Ofcom has ruled that Islam Channel, a London-based broadcaster, broke the broadcasting code for advocating marital rape, violence against women and describing women who wore perfume outside of the home as “prostitutes”.
Five programmes broadcast on the satellite TV channel were ruled to be in breach of broadcasting guidelines, the media regulator said today. Ofcom launched its investigation into the programmes, which aired in 2008 and 2009, following a report by the Quilliam thinktank that was published in March.
In a programme first broadcast in April last year, Ofcom ruled that the Islam Channel host Nazreen Nawaz condoned marital rape when she said: “And really the idea that a woman cannot refuse her husband’s relations this is not strange to a Muslim because it is part of maintaining that strong marriage. But it shouldn’t be such a big problem where the man feels he has to force himself upon the woman.”
The channel also broke the broadcasting code by encouraging violence against women, in a Q&A session on marital violence, and for labelling women who wore perfume “prostitutes”.
If I were in charge of Ofcom, I would make it so that these tidbits were carried on every station, every hour on the hour, just so people would know exactly what Islam stands for. The fact that Ofcom sees a problem with this, while pandering politicians don’t, baffles me. Ofcom are the only ones in the UK with any common sense.
We should ask Nazreen Nawaz if she supports being beaten into submission by a man for her own good. Maybe this is why Islam is so popular with the prison population. “It was not rape, it was a Sharia approved MOOD ENHANCER!”