Mike Mercury
07-19-2016, 8:56am
Reporter wearing hijab during Nice coverage angers many
http://www.thesun.co.uk
Why did Channel 4 (London) have a presenter in a hijab fronting coverage of Muslim terror in Nice?
After Jon Snow had conducted an interview with a young man who had come perilously close to death the action switched back to the London studio, where I could hardly believe my eyes:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/nintchdbpict0002527486801.jpg?w=400
The presenter was not one of the regulars — Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Matt Frei or Cathy Newman — but a young lady wearing a hijab.
Her name is Fatima Manji and she has been with the station for four years. Was it appropriate for her to be on camera when there had been yet another shocking slaughter by a Muslim?
Would the news editor have used a Hindu to report on the carnage at the Golden Temple of Amritsar?
Would the station have used an Orthodox Jew to cover the Israeli-Palestine conflict?
Of course not.
So why did they do it? The suggestion is that Ms Manji, who I don’t blame as she is just a pawn in this TV news game, had been rostered on some time ago and presumably the news producers felt to remove her would cause a bigger row.
On that basis why didn’t they send her to Nice? Of course, there was a very good reason for that. The people of Nice, and the people of France, would view a foreign reporter wearing a hijab in these tense times as massively provocative. I believe that Muslim reporters in secular France are not even allowed to wear headscarves on screen.
http://www.thesun.co.uk
Why did Channel 4 (London) have a presenter in a hijab fronting coverage of Muslim terror in Nice?
After Jon Snow had conducted an interview with a young man who had come perilously close to death the action switched back to the London studio, where I could hardly believe my eyes:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/nintchdbpict0002527486801.jpg?w=400
The presenter was not one of the regulars — Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Matt Frei or Cathy Newman — but a young lady wearing a hijab.
Her name is Fatima Manji and she has been with the station for four years. Was it appropriate for her to be on camera when there had been yet another shocking slaughter by a Muslim?
Would the news editor have used a Hindu to report on the carnage at the Golden Temple of Amritsar?
Would the station have used an Orthodox Jew to cover the Israeli-Palestine conflict?
Of course not.
So why did they do it? The suggestion is that Ms Manji, who I don’t blame as she is just a pawn in this TV news game, had been rostered on some time ago and presumably the news producers felt to remove her would cause a bigger row.
On that basis why didn’t they send her to Nice? Of course, there was a very good reason for that. The people of Nice, and the people of France, would view a foreign reporter wearing a hijab in these tense times as massively provocative. I believe that Muslim reporters in secular France are not even allowed to wear headscarves on screen.