Comments on: My Appearance On BBC’s ‘The Big Questions’ https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/ Home of Stephen Knight and The #GSPodcast Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:07:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: leedsguynow https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7791 Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:07:14 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7791 In reply to Peter Stanley.

Big Questions and Question Time are open to the public for audience participation. I got the email for Question Time and I don’t live in Manchester.

I don’t think he was invited on to BBC or Channel 4 News, he hung about Manchester city centre on the day waiting to be interviewed by many of the tv crews down there.

He’s visibly Muslim and is very willing to talk on TV, there is no canard going on, there’s already a conspiracy meme that’s done the round on Twitter about him lol!

]]> By: Peter Stanley https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7785 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:39:43 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7785 In reply to Iram Ramzan.

Thank you Iram for confirming his identity. Perhaps that’s why he also gets invites onto BBC Question Time, BBC News & Channel 4 News? My issue is not with his regular TV appearances but more the shows’ inference that he’s there by chance.

]]> By: Iram Ramzan https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7775 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:32:40 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7775 In reply to Peter Stanley.

It’s not difficult to be an audience member on Big Questions. If you’ve already been part of the audience before you get an email next time the production is in your city. As he’s a Muslim chaplain at Manchester University and the fact that he’s more than willing to speak up makes producers even more keen to have him on.

]]> By: Peter Stanley https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7755 Fri, 26 May 2017 14:50:17 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7755 In reply to leedsguynow.

Perhaps he’s discovered a new hobby? :¬)

]]> By: leedsguynow https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7753 Fri, 26 May 2017 12:48:02 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7753 In reply to Peter Stanley.

To be fair I reckon it’s more right place at the right time, it’s not hard to get in to an audience and this guy’s from Manchester so he doesn’t have to go far.

]]> By: Peter Stanley https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7751 Fri, 26 May 2017 09:37:35 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7751 On watching Question Time (25/05/2017) there he was prominently positioned in the centre of the audience. I refer of course to the muslim gentleman who took great exception to your comments on ex-muslims during The Big Questions. Pure coincidence that he has featured as a prominent member of the audience on two BBC current affairs shows in a week? Or is he simply one of the BBC’s ‘go-to’ muslims for such programmes? It certainly gives credence to the longstanding claim that the Question Time audience is, shall we say, ‘carefully selected’.

]]> By: painedumonde https://www.gspellchecker.com/2017/05/my-appearance-on-bbcs-the-big-questions/#comment-7737 Sun, 21 May 2017 17:53:51 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=5234#comment-7737 Regarding the position and defence of free speech as absolute, spot on. The quibblers and “buters” always seem to bring a caveat to free speech from their own war chest of foibles. I have limits to free speech myself, but they are my limits, before I utter something I dismantle it a bit. Is it worth the breath? Can the idea take some strikes? If not, then silence is golden. This happens internally. (Of course I live in the world where some of these limits are already set for me)

Also, I do understand that feelings matter and that words can wound, but I also understand feelings change and wounds heal. It seems that an army of the meek, who seem to feel that they shall inherit the earth by default, have bellowed, “But I’m offended (the inverse is, “I must offend”)!” once too many times. It has become a joke to be offended and to offend. Perpetual offence is not a position, it’s a neurosis. Perpetual spewing of offense is plain assholery.

The first clip, the one I watched, was a perfect example of how to have a conversation. Mannered and polite. Towards the end, it began to creep slightly towards the point where offence matters most, but the host swatted that ball quickly back into play. Good conversation, hopefully some inner thought followed.

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