[LikeABoatOnWater]

Channel 4 is to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan this year, it revealed yesterday.

It is believed to be the first time a mainstream British television channel has broadcast the Islamic call to prayer.

Starting next week, the broadcaster will transmit the morning call to prayer daily for the 30 days of Ramadan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...dan-month.html

I will never, ever, watch C4 again! Absolutely sick.

[GypsyGoth]

I can't see this happening.

[LikeABoatOnWater]

I'm so fed up of being force fed peoples stupid religions. Keep your bizarre views yourselves.
There needs to be a new law stating that religion can't be expressed in a public places. No more Church bells and no more people yelling 'Allah snackbar' in the streets.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

ew

[Nedusa]

What's next !! ........ Sharia Law ??

[arista]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

I can't see this happening.

It could just be a 2mins show


Or after the news.


It means nothing to me

One will be at 3 in the morning

[zakman440]

I don't watch C4 since their last BB, so I don't really mind. If they start showing it on E4 though, I do watch that, but it still won't bother me that much, but I will be annoyed though.

[Marcus.]

what the stars

[billy123]

Originally Posted by LikeABoatOnWater

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...dan-month.html

I will never, ever, watch C4 again! Absolutely sick.

So what? what is sick about that? or are you just a bigoted individual? is songs of praise sick as well? what the **** do you think Ramadan is to be so outraged?
Strange boy.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Unneeded and will just stir up tensions :/

[BBfanUSA]

This will cause even more tension when there shouldn't be.

[arista]

Originally Posted by BBfanUSA

This will cause even more tension when there shouldn't be.

at 3AM in the morning
it may not

[LikeABoatOnWater]

Originally Posted by bobnot

So what? what is sick about that? or are you just a bigoted individual? is songs of praise sick as well? what the **** do you think Ramadan is to be so outraged?
Strange boy.

I am against all religions, I see them as nothing more than a way of controlling populations of people. It is sick because we should be fading out religion from popular culture. All TV should be secular.

[arista]

It is only 3AM for TV
Except the first day

The Rest on Ch4 site

[Ch4 is to air the Muslim call to prayer live every morning
during the month of Ramadan.
The broadcaster said it was an act of "deliberate provocation"
aimed at viewers who might associate Islam with extremism.
The headline-grabbing move will see Channel 4 broadcast
the three-minute call to prayer at about 3am for 30
days from the start of Ramadan on 9 July.
In addition, on the first day of Ramadan Channel 4
will interrupt programming four times during
the day – to mark subsequent calls to
prayer – with a 20-second film to remind
viewers
of the approaching prayer time.
After that date, the channel will air the 3am call
to prayer on live TV, with the other four prayer
times will be broadcast on its website.]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013...prayer-ramadan

[LikeABoatOnWater]

C4, the PC dick lovin **** ass bastards.

[Livia]

Wow... and yet Palm Sunday slipped by this year with amost no acknowledgement.

Jewish festivals and sabbaths are not represented on TV, and I wouldn't expect them to be. So why should Islam get preferential treatment?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by bobnot

So what? what is sick about that? or are you just a bigoted individual? is songs of praise sick as well? what the **** do you think Ramadan is to be so outraged?
Strange boy.

Songs of Praise is a show for Christians, in what is essentially still a Christian country. One of very, very few Christian programmes on TV.

Can't imagine Songs of Praise going down too well in Saudi.

[Nedusa]

I think this is more of a publicity stunt by CH4 to gets it profile raised a little. and it seems to be working as this has made news and is carried by most of the Nationals and talk radio programmes.

Personally I think the timing is suspect and it could provoke a backlash from a variety of groups ranging from the Church of England to the BNP. I think it is unecessary to continue to force Islam down the throats of over 95% of the Population of this Country who are not Muslim especially as the UK is not particularly religious in any case.

Not necessary as there are already many Muslim TV channels which carry this call to prayer.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

I think this is more of a publicity stunt by CH4 to gets it profile raised a little. and it seems to be working as this has made news and is carried by most of the Nationals and talk radio programmes.

