In shattered, staggering, subjugated dhimmi Britain today, nothing can happen that might possibly offend Muslims, and so this play had to go — because, you see, all Muslims abhor and reject the hijacking of their religion by jihad groups, but some nonetheless take immense umbrage at anyone scrutinizing or opposing those “hijackers.”
“She and writer Omar El-Khairy have said they do not think police ordered the show’s cancellation but have accused the theatre of ‘self-censorship’ because they believe NYT ‘feared controversy.'” It is entirely reasonable for them to expect a controversy to arise. Leftists and Islamic supremacists manufacture controversies around people whom they wish to silence — and the cowardly and craven on the Right, in their zeal to avoid controversy, fall right into the trap.
“Theatre accused of self-censorship after it cancelled play about radicalised Muslims which explored why youngsters are attracted to extremist groups,” by Jay Akbar, Mailonline, August 15, 2015:
The National Youth Theatre (NYT) has been blasted for scrapping a play about young Muslims being radicalised.
Leading figures from the world of arts and entertainment have demanded the theatre reveals exactly why ‘Homegrown’ was cancelled.
The signatories of an open letter to NYT include the sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, playwright Sir David Hare, and actor Simon Callow.
The play set out to explore the reasons why someone might be attracted towards extremist groups.
It was organised by English PEN, a free speech campaign group, which said the NYT of failed to stand up for the show it commissioned, the Times reported.
Homegrown was cancelled two weeks before today’s scheduled opening, when the theatre asked the play’s creators whether they were giving a final version of the script to the police.
Its director Nadia Latif said one of the producers announced she had met with police on July 22 and they had demanded to see the script.
She refused to send the script at first, but gave in when asked a week later. The show was cancelled a week after that.
She and writer Omar El-Khairy have said they do not think police ordered the show’s cancellation but have accused the theatre of ‘self-censorship’ because they believe NYT ‘feared controversy’….
Angemon says
Which one, the thought police or the islamic religious police?
Jay Boo says
Maybe we are the problem.
after all,
Paris Hilton had a pet Kinkajou.
Tori Spelling had a pet Chicken.
Justin Beiber had a pet Capuchin Monkey.
Michael jackson had a pet monkey named “bubbles”.
Jihadi Muslims actually call Muhammad their prophet.
Should we be so judgmental?
EYESOPEN says
I just “love” this crap: “Have you given a final version of your script to the police?”
Sounds like the old E. Germany, China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, etc. — and THIS is the land from whence the Magna Carta originated!!! How very sad…
TediNeo98 says
Spot on Eyesopen – how down trodden have the people in the UK become, all in the name of political correctness and at the expense of all those young girls that were raped.
Where are the UK’s priorities? It seems more attention is given when crafting policy to prevent global warming than trying to protect our children’s future from muslims, the caliphate and their beloved shariah law.
How lost this country has become…
Muslims are becoming so brazen that it won’t surprise me if we see the first proper internal uprising in support of the caliphate in the near future. It’s just a matter of time…and the left will jump up saying: “We brought this on ourselves, submit to them snd maybe they won’t chop off our heads” – how very blind & very stupid…
Shane says
Yes, this is a type of liberal fascism where you cannot say or do anything that criticizes a minority group. Libs in the USA would love to have that much power to censor us.
jayell says
Going back about 50 years, theatres, etc., had to submit their material to the Lord Chamberlain’s office for approval in order to ensure that they didn’t offend public decency. So a script might come back after scrutiny by the officials with blue pencil marks through ‘f***’ words, etc., but that was about as far as it went. I don’t think this happens anymore, but we’ve still got the BBFC (British Board of Film Censors) which exists to give age-related classifications to films, but they can refuse a certificate if the subject matter contains material that is too offensive in terms of public decency; that’s where their remit stops. The Police would only ever have been involved if there had been a complaint from a member of the public. If this particular play had been stopped because the theatre had asked the Police to advise on any public order issues that might be raised following a performance of the play, and the Police had advised abandonment in order to avoid trouble, then that would be reasonable SO LONG AS THE DECISION LAY WITH THE THEATRE MANAGEMENT ALONE AND FOR THEIR OWN REASONS ALONE. There would have been an unfortunate precedent when a play in the UK midalnds about goings-on in a Sikh temple had to be closed early because it provoked riots by Sikhs outside the theatre (yes, that’s cowardice in the face of illegal behaviour, and it sadly only shows that it’s NOT just muslims that can be guilty of this kind of vicious bigotry). However, if the Police, uninvited, had actually ‘demanded’ to see the material and ‘demanded’ (they still can’t ‘order’ yet) that the play be called off, then that’s a completely different scenario, not QUITE illegal (since it would have been a ‘request’ from the Police) but getting close to it and DEFINITELY ‘out of order’. THAT would certainly be a step towards a Police State.
