem Choudray among others:
In our investigation, we found shocking evidence of the bigotry, intolerance and hatred preached by some Muslim fundamentalists in the UK. We met men like Anjem Choudary of the now-banned Al-Mahajiroon extremist group, who denounces democracy and predicts Britain will be ruled by Sharia, Islamic law.
He publicly distances himself from suicide bombings here in the UK, mindful of Britain's tough new anti-terrorism laws, yet we filmed him openly condoning violent Jihad abroad.
"I happen to be in an ideological and political war," Choudary said. "My brothers in al Qaeda and other Mujahedeen are involved in a military campaign." (Watch a call for Islamic law in Britain
Scary stuff.
And from those moderate muslims who are trying to stop the radicalization of Islam in Britain there was equally impressive coverage:
This hate-speech and the attempt by extremists to recruit young disaffected Muslims on London's deprived streets and even on university campuses is beginning to motivate the "other voices of Islam" to try to seize back their religion, which they say has been hijacked. (Watch moderate Muslims fight back )
I hope they prevail. The video of some of this report is available on the CNN website for those who missed it:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/warwithin.amanpour/index.html