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1)
NEW!
Lessons
in hate found at leading mosques - October 30, 2007
2)
The Telegraph and readers do not like BBC
News. Read article and many readers’ comments
Terror victims are BBC licence-payers,
too - August 20, 2007
3)
The BBC Can Not Possibly Spy Against
British Troops! Or Can It? -
June 20, 2007
4)
The BBC -edits news to fit its political agenda? - 8 April 2007:
5)
An Insight into AUNTIE's
Thought Control
(It doesn't speak well of the BBC
that lack of terrorism gets him so down)
6)
Where is
7)
8)
Anti-Israel 'Spookes'
in BBC ('Biased Bigotry Corporation') &
Take-A-Pen Letter-Writing Call
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1)
Lessons in hate found at leading mosques
From
October 30, 2007
Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain
indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of
Some of the fundamentalist works were found at the bookshop in the London
Central mosque in Regent's Park, which is funded by the Saudi regime and is
regularly visited by government ministers. Its director, Ahmad al-Dubayan, is also a Saudi diplomat and was among those
greeting King Abdullah when he arrived in
Extremist literature, including passages supporting the stoning of adulterers and waging violent jihad, was also found on sale at many other mosques regarded as mainstream institutions.
More than 80 books and pamphlets were collected during a year-long project
in which researchers visited 100 mosques across
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One book, Fatawa Islamiyah,
which urges the execution of apostates, was found in bookshops at Regent's Park
mosque and at the huge
The researchers said that they found further controversial works during
visits to mosques in
The Times has learnt that five of the books that were acquired by
researchers had been also found in searches during Scotland Yard antiterrorist
investigations since 2001. About half of the books collected were in English –
raising questions about the emphasis placed by the Government in combating
extremism by training more English-speaking imams. The other publications were
in Arabic or Urdu. The report, The Hijacking of British Islam, is published by
the conservative Policy Exchange
think-tank and was written by Denis MacEoin, a Fellow
at
The researchers found hardline material at a quarter of the 100 mosques visited during the project.
The report said: "On the one hand, the results were reassuring: in only a minority of institutions – approximately 25 per cent – was radical material found.
"What is more worrying is that these are among the best-funded and most dynamic institutions in Muslim Britain – some of which are held up as mainstream bodies. Many of the institutions featured here have been endowed with official recognition."
A key theme of the books was a "strident sectarianism" which told Muslims that they should remain separate from other faiths and resist integration. The report stated: "Simply put, these notions demand that the individual Muslim must not merely feel deep affection for and identity with his fellow believers and with all that is authentically Islamic. The individual Muslim must also feel an abhorrence for nonbelievers, hypocrites, heretics, and all that is deemed 'unIslamic'. The latter category encompasses those Muslims who are judged to practise an insufficiently rigorous form of Islam." Most books stopped short of calling for violence. But they created a climate of intolerance and contempt for non-Muslims that could be exploited by violent jihadists, the researchers said.
The report called for a radical overhaul of
Regent's Park mosque said that the bookshop on its premises was run by a private company. Yunes Teniaz, of the London Central Mosque Trust, told The Times: "The bookshop is franchised to a separate organisation. These books express their authors' opinions and not those of the London Central Mosque Trust."
Inayat Bunglawala, the MCB assistant secretary-general, said: "Bookshops sell a variety of publications and we live in an open, democratic society where it is not illegal to sell books which contain antiWestern views."
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2)
The Telegraph and readers do not like BBC
News.
Read
article and many interesting comments.
You can easily add yours
Terror victims are BBC licence-payers, too
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/20/dl2001.xml
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Updated: 12:01am BST 20/08/2007
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Over the
weekend, the BBC was forced to remove a highly offensive message about Jesus
from its website. All websites run the risk of being defaced by extremists,
but why had this message been allowed to remain there for a week, despite
complaints? Anti-Muslim
comments vanish instantly. Meanwhile, it emerged yesterday that the BBC has
refused to allow Casualty to carry a storyline featuring a terrorist attack
by a Muslim suicide bomber. The editorial guidelines department decreed that,
instead, the terrorists should be animal rights extremists. The BBC's
coverage of Islamic affairs has been unsatisfactory for many years. In its international
and domestic news reporting, the corporation has consistently come across as
naïve and partial, rather than sensitive and unbiased. In its
international and domestic news reporting, the corporation has consistently
come across as naïve and partial, rather than sensitive and unbiased. Its reporting of In its
coverage of British Muslims, the BBC has been inspired by two laudable aims:
to treat their beliefs respectfully; and to avoid stereotyping ordinary
Muslims as terrorist supporters. In the process, however, it has done two
rather different things. First, it
has presented Islam on its own terms, as if only Muslims had the authority to
describe their religion. Mohammed remains an intensely controversial figure.
