A while back I was given a link to a Czech documentary about Muslims in the country titled "I, a Muslim." I have a technical problem watching Google Video, and so it took me a while until I could actually view it. When I did, I was not impressed. The documentary makers sent an informant into mosques in the Czech Republic and supposedly uncovered extremism.
But what did they find?
Material propagandizing Islam in the mosque library? A video showing Shi'ites in some Muslim country practicing self mutilation? The informant brings his atheist girlfriend to the mosque and is surprised she is only allowed to go into the women's section and can't pray with him. I wonder if he would be surprised as well if he went into an Amish service.
The documentary stresses how the Muslim community has grown in the Czech Republic, but to show extremism they have to go elsewhere: bringing videos of Muslim preachers from Muslim countries, interviewing a German Muslim who was forced into a marriage she did not want, and bringing various quotes from the Quran.
At the worse, they show a Muslim preacher comparing the Czech's Republic national hero, Jan Palach, to Muslim suicide bombers.
When I read about a UK documentary that claimed to show extremism in mosques in the UK, I thought it would be more of the same. But "Undercover Mosques" is completely different and I strongly urge everybody to see the video.
The show consists of UK imams preaching and talking, one after the other. You don't need an Islamophobe to stand there and explain things to the non-understanding public. It's all clear, and it's all in very British English.
It brings imams who openly call out for an Islamic state in the UK and who are filled with hate towards the British people around them.
Unlike a Jew who might say he would like to ideally live in a state where Jewish law is practiced, the Muslims who talk about it actually have a choice. They have several countries where Islamic law is the law of the land, each catering to a different brand. Shi'ite or Sunnite, they can live their religious life the way they see fit. The big question is then, if they suffer so much, why do they stay in England?
I suppose the answer is because they enjoy the rights and freedoms offered to them by the democracy they so despise.
You can find here everything that Muslims are being accused of doing, and it's all being said by their religious leaders. Take pedophilia, for example. Anti-Muslim sites bring the story of Muhammad and his 9 year old wife as an example of why Muslims support pedophilia. To me that is no proof. Just because Juliet was longing to marry Romeo at the age of 12 does not mean that that's the current and acceptable standard in Italy today. Societies change and needs change. What was accepted 100, 200 or 1400 years ago is not what's acceptable today.
But here in this show, you see an imam publicly supporting the marriage of an older man to a girl who had not reached puberty and bringing Muhammad as an example of why this is allowed.
There's no need for Islamophobes. The Muslims here do all the work on their own.
See also:UK: Extremism at leading mosques