Linde Barrera says
To jayell- Thank you for the “down-low” on the Ins and outs of protocol in England with respect to theatre. Would it be reasonable of me to state there has always been censorship in England, and the Islamists want Sharia as a natural extension to that? Please don’t misunderstand me: I hate Islam and I hate Sharia. (But I want to be a Christian lady to everyone I meet, including Muslims.) I enjoy reading your posts jayell.
gravenimage says
Yes, EYESOPEN–terrifying.
jewdog says
I hate controversial plays, being the nervous sort. I usually scan the reviews for the play that seems to be the most boring so that I can get some sleep without my cats waking me up. Maybe they could substitute a drama on the evolution of the tax code instead of riling everybody up.
Jay Boo says
Very telling.
Even the tiniest bit of scrutiny is a threat to Islam.
The panderers unintentionally reveal the filth of Islam.
mortimer says
Disagree with Robert Spencer. Knowing the British spirit, I believe the British haven’t submitted. They remember the underground bombings and so they’re playing it cool and avoiding WAVING A RED FLAG before the jihadists.
Anything that waves a red flag and attracts an attack is shut down. Yes, there goes free speech out the window, but I think the British are again ‘muddling through’ this mess by consciously down-playing the seriousness of the threat in public, but recognizing it in private.
‘Keep calm and carry on’ is the underlying philosophy, not surrender.
ECAW says
I think you’re wrong. Stereotypes of other countries are usually 50 years out date, like foggy London Town (actually smog, ended by the Clean Air Act of 1956) and bowler hats.
I see little of the old British spirit left but perhaps it’s just taking a kip, rather than dead, and will reawaken when the real conflict starts.
Our traitorous leaders have done a terrible thing by making civil war look like the least bad of likely outcomes.
Marty says
I believe civil war is a very likely outcome.
And the sooner the better, since the mohammedans are outbreeding us
& are paid to do so by the taxpayer.
In Northern Ireland we have had a civil war lasting a century. ruining countless
lives & costing billions. The combatants were all English speaking white Christians
who had been educated in separate religious schools.
In Great Britain the taxpayer funds mohammedan schools where the kids are
taught to hate us, & Jews are openly taught to be vermin who must be
exterminated. The females cover every inch of their bodies, including their faces,
& told they will go to hell if they speak to the indigenes.
Only today, our taxpayer funded BBC is broadcasting a programme of interviews
with ex Guantanamo inmates.
History tells us violence is inevitable, especially with so many poor indigenes
who see no future & see their womenfolk subject to muslim attentions.
My only fear is that decent people of asian descent will be attacked as being
thought to be muslims.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
Disagree with Robert Spencer. Knowing the British spirit, I believe the British haven’t submitted. They remember the underground bombings and so they’re playing it cool and avoiding WAVING A RED FLAG before the jihadists.
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Mortimer, so self-censorship is “playing it cool”? What could be “cooler” than surrender in the face of evil? sarc/off
This does not surprise me–I know you have advocated for self-censorship many times, such as banning Infidel soldiers from wearing their own uniforms, claiming that asserting your rights” waves a red flag” at Muslims and that forcing adherence to Shari’ah norms “saves lives”.
The thing is that full submission to Muslim demands does *anything* but save lives–instead, it emboldens Muslims to make more demands, and to employ violence if those demands are not met.
