Bonekickers - BBC1 Drama Featuring Extremist Christian Beheading Moderate Muslim Draws Complaints
July 12, 2008
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This story is almost certain to get some attention, or at least it should. Some are calling it a thinly veiled ‘anti-Christian’ attack, provoking sentiments that demonize Christians and Evangelicals.
A recent episode of the series Bonekickers displayed a graphic scene depicting a moderate Muslim being beheaded by a supposed “extremist Christian”.
It’s being reported that BBC1 has received several telephone complaints from it’s viewers over the episode and earlier this week the corporation stated they ‘regret’ viewers had found the scene ‘inappropriate’, but defended their decision to show it.
Viewers were apparently shocked when actor Paul Nichollswas was seen using a sword to hack off a moderate Muslim’s head in an unprovoked attack.
Nichollswas plays a member of the fictional group called the White Wings Alliance. The fictitious group is far-Right evangelical group of Christians inspired by the Crusades.
The show is watched 6.8million and has sparked new claims of anti-Christian bias in BBC programs.
One viewer wrote on the corporation’s website: ‘If it had been another religion portrayed in that manner, the PC police would have been up in arms about the nastiness and their rights not to have their religion ridiculed - as it was Christians, it was apparently OK.’
On a blog discussing the show one poster stated, “You have to ask yourself, what would the reaction been if the religious roles were reversed?”
Here is The Response from The BBC
Complaint
We’ve received some complaints from viewers who felt the scene featuring a beheading in Bonekickers on BBC One, Tuesday 8th July 2008 was inappropriate viewing.
The BBC’s Response
We regret that some viewers felt the beheading scene was inappropriate. It appeared half way through episode one of Bonekickers, by which time the character’s þextreme fundamental belief’ had been revealed, providing the audience with a good build up to the scene in question.
This storyline looked at religious fundamentalism within a fictional Christian group, and one character in particular who took his beliefs to an extreme. His ignorance and misguided behaviour lead to the beheading of a peaceful Asian Muslim character in the drama. His actions are clearly condemned by leading Muslim and Christian clerics. The drama also has the balance of a Christian character that has a deep faith which she uses humbly and only for good.
The killing and the method used reflected the flawed beliefs that the character had. It does not attempt to condone or glamorise such a violent act in any way. The drama seeks to highlight the consequences of a misguided fundamentalist taking his beliefs to violent extremes.
The inclusion of the scene had been carefully considered and was very much central to the story line and reflected the character’s extreme fundamental beliefs and state of mind.
Interesting Comments on The Bonekickers Site
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Is there any further evidence needed to show the West is determined to commit suicide? It takes the vilest characteristics of its enemies and bestows them upon its own culture. As if, somehow, Christians were at all behaving like Muslims or that their beliefs were somehow even alignable.
The BBC is a freaking joke.
Bonekickers is a British programme for a British audience; the programme is fiction and pure entertainment. We (the British) may speak the same language as you and worship Christ as you do, but we do not have an identical culture. Consequently the programme should not be judged according to your culture. Is your faith so fragile that the mere mention of the word Muslim will have you fearing another 9/11?
We are also suffering terrorist attacks from Muslim extremists but the answer is to integrate the moderates and isolate the extremists. Frothing at the mouth over one episode from one TV series is unlikely to provide a solution. Indeed our experience is that such extremists do not have a specific profile. If you do not believe me, just look at Richard Reid the Shoe Bomber. Indeed not all terrorists to attack your homeland are Muslim. Just look at Timothy James McVeigh.
Just in case some readers may feel we do not understand; British citizens were also killed in 9/11 and we have our military fighting and dying alongside yours in Afghanistan.