بريطانيا: إذاعة مسلسل عن جرائم الشرف في المجتمع الإسلامي

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

وسط حالة من الجدل داخل المجتمع الإسلامي أذاعت شبكة "بي بي سي" البريطانية مسلسلاً حول ما يسمى بجرائم الشرف، والتي يُزعم وقوعها بالمجتمع الإسلامي نتيجة للتعاليم الإسلامية والعادات والتقاليد غير الموافقة لطبيعة تحررية المرأة الأوروبية.

وقد حدث حالة من الجدل بين مؤلفة المسلسل والهيئة الإذاعية، وذلك بعد أن قامت الإدارة بحذف فقرة من الحوار بزعم خشية إثارة المجتمع الإسلامي وتشويه صورته، وهو ما عارضته مؤلفة المسلسل "جربرت كور باتي"، والتي هاجمت الثقافة الإسلامية المحافِظة بالمجتمع الغربي؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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BBC cuts honour killing play to avoid ‘misrepresenting’ Muslim attitudes

The BBC have removed a line from a play about honour killing in the Muslim community to prevent misrepresentation, causing complaint from the playwright.

The BBC have cut a line from play about honour killing in the Muslim community to avoid “potentially misrepresenting majority British Muslim attitudes to honour killing.” Playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, who was asked to amend the line in the Radio 4 play, has accused the broadcaster of “extraordinary” censorship.

Bhatti’s episode is called The Heart of Darkness and will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Friday afternoon as part of the station’s DCI Stone series. The drama follows an investigation into the murder of a 16-year-old Asian girl, who it later emerges is a victim of honour killing. DCI Stone is told to treat the case “sensitively” because of her Muslim heritage.

Bhatti spoke about the changes made to the play at Tuesday’s Index On Censorship conference, which discusses artistic freedom of expression in the UK. As reported in The Independent, Bhatti explained the controversial line: “At the end, a character says: ‘There is so much pressure in our community, to look right and to behave right.’ The compliance department came back and said, ‘we don’t want to suggest the entire Muslim community condones honour killings.’”

Bhatti continued, “It’s an extraordinary and awful situation. They said the lines were offensive but they absolutely were not. We live in a fear-ridden culture.” Bhatti said that the line was “a crucial part of the story”, and that the BBC said it could be kept in if she found factual evidence of community pressure resulting in an honour killing.

A Radio 4 spokesperson commented: “This is a hard-hitting drama about the realities of honour killing in Britain. A single line in the script could be taken to infer that the pressure and motivation to commit such a crime in a family comes from the wider Muslim community, potentially misrepresenting majority British Muslim attitudes to honour killing. Gupreet Kaur Bhatti was asked to amend this line in the normal editorial process of script development.”