Mansur was the only individual during the whole documentary who spoke to ITV reporter, Mark Austin, by inviting him into his house. However, he did mention the “children of Israel” who according to him were humiliating the Muslims, but this was used in a theological context. I did not recall Mansur making any reference to Jews. The second contention with Mansur was his comments at a GAT fundraising event regarding Zionism, and the state of Israel bankrolling and instigating wars against Muslim countries. The underlying issue here is the all-too-common trick of taking statements in isolation, and out of context with a political spin that Muslims have become very familiar with.Ĭonflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism Mansur also expressed how young British Muslims, including himself, going to Syria to fight would cause more harm than good, but that’s beside the point. Rather, he gave glad tidings to those who were able to help financially, medically or by merely praying for the oppressed Syrians. When the reporter probed Mansur about “wanting to do more for Syria”, at no point did he advise him to go fight. One of the controversies surrounding Mansur was his comments regarding Syria and jihad, which he made to an undercover reporter acting as a GAT volunteer. In comparison, Steadfast Trust and HSS received minimal coverage prior to the documentary being aired in comparison to GAT, but it makes sense because Muslim-related stories are guaranteed to make great headlines.
IMRAN IBN MANSUR TV
In particular, they focussed on the resignation of the charity’s CEO, Rizwan Hussain, who is a well-known TV presenter, as well as Imran ibn Mansur aka “Dawah Man” – a popular YouTuber who was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks, and encouraging Muslims to fight jihad in Syria.
On the day of the of ITV documentary, The Telegraph, London Evening Standard, Independent and The Guardian published articles about Global Aid Trust (GAT), and its alleged links to extremism. But as expected, in light of the ongoing war on terror where Islam continues to be demonised, it was the Muslim charity, Global Aid Trust, which was ‘singled out’. I’m assuming that for the sake of impartiality, ITV included a white supremacist (The Steadfast Trust), radical Hindu ( HSS UK), and a Syria-linked Muslim ( Global Aid Trust) charity. On Wednesday, ITV broadcasted a documentary entitled, ‘ Exposure: Charities Behaving Badly’, which revealed how three registered charities were abusing their status by “breeding extremism”. This is something you would expect from a state run TV channel under a dictatorship, but the covert manner in which it is being implemented in the UK does not fool anyone – especially the Muslim community. In the UK, and broadly speaking the West, where the ‘free press’ claims to educate and inform the masses, and to account those in power, the mainstream media is increasingly becoming a tool of the government to push a particular agenda or legislation.
After accepting this realisation, I have always mentioned this in articles and lectures on the subject of media. There is no such thing as “impartial news” – I was told this in my first news writing class when studying for my NCTJ. ITV’s documentary on “charities behaving badly” was political propaganda pushing for the Charity Commission to gain more powers, cleverly targeted towards Muslim charities, writes Dilly Hussain.
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