Personally I think the timing is suspect and it could provoke a backlash from a variety of groups ranging from the Church of England to the BNP. I think it is unecessary to continue to force Islam down the throats of over 95% of the Population of this Country who are not Muslim especially as the UK is not particularly religious in any case.

Not necessary as there are already many Muslim TV channels which carry this call to prayer.

But thats on Cable and Sat.

Ch4 thinks its a clever move for a main Ch. etc

[Stu]

Originally Posted by LikeABoatOnWater

C4, the PC dick lovin **** ass bastards.

It's silly and it will cause trouble but you sound like Mark's national front friend from Peep Show. A dimwit, in other words.

[LikeABoatOnWater]

Sorry that I don't want my kids to have to live in a controlling state where there not free to be who they are.

[Samm]

Since BB left C4 things have gone Bad

[jackc1806]

Channel 4 once again trying to desperately cling onto its 'cool innovative' status that it lost years ago. It's no longer the channel that fought against the boring BBC and ITV creating programming that changed TV, it's just another TV channel that is in a pile of ****. I have no problem with this but they really need to sort out their dire ratings and programming before pissarsing around doing pointless crap like this.

[Z]

Am I the only person who thinks it's a positive step forward to try and promote awareness and tolerance of other religions and cultures in a very head-in-the-sand country that doesn't know how to deal with the concept of 'Johnny Foreigner' whether they be from a Muslim country or over the English channel?

Let's face it, there is a huge Muslim population in the UK now, there are mosques in every major city and certainly in my experiences in life I've come across far more practising Muslims than I have practising Christians. If there were a larger Jewish population in the UK, I'm sure they'd be afforded a similarly appropriate broadcast. Perhaps Channel 4 even intends to do this kind of thing for all major faiths followed in the UK, I don't know. I completely understand why people are viewing this as incendiary but would it hurt to try and view it as a way of getting to understand Islam rather than fearing it and anyone who follows it? Ignoring the fact there are Muslims in the UK and holding the bigoted view that Islam = terrorism (which is promoted in certain media outlets; I'm not accusing anyone on here of holding that view but it's certainly out there for all to see) is not solving any problems and personally I commend Channel 4 for at least DOING something.

This is public perception that they're doing it to cause a stir. Looking at it in an unbiased way - they are providing welcomed content for a cross section of their viewing public, and it will reach people who may not have otherwise listened to an Islamic call to prayer. We have such a wide range of documentaries covering niche topics on Channel 4, why is this any different? :/

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Zee

Am I the only person who thinks it's a positive step forward to try and promote awareness and tolerance of other religions and cultures in a very head-in-the-sand country that doesn't know how to deal with the concept of 'Johnny Foreigner' whether they be from a Muslim country or over the English channel?

Let's face it, there is a huge Muslim population in the UK now, there are mosques in every major city and certainly in my experiences in life I've come across far more practising Muslims than I have practising Christians. If there were a larger Jewish population in the UK, I'm sure they'd be afforded a similarly appropriate broadcast. Perhaps Channel 4 even intends to do this kind of thing for all major faiths followed in the UK, I don't know. I completely understand why people are viewing this as incendiary but would it hurt to try and view it as a way of getting to understand Islam rather than fearing it and anyone who follows it? Ignoring the fact there are Muslims in the UK and holding the bigoted view that Islam = terrorism (which is promoted in certain media outlets; I'm not accusing anyone on here of holding that view but it's certainly out there for all to see) is not solving any problems and personally I commend Channel 4 for at least DOING something.

This is public perception that they're doing it to cause a stir. Looking at it in an unbiased way - they are providing welcomed content for a cross section of their viewing public, and it will reach people who may not have otherwise listened to an Islamic call to prayer. We have such a wide range of documentaries covering niche topics on Channel 4, why is this any different? :/

I was just about to type a post saying I didn't agree with it but that I hardly ever watch Channel 4 anyway.

That was until I read the post from Zee above and thinking about it all as to what he put in his post.
I agree it is likely positive and maybe a step forward too.