L. Ron Hubbard Booklet Promoted in Israel and Palestinian Territories

Haaretz has a lengthy article on Scientology in Israel (link added):

…”The Way to Happiness: A Common-Sense Guide to Better Living” is an innocent-looking publication, with a dove and an olive branch on the cover, and 21 precepts inside: Take care of yourself, have self-control, set a good example, do not murder, don’t do anything illegal, be worthy of trust and more.

The messages are Hubbard’s, the distribution of the booklet in Israel is via the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East, which also offers free talks to children and adults. Two weeks ago the booklet was distributed in a summer camp at Kibbutz Nachsholim, which is under Education Ministry supervision…

The Education Ministry said in response that it ordered the camp closed down and that “at no stage was the booklet ‘The Way to Happiness’ authorized by anyone in the ministry.” That is not accurate.

In 2002, Limor Livnat, the education minister at the time, wrote a letter to the chairman of the association, Danny Vidislavski, congratulating him and noting that the booklet was a tool for activity and for contributing to an atmosphere of violence prevention in schools.

YNet had a bit more detail, back in June:

“A guide comes and engages the children in hour-long activities, focusing on respect and caring for others, how to treat one another, and mutual help,” explained Victoria Lischinski, director of the association’s summer camp division.

Lischinski told Ynet that these activities have been available at summer camps for four years, adding that some camps work with the association on a regular basis.

Regarding the association’s connection to the Church of Scientology, Lischinski said, “We have nothing to do with Scientology … I personally am not that connected to them and I don’t really know what Scientology is.”

Lischinski mentioned a letter of approval by former Education Minister Limor Livnat in 2001, and said she was unfamiliar with any prohibition of the association’s activities by the Education Ministry since then.

The text of the letter became news in 2002, when a parent complained about the booklet being given to his daughter at school. The school head sent it to the father:

“Greetings. This is to confirm receipt of your letter and the enclosed booklet, ‘The Way to Happiness,’ noted for its importance in educating youth about violence prevention. Violence is a scourge that must be uprooted. It does not and shall not have a place in the school system, and we will fight it tirelessly. Please accept my congratulations on this project. Yours, Limor Livnat.”

In the margins, the school principal added a “reassuring” message to the father: “Pursuant to your questions and concern, I am enclosing a recommendation from the education minister that this booklet be used as a tool for fostering an atmosphere of violence prevention. Yours, Yardena Cohen.”

Dan Vidislavski, however, denied the booklet was linked to Scientology, despite having been written by Hubbard:

“That’s correct, but so what? He also once wrote science fiction books. Are they Scientology, too?”

The new Haaretz piece has a full account of Scientology in Israel, and the religion’s recent purchase of a theatre in Jaffa:

Donors to the building project include international artist Michal Rovner, [opera singer] Gaby Sade, Dorit Gabay and her daughter and Miriam Soglowek (wife of Soglowek Industries’ shareholder and Scientologist Hanan Soglowek).

As for Hanan Soglowek:

He stepped down from management of the family business in Shlomi seven years ago, after being accused of pressuring employees to join the Church of Scientology. He denied the allegations at the time. At about the same time, he distributed 2,800 copies of Hubbard’s “The Way to Happiness” to Jewish and Arab residents of the Galilee, explaining that the booklet was known for its conciliatory virtues: He credited the publication with improving the situation in Kosovo.

Vidislavski picked up the baton; an undated report from the Scientology Freedom website has further details:

“When the Palestinian uprising started, I was at a barbecue with friends…Right then, I decided that we needed to distribute 20,000 The Way to Happiness booklets to Arabs living in Israel — not in the Palestinian areas, as we couldn’t travel there. But there are many Arabs living in Israel too…There was a problem though: We had no Arabic translation of the booklet. I found out that a translation had been started in Italy. We got a hold of the translation and then contacted a Bedouin who lives in a tent. Astonishingly, he had no electric lights but he had a laptop. He finished the translation for us in a few days. We found an Israeli who could print in Arabic. Within a week of the start of the Intifada, we had printed 20,000 copies of The Way to Happiness booklet…An Arab DJ got a copy of the booklet and read it on the radio. He read one chapter a day for 21 days. Within a few weeks, we distributed all 20,000 booklets.

