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Self-Censorship and the BBC
[Jerusalem Post] Nick Cohen - "The London Bombers" is one of the most thoroughly researched and politically important drama-documentaries commissioned by British television. A team of journalists reported to Terry Cafolla, a writer who won many awards for his dramatization of religious hatred in Belfast. The reporters spent months in Beeston, the Leeds slum where three of the four 7/7 bombers grew up, and convinced the families of three of the bombers to cooperate. Cafolla submitted five versions of the script. He was working up to a final draft when the BBC abandoned the project. BBC managers said they were stopping production because the work was "Islamophobic," arguing that a dramatic examination of terrorism would be offensive to all Muslims.