If you believe that full submission to Islam “saves lives”, you need only look at hell-holes like Somalia and Afghanistan. Are these peaceful places?
More:
Anything that waves a red flag and attracts an attack is shut down.
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Red flags bad, white flags good..
More:
Yes, there goes free speech out the window, but I think the British are again ‘muddling through’ this mess by consciously down-playing the seriousness of the threat in public, but recognizing it in private.
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And how does that help? This is Shari’ah, where no criticism of Islam may be made in public.
Free speech is a core value of Britain and the West, and we have already lost if we throw that out the window.
More:
‘Keep calm and carry on’ is the underlying philosophy, not surrender.
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With all respect, Mortimer, I’m afraid you understand *nothing* about what “Keep Calm and Carry On” means.
My mother was a young women working in the Ministry of Information during the London Blitz. These posters were to be put up in the case of a Nazi invasion.
What they meant was that Britons were not to panic. It meant that they were to continue to resist, but that such resistance would have to go underground. It did *not* mean that Britons should embrace Fascism, and only complain about it in private.
Also note: these posters were only to go up in the case of Nazi defeat of the United Kingdom.
Right now, Muslims are *not* in control of Britain–although sometimes it seems like it–they only make up around 5% of the population. That you and others are *already* urging surrender as though the UK were already under Shari’ah law is, I’m afraid, deeply disturbing.
mortimer says
‘Homegrown’sounds like an excellent and thought-provoking play. I hope the team that began it will be able to produce it eventually.
A play like that is ‘dialogue’.
dumbledoresarmy says
They should put it on *anyway*, as a secret ‘underground’ production.
Linde Barrera says
I was not aware that police in the UK were trained to be theatre critics and play reviewers. (Btw, I saw Simon Callow in a play off-Broadway earlier this year in NYC. Very fine actor.)
Madhavi says
“…they feared controversy…”? No. They feared violence!! The Islamic sword hangs over the head of UK. Literally !
Greyhound Fancier says
With Mohammedians, there is a fine line between controversy and violence, and a hair trigger to start the violence.
Knight of St. John says
When are the British police going to demand to see the scripts the mullahs read from during Friday “prayers”?
dumbledoresarmy says
thought for the day (and shoutout to British jihadwatchers here lurking/ posting).
What *I’d* love to see is a crowd-funded indie ‘underground’ film – gritty black-and-white hand-held camera style – based on a version of G K Chesterton’s 1915 novel “The Flying Inn’ which is set in a stealth-Islamified England (yes, for anyone who doesn’t know that book, that is precisely the scenariio). But with the setting and characters updated to 21st century England, and modified accordingly.
Anybody at all, reading this over my shoulder, who has the requisite skills? Knows people with the requisite skills, who are Islamosavvy? Perhaps Liberty Great Britain and Boby’s Law and Freedom Foundation would be brave enough to commission and sponsor it. All on the Q.T.
Just do it! Then circulate – do what Geert Wilders did, to circulate “Fitna”.
citycat says
Awareness of that idea is good, but the film don’t need actors, just film the reality.
If I’d had the wherewith last night then i could have recorded or filmed the assaulting Muslim on the phone.
I’ll inform the police, for statistical reasons, there is no protection from Muslims.
Real awareness and knowledge needs to spread.
citycat says
The streets are dangerous. The play could lead to assaults.
The people do not cohere like the Muslims cohere.
The people are separated by different cultures and languages. The town centres are babylon. A guy came up to me and said,
“Excuse me, do you speak English?”
A Muslim came up to me, attempted to assault me, fell over, stoned, and then tried to get me to say
“Allah Ackbar”
I said “It’s not Allah Ackbar, it’s Allahhu Ackabar, god is most great”
He ranted for a while then went to harass a group of three who’d just left the beach, 4AM.
Eventually he’ll pick the wrong person.
It’s getting worse.
Jay Boo says
What the ???
incoherent gib
citycat says
Yeah, totally gone on Allah, or Allaaaah as he kept repeating.
Whoever said “mad mullah” got it right.
