Those who watched John Ware’s excellent and important Panorama on the extremism of British Muslim representative institutions might be interested to discover what happened next. The Muslim Council of Britain, the government’s Muslim interlocutor of choice whose moderate reputation was simply evsicerated by this programme, lodged no fewer than four letters of complaint plus a revision with the BBC. We can now see both the guts of this complaint and the BBC’s response from two items on the BBC website: a BBC news story here
and the substantive response by Panorama editor Mike Robinson here. The latter in particular is a must-read. It reveals two things: the devious and slippery nature of the MCB complaint, which time after time simply misrepresented the programme -- as all who saw it can attest - as part of an attempt to bully and intimidate the BBC; Robinson says, for example:

‘You have continued to send letters making further allegations about the integrity of Panorama journalists and to publish them on your website without waiting for a full response’

and the unusually long, detailed and utterly robust response by Mike Robinson. It repays study, if only for two reasons: a) to see yet again what we are up against and b) to be heartened by the attitude displayed by the BBC, which not only did a fine journalistic job but had the strength and courage not to buckle under pressure.