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BBC appoints Muslim to top religious post in controversial first
The BBC yesterday appointed a Muslim as its head of religious programming in a radical departure from broadcasting tradition.
The post - considered one of the most influential religious roles in the country - has gone to Aaqil Ahmed, who has been working as an executive at Channel 4.
The appointment will cause dismay among the Christian churches.
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams raised concerns over the prospect of a Muslim head of religious broadcasting during a meeting with the corporation’s director general Mark Thompson in March.
It comes at a time of deepening worries among Christian leaders that their faith is being sidelined and downgraded by authorities.
Both Dr Williams and Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu have made repeated public complaints over the indifference and occasional hostility to Christianity shown in Whitehall and from other authorities.
Last year the BBC gave the job of producing its most popular and longrunning religious programme, Songs of Praise, to a Sikh, Tommy Nagra.
The Church of England points out that 70 per cent of the population of Britain professes to be Christian, but only 3 per cent are Muslims.
An official spokesman for the CofE said: ‘We will jud
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The Future for Religious Broadcasting
Aaqil Ahmed
BBC Commissioning Editor for Religion and Head of Religion and Ethics
“Diversity of output is the future for Religious broadcasting” according to the BBC’s Head of Religion and Ethics, Aaqil Ahmed who delivered the annual World Communications Day Lecture at the Mount Street Jesuit Centre in central London last night (14 May).
The lecture was organised by the Church’s media office, the Catholic Communications Network, to celebrate World Communications Day in England and Wales. Aaqil Ahmed said:
“Our audiences are very diverse and we can’t expect to service all of them with the same output. We need to make programmes that interest the religious, the non-religious, the non-religious literate and the general viewer.” The BBC’s Head of Religion and Ethics shared his three-step strategy for ensuring that religion stays fresh and new at the BBC, addressing the big questions of the day.
He explained: “Research told me that people wanted to know more about the basics of religion, they wanted to know less about the conflict
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