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The Documentary Podcast

Pakistani Media in the UK

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Manveen Rana uncovers hate speech, sectarianism and support for Pakistani militant groups in some of Britain's Urdu language newspapers, radio stations and TV channels.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Mann Vien Rana, and you're listening to assignment on the BBC World Service.

0:04.6

When a homemade bomb was detonated on a train on the London Underground last month.

0:13.0

It was the latest in a wave of terrorist attacks to hit Britain this year.

0:18.0

It's a problem the government and security services are desperate to get under control.

0:24.0

Here's the British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking at the United Nations last month.

0:30.0

We would step up our efforts as never before to tackle the terrorist use of the internet.

0:36.0

But we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to remove terrorist content

0:41.1

online. This is a major step in reclaiming the internet from

0:46.4

those who would use it to do us harm. But is the digital world the only place

0:52.2

where extremist ideas ferment?

0:55.0

In this program, I'll be exposing hate speech, sectarianism,

1:00.0

and even support for jihad, appearing in old media here in the UK, on TV, on the radio and in newspapers serving the British

1:09.4

Pakistani community. I'm in East London, home to the biggest Muslim community in Britain.

1:20.0

I'm just outside the local mosque and here on the doorstep there's a huge

1:24.1

pile of newspapers they've just been delivered hot off the press this is the

1:29.2

nowa Ijung it's a free paper which is distributed to mosques and Islamic centers all over the country.

1:36.0

Looking at the front page, there's a bright red logo at the top which also incorporates the

1:42.0

Pakistani flag and the paper is printed primarily in Urdu

1:46.6

the language spoken by the majority of British Pakistanis of which there are about 1.2 million. Inside there's a mix of UK and Pakistani news

1:57.1

providing readers with a link to what's going on here in Britain as well as

2:01.4

back in the homeland of Pakistan.

2:03.4

When we come to the community center there is a loads of papers there.

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