PinkNews Broadcaster of the Year Award
A press release from the Quilliam Foundation:
Last night, Maajid Nawaz won the 2017 PinkNews Broadcaster of the Year Award for his LBC radio show. The award was shared with Lorraine Kelly of ITV.
Other nominees in the category included: Coronation Street (ITV), Doctor Who (BBC), Loose Women (ITV), Lorraine (ITV), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Sense8 (Netflix), Transparent (Amazon Prime), and Victoria Derbyshire (BBC).
The annual PinkNews Awards has become one of the UK’s most significant LGBT+ events, recognising the contributions of politicians, campaigners, charities, businesses, public sector employers, broadcasters and journalists towards achieving LGBT+ equality both in the UK and overseas.
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Also at the event was London Mayor Sadiq Khan who said, “London is open to all people regardless of race, gender and sexuality and open to love,” and called for a zero-tolerance attitude towards hate crime in London. He also announced that he would be the first mayor ever to lead the annual Pride parade.
Other attendees including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Education Secretary Justine Greening, and Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.
On winning the award, Nawaz said:
“When I saw that 0% of British Muslims surveyed believed that being gay was ever morally acceptable, when I saw that 52% of British Muslims wanted homosexuality to be criminalised, when I saw that the only 10 countries in the world that punished being gay with death were all Muslim-majority, I was ashamed, infuriated, outraged, and angry all at the same time. But I knew Muslims who were gay, and so I realised that these results were also due to fear of speaking out.
It requires leadership. The sort of leadership that the British Muslim Mayor of London provided here tonight. The sort of leadership that Imam Muhammad provided here tonight by offering prayers for everyone here. And that’s the sort of leadership I, and my producer Sandra, wanted to offer through my LBC show. My show aims to be a home for you all. Thank you for this great honour in being able to speak out on your behalf.”
Nawaz dedicated his win to all the people around the world who are persecuted in the name of religion for being LGBT+.You can catch Maajid Nawaz on his LBC radio show live every Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 – 15:00.
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It isn’t just the SPLC; it’s essentially all of the ‘woke left’. This morning I saw a video by Vox on ‘extremist Youtubers’, such as Laura Southern; in it, clips from one guy (Paul Joseph Watson, apparently) were presented as part of the narrative of ‘right-wing extremists’, and the ONLY things featured as evidence that this guy was ‘one of YouTube’s most extreme creators’ were three quotes:
“By its very nature, Islam is an intolerant, radical, extremist belief system”,
“…absolutely vital that we Red Pill the next generation…”, and
“Telling the truth is just not advertiser-friendly”.
Now, I don’t know this guy from Adam, and the second quote marks him out as an asshole and probably someone I’d pretty vehemently disagree with on a number of issues, but I’ve got a feeling he made the list because of the first quote. And, while it’s blunt, and it’s inconvenient for people who like to pretend that all religions are the same or that Islam in particular is peaceful and good, it isn’t wrong. But it was *this* quote about Islam that got the Red Pill guy on the list of ‘extremist YouTubers’, and not any actual extremist position against Islam (or against Muslims).
Which essentially justifies the third quote, and evinces an attitude which explains why people like the SPLC can feel righteous for condemning a decent and honest Muslim man for telling the truth about his religion.
An excellent choice. I didn’t know Lorraine Kelly was a LGBT+ activist, although I know she does a lot of charity work (didn’t she get an OBE for it?) I’ve always associated her with bland morning TV and have never paid much interest. Perhaps I’m wrong.
@Seth: rest assured, the guy is an Olympic-grade arsehole.