“In contrast to the Israeli Arabs, the Palestinian Arabs — those outside Israel — turned to violence,” he noted.

The same report tells us that

Joan Lonstein…, founder of the Association for Peace and Understanding in the Middle East (APUME), has joined forces with Zeinab Habash…of the Palestinian Ministry of Education, and like-minded Israeli and Arab humanitarians, to make The Way to Happiness available in Israeli newspapers (1), in shopping hubs (2), on the streets (3), at university campuses (4) and in the markets (5).

Habash gushed over the book’s virtues at the 2003 grand opening of The Way to Happiness Foundation International:

As General Secretary of Education, I tried to find ways to help my children face this horrible situation.

I formed a special committee from related personnel to produce an action plan for improving education.

The Way to Happiness, this thin and amazing book, attracted me like a magnet. It reflects my own beliefs. It speaks of equality, justice, freedom, peace, tolerance, and good behavior.

It gives hope to anyone and everyone, of any faith.

When I later saw how it helped improve the political situation in other countries, I became even more determined to distribute the booklet to all Palestinians.

…That is why I am very proud that the Ministry’s Committee on Improving Education has directed all school counselors to teach the Palestinian children using The Way to Happiness.

A second report adds that

With the help of these and grants from the International Association of Scientologists, in the last three years, the Association has distributed more than 1.5 million The Way to Happiness booklets to Palestinians and Israelis…. Public opinion surveys conducted by Hebrew University and a Palestinian research center have found that as the booklets are distributed, public support for peace builds among both Israelis and Palestinians.

Scientology is not the only new religious movement which has targeted Israelis and Palestinians in the name of promoting peace; a few months ago Rev Moon’s Middle East Peace Initiative announced a Cultural Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the area.

(Hat tip: Cult News Network)

Private Eye: Police Complaint over Documentary “a Stunt”

CPS admits to having no details about allegations

Police account differs from that of Ofcom

The latest Private Eye magazine (1191, p. 8) has an article on the decision by West Midlands police to refer the makers of a television documentary to Ofcom, the UK television regulator. As was widely blogged a few days ago, the documentary had uncovered evidence of extreme Islamist sentiments being expressed in (or on videos for sale at) a Birmingham mosque, and the police and Crown Prosecution Service had subsequently investigated. Rather unexpectedly, they announced that the documentary had “distorted” the speakers they had featured in the programme, who were shown expressing views such as this:

…No one loves the kuffaar! Not a single person here from the Muslims loves the kuffaar. Whether those kuffaar are from the UK or from the US. We love the people of Islam and we hate the people of kuffaar. We hate the kuffaar!

Another speaker made joking pig-snorting sounds as he suggested all Jews should be killed.

Now the Eye gives a bit more context to the police complaint:

Had [Assistant Chief Constable Anil] Patani bothered to check the CPS website beforehand he’d have realised that, under the legislation governing Ofcom, complaints about unfairness can only come from “the person affected”…the “formal complaint” looks like a non-starter. It appears to be little more than a publicity stunt.

Further:

The Eye asked the West Midlands police why they hadn’t read the rules before lodging the complaint. A spokeswoman told us that they had “liaised” with Ofcom in advance…But this true?

“No,” said an Ofcom spokeswoman… “We certainly didn’t.”

The police also told the Eye that the formal complaint to Ofcom came jointly from themselves and the CPS. Again, this turns out to be untrue. But the confusion is understandable, since Bethan David of the CPS certainly aided and abetted the stunt.

The Eye also asked the CPS for evidence that the sanguinary views of the Islamist speakers had been taken out of context. Reply:

“We don’t go into that level of detail.”

The report ends by noting that the documentary-makers are considering suing for libel. I drew attention to this possibility a few days ago; in 2002 journalist Donal MacIntyre won a libel action against Kent Police in similar circumstances. He received £15,000 damages and reportedly £650,000 in costs.

