Justforfun

People, who are indifferent to their religious identity and i think that is the majority for all walks of life and just want to get on life, keep being asked for their opinion and feel somehow they have to make a choice. The media have just constantly picking over this bone and everyone is being worked up into a hypersensitive state. Since Sept 11 2001 – it has been 5 years of relentless comment & drivel (current company excepted ).

Please can we have a moratorium for just one day when we don’t mention the ‘R’ word. Please, Pretty Please. My copy of Thomas Paine’s ‘The Age of Reason’ is my bullet proof vest and I would like to go out one day without having to wear it.

Justforfun

PS – Jay – I think the Rushdie affair was just the first manifestation of this creeping religiousity in the West but it had been happening for the decade before in the East in various forms.

The media takes its cue from what Muslims see themselves as. Over the last 16 years there has been a drift away from Muslim Asians describing themselves as Asian first and priveliging Islam as their primary identity. The media just follows that. That is why the religion is put forward as the most important identifier for stories like this. To a lesser extent the same has happened with Hindus and Sikhs. It is all part of the communalism of British Asian life that has happened since the Rushdie affair. You’ll find that it is the case generally.

“Born in Moscow and brought up in France by an Indian HINDU royal father and a white American mother,””

Yes, I would. Neither Hindu nor Muslim offspring often become British spies, hence I highlighted it. Makes the story more interesting.

I dont know if you wrote this yourself. But have you noticed how the media segregates Muslims. May its just my thinking. What I mean is if she was a Hindu would you equally write

“Born in Moscow and brought up in France by an Indian HINDU royal father and a white American mother,”

Does stressing her religion bear any importance to the article or herself.
Why was the mother not called American Christian/or Muslim mother?

Not a dig at you or the article but just a comment in general.
Should media stop segregating Indians as Hindus and Muslims in their articles.

The BBC page does not do her any justice at all. She fought for the British army and went into France to serve as a spy and got caught by the Gestapo and eventually executed by them. I believe she still has some family left in Germany or India.

Bloody… I would have sold it as a much better doc than these Timewatch fools!

Like the original version, she does drink & smoke too much (cigars again !) and sleeps around too, but the twist is that she’s very idealistic indeed underneath it all. Without giving away too many plot details if you haven’t seen the new series, it was actually Starbuck who became the most emotional — and figured everything out before everyone else — when the religiously-based answers to the “location of Earth” puzzle finally fell into place.

The new BSG didn’t come top of the list of Time Magazine’s “Television shows of 2005″ for nothin’, y’know

Yep he wasn’t too thrilled about it was he, although they’ve actually done a very good job of developing the new Starbuck’s personality. In some ways she’s not that different to the original version, although in line with the new series her character’s a little more conflicted and realistic. She’s quite complex — and, surprisingly, the most religious person out of the main heroic characters.

When the new BSG first started I was sceptical too about the fact that they made her female, but they’ve managed to pull it off.

Have you seen the new Battlestar Galactica Dirk benedicts character has been made female in the reimagining..and he was NOT happy about that..