Yet the BBC shies away from proper historical investigation of "the
Prophet", as it insists on calling him. One of the biggest news
stories of the decade: the penetration
of Muslim youth by Islamic supremacist groups. Indeed, the BBC has even helped this to
happen. Second, the
BBC has only scratched the surface of one of the biggest news stories of the
decade: the penetration of Muslim youth by Islamic supremacist groups. Indeed, the
corporation has even helped this to happen. Again and
again, it has wheeled on Islamic "moderates" who belong to
hard-line sects that real moderate Muslims are desperate to stop their
children joining. It has been
left to Channel 4 to conduct undercover investigations in radical mosques and
to commission a 2007 GFK/NOP opinion poll revealing that almost a quarter of
British Muslims believe that the Government helped stage the London bombings
of July 7, 2005. We live in a world in
which, although the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists, We live in a
world in which, although the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists, the
vast majority of terrorists are Muslim. Younger BBC programme-makers
are aware of this awkward fact; the problem lies with an older generation of
executives stuck in a PC timewarp. Casualty is
fiction, but that is no excuse for constructing a politically acceptable
parallel universe. To ban a storyline featuring Islamic terrorists not only misrepresents reality; it is also an insult to licence-payers whose family, friends or colleagues were blown to pieces on July 7 - and not by animal rights activists. |
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"We should all refuse to pay our licences"
Absolutely! I have not paid for over twenty years. If you have no TV they
cannot even fine you (they cannot jail you because there are no empty cells)
throw the damn TV out (ok recycle it). There are plenty of better news sources
and better entertainment elsewhere.
Hit them in both licence fees and ratings.
Posted by Captain Boycott on August 20, 2007 11:27 PM
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Shockingly the FREEDOM ofthe PRESS is disappearing throughout Planet Earth and as
shocking is that "Quislings" are intent upon the
"Liquidation" of the BBC News.
yrs. etc. Isabel Witty ChCh.NZ
ESP/Telepathy/(!970s-2007) NZ Downunder.
"GOD WOT" !
Posted by Isabel Witty on August 20, 2007 10:23 PM
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The BBC has always had a soft spot
for terrorist organisatons that bomb and threaten teh
Posted by K Monaghan,
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Ugh, the person attempting the
moral crusade about 'Christian and Jewish terrorists' really needs a vocab check, what we didnt in
I agree that we need to solve the problem in the middle east, but you cannot
sit there and self righteously defend the Muslims who perpetrated the heinous
attacks in London and New York among others by hiding in the guise of a
'victim' who claims that is exonerated by what we did in iraq.
Dont forget what you should have learned when you
were younger! Two wrongs dont make a right! Yes
you're a victim... but not of terrorism. The majority of terrorists ARE muslims.. face
it!
Posted by A. Smith on August 20, 2007 9:40 PM
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And this is one more story that
the beeb
or even the Telegraph didn't publish last weekend.
Read it and weep!
link
Posted by Simon on August 20, 2007 7:07 PM
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I've said it before and will say
it again: at least Lord Haw Haw had the common
decency to take his funding from the enemy.
Posted by mike mines on August 20, 2007 6:35 PM
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The messages concerning the nature
of Jesus's parenthood seemed quite reasonable to me.
Since I don't believe in gods, spirits, ghosts (holy or otherwise) faries, etc. then, if fact Jesus was not Joseph's son then
the B**tard word is appropriate if not politically
correct these days.
Posted by CR on August 20, 2007 6:33 PM
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"Over the weekend, the BBC
was forced to remove a highly offensive message about Jesus from its
website."
Is this a message that alleged that Jeus was a
bastard child? If so - so what, and offensive to whom?
It seemed perfectly OK (if abysmally stupid) for the established (Western)
churches to label (until very recently) all children born out of wedlock as
"bastards"; if that is fine, then there cannot be any offence in also
labelling the (so-called) 'Son of God' similarly, if
the popular Biblical claim (that Jesus was born of a virgin's womb) is to be
believed (and I don't believe it).
As far as I am concerned, all and any religions should be equally liable to
ridicule from any secularly-thinking individual or organisation
- including the BBC.
As to the inclusion of pro-Zionist propaganda - "In its international and
domestic news reporting, the corporation (i.e. BBC) has consistently come
across as naïve and partial, rather than sensitive and unbiased....while
never giving Israel the benefit of the doubt." who was it who wrote this
article? Perhaps he/she/they is/are equally afraid to stand up and be counted?
