When I described British Muslim convert/soon-to-be BBC presenter Myriam François-Cerrah yesterday as "a familiar face on the BBC's The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live", little did I expect that this morning's Sunday Morning Live would feature...Myriam François-Cerrah.
She didn't just plug her forthcoming BBC programme but was also there in her usual capacity - to pontificate on everything from counterterrorism in the classroom to blood donation.
I should have expected it really. It was all very predictable.
Is Myriam a convert like Jemima Khan i.e. someone who spouts about how wonderful Islam is and then gives it all up, starts dating guys other than her husband, and basically gives the whole thing up without ever renouncing Islam?
ReplyDeleteWhat was it about British Muslim convert Myriam François-Cerrah that first attracted her to the BBC as a presenter, one wonders?
ReplyDeleteHaving done some research into her "journalism" (more accurately, advocacy) I must say she is a brilliant actress.
ReplyDeleteShe will defend everything with the I label and trash everything without it.
She's not stupid which makes her advocacy all the more dangerous, if attractive to the BBC. She will never say "I agree with Sharia law punishments for thieves and rebels, such as cutting off limbs and crucifixion." But she appears never to say she disagrees with anything in Sharia law either.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11715461/Muslim-Sharia-marriage-in-the-UK-is-not-toxic-polygamous-men-are.html
ReplyDeleteI’m glad to say that despite the Telegraph’s recent massive lurch to the left, the btl commentariat have given Myriam F-C’s article about Sharia marriage in the UK a bloody good kicking. “Get back to an Islamic country!” seems to be the gist.
I don’t understand how her article got past the editors by the way. It’s full of weird grammatical peculiarities, typos and sentences that don’t make sense. She is a fluent and articulate speaker, but her writing is atrocious. Did this person really study at Oxford? Oh well, Tariq Ramadan says he’s a lecturer there so I guess anything goes.