Where Mishal’s Magical Muslim Mystery Tour didn’t go
by Jules Gomes, The Conservative Woman:
My entire career as a reporter for a leading daily newspaper in Mumbai was governed by a maxim from Aroon Purie, editor-in-chief of India Today, the country’s most respected news magazine. Purie would tell his reporters: ‘Somewhere, someone is out to hide the truth. Find that. That is news. All the rest is merely advertisement.’
Mishal Husain’s two-part series this week on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is what Purie would describe as ‘merely advertisement’. Husain presents a form of British Islam so domesticated and sanitised that it glitters like gold. ‘All that glitters is not gold’, a well-seasoned proverb reminds us.
Somewhere, someone is out to hide the truth and the quintessential technique of hiding the truth is by not reporting it. The cleverest form of fake news is not falsifying the truth. It’s too obvious. The best fake news is by omission. What Husain is not telling you is more important than what she is telling you.
Husain cherry-picks a few shining stars from the great British Islamic galaxy consisting of three million Muslims. She damns the alternatives – not a single Muslim who is critical of current disturbing Islamic trends is invited.
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