Posted by Joseph White on August 20, 2007 6:05 PM
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I wonder if ITV will be
broadcasting a programme, narrated again by Melvin
Bragg, about why Christians deny Mohammed was a prophet, and that Christians belive that those who follow Mohammed will notbe entering Heaven?
Posted by gryff on August 20, 2007 5:21 PM
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WE are all,or nearly all of us agreed that the NHS, our schools
and our transport system are of real public utility. We debate endlessly about
the best way to organise and fund them for the best
results. The BBC is like them a tax funded body and subject to no real debate
as to it's utility or funding. The present troubles
merely serve to highlight this anomaly. Persuading the BBC to be more
evenhanded is a waste of time. Parliament should legislate to reduce the licence tax by 20% per year until it is zero. The BBC will
then have to fund itself as any other entertainment business does. Bias or
otherwise will become irrelevant as the taxpayer will not be funding it. A tax
burden on the people will be removed. The BBC can then be set free to
propagandize to it's hearts content. I can see no
logical reason against this.
Posted by D.Smith on August 20, 2007 5:02 PM
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ESP/Telepathy/1970s-2007 (R.I.Witty NZ)
Shaitan is to Muslims what Lucifer is to the Christians .....
Don't blame the BBC which is honest in its reportings
of Global affairs despite the doubts of unbelievers and infidels. Have a happy
day......
Posted by Isabel Witty on August 20, 2007 4:18 PM
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Niki, try and get hold of a copy of The Lords of the Atlas,
published I believe about 40+ years ago. I cannot remember the authors name but
I purchased it when I was running a library at an RAF station. It really shows
what the Arabs are like
Posted by Bomberon Onrus,
SA on August 20, 2007 3:20 PM
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"I'd like to see them wear the hijab, stop
drinking and have the self discipline to pray to Allah five times a day with
their bums in the air."
I work near the BBC,and one thing is for sure, if
they all stuck their bums in the air at the same time, there would be no room
left in London for the rest of us
Posted by D.Keane on August 20, 2007 3:10 PM
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Talking of the Muslim/Media
interface, here’s an example of blatant Muslim hypocrisy (the following is pure
fact so you can all check this out for yourselves). I work for a company making
receivers that are able to tune-in to European satellites. One of the most
popular of these is ‘Hotbird’, a satellite serving
Southwest Europe and the
Posted by Pat Viliors on August 20, 2007 3:08 PM
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I am not in the least bothered by
the BBC allowing derogatory comments about Jesus, my mother, Uncle Tom Cobbly and all.
What incenses me is that they will not allow any comment even remotely critical
of the one protected minority in our society today. and
I don't mean homosexuals, but those who openly declare that, among other
things, Jews and homosexuals should be put to death.
The big problem, however, is that this is not the exclusive failing of the BBC.
No, indeed, here at the Telegraph web-site I have posted innumerable comments
about almost everything, including, probably, Jesus, my mother, Uncle Tom Cobbly and all...but most of the more difficult statements
of fact that I have pointed out about Islam have never been allowed to appear.
Personally, I will never visit a BBC web-site. For what is the point of reading
only comments by the kind of Muppets of whom the BBC approve.
My fear, however, is that the Telegraph web-site is perhaps sliding down the
same slippery slope.
The slippery slope in question being that defined by
Franco-Turkish historian of Islam, Bat Y'Or as "Dhimmitude". Historically,
that relationship which has existed in every society of the past in which
Muslims have been alloweed to assert themselves.
The relationship in which neighbours
and hosts of Muslims are subordinate in status. A
condition which takes root where, to begin with, Islam and Muslims are
automatically exempt from criticism simply for fear of offending someone.
Lets not get all het up over
comments others make. Lets champion the right to say
anything, about Jesus, Mohammed or indeed my mother, irrespective of who it offends.
Posted by Tom Dixon on August 20, 2007 2:48 PM
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From a victim of Chritian terrorism in Iraq
Dear Sir, you state that "although the vast majority of Muslims are not
terrorists, the vast majority of terrorists are Muslim ". This is not true
if you consider what the Christian terrorists did in
From a victim of Chritian and Jewish terrorism in
Iraq
Posted by Y.Ubaidi on August 20, 2007 1:54 PM
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Aisling Nua 10:55
Everyone at the BBC should read your wonderful post.
All I can add is, having travelled and lived in muslim countries, I found the people in fear of their own
co-religionists and basically miserable , unhappy
individuals, except when they escape their religion.
One thing you can say definitely about Islam, it certainly isn't
life-enhancing.
Posted by andrew cramb on August 20, 2007 1:37 PM
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Burim 10:00
Not sure I would quite go as far as comparing Tony Blair with Alexander the Great !
