tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70328644053743438572024-03-13T04:00:56.053+00:00The Radical Truth"When truth is hurled against falsehood, falsehood perishes, for falsehood by its nature is bound to perish"Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-87585478213474983232013-04-20T20:40:00.001+01:002013-04-20T20:47:31.143+01:00NTV in trouble with Ofcom over two incidentsI made a complaint to Ofcom about a political advertisement on Bengali TV channel NTV. It has been found in breach for airing the advertisement on 19th January 2013, which is prohibited under Ofcom rules.
The advertisement lasted 30 seconds. The voiceover was in Bengali. The images consisted only of a single slate carrying Bengali text and three small pictures – one of the Bangladesh NationalistAbdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-50527931357825723812013-03-24T21:18:00.000+00:002013-04-20T21:57:44.186+01:00Images
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Advert by Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Channel 9 UK @ 20.58 24/03/13
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Advert by Mersey side Jubo League on Channel 9 UK @ 20.56 04/04/13
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Advert by UK Jubo League on Channel 9 UK @ 20.58 04/04/13
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NTV Sunday 14 April 2013 - 22.01
Moddhorater Khobor - Scrolling advert for stalls
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Channel i Sunday 14 April 2013 - Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-25391568648373502632013-03-24T17:40:00.004+00:002013-04-16T22:13:55.860+01:00The disgraceful behaviours of Bengali TV channelsThere has been countless breaches of broadcasting rules by Bengali TV channels in the UK. Some of them faced large fines. From abuse of charity fundraiser and selling holy tours to political advertisements, these channels flout the rules like it doesn't apply to them.
Recently 5 Bengali TV channels were found in breach of “political advertising”. Channel S has previously been found in serious Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-73791418281156405902013-03-24T16:37:00.004+00:002013-03-24T16:38:04.198+00:00Bangladesh: Wave of violent attacks against Hindu minorityAmnesty International
A wave of violent attacks against Bangladesh’s minority Hindu community shows the urgent need for authorities to provide them with better protection, Amnesty International said.
Over the past week, individuals taking part in strikes called for by Islamic parties have vandalised more than 40 Hindu temples across Bangladesh.
Scores of shops and houses belonging to Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-36671031616452850012013-03-24T16:10:00.002+00:002013-03-24T16:25:17.452+00:00NTV in trouble over sponsorship rules breachBizAsia
Bengali entertainment channel NTV has breached sponsorship rules and exceeding the advertisement times.
The channel broadcasts a delayed feed of content originally broadcast on NTV in Bangladesh.
‘Shastho Protidin’ was a studio-based programme in which the presenter Dr Tahmina Akter Muniya and a guest discussed various health issues.
The opening and closing programme credits containedAbdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-20974194820401173122013-03-24T16:09:00.000+00:002013-03-24T16:25:40.859+00:00Channel i in trouble over “political” advertisementsIt was just under a year when I made complaints to Ofcom about political advertisement on Channel i. After a long investigation Ofcom has found this channel in breech of several rules and put them on notice that further breech will result in fines. Lets hope Channel i has learned a lesson.
Some of the political parties and groups featured were:
the Bangladesh Nationalist Party1;
the London Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-9385963511478347122013-03-24T16:01:00.001+00:002013-03-24T16:27:49.719+00:00Five Bengali TV channels in breach of “political advertising”From BizAsia
Five television channels, Channel S, ATN Bangla, Bangla TV, Channel i, and NTV have been found in breach of “political advertising” rules.
Media regulator, Ofcom, received a complaint about an advertisement that featured Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets, and stated his aims for improving housing in the borough.
The advertisement was 30 seconds long.Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-47775418291009007562013-02-01T20:36:00.001+00:002013-02-01T21:05:39.995+00:00Surreptitious advertising by Holy Men on Channel iOn 27 Jan 2013, Channel i - Sky Channel 844 - 5pm to 1am aired a programme called "Journey of a Life Time". This was nothing more that a mega "infomercial" for a commercial tour organisation called Bismillah Hajj The communication below with the programme makers and the video explains it all. Needless to say a complaint has been submitted to Ofcom.
