Make Me a Muslim (4oD link: C4.com link) started last night (and continues tonight and tomorrow night).
Gareth McLean in the Guardian's TV page today really doesn't like it with such a ferocity that you can't help but be intrigued. He writes:
It's some feat to be cynical and stupid simultaneously - some of us manage to be both but only at different times - but this exercise in pointlessness achieves it with aplomb. From a glamour model to an obnoxious taxi driver, a bunch of "ordinary" white British folks so stereotypical I'm not convinced they're not being played by actors, are schooled in the ways of Islam, for reasons currently beyond my grasp. They huff and puff predictably at the mentors' demands as the narrator reveals that "lapdancing is unacceptable in Islam". Who knew? Simplistic, contrived and inane.
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Bollocks. I thought it was marvelous. Actually the best attempt at engaging mainstream British culture and Islam yet. Worth a thousand inter-faith conferences and earnest TV debates. Perfect Channel 4 if you ask me.
Thanks Steve. Time Out liked it a lot too (they don't put the TV previews online though) and felt it held the right balance entertainment and seriousness. I'll dig out my copy from somewhere and write it up.
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