Posted by andrew cramb on August 20, 2007 1:32 PM
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I think that all True Brits should
seriously consider organising a BBC license fee
strike. The basis for this should be " no
taxation without representation". The BBC stopped representing them a long
way back.
Posted by QED on August 20, 2007 1:25 PM
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I have often aired my opinions of
the BBC (biased, anti-British, abolish the license fee, etc) but thier appeasement to all things muslim is truly something terrible to behold.
There is simple and utter appeasement to Muslims by the liberal media which is
led by the BBC. All of this is rather strange since and Islamic state is the
complete abnd utter opposite of a liberal and
tolerant society which these do-gooders want to live in.
Perhaps knocking your own way of life and religion (because we're in the
majority in our own country) is what passes for impartiality these days.
They will miss this way of life should the Islamiscists
gain control in
Let us regain control of our borders, monitor mosques and deport trouble
makers.
Well, I can dream can't I!
(Join the telegraph Niki and do its job!)
Posted by Richard I on August 20, 2007 1:09 PM
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The BBC is unashamedly biased
towards the Left, and craven towards Muslim "sensitivity".
Its permanent support for virtually anything that is against the
Picking out just a couple of general examples,its
anti-USA and mocking of Bush, one-sided pushing of the theory and view of
"Global warming" being Man-made, without argument, are symptomatic of
the entrenched Left-wing core of editors and journalists.
Posted by Paul Butler on August 20, 2007 12:39 PM
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I have complained before about
contributors taking the name of Jesus in vain and the BBC responded by refusing
to remove the article. The BBC is disgracefully biased and surely the time has
come to stop funding this organisation from the licence fee.
Posted by Matt on August 20, 2007 12:39 PM
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I agee
with Andy C.Make the the
BBC a subscriber only organisation and get rid of
this horrible government poll tax we all have to pay for a bunch of left wing looneys having a laugh at our expence.
Posted by Robert Boyd on August 20, 2007 12:28 PM
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Speaking as a Jew, I have to
laugh. One of the Muslims' many reasons for being so angry with
For further evidence of how untrue that is, tune in to any episode of Question
Time. On it you will be guaranteed to hear a question denigrating
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REPLY TO THE COMMENT OF MR. GEOFF
MILLER
Definitely i couldn't hold my breath.....
I couldn't be that brave and not to reply to the comment of Mr. Geoff Miller.
Among others he wrote "The horrors of the Balkans and the torment of the
Serbian people should be known."
Only people such are morons can think that in ballkans
serbians were tormented. Have you forgoten
Srebrenica where Serbian - ORTHODOXS massacred 8 000 muslims in three days, and killed 200 000-250 000 muslims overall in Bosnian war.
How come you may forget one of the latest disaster
that occurred in the heart of
Just reminding that ORTHODOXS massacred MUSLIMS.
How come none of the reader5s dare to enlighten this fact.
While criticising muslims all of you try to hide your sins and pretend
being perfect.
It ain't like that.....
Posted by burim on August 20, 2007 12:06 PM
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I can't stand the Ba'athist Broadcasting Corp, any more than the rest of you.
But,if we're going to fix
it, we need to make SACRIFICES. We can either not have a TV at all, or else we
must donate an equivalent of the licence fee each
year to a political party of the right. I have been donating the equivalent
amount to the Conservatives for years...though I am growing less convinced they
are a party of the right!
Posted by Philippa Pirie on August 20, 2007 11:42
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All religions should be openly
questionable. If I were to say that I believed in the divine legend of the
three little pigs, I would be rightly laughed at and ridiculed. And yet, all
the major religions have superstitious nonsenses
about talking snakes, flying horses, half-human half-elephant boys, etc. And
then there are the so-called miracles which are used to justify canonisation of all sorts of scoundrels. Today, so-called
faith-healers are, again, rightly ridiculed for their obvious charlatanism and
yet people are happy to believe in similar events which occurred more than 2000
years ago. It is time for humanity to grow up and drop all these ridiculous
superstitions.
Posted by pewkatchoo on August 20, 2007
11:39 AM
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I for one welcome
the BBC painting Animal Rights activists as murdering terrirists
- however warped an overall view of socienty it is.
Posted by towcestarian on August 20, 2007 11:16 AM
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As a condition of continued
support by public money, the BBC should be required to recruit staff from a
wide spectrum of sources rather than from one leftist paper and to prove
unequivocally that it has done so.
Posted by Conkeyron on August 20, 2007 11:10 AM
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The BBC remains one of, if not the
best broadcaster in the world of most forms of TV although it has, with great
regret of all, followed the path of other broadcasters down a ratings seeking
lowest common denominator path.
