If Jerry Springer: The Opera had made fun of Muhammad, do you think the BBC would have got off fine?

Question

I am an Anglican, and was slightly upset/offended that the BBC would show such a program on its schedule.

So, do you think that, if the program had made fun of Islam, and the prophet Muhammad, the BBC would have got off without breaking the broadcasting code?


Is Britain becoming like George Orwell once said - "All animals are eqial, but some animals are more equal than others?"

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Answer 1

what i don't understand is if Christians like yourself were offended say so and let others know why, i don't here many people of who were offended

Answer 2

The whole point of the Jerry Springer Opera is that it's a satire on trashy confessional chat shows. The reason that Jesus/God/the Devil are used in the second act is to demonstrate how overblown they all are and how they fail to solve complicated social problems, or in the case of the opera's second act, fail to solve the eternal struggle between good and evil.

I think that the way that religious figures were used in the opera served their purpose, not by any means to insult Christianity but to use them as a device to create an extremely good satire of modern TV culture. Christianity was not the thing being made fun of in the Jerry Springer Opera, it was trash TV.

I would, therefore, say exactly the same thing if the prophet Mohammed was the guest in the second act. Which is why I agree with the rulings on the Jerry Springer Opera- the point of it was not an insult of religion.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

No, the manager who authorized such a thing would at the very least be hounded out of office.

Such a thing wouldn't happen of course as most of us are aware of the consequences of doing something like that.

Answer 5

I don't have a problem with it being shown - it's not my cup of tea so I won't watch it.

If the programme had made fun of Islam then Jerry Springer would probably be dead by now!

Answer 6

I went to see Stuart Lee live a few years back, and although I enjoyed his Mary-Whitehouse-Experience and This-Morning With-Richard-Not-Judy days, I got quite bored of his shock tactic routine about Christ. He also mentioned a little bit about the controversy of the JSTO, probably to see if anyone would watch it for the sake of being shocked.
Be it M****mad (we cant say his name can we?). Christ, Moses, or Isaac, all abrahamic faiths have lost their dogmatic potency over the British audience in comedy or sincerity. I suppose the next move is for BBC to have Songs Of Praise for Islam next.
As for the Orwellian phrase - and by Christ I'm sick of hearing little quotes from his work - I had to study Animal Farm and it stinks of socialist pretence - if you live like a conspiracy theorist, you might as well die like one - graveless and unremembered.

Answer 7

What are you talking about? Jerry or the opera? People see how the Muslims act over naming a teddybear Mohammed and it's not acceptable to us so what!

Answer 8

We should make fun of Mohhamed and see what they do about. Let them jump up and down and wave their Knickers in the air. What a bunch of emporors got no clothes that lot are. All they can do is rape and whip women. Gutsy boys !!

Answer 9

Jerry Springer is not a religious icon worshipped around the world.

Answer 10

yes i do agree with you. as far as im concered all religions are bunkham and deserve to be questioned, ridiculed, critcised etc, just as any other philosphy or view is (ie political or social theories)
but what we find is, that some religions are able to be criticised and others are not and i dont find this acceptable

i am talking soley about the UK, its no good expecting the same rules to apply in other countries as there are different values there

Answer 11

bbc studios would have blown up springer the 4 eyed **** is a lucky man go to mosque on xmas day fufill ur duties fellow citizens.......................islam nothing higher