Video
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Subject: Advertising tour toAbdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-86923786446700847692013-01-23T22:18:00.001+00:002013-01-23T22:53:06.020+00:00Thugs harass a couple for drinking alcohol in a London 'Muslim Area'A group of Muslims harasses a young white couple for wearing skirt and drinking alcohol while walking in part of East London they declare as 'Muslim Area'. These thugs then had the audacity to upload their shameful act on YouTube. The police are investigating this incident using the video and have made two arrests.
Every individual will be a minority at some stage and this sort of awful Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-81267422865229315022013-01-23T21:39:00.002+00:002013-01-23T22:23:30.414+00:00ATN Bangla Sells Tour in a programmeProgramme: Journey to Masjid Al Aqsa
Date: Broadcast whole evening starting at 7pm on 21 January 2013
Channel: ATN Bangla – Sky Channel 827
Watch the recording uploaded on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqY_XZPejrI
The Sky TV guide describes this programme as “Live Islamic discussion programme from ATN studio”. But this programme is far from an Islamic discussion, it is actually Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-88013941505064707442013-01-20T00:20:00.002+00:002013-01-20T00:43:45.536+00:00ATN Bangla in trouble for airing “political advert”
In April 2012 I made complaints to Ofcom about several political advertisements on Bengali TV channels broadcasting in the UK. Some of these are still under investigation.
One of the them was about an advert by the youth arm of the Bangladesh Awami League UK. I uploaded the advert on YouTube. As political advertisement is not allowed, Ofcom investigation found ATN Bangla in breach of UK Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-40315513312470094002012-12-30T19:53:00.001+00:002012-12-30T20:07:35.790+00:00Songs of LiberationAn extract from Daily Star article.
Bangladesh's struggle for emancipation from the clutches of alien domination has a long and chequered history behind. The bud of Bangladeshi independence, whose fragrance was effectively perceived for the first time through the glorious Language Movement in 1952, sprouted in all its splendour into a full bloom through the War of Independence in 1971. It was Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-54895938275073232012012-12-09T21:28:00.001+00:002012-12-09T21:30:49.730+00:00Asian radio station fined £4k over homophobic statements
Here is a report by a tech website: A local radio station that serves the South Asian communities in Leeds has been fined £4,000 for allowing one of its presenters to incite hatred against homosexuals live on-air.
Media regulator Ofcom said that the comments made on the Radio Asian Fever community station were "likely to encourage or to incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder".&Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-10070767232387662852012-10-27T22:07:00.000+01:002012-10-28T01:12:22.580+00:00Zionist Cameramen at Edinburgh Batsheva ProtestShortly after the Edinburgh Batsheva Protest in August 2012, videos appeared on YouTube trying to discredit the protesters with false allegations. The videos are purported to have been taken by Harvey the Zionist undercover cameraman, then passed to his Zionist friend Richard Millett to upload with false allegations.
Richard Millett makes various false allegations against the protest at his blogAbdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-53653451654537934652012-08-26T01:33:00.001+01:002012-08-26T02:24:51.026+01:00Hear the Rohingyas criesWhen a Bengali speak about the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, you will often hear statements like "the world watched while a genocide was unleashed on us killing millions". Well, now is the Rohingyas genocide and the world watches again. Worst still, Bangladesh is watching too, as if they cannot remember their own suffering when staring into the eyes of crying Rohingyas. How sad is this world?
Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-11949088833600036172012-07-25T21:01:00.001+01:002012-07-25T21:01:46.036+01:00Tower Hamlets Labour Group expels five councillorsAn example of the never ending in-fightings, conspiracies and division amongst Bengali politicians in Tower Hamlet. Politics - a dirty business for dirty individuals!
From East London Advertiser
Five councillors have been expelled from the Tower Hamlets Labour Group, following claims they campaigned against the party during April’s Spitalfields by-election.The councillors, Kabir Ahmed,Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-8059856746983325092012-07-08T01:31:00.000+01:002012-07-08T01:32:34.891+01:00Lutfur Rahman's TV propaganda channelAn article by Andrew Gilligan, the Telegraph's London Editor, published in October 2010.
Lutfur Rahman, the fundamentalist sympathiser standing for mayor
of Tower Hamlets, hasn’t always done terribly well on television. This encounter with me on Channel 4 was, frankly, a bit of a car crash.