WorldNetDaily Revises Chuck Norris Column on Bible Syllabus

Wording changed in wake of lawsuit over Bible class in public schools

Mr Chuck Norris, Bible scholar

At Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton has been keeping a close watch on the upcoming trial in Odessa, Texas, over the use in schools of the National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools (NCBCPS), a fundamentalist project which, as I wrote about on this blog a while back, is completely devoid of serious scholarly input and which promotes the work of pseudo-scholars like David Barton. The syllabus is now the subject of a lawsuit over the issue of church-state separation. On August 12 Ed wrote that:

The NCBCPS is now featuring a column by Chuck Norris pushing their curriculum, originally published in the Worldnutdaily, right on their front page (and yes, I have it archived; as the trial gets closer, it will almost certainly disappear). In the column Norris, who is on the advisory board of the NCBCPS, declares that this curriculum is “Your first step to get God back into your public school.”

And sure enough, that’s what happened. But even more interestingly, WorldNetDaily has now followed suit in an effort to help the NCBCPS.

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Israeli Right Woos Japanese Christian Zionists

From the Jerusalem Post:

A group of Israeli politicians and academics on Monday sought the support of Japan’s small but influential Christian community, part of an increasingly global Judeo-Christian alliance against radical Islam.

This was the fourth annual “Jerusalem Summit Asia”, an initiative of the Jerusalem Summit, which involves evangelical Christians, neo-Conservatives, and Israeli right-wingers – and which is financed by a controverisal Russian-Israeli billionaire.

According to the Post, the Tokyo summit was held in a Diet-owned building, and it brought together

…Israeli Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, lawmakers from the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus and conservative Israeli academics and thinkers together with Japan’s tiny but growing evangelical Christian community…

Among those present were MKs Gideon Sa’ar and Benny Elon, the far-right former tourist minister who supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and who is particularly popular among right-wing American Christians. The rhetoric was predictable: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply about radical Islamism, which should be opposed by a “Judeo-Christian alliance”. Elon boasted that

…the decision to enlist the support of Japanese Christians in the struggle against Islamic extremism followed marked success in working with the evangelical Christian community in other Asian countries, including the Philippines and South Korea, which, along with Singapore, had hosted such conferences in the past.

The “Jerusalem Summit” also targets Africa, and I blogged on a Cape Town event last year. As I noted then, its first session, in 2003, featured “Richard Perle, Senator Sam Brownback, Congressman Eliot Engel, Prof. Daniel Pipes, Amb. Alan Keyes, Cal Thomas, Benjamin Netanyahu and Uzi Landau.” The organisation believes that “the accepted version of the Palestinian narrative…must be branded as devoid of any legitimacy” (a toned-down re-formulation: the website used to say that “the entire Palestinian narrative must be discredited and de-legitimized as a historical hoax”), and it wants to organise financial inducements to persuade Palestinians to relocate to other countries.

The executive director is Dmitry Radyshevsky, and funding comes from Michael Cherney; Radyshevsky is a former head of the Michael Cherney Foundation. Cherney has been accused of links with the Russian mafia, which he and his supporters strenuously deny. Radyshevsky is also on the advisory board of the American Center for Democracy, alongside Richard Pearle. Speaking in Tokyo, Radyshevsky

urged Christians and Jews to unite “politically and spiritually” in the face of radical Islam, which he called “the reincarnation of fascism and Nazism.”

“Jews and Christians are one tree, with the Jews forming the roots and the Christians the branches; when it is united it is unbreakable,” he said.

The Post doesn’t tell us anything about the Japanese Christians who met the delegation, but it’s likely to have included Kenichi Nakagawa, who runs Harvest Times Ministries. Harvest Time is the largest televangelist organisation in the country, and Nakagawa is a strong supporter of Israel and Zionism.

(Cross-posted to Talk to Action)

Russian Governor Accuses US Secret Service of Using Religion as Cover

The latest headline from Interfax:

An American secret service officer exposed on the staff of a religious organization in Tula

However, the report that follows fails to identity who the supposed “secret service officer” was, which organisation he was supposedly working for, or even what the evidence is. Instead, all we have is an assertion from the governor of Tula that this is indeed the case, and for the hacks of Interfax – who invariably follow the Kremlin line – that’s all that’s needed:

An active officer of the US intelligence has been exposed in an abroad-based religious organization acting in Tula, the press secretary of the Tula diocese, Valery Otstavnykh, had informed Interfax on Thursday.

