Maybe attacks of this kind do happen in Britain today; if so, that’s deplorable, and those responsible should be apprehended and prosecuted. But this is about framing a narrative. Jihad attacks also happen in Britain. In fact, they’re much more common than “Islamophobic” attacks. Will EastEnders feature a jihad attack? Of course not. Depicting Muslims as victims fits the narrative of the political and media establishment. The reality of jihad does not.
“EastEnders spoilers: Dana Monroe is badly beaten in Islamophobic attack,” by Calli Kitson, Metro, September 13, 2021:
Dana Monroe (Barbara Smith) will face a terrifying ordeal in upcoming EastEnders episodes as she is targeted and beaten in an Islamophobic attack.
Bobby (Clay Milner Russell), Dana, Waseem, Iqra (Priya Davdra) and Kioni are handing out flyers for support of the new mosque, but Dana notices a group of men approaching who antagonise the group with racial slurs.
Harvey (Ross Boatman) pops by later to show his support, but makes an offensive joke, much to the horror of the others.
Later on, at the cab office, Bobby professes his love for Dana and tells Harvey he will protect her.
However, Bobby, Dana, Kioni and Iqra once again see the offensive men from earlier and find themselves cornered.
The group of men physically assault Dana while a helpless Bobby watches.
At the station, Iqra feels awful after leaving the group during the attack and Bobby feels even worse for not protecting Dana….
CogitoErgoSum says
I hope it shows them catching those guys and cutting off an arm and a leg on opposite sides of their bodies and then crucifying them in accordance with what the Koran says about creating mischief in the land. That would be must see t.v.
Peacelover says
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mortimer says
Yes, we are hoping that the result of this fictitious attack will be draconian restrictions on the freedom of expression and the Sharia law blasphemy law will become the law of Great Britain. (sarc/off)
Why doesn’t East Enders do an episode about working-class girls suffering the after-effects and trauma from MUSLIM GROOMING GANGS? That would be REALISTIC.
Peacelover says
The Devil is using every human weakness and taking advantage of every human ignorance in an attempt to bring civilization to its knees.
I would want to say people/most of Hollywood are just stupid but I am giving them the benefit of doubt here ’cause as we know,Evil is at the root of all this but then again,some people just don’t want to/choose not to,open their eyes.
Wellington says
Well, I think we can pretty much count on no majority Muslim nation ever having a soap opera on TV— television being one of so many technological inventions by the West the Islamic world on its own would have never invented—whereby a character is badly beaten in a Christianophobic attack or a Hinduophobic attack, or a Buddhistophobic attack, or…, or… or….
The huge double standard continues as does the idiotic self-loathing by the West, complicated all the more by a massive willful ignorance of what Islam is really all about.
Yes indeed, the Age of Nonsense continues to march on. Only a nonsensical West would persist in defending a belief system which, effectively, seeks the eradication of the West.
Madness. Pure collective madness.
john smith says
Yes Wellington, television and the film industry play a major role in this self loathing by the west. Here we have a classic example of a poor defenceless girl being badly beaten by the evil indigenous British. I am not saying this sort of thing doesn’t happen, but we are nearly always portrayed as the bad guys.
mortimer says
Actually, Wellington, the MELODRAMA film industry is huge in Pakistan and India.
If you can imagine it, TURKISH soap operas have become hugely popular in Pakistan.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/23112017-turkish-soap-operas-and-their-rise-in-pakistan-to-leave-a-legacy-oped/?nowprocket=1
This may actually lead to a liberalizing effect in Pakistan as Pakistani women are influenced by the more liberal Turkish women they see on the screen.
Westman says
1984s Winston would recognize the BBC as a propaganda arm of the Ministry Of Truth, designed to program the populace like Pavlov dogs. As a UK citizen you are taxed to support the BBC.
Wiki: “In the British Islands, any household watching or recording live television transmissions at the same time they are being broadcast is required by law to hold a television licence. This applies regardless of transmission method, including terrestrial, satellite, cable, or for BBC iPlayer internet streaming. The television licence is the instrument used to raise revenue to fund the BBC; it is a form of taxation…..Since April 2021, the annual cost is £159.00 for a colour licence and £53.50 for a black and white licence. Income from the licence is primarily used to fund the television, radio and online services of the BBC.”
Typical yearly tax payer funds to feed the BBC beast – £5 Billion, approx $6.8 Billion. And the government has spied on the citizens, via electronic means, to make sure they are licensed.
How long before the TV records what political jokes gets a laugh from the citizen? Or, does it, already?
somehistory says
A mozlum “school teacher” of little boys, tried to break my tv…he said it was evil, and I should not watch it.
This has to be that a female mozlum wanted **out** of the death-dealer from satan, and that was labeled as the infamous and fake “phobia’; and so, she was beaten for her attempt to escape her mozlum slave owner. She just got an attitude adjustment from the male maggot.
That word is so over-used, even if there really were people who felt the fear to an unreasonable degree…how does it happen that you can have such a fear of being murdered at any given moment when near a mozlum who believes it is his/her *right* to murder you? Many fear death…and not knowing from whom it may come at any time, and knowing that the possibilities are increasing daily with the influx of mozlums from all over…fear is a *natural* thing in such a circumstance.
Who then, can be a **judge** of when this fear becomes “unreasonable”?
isalm and its adherents…nauseating in the increasing demands and its inherent evil.
gravenimage says
Yes–I remember your telling that appaling story, Somehistory.
gravenimage says
UK soap opera features character getting badly beaten in ‘Islamophobic’ attack
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More ludicrous pandering from the BBC. Not really surprised, though.
tgusa says
“Dana Monroe (Barbara Smith) will face a terrifying ordeal in upcoming EastEnders episodes as she is targeted and beaten in an Islamophobic attack.”
Diversity and equality demand that we write this off as, nothing personal.
somehistory says
If I just read that for a program I normally watched, I would imagine that her male relative was going to beat her for having a Christian boyfriend or for dressing western.
If not that, then a hoax perpetrated by c.a.i.rats.
tgusa says
“male relative was going to beat her for having a Christian boyfriend”
That wouldn’t work on TV, too believable. It goes against the plot lines of bs and lies.
somehistory says
I know. Not even “reality tv” is reality. Truth must be obscured.
jim says
Good idea. How about a show about Jews living in the West who are terrorized by Muslim immigrants, or women in fear of rape gangs. Or a Law and Order Special Victims Unit series about special police units who deal with crimes committed in the service of sharia law and anti-Semitic attacks on Jews. Or police trying to arrest doctors for performing FGM. Or fighting to protect synagogues and churches from arsonists. All sorts of violations of human rights committed in the name of sharia law. I suppose that the ACLU and pro-civil rights groups would spend millions of dollars and dozens of lawsuits to block any TV series that presented these sorts of abuses of non-believers by members of the religion of peace. One can only present them in a positive light. And the police would have to be on the side of the evil white supremacists as well. But it would be an alternative to the usual propaganda against the Western societies. I think Mark Steyn has said that the East End is mostly inhabited by migrants such as Muslims or people from Third World countries, and there are few cockneys living there anymore. So the show is a bit anachronistic anyway.