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A Dry White Season
The BBC is broadcasting a series of programmes about the UK's "Lost Tribe" - Britain's white working class. It's called White Season, and it features a series of dramas exploring issues of racism (of course) and community in multicultural Britain.
One drama features a white British girl growing up in a mostly Muslim area of a Northern town. Her (white) father is abusive and utterly unpleasant and her life is tough: However, the BBC comes up with a happy ending. Befriended by a saintly Muslim family, she converts to Islam, converts her mother, and waves goodbye to the vile man about the house for ever.
Rod Liddle attacks the season, and this show, in the Spectator. He concludes,
"Can you imagine (the BBC) commissioning a film about a Muslim girl who converts to Christianity, converts her mum — and by the denouement is proven right to have done so?
"It will never happen."
True - there would be crowds demanding the producer's head on a plate; the lead actress would probably have to go into hiding. EURSOC agrees with Liddle here, but we'd add, why this genuflection towards Islam?
It is certainly hard to imagine the BBC making a film about a Muslim family converting to Christianity and being the better for it. But it's equally difficult to imagine the BBC making a film about a white British girl trapped in an abusive family, then discovering Christianity, introducing her mother to the church and finding friendship and freedom among Christians.
