I really wanted to put this onto the United British Alliance Site
but I don't want the Police to ban me from Finsbury Park. I think what
these guys are trying to do is interesting, I just think that if they
are looking for terrorists they might be in the wrong place. The Police
didn't find any terrorists here for 16 months. Granted, they then suddenly
found the British Bin Laden was here all along, but they only found
that out with the help of their U.S. friends who seem to have convinced
them that they weren't looking hard enough.
I am the documentary maker that one of you said was
“ With the hook.”
I would just like to clear things up a little. I am not
“ With the hook.”
I am a documentary maker. Some of the police and media are saying
you are racist. I have on film you saying that you are not racist.
I would not like to see you misreported. Some people believe that the
Muslims of Finsbury Park are a threat to the British people. I have
on film them denying this. Whether they are secretly terrorists or
you are secretly racist I don’t know. I only know what people
say to my camera. Now I have been frequently abused by Muslims at Finsbury
Park, it disturbs be to be abused by you guys. I would like to report
your views.
As for your allegations that I
“ Take it up the arse.”
I would like to say that I am not a homosexual but I have nothing
against homosexuals at all and am glad that I live in a society where
they are not victimized. I had an amicable debate (on camera) with
Mr.Hamza’s best friend who quoted me Leviticus 12 vs 20 which
says that homosexuals should be put to death. Maybe that is something
you agree with him about. Maybe you all secretly would like to live
under al shariah law where such things might occur. I don’t want
to put words in your mouth. I want to record what you say.
If you read my blog you will see that in Pakistan I narrowly avoided
being forcibly dragged off with the mullah because of what I look like
and because I dared to play the guitar in Peshawar. All over Pakistan
I was called an Infidel and a heretic. You can see what I look like.
I thought it might just occur to you that I am not a Muslim. I am a
documentary maker.
The person who most inspires me as a documentary maker is Nick Broomfield.
I would recommend his documentary about Eugene Terrablanche THE LEADER,
HIS DRIVER AND THE DRIVERS WIFE. This depicts the members of a sad
white racist group in South Africa. When I met Nick Broomfield I told
him that this film was the reason I was inspired to make documentaries.
I told him I was filming in Finsbury Park and he wished me the best
of luck. If I make a documentary a quarter as good as his I will be
very happy. If I complete a documentary at all I will be very happy.
He told me that to make documentaries you have to be able to get people
whose views you do not necessarily share to talk to you with a camera
running.
If I was making a documentary about the U.B.A. I would do it in exactly
the same way as I have worked in Finsbury Park. Because Nick Broomfield
makes a documentary about a racist does that put him on the side of
a racist? Does that mean that he takes it up the arse? He is a documentary
maker. To get a clearer picture of what I am about I would recommend
a cartoon called
Transmetropolitan. I want to record what Finsbury Park’s Muslim
community thinks on film. I also want to record what you think about
Hamza on film. I have you guys saying that
“ He is going to fry.”
This is your view. I would like to record it. Things may not be how
they seem to you. One of the people who has been encouraging me the
most in this documentary process writes for the Sun. A lot of people
are looking for the truth about Finsbury Park. I have been doing so
for a year and a half.
I realize that you have come to Finsbury Park because you are proud
to be British and you care about your country. Me too. Fear of being
bombed encouraged me to come down and assess this “threat” for
myself. I have a suspicion that if you have come to Finsbury Park looking
for terrorists you may be disappointed. I may be wrong. We are just
a slightly different kind of British person. You like to stand behind
Police lines singing songs together, I like to stand in front of them
filming. Maybe you would like to fight with people you disagree with.
I like to try and talk to them with a camera running. Many different
people make up British society now, with many different views. Some
of them are documentary makers.
Fantastic. First contact with the UBA is good. Looked through my
footage and have their words. Was dreading someone from the UBA finding
this blog but got this from Stephen:
"Thanks,for your quick reply. I have read the content on your site
and do find it very interesting. I'm sure there are many things we
do agree on but also many we don’t!! What I want is for the people
of this country who I feel get a very different report on many things
from the British press to hear the truth, something that should not
to be hard to give. It would be difficult to talk like this over the
web so I would not mind contacting you or even meeting. As you can
see the people on the UBA are from different backrounds and areas and
many have different views but we all share the same thing, we want
ourselves and family’s to be safe, and a country that we can
be proud of again. As im sure you have seen we don’t want to
clear the country of Muslims we simply want it clear of extremists,
something you to I assume want."
I've looked into the UBA on the web. Some people just hate people
from Pakistan. They call it P@kistan. But others use the forum to say
that they have moved away from their racist past yet still see that
they represent Britain. From my camera I hope to include these guys
as I think we can have an honest debate about what it means for us
now to be British.
Got a visit from the younger guys from Finsbury Park. Cheers Samir,
(I didn't ask your brother's name.) Sorry.It turn's out that these
guys have had dealing's with Channel 4 before. They dispute a piece
called Dispatches which, they claim fabricated Abu Hamza's voice in
a previous documentary. I think Mr. Abdullah thinks a Zionist will
edit my documentary at the last minute.
My gut tell's me they want to do it. I'm in the interesting position
of trying to give both "side's" some footage ( UBA and Finsbury
Park Muslims.) but unfortunately the tape they both want a copy of
is stuck. I want everyone to tell me what it now means to be British.
Before Hamza was sent down he agreed to a live interview with GM T.V.
which they chickened out of- allegedly. I'd have no problem's doing
this live. 97% want Hamza extradited before they've heard the evidence.
I've seen him move from the street into the public imagination, next
stop: Southpark.
No one can speak with him or report his word's. Samir want's to use
this documentary to sit opossite a certain trustee who they believe
has been dodgy with Mosque funds. Who are the villans? Who are the
heros? I've seen two brother's sitting opposite me in my house tell
me how Hamza used to call them up all the time to check they were O.K.
and give them advice on moral Islamic living. They didn't look inclined
to self destruct.
I am drawn to something Hajj said last week to our Canadian cameraman.
( in a real Blame Canada southpark moment)
" Put people on the television. Show what they really say. Get
rid of the politicians. "
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Some Finsbury Park muslims. Builder in the backgrounds face as they
walked past was the picture I missed...
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