UK: Government Owned Channel4 Creates ‘Recruitment Film’ Glorifying ISIS On PrimeTime TV – The State
England has gone completely bonkers. Now the government owned public TV channel 4 has created their own entertainment show: The State. It glorifies ISIS and makes them look appealing, probably increasing recruitments more than ever. What can you expect from the p.c. brigade of the delusional far left? Bet they didn’t address the role of the Koran in the Jihad ideology.
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Pure poison… it’s like a Nazi recruiting film from the 1930s: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The State
A really super-cool club. That’s how a
young black British doctor describes Islamic State in tonight’s episode
of The State, her eyes shining as she records a YouTube message urging
other young women to follow her example and defect to Syria.
‘A really super-cool club.’ There’s no
irony in her voice. Dr Shakira Boothe (played by Ony Uhiara) is a single
mother from London who claims to be part of the first generation of
Muslims building a religious paradise on earth.
This, then, is how Channel 4, a publicly owned British broadcaster,
depicts Islamic State five days after a terrorist attack in Barcelona
that killed more than a dozen people – during a year that has seen
British children killed by a suicide bomber at a Manchester pop concert.
A four-part drama screening on consecutive
nights, The State is supposedly based on real events in Syria and Iraq,
seen from the viewpoint of several British recruits who fled their
homes to join the jihad or Holy War. It showcases graphic footage of
torture and dismemberment.
The second episode tonight includes an
appallingly callous tableau of dead babies in an incubator ward, after a
bomb strike on a hospital.
It is sickening. But it isn’t the gore and
scattered limbs that leave a tight knot in the stomach: it is the
moist-eyed adulation as The State pleads with us not just to sympathise
with the British jihadis but to love them.
All the women are elegant but strong –
independent heroines making a positive choice to sacrifice their freedom
for the sake of their pious religious convictions. Joans of Arc, every
one. All the men are sensitive and soft-spoken – driven to fight in
God’s army for their love of their families. Everyone is deeply
intelligent and multi-lingual, with extensive knowledge of the Koran.
And they are all ridiculously good-looking
of course, with the occasional Poldark moment for the boys as they
strip off their uniforms to reveal waxed chests with moulded six-packs.
The soundtrack is all swelling orchestras and throbbing drums, with
moments of sad Spanish guitar when a character dies.
No one will be surprised to discover that
the writer and director of the State, Peter Kosminsky, is not a veteran
of the civil war in Syria. He did not carry out research missions to
Raqqa and Aleppo.
In fact, middle-class film-maker Kosminsky
is 61 years old and Oxbridge-educated, the epitome of the London media
luvvie who is desperate to demonstrate that he is less racist than
anyone else at his Hampstead dinner party. He’s been the subject of a
South Bank Show profile by Melvyn Bragg. You get the picture.
The dialogue of The State gives him away
at every moment. It’s Dad-speak, a middle-aged man’s failed effort to
sound ‘down with the kids’, which parrots comical slang last used in the
1970s by the Bay City Rollers – words such as ‘super-cool’.
In tonight’s opening scene, one fighter
waves his AK47 and shouts: ‘This is better than flipping burgers!’ It’s
meant to be a victory shout – but instead, the line is fake, patronising
and, in its assumption that well-educated British Asians like him are
destined to work at McDonald’s, dismissively racist.
Kosminsky’s dead ear for dialogue is
matched by his inability to smell out lies. Because all the scenes are
based on second-hand research, they mirror the propaganda videos that
cascade on to the internet, showing life under Sharia law. Much of the
series consists of the director’s attempts to capture the camera angles
common in phone videos of battlefields and marketplaces.
It’s baffling that a man who knows how the
television world works – he won Emmys and Baftas for his adaptation of
Wolf Hall, after all – seems blind to the crass manipulation of Islamic
State’s official videos. Kosminsky believes that the choreographed
beheadings and the carefully curated aftermath of bombings are true and
accurate depictions of ISIS life.
For fear of imposing his own opinions on
viewers (good liberals never do that) he offers no comment on the
medieval morality of Islamic State. Racism is endemic: the leading
characters soon learn to sneer openly at the pathetic white fighters,
who are mostly fat, tearful, closet homosexuals.
All of the characters have left their
homes without saying goodbye to their parents, though Kosminsky is at
pains to point out that this doesn’t mean they are ungrateful or
unloving – it’s just that they didn’t dare risk alerting the forces of
government oppression.
The men practise dismantling their assault
rifles with their eyes shut, and learn the basics of misogyny: ‘A woman
in this life is defective!’
And when the bomb strikes that baby ward,
there is no hint that any blame lies with the ISIS cowards using the
hospital as their shield. If anything, the fault is with the unseen
hand, presumably American, that fired the missile. The only explanation
for the characters’ betrayal of Britain is summed up in one line: ‘I
ain’t never going back to that kuffar dump, bruv.’ Kuffar, as the
constant scroll of Arabic dictionary definitions tells us, means dirty,
foreign and unholy.
ISIS is a death cult, and the new recruits
are expected by their commanders to die quickly and needlessly. But
even if the idealistic characters we met last night are killed off later
this week, that does not affect the message of the first two episodes.
Many people will watch only the first hour or two, and it’s the initial
impressions that count for most.
Kosminsky cannot be incapable of
understanding how most viewers will regard his perverted vision of ISIS.
But he only cares about the opinions of his peers in a deluded bubble.
Any decent human being, anyone who has felt despair and heartbreak at
the terrorist attacks sponsored by Islamic State, will feel nothing but
revulsion for his characters. They are traitors to their families and
friends. Society has provided so much entertainment and education to
enrich their lives, and they are turning all of it to the most evil
uses.
The State is no sort of truthful drama, as
it claims to be. This is a recruitment video to rival Nazi propaganda
of the Thirties calling young men to join the Brownshirts.
Kosminsky celebrates the camaraderie and
sense of purpose that he imagines to be the fuel of ISIS. God forbid any
young Islamic viewers are seduced by his vision, because every frame of
this film is a lie. It is poison.
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