Sam Wollaston on Make Me a Muslim

In today's Guardian Sam Wollaston gives Make me a Muslim (4oD link: C4.com link)another kicking:

Make Me a Muslim (Channel 4)? It's easy. All you need to do is to follow some simple rules. It's all about banning a few things. No pork then, and ease off on showing human flesh, too, especially in public. Less swearing, please, and no booze. Don't read Nuts, be less British, and less gay, wear the right gear, do more praying and less pole-dancing.

The teaching of the prophet Muhammad? The Koran? Nah! Don't be worrying about any of that. Islam - it's basically a few rules, stuff you can't do. And that's it, a major world religion in a nutshell, job done, sorted by reality TV.

Either that, or this show's a disgrace

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Make me a Muslim

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.