The UK's Call To Prayer

Channel 4's primary purpose is the fulfilment of its public service remit, which is defined in the 2003 Communications Act.

This states that "the public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular:

(b) appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;

Later this scope was widened in 2010 to include the following;

*promote alternative views and new perspectives, and

*provide access to material that is intended to inspire people to make changes in their lives.

http://www.channel4.com/info/corporate/about/channel-4s-remit

Perhaps this may actually be one of those wolf in sheep's clothing attempts then, and may actually work against the ideology of promoting peace and tolerance. However this too is a speculation, and one that the channel will obviously deny. But yes I can understand how this can actually create a negative reaction!

Brit: here's why I think Channel 4's decision to broadcast the call to prayer during not only wrong but also irresponsible and patronizing.

1-Broadcasting the Adhan uninitiated and without proper explanation is more likely to be confusing and alienating than promoting peace and tolerance or educating the public about the faith.

2- C4 has a long history of transmitting programs that were meant to piss off the public reactionary layer of society which winds it's self up into a fire ball of frenzy about Muslims.

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3-t he programme “Islam The Untold Story” although it was taken off-air still remains available to view on DVD.

4- The host of the show a self-claimed historian Tom Holland based the programme on his then newly released load of rubbish book in “In The Shadow Of The Sword”. (I think the title in itself is enough of a hint to know exactly what this book is up to)

5- In another one of C4’s series stunt “Eye Spy” C4 sends in spies during Friday they secretly record the jummah ceremonies, these Kutbahs are then scanned for supposed hate speech edited and re-edited for another C$ stunt.

Supercool:

Do you have any idea who channel 4 is?

Islamophoiba is an official policy in the channel.

1-Back in 2012 C4 ran a TV programme where they hosted a fake historian and a big time slamophobe an expert in the field of disinformation and distortion of history to attack Islam in the most scandalous of ways.

2-Later on in the same year C4 announced to the public that it was stopping the screening of the documentary under security and safety reasons and for fear for the lives of the crew involved in the program!

@ MN

How's this any different from Black History Month???

Many british muslims out there…there's nothing wrong with the channel sharing certain aspects of the muslim faith or ANY OTHER FAITH for that matter…it’s just a “celebration” of some cultures that r inseparable from the society.

UNLESS of course u consider Islam's presence, tolerance or spread in the UK as negative or possibly see it as a threat???

MN how do you know ALL "Brit Muslims have their own dedicated religious channels ( Like Islam Channel , for example ) as do other non-Muslim religious channels via Sky Digital and Freesat etc" Did you conduct a survey? I did not have any dedicated religious channel. Never felt the need for one. I know many muslim members in my community who do not have dedicated religious channels.

Keep it up C4. C4 has got balls. C4 was always my favorite channel.

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If you are really curious to know things from their roots you can read this as well http://www.sunypress.edu/pdf/60850.pdf

Hold My Hands my dear. :)

Ramadan Reminder: Tolerance!

Very good marco.. keep it up my dear. You are such an inspiration. :)

1-I'm not your dear

2-I don't care abt ur aqutances with the Brits.

3-you need to stop taking everything you read on QL on a personal level.

4-Keep the book to yourself.( you have no issues slaughtering cows goats camels 'n everything else that walks /swims/flies for your food but posting/taking pics of animals is a violation of animal's rights? lol! Sheeesh!

5- Yup some dogs are much better than religious fanatics

6- "live and let live"? lol oh pleeeeze!

The video represents so well what a country with mixed religion should be...the guy is making the adhan and nobody cares including the police, but still he seems to be friend with all kind of people with various beliefs and all...

Ramadan is a very important month for muslim, it is a very nice initiative to recognize them and make them part of the society.

And no muslim would be upset to see special programing on christmas, or any jewish or christian other special event as long as everybody got cater for on the public channels.

If there was no so much people upset about it, it was the occasion for england to give an extraordinary positive image of itself to all muslims around the world.

The more we go down the page the more we see your true colors dear Marconandoz...

You start lightly with your first post (Which last part is completely wrong as public channel are encouraged to put some religious content to cater to all communities)

And then, when we go down the page, we can see you seem very upset by the fact there is a 1min adhan on a TV channel, that your probably never watch anyway.

I think this is a great initiative by channel 4, this is INTEGRATION, non-muslim people do not know about it? They will google it and get to know what their muslim neighbor believe in and so on...

Bravo Channel 4 ! And nice clip and voice by the way !

Brits so far I met or lived with are so open minded& their acceptance to differences is what I liked the most.

For AR read this book "The Animal Rights Debate by Carl Cohen&Tom Regan (May 2001)"

If you cant differentiate my dear, Yes "May be you can" post anything.if you can,let the C4 also do what they have decided after much scrutinization.I think you need to be little more liberal.

If you have time you can read a little about Journalism as well.

