Hate Thy Neighbour

This show is watchable, but I cringed the whole time because the host is clearly the wrong guy for this show. Between his constant pretentious "Superman power pose", his continuous reply of "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah", and his obvious bias, I wanted to turn it off the whole time. However, because I have a genuine interest regarding these groups, rather than mocking them like the host did the entire time, I watched it.

I would have rated it higher than 3 stars if they had taken a more respectful and understanding approach regarding the subject matter rather than joke about it.

Jamali does wonders navigating through laser beams as he meets the extremist groups. His stand up and personality don't match. During his stand up he uses this "high pitched" voice. But out during the day his voice never hits that high pitch again. Saw all of one season. Wish he spoke out the same amount for each extremist group or not at all.

Jamali, is a witty guy, and like most decent people, he abhors racism. Unfortunately, his encounter with an EDL member who advises him that black people took white slaves (Ep. Britain's Evryday Extremism), is met with derision, and becomes the butt of a joke in his stand-up. Correctly there has been considerable condemnation of the African slave trade, which took place between the 16th and the 19th centuries. However, another equally evil trade in human beings was occurring around the same time in Africa. It is estimated that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary Pirates - black North African Muslim raiders and slave traders. There is an abundance of credible, scholarly information available online recounting this activity.

Jamali's heart is in the right place, and the show is worth a watch, however his lazy conflation of anti-Islamists and racists is disappointing though not unsurprising.

Look at the episodes; White supremacy., guns, nationalism etc - it's all been done years, if not decades ago by Louis Theroux.

Theroux, while not being a professional comedian is equally as funny if not more in wierd weekends, disarming and integrating himself into the community.

Hunter S Thompson invented this style of journalism called Gonzo - where the reporter becomes part of the story. He died too soon, with politics in 2024 becoming more interesting with Trump being the most interesting president since Nixon.

Jamali just seems to be dragging up old themes from Thompson and Theroux, there really is no need for this or any of his other series! Do COVID, Ukraine, Cost of Living - things that are relevant NOW.

Jamali Maddix had an amazing opportunity to bring down racism but all he ended up doing was further prompting racism throughout the show as he supported the black israelites over and over futher creating a devide, from comments joking that whites are the devil to many more. im just mad he had such an opportunity to promote peace and he ruined it.