When i lied about my nationality, saying i was Irish, he calmed down a bit. “Irish are good people”, not the English tho’.
London Jim says
‘Evening all. . Yo, Marty, in your 5.51 comment you made an bit of a booboo with the part of that sentence ”. .are openly taught to be vermin who must be exterminated. .” . Of course you did not mean how it reads, but still.* Back to the topic of this Bismallah play, it came up on Lbc radio some days ago, and I phoned in to suggest to the presenter, Shelagh Fogarty, possible reasons/pressure groups, that were likely behind the pulling of the production by the NYT. At the time I thought Shelagh pulled the plug on me as I managed to squeeze in how these lobby groups forced Theresa May to ban Robert and Pamela from visiting us, however a fellow resident of my hostel told me that he had heard the show and that my rant was not edited out. Will try and get the details re date, time and podcast.
gravenimage says
I thought I’d look into “Homegrown” a bit further, and–as one might expect–it sounds as though Omar El-Khairy’s play was anything but really Anti-Jihadist:
“’It is not going to be an immediate retelling of that story [of Muslim girls from Britain jetting off to marry ISIS Jihadists–GI] because we don’t know all the facts. Instead, what Nadia and Omar are drawing on is the fears and misconceptions around Islam in this country and the obvious racism that is happening as a result of the actions of Isis, and so they are working on this piece with the idea of redressing the balance.’”
It seems to chalk up much of the concern about violent Jihad in the West to “racism”.
“Immersive play in east London school to explore motives of radicalised youth”
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jun/02/east-london-school-play-radicalised-youth-homegrown
Shutting this play down to kowtow to Muslim violence is absolutely appalling–but from everything I have heard I believe it would be mistaken to consider this piece by Omar El-Khairy and Nadia Latif to be actually opposed to Jihad.
Linde Barrera says
To gravenimage- Thank you for providing that link to the stage play. The way that article reads to me is very “glossy” and not reflective of the seriousness of the real issue: causing terror. You also wrote that you thought the play wouldn’t actually be opposed to Jihad. I think you are right! So then, the only motivation left for the playwright would be to actually convince theatre goers that “Jihad is normal and not so bad”. More deception and propaganda from Islam! It just never seems to end. Finally, thank you for mentioning your mom and her job during the World War II years. So glad she lived to tell about it. Brave lady. Be well, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
We’ve seen this before, Linde–where even those Muslims involved in Taqiyya are often shut down by their “fast Jihad” coreligionists.
Omar El-Khairy is also Tweeting rot like links to Taqiyya like “By scapegoating Muslims, Cameron fuels radicalisation”
“By scapegoating Muslims, Cameron fuels radicalisation”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/24/scapegoating-muslims-cameron-radicalisation-terror-wars-liberties-british-values
And here he is, whitewashing Muslim savagery against women:
“Christine Delphy: Criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism is fundamentally paradoxical”
He also proudly proclaims “Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie”–in other words, he does not support Charlie Hebdo’s right not to have its staff murdered by Muslim Jihadists for practicing free speech.
He also supports the Muslim Brotherhood. Then he makes light of ISIS executions.
And then he Tweeted this bit of insanity:
“The desire to force some contemporary resonance shows how much we misunderstand the modernity at the heart of political Islam today”
More of the same at his Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/theloniouso
On other matters, my aunt also served in England during WWII, driving supply trucks between London and the mouth of the Thames in treacherous blackout conditions. She’s 95 now, and very much still with us. Sharp as a tack, too.
I’m actually a lot younger than this might lead you to believe–my mom had kids really late–I’m in my early 50s.
Hope you are well–always good to see you posting.
Linde Barrera says
To gravenimage- Quick reply! As per your Aug 17, 2015 post of 9:22 pm to me, thank you for those links you referenced. I will read them tonight. Another commenter here said, and I agree, “Where do you find these interesting links?” As to your aunt in WWII–wow, very brave lady, God bless her. And lastly, with mention of your age, I really thought you were a lady in your early to mid 40’s! So thumbs up for you! ?Take care and stay brainy. Bye Graven.