Opinions to have real positive impact are always welcome in any society my dear. You know what some dogs are much better than some human beings in context of their social relations.

"Live and Let others Live" as simple as that.

1-Your first point is totally invalid, cuz Brits love their pets and specially "DOGS"...

2-The picture wasn't supposed to explain anything.

3-How's the posting of animals pictures abuses animal's right? Here's what animals rights means, and frankly I don't see where it says posting animals pic is an act of abuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights

Why would I need pic of a dog to post abt the call to prayer hmmm cuz dogs are part of the social life? or maybe cuz I just can?

Its too great that you have asked an explanation for something stupid..

1. First of all you are dishonouring a country flag with those pictures.

2. Second of all you are abusing animal rights to explain something which they really are not involved with.

If the above two points are above your mind, a simple question..why do you need a dog with a country flag to have an opinion on Call to Prayer?

Brit: here's why I think Channel 4's decision to broadcast the call to prayer during not only wrong but also irresponsible and patronizing.

1-Broadcasting the Adhan uninitiated and without proper explanation is more likely to be confusing and alienating than promoting peace and tolerance or educating the public about the faith.

2- C4 has a long history of transmitting programs that were meant to piss off the public reactionary layer of society which winds it's self up into a fire ball of frenzy about Muslims.

The picture he posted earlier was self explanatory Brit.

Channel 4 was first to show "Kabbadi" from India. It shows Sumo wrestling. It shows evangelist programs - so why the fuss about this ?

Marco Ch4 is not publically funded only BBC is.

I think 2.7 million muslims in UK are also the part of the word "PUBLIC".If anyone calls to stop broadcasting nudity or semi_nudity in public channels they will be counted as conservatives however if someone opposes call to prayer which has no harm is still liberal?

By the way apart from TV channels,just with the available statistics of world mosques call to prayer is the most called voice in the world with appx 12.5 - 13 million times a day.

http://rt.com/news/christianity-decline-uk-islam-rise-405/

A person with hatred feelings will see no good in anything and a person who is open minded,liberal,peaceful will appreciate things meant to benefit someone regardless of race/religion.

has been doing like so for decades, ie during Ramadhan broadcasting the call to prayer and a short segment on Islamic prayers during the time of Ifthar. They do so just as they broadcast various programs on other faiths during their religious holidays. So in some parts of the world this is nothing new and has not caused any upheaval either.

UK's channel 4 seems to be having good intentions by their programs, promoting peace and tolerance among different faiths and educating people on Islam via their short films. Of course they must be doing all this to simply increase their ratings, but whatever. I agree with Brit that it appears to be much ado about nothing!

Who are those public?

Brit: Publicly funded Channel running adverts along theology lines hmmm I dunoo abt that!

I really don't see what the fuss is about. A channel is catering for a certain segment of the public for a specific time, hoping to enhance ratings and get more viewers.

Yes, Adhan-ul-fajr!

UK’s Channel 4 to broadcast live call to prayer during Ramadan.

Ok, Good

This made the UK news last week when announced, but I am actually surprised I've not seen anything about it in the news since it started.

UKEng: I’m not sure whether this is an act of goodwill or just another of Channel 4’s cheap stunts :P

UK: it's the MISS LUCY Censor scissors Book of my site my rules :P

Yes Khanan most of the family back in the UK were shocked to hear where the call of prayer was coming from!

Refreshing indeed, but it is Adan al Fajr for the dawn not for the dusk.

BBC has songs of Praise every Sunday!

I don't know anything about broadcasting rules on the QL MM

they aren't contravening any rules..in fact the powers that be, have always encouraged at least some religious programming on UK channels as opposed to it being completely stopped..and regardless of what the muslims or anyone else has as dedicated channels; the intention here, as you acknowledged, is to encourage inclusiveness in society and is a nod to the millions of normal Muslims who live as honest, upright and contributing members of UK society. It is to acknowledge/portray the normal and human side of Muslim life as opposed to the images of blazing fires and streaking rockets the world has become desensitized to

I don't know anything about broadcasting rules in the UK MN.

now thats a new information and gives a new twist to the story :)

yup a colleague at work was telling about his Ramadan Experience in UK. it is hard and may Allah Bless them with more rewards.

A very fine and accomadating gesture bu Channel 4.

Miss mimi: yup very kind gesture on their part, however, from what I know Brit Muslims have their own dedicated religious channels ( Like Islam Channel , for example ) as do other non-Muslim religious channels via Sky Digital and Freesat etc.

Isn’t channel 4 contravening the broadcasting license rules?

18hrs . . . . . really great of them

May allah bless them all with rewards in the hereafter.

And they're putting sunrise and sunset times up for people. 18 hours of fasting for Muslims in the UK this year! Good luck to them.

Yeah, the channel 4 broadcasting the prayer call at around 3.30 am local time in United Kingdom, the person who calls has an amazing voice.