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| Drama as BBC bans terror script |
| 2007-08-19 |
 The BBC has abandoned plans to screen a fictional terrorist attack by Muslim suicide bombers in the primetime drama Casualty after internal clashes over whether the highly sensitive subject matter would cause offence.| Not as much offense as the actual kabooms caused. But Beebs saw fit to ignore that. |
A source close to next month's new series of Casualty, the long-running BBC1 hospital drama, said that it was to start with a two-part special in which a young Muslim runs into a bus station and blows himself up. Another Muslim is wearing a suicide vest but fails to detonate it; instead he is injured and the vest has to be carefully removed. The source said that senior figures in the drama department supported the idea but were blocked by editorial guideline staff, who oversee the corporation's editorial and ethical standards. The drama staff were overruled because of concerns that the story would perpetuate stereotypes of young Muslims in Britain.| Who else in Britain has self-detonated on public transporation? Name one other group. If only one bunch does it, it's not a stereotype; it's a characteristic. |
| The link details a different movie about a suicide bomber being produced by Channel Four. |
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