Luckily, in his latest electoral struggle, Lutfur has what amounts to
his own personal TV station. Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-55810657469366683252012-07-08T00:37:00.000+01:002012-07-08T01:09:57.565+01:00Channel S in trouble for advocating Lutfur Rahman's politicsChannel S is in trouble again for breaching Ofcom rules. It is reported in Broadcast Bulletin 208 that a complainant alerted Ofcom to a news report of Channel S News, which the complainant described as a “political press conference, broadcast as a "news" item without any attempt to give an alternative view”.
Channel S stated its view that the complaint in this case originated from “a group of Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-56162650590269699742012-06-15T21:28:00.000+01:002012-06-15T21:38:00.948+01:00Not My Business by Niyi OsundareNot My Business by Niyi Osundare.
Wikipedia: In Not My Business, the people around the voice of the poem are unjustly taken in Nigeria, but the voice says that it is not his business if he is not taken. Eventually, he is taken but there is no-one left to save him.
Osundare used his poem and others to object to the dictatorship that ruled his country under General Sani Abacha from 1993 to 1998Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-61403926427733234942012-06-11T21:13:00.003+01:002012-06-11T21:14:36.165+01:00ATN Bangla Chairman prejudicedAnother part of the never ending saga of Bengali media in the UK.
From Bangla Mirror
Bangla Mirror Desk:: The Chairman of ATN Bangla TV Dr. Mahfuzur Rahman made prejudiced remark against the people of Sylhet and uncalled-for comment on murdered journalists Sagar and Runi. His remarks created commotion in Bangladeshis living in Britain as well as in Bangladesh.
ATN Bangla in the UK Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-19175834519017552222012-05-25T21:16:00.002+01:002012-05-25T22:11:07.458+01:00Altab Ali Day and the history of Bengali fightback against racismI often hear from the older generations the difficulties and racism they faced when they came to Britain. I could only image what things must have been for them. But when I hear about isolated brutalities on innocent Bengalis, it pains me immensely. One of them is the heart breaking story of racist killing of Altab Ali.
On May 4 1978, Altab Ali was
walking home from the factory where he worked Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-73992805922072633332012-05-14T21:27:00.001+01:002012-05-14T21:52:28.260+01:00DM Digital Rapped by Ofcom for Broadcasting Extreme ViewsThe lunacies of the Asian satellite channel are endless. Just look through the regular Ofcom Broadcast Bulletins and you will discover countless breaches. One wonders how these businessmen/women think they can operate such services with amateur behaviours and a lack of respect of the rules. The breaches range from abuse of charity appeals, political advertisements, phone competition to advice Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-76885757398613436052012-05-10T21:25:00.003+01:002012-05-10T21:33:11.030+01:00Jahanara Imam - The Profile of a FighterJahanara Imam (May 3, 1929—June 26, 1994) was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is most widely remembered for her efforts to bring those accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial. She was known as "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs).
Secular Voice of Bangladesh: Jahanara Imam - The Profile of a Fighter
One of the most revered names in the Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-17697513681371340162012-04-27T22:10:00.000+01:002012-05-12T02:23:46.998+01:00Television Charity Fundraiser Abuse
Giving charity is one of the basic principals of Islam. In fact, Zakat (that which purifies or alms) is one of the five pillars of Islam. Zakat is giving a fixed portion (1/40th) of one's wealth to the poor and needy.
During the holy month of Ramadam, when Muslims fast, they tend to give their Zakat and make more donations. People also tend to donate as a way of asking for forgiveness from God Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032864405374343857.post-83975154556090211672012-04-17T21:45:00.000+01:002012-04-17T22:07:07.941+01:00Leading British Muslim leader faces war crimes charges in BangladeshBangladeshis still feel the pain of their suffering back in 1971. Justice for some may be here at last. The Telegraph reports on alleged war crimes against Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a British citizen who immigrated from Bangladesh after the war. I recall allegations against him for several decades and his links to UK charity Muslim Aid.
One victim says: "I have waited 40 years to see the trial of Abdus Salamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707258997965503694noreply@blogger.com0