He said the Tula Governor Vyacheslav Dudka has stated it during a recent conference.

A tediously predictable church quote follows:

‘For many years we have been pointing to the destructive impact that totalitarian sects and cults make on not only individuals and society but also on the state. Well-known Russian Orthodox Church researchers of sects warned society long ago that totalitarian sects and cults became politicized, eager to get into power bodies…In the course of the conference, the governor also spoke of the expansion of religious preachers from the USA, noting that destructive sects carried out their activity under the cover of charities and that their activity not only did mental damage to people but also undermined the state security as foreign missionaries sought to persuade Russian citizens into refusing to participate in elections and army service.’

The Russian Orthodox Church takes the line that any of its competitors are “totalitarian”, and that the state should be used to suppress them; this complements Russian nationalist hostility against “foreign” religions.

But who is Dudka? Details in English are scarce. A March 2005 report notes that

A local duma of Tula District accepted a new gouvernor [sic] Viacheslav Dudka nominated by Vladimir Putin. Dudka is an engeneer [sic] who had been employed in a military complex so far.

Soon after, he received a medal at a military commemoration:

On September the 21-st, on the holiday of birth of God’s Mother and 625-th anniversary of victory of Russian army on Kulikovo field, His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexii II headed the holy liturgy process at St. Sergiy Radonezhskiy temple-monument on the Red hill on Kulikovo field.

…Russian Orthodox Church Primate awarded Tula region governor Vyacheslav Dudka with the order of the holy prince Dimitriy Donskoy, II degree. Then Tula regions squadrons marched past. 

UK Documentary on Islamic Extremism Accused of Distortion: Police Complain to Ofcom

Police also considered prosecution under Public Order Act

A press release from the UK Crown Prosecution Service (link added):

West Midlands Police have completed their investigation into the Channel 4 Dispatches programme ‘Undercover Mosque‘ broadcast in January 2007.

The police investigation initially looked at whether there had been any criminal offences committed by those featured in the programme and following careful consideration by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), West Midlands Police have been advised that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges against those individuals featured within the programme.

However:

[Assistant Chief Constable] Anil Patani for West Midlands Police said: “As a result of our initial findings, the investigation was then extended to include issues relating to the editing and portrayal of the documentary.

“The priority for West Midlands Police has been to investigate the documentary and it’s making with as much rigour as the extremism the programme sought to portray”.

A lawyer for the CPS, Bethan David, reviewed 56 hours of footage and concluded that the programme had supposedly “distorted” material gathered for the programme from Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque, which has a public reputation for moderation but which has come under the baneful influence of Saudi Arabia:

The CPS was also asked by the police to consider whether a prosecution under the Public Order Act 1986 should be brought against Channel 4 for broadcasting a programme including material likely to stir up racial hatred. Miss David advised West Midlands Police that on the evidence available, there was insufficient evidence that racial hatred had been stirred up as a direct consequence of the programme. It would also be necessary to identify a key individual responsible for doing this together with an intent to stir up racial hatred, which was not possible.

So instead, the police have decided to complain about the programme to Ofcom, the UK television regulator. The commissioning editor from Channel 4, though, is bullish:

Kevin Sutcliffe, commissioning editor for Dispatches, said West Midlands police had produced no evidence to support their claims.

“We find it extraordinary that they have gone public on these concerns without discussing them with us first,” he said…”All the speakers featured in the film were offered a right to reply and none denied making these comments, nor have any of them complained to Ofcom to our knowledge.”

Indeed. There have been some dodgy programmes on Islam on British TV – last November Newsnight ran a piece on Hizb ut Tahrir that relied heavily (as I blogged at the time) on a weird and secretive group that had an anti-Islamic agenda – but the Dispatches programme was responsible and balanced. Of course it brought joy to the anti-Muslim right, but the blame for that lies with the extremists, not those who filmed and exposed them.

This is not the first time that the UK police have responded to a TV documentary with an investigation, only to turn on the documentary-maker instead. In 1999 Donal MacIntyre went undercover for a programme about the abuse of adults with learning disabilities in care homes in Kent; when the subsequent police investigation floundered, they accused McIntyre of wasting police time. MacIntyre sued for libel, and won.

