erm…sweeping statement…there are plenty of muslim women who feel they are emanicpated by islam…don’t belittle their opinion. And if Islam has been hijacked by clannish, backwards-thinking, oppressive MEN intent on keeping women firmly in their place..then that’s a separate argument.

I don’t feel Islam holds me back..I think a male dogmatic interpretation of Quranic scripture has been allowed to be the only normative version of Islam..and this is what I find uncomfortable. Making sweeping statements and regurgitating and reinforcing negative stereotypes don’t help anyone. A lot of these societies were misogynist before Islam, and they just sadly continued to be so in spite of what Islam teaches. If it’s about education, well then let’s educate people about what their religion really says..the fact from the fiction…

And what proportion of the populace think that Blair is an odious lying little creep.

Have they been asked ?

Her words…
Peace.

Maybe it would’ve been better for you to make a seperate post on ‘honour killings’ altogether.

http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/bbc-asian-networks-poor-ratings-have-sealed-the-stations-fate-oh-well/

Oh, and so does publishing incomplete data to fit your misleading AIM report about the Asian Network.

“there isn’t as much to say about the Asian Netwrok as one might think; it is expensive and losing listeners.”

True, but the real hidden question is WHY is it losing listeners? For my money it has failed to move with the times and people are voting with their feet.

The Asian Network had the time, goodwill and money to introduce progressive ideas into the Asian community and it squandered them all.

Well, the news/blog-round up session, which seems to have died a death recently (and probably rightly), is to allow for a number of discussions. As you say, there isn’t as much to say about the Asian Netwrok as one might think; it is expensive and losing listeners.

KB Player:

True enough.

Some of the most sensible commentors on here have set me straight. Thank you.

that Asians are special just because they’re Asian was always guaranteed to foster resentment amongst the majority who pay for ‘Aunty’ anyway what about Orientals, how come they get hardly any face time?

You could say the same about Radio nan Gàidheal or Radio Cymru. Saying the ‘majority pay’ for one radio station is a tad optimistic, even saying the 4,000,000 ‘british asians’ are living 8 to a household – thats half a million homes paying £140 a year or £70,000,000.

The budget for the AN is approx £12million, you’re out by a factor of ten.

Generally though the bbc should reflect the needs of those it charges and as such id be against ‘banning’ the AN on account of it being ‘asian’ as much as id be against the bannning of welsh or gaelic radio stations.

Oh and i agree the british chinese community is under-represented.

Not really. I more or less got your gist until that part. Maybe it’s just me, but that seems to be gibberish. Are you sure that’s what you meant to say?

Insecurity because of age and insecurity because of exposure to honour violence are not even in the same postcode, never mind on the same spectrum.

Jones has cheapened complaints about violence against women.

I’m in the West and I claim the moral high ground on this one.

Oh, and I will do this, just because it sticks in Jones’ craw too much to say it – congratulations Emma Watson on your achievements.

Emma Watson’s earnings and a teenager buried alive part of the same spectrum? Really?

But for all the reasons outlined above i don’t think emma watson and medine memi are comparable.

Incidentally and tangentially id argue the ‘exploitation’ of female celebrities in general and arguably emma watson in particular is from the paparazzi. Although im the last person to condone prosecutions of individuals, particularly in the present hysteria surrounding any issue regarding photographers/children/sex/terrorism (in any combination you wish), but its always struck me as…odd that the kind of ‘upskirt’ shots the paps literally crawl into the gutter for would result in a prosecution were the female not famous and the camera wielder not a ‘journalist’

Now fair enough, there are female ‘celebs’ who are complicit in their photographs appearing in heat/nuts/ladsmags, a lot of the photographs taken are obviously staged, but i seem to remember the moment emma watson turned 18 the papers were happy to publish photographs of her ‘upskirt’, so all those photographers were presumably taking pictures of watson getting in and out of cars whilst under 18, and presumably getting pictures of her knickers then the day she turns 18 they publish them to show what a ‘tart’ she is.

Its ironic though the very papers that jump onto any passing paedophile bandwagon have legions of photographers snapping away at famous girls.