BBC: My Brother the Islamist

Last night on BBC Three at 9pm. The BBC broadcasted a program made by Rob Leech who was searching for answers for why his step brother Rich turned into a Islamist. The program shows how Rob's family have been affected by the dramatic changed Rich had gone under since he had moved to London.  The program shows how the new life of Rich now known as Salahuddin has changed from how he used to behave and what his thought are now based around for his new life.

Salahuddin seemed to come across as a very stuck up personality when it come to people who were not Muslim. This did not always show that his believes towards the Western World were too radical though. This is proven when Salahuddin and his brothers are handing out leaflets in London and a drunk starts an argument with one of the brothers. When Salahuddin starts talking to the man, the drunk becomes very hostile towards him saying how Salahuddin's explanation of what he was doing was "bullshit". When watching this, this showed one of the reasons why so many people would convert to Islam if this was the life they had to put up with in the Western World. Although this was one of the many few areas I agreed with.

One part of the program which especially frustrated me personally was the protest which took place between Salahuddin's bothers and the English Defence League. I do not personally agree with either of these two parties when the soldiers were marching through the streets during the their return where they had lost men during their campaign. The main reasons why I disagreed with the way the protest was carried out was because; One the loved ones of the soldiers who were lost at war would have probably had to experience the amount of disrespect shown by both parties, Two the amount of abuse passed over the top of these soldiers as if they were only middle men and didn't matter. Three the protest could have been carried out in such a way they did not disrespect those who had lost their lives.

In this protest which had been shown Salahuddin made a speech about why he was standing in front of these people. This speech upset many people as he was obviously English and these soldiers had risks there life to fight for his freedom. I can understand the fact that he was upset about the British army fighting against people who are part of his religion but this kind of disrespect was not needed.

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