(Hat tip: MediaWatchWatch)

US Defense Dept-Approved Org Sends Arabic Evangelising Materials to Iraq

Arabic Josh McDowell Book Given to Soldiers

Max Blumenthal introduces us to Jonathan Spinks, kickboxing champion and evangelist who (helped by Stephen Baldwin) runs “Operation Straight Up“, which provides entertainment for serving US soldiers. Blumenthal directs us to an American Forces Press Service report:

OSU Tour is one of the newest members of the Defense Department’s America Supports You program, which connects citizens and corporations with members of the military and their families at home and abroad. Spinks said he expects to include the America Supports You banner on stage during performances.

…The entertainment provided by OSU Tour is diverse and includes sports personalities, comedians, actors, and even the Flying Wallendas and their death-defying feats on the high wire. Those appearing on behalf of OSU Tour present wholesome, family-oriented entertainment that’s also of interest to single men and women, Spinks said.

…”We obviously are very interested in going to Iraq,” Spinks said. “They’ve been encouraging us to go to Germany, which we’re also working on.”

That was back in April; Spinks’ website now boasts of an upcoming “Military Crusade in Iraq”, and various initiatives including the mailing of “Freedom Packets” of religious materials to soldiers serving in the country. These include, as Blumenthal notes, Josh McDowell’s More than a Carpenter – although it seems that more than just soldiers are being targeted here:

…We can only hope that since the book is double printed on the reverse side in the Arabic language that it will indeed influence the nations overseas as well.

Also in the packets is a video game: none other than the controversial Left Behind: Eternal Forces, based on Tim LaHaye’s apocalyptic novels in which the anti-Christ takes over the United Nations. The game has been accused of containing a level of violence unbecoming in a Christian product.

Blumenthal’s report comes days after the release of a report by the Defense Department’s inspector general that recommends disciplinary action against several members of the military for appearing in uniform in a promotional video for an evangelical organisation.

Cambridge University Press Agrees to Pulp Book on Terrorist Financing

A press release from the website of UK law firm Kendall Freeman:

…Saudi businessman Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz has accepted a comprehensive apology together with substantial damages from well known publishers Cambridge University Press in settlement of a libel action following publication of a 2006 book Alms for Jihad, it was announced in the High Court in London today.

Sheikh Khalid, for many years Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank, commenced libel proceedings against the Cambridge University Press following the publication of Alms for Jihad, which made a series of allegations including that Sheikh Khalid and his family had supported Osama Bin Laden and funded terrorist activities. In today’s hearing at the High Court before Mr Justice Eady, the company accepted that there was no truth whatsoever in any of these allegations…Cambridge University Press is taking the almost unprecedented step of pulping all unsold copies of the Book and writing to over 200 libraries worldwide which carry the book telling them of the settlement and asking them to withdraw the book from their shelves. The company will be publishing a detailed apology on its website, and paying substantial damages as well as making a contribution to Sheikh Khalid’s legal costs…

Bin Mahfouz has won several cases along these lines recently; US conservative author Rachel Ehrenfeld was sued in the UK, and her publisher Bonus Books has produced a press release of its own denouncing the CUP’s capitulation:

…In a similar attempt to halt the distribution of such claims, Bin Mahfouz also filed a libel action in British courts against Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, after Bonus Books published her 2003 book FUNDING EVIL: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, also alleged Bin Mahfouz of backing organizations with alleged ties to terrorism, a charge that Mahfouz, formerly president of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, continues to deny. But Ehrenfeld stands behind her research, and publisher Stern stands by his author.

“I find it utterly appalling that any publisher—let alone one with the history and perceived credibility of Cambridge University Press—would allow themselves to be bullied into making such a decision,” Stern said.

Ehrenfeld’s right-wing supporters – such one quoted at Hot Air – claim that progressives have ignored the case because she takes a tough line against jihadists; however, bin Mahfouz’s previous targets in the UK include the left-wing Pluto Press, which agreed to drop Michael Griffin’s Reaping the Whirlwind. UK and Swiss courts were also recently used by bin Mahfouz against the French authors of a book entitled The Forbidden Truth. The Arab News reported the reaction of Saudi businessmen:

“Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Saudi and Muslim businessmen have been under intense attack from upstart Western writers who, passing themselves off as international terrorism financing experts, have been dishing out all kinds of nonsense in the name of journalism. This verdict will serve as a kind of deterrent to would-be mudslingers and character-assassins,” said an ecstatic Jeddah-based businessman. “We can fight back and we should.”

Some businessmen interviewed yesterday by Arab News said Saudis usually avoid going to court for fear of inviting negative publicity — even when grave allegations are leveled against them. The perception is that court proceedings can be lengthy and invite the scrutiny of the media, which often is prone to mudslinging. In such cases truth becomes the first casualty.

In 2004, Random House subsidiary Secker and Warburg decided to act pre-emptively and declined to publish a UK edition of Craig Unger’s House of Bush, House of Saud.

The CUP’s decision is not the first time that a UK academic press has decided to withdraw a book from circulation as a result of legal threats. Ten years ago the SPCK published a book of sociological essays entitled Harmful Religion: Studies in Religious Abuse. One of the groups included in the book was an Amish-like Christian community called the Bruderhof, which threatened to sue – the SPCK agreed to sell all copies of the book to them, and not to reprint it. That story is told here.

Dutch TV Station Censors Evolution from British Nature Progs; did BBC Collude?

I’m a few days late with this; from Dutch News (link added)

Religious TV station EO on Monday defended its editing of wildlife documentaries to remove references to evolution.

Director Henk Hagoort told Trouw that editing was normal in bought-in programmes. ‘That also happens in drama series if, for example, there is a lot of swearing’.

On Saturday it emerged that the BBC documentary Life of Mammals by David Attenborough had been edited, and one entire programme scrapped because of its focus on evolution.

EO is “Evangelische Omroep”, or “Evangelical Broadcast“; although a religious TV station, it is also the country’s largest public broadcaster. Details in English are scarce, but blog Greene’s Insite gives us a window on some of the reports:

What a let-down, then, to read in my favourite morning paper, that the EO has admitted to editing out from their radio and TV offerings – especially nature films and documentaries – any material that might be construed as supporting the notion of evolution. In fact, the mere mention of the word may set the censor’s scissors a-snippin’. This came to light when a lecturer at Utrecht University (subject: evolutionary biology) compared a series of nature films by David Attenborough in versions shown by the BBC, the Belgian TV station Canvas and the EO. The lecturer in question, Gerdien de Jong, found that, while the others broadcast the films in their entirety, the EO consistently removed any footage that might cast doubt on the biblical conviction that man was created by god. Also, the texts of voice-overs sometimes differed from those in the original version. Not very ethical, you’d say, but EO director Henk Hagoort is unrepentant: “We’ve been ‘adapting’ nature films since we started”, he says, “It’s no secret. We don’t believe that man descends from monkeys.” But is it right to deny viewers access to evolutionary theories? “I had to laugh when I heard that”, Hagoort says, “We don’t shirk the debate on evolution. We once broadcast a panel discussion on the subject of ‘Adam Or Ape?’ But we’re certainly not going to champion evolution theories in nature films.”

According to Hagoort in Dutch News,

“the decision not to buy the one episode which focused on evolution had been discussed with the BBC”

But what about the other editing? The Hague Online offers a clue, but its report lacks clarity:

…He said that the changes had been agreed with the BBC. The BBC was not aware of this, but said that cuts were permissible as long as the essential character of the programme remained unchanged.

Dropping references to evolution not only undermines the integrity of Attenborough’s documentaries – it helps to promote fundamentalist claims that there is no real evidence for evolutionary biology. If the BBC has agreed to this, it is a gross betrayal of its remit. The blog Waffle adds the point that

by selling exclusive rights to the series to a broadcaster that cuts out references to evolution, they have effectively prevented the uncut series being shown by another broadcaster. That way, the EO can effectively censor the series for the general public.

The author also suggests that EO has been attempting to become more professional in recent years (“they have come a long way since the days when they classed dinosaurs with fairytale animals in their quiz shows”), and that many of those within the organisation will be less than pleased with Hagoort’s explanation.

(Hat tip: The Pagan Prattle. Comparative clips of the British original and the Dutch censored version can be seen at Cloggie)