However, the BBC is, I fear, one of if not the most untrustworthy/mistrusted
broadcasters in the world when it comes to news and current affairs. The
fundamental fault is that these days they do not, especially in the domestic
arena, differentiate between news and comment. (They had an opportunity to
clear out the entire twisted crew in this area post-Hutton but the senior
management - when they were concentrating - were either afraid to or at least
with certainty failed to do so.) The next worry occurs because the BBC are so prevalent across the world. They are the news
provider of choice to millions even though they are increasingly distrusted in
the
The cure would be to separate entirely the "news" and "news
gathering" part of the BBC from what is essentially part of a global
entertainment industry. In other words return to pure Public Service
Broadcasting, judged and regulated accordingly leaving the ratings wars et al
properly to all forms of commercial broadcasting. And if ever a reason for this
presented itself it is of course the recent scandals involving "fingers in
the till" of one sort and another and especially the sight of the DG
wringing his hands at the embarrassment of being caught beautifully with his
trousers around his ankles.
Posted by Terry Carlton on August 20, 2007 11:09 AM
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The BBC is biased, that is a fact,
it doesn't really matter to which side, the Israelis and Polish immigrants to
the
Posted by Manoel on August 20, 2007 10:58 AM
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I agree with NIKI @ 6:31 am, it is
heartening to know that there are people who are so well informed on the false
and contrived "religion" of Islam. I also agree with Graham Mitchell
@ 4:56 and Richard Dell @ 4:56 am.
Britain (and Europe) is becoming more and more islamicized,
Governments have to pander to it because the West is so dependent on oil and
until we can come up with an alternative energy source, then we are in the
grips of this ever growing and depressing reality.
There is a reversal of the crusades in progress, that is becoming more and more
apparent and the BBC are just another tool to aid in the implementation of
this. Dont tell me they are not aware of this as they
are obsessed with the Middle East, its all we ever hear, their condescending
glorification and pandering to the Palestinians and Hezbollah and if they can
cover every historical fact from the Pyramids to the lost tribes of the Amazon,
how come they refuse to give one true historical fact about that self
proclaimed "prophet" who was nothing but a backwater bandit, but more
sickeningly whose influence and control still has one and a quarter billion
people in his power today.
The dogma of the totalitarian socio-political system which is Islam is nothing
but a blight on the world and which in the words of the great Winston Churchill
"robs this life of its refinement and the next of its sanctity"
There is a whole sinister plan in operation aided of course by that other
abomination the EU.
I am so tired because the overwhelming reality of this growing menace which
will stop all civilised and rational progress of
thought, culture, joy, grace and beauty will be annihilated just like the many
other great and beautiful civilisations were by the
greed and savagery of the warriors of this self proclaimed, self serving and
egotistical "prophet" who by the way was also a paedophile
as his last female conquest (i.e. Aisha) was only
nine years old when he had sexual relations with her and the same
"prophet" who personally saw to the slaughter of up to 800 boys and
men of a neighbouring Jewish tribe. Women and girls
would have been taken as slaves for his followers to do with them as they
wished ...... can you try to imagine the indescribable cruelty and degradation
that these women suffered?
There are no principles or honesty taught in the Koran, especially to
non-Muslims as non-muslims are inferior and whose
word is not equal to a muslim, even if a muslim is lying and that is but just one example of the
many sickeningly examples of the distorted dogma of the Koran. In fact it can
only bring to mind the image of a of a squirming,
scheming serpent. It certainly does not conjure up fluffy thoughts of beauty,
truth or enlightenment.
Pray tell me how can there be such a thing as a moderate muslim
when they take every word in the Koran literally, are not allowed to question,
debate or reason. What is the reason behind stoning a woman of a baby to death,
or slaughtering any young woman who chooses her own husband (and not only
slaughtering her, but raping her because in their twisted minds think that by
this act of unconsented savagery, she will definitely
go to hell) or the sexual mutilation of young girls to keep the family "honour" please tell me where that fits in with a
modern Western democracy? Why dont one of you BBC
politically correct morons visit a hospital emergency room and witness the
savagery that a young bride suffers on her wedding night because is rape is
another thing that is excused in the savage world of chauvinistic islam where women are merely the "property" of
men.
We can try boycotting the BBC, but there will be some other political correct
leftie to take over and then when these "do gooders"
are reduced to the same level of de-programmed, stifled and joyless zombification of dhimmitude, they
will be pining for the good old days of the rational society which they helped
destroy.
Posted by Aisling Nua on
August 20, 2007 10:55 AM
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A regular on the BBC ‘Dateline
London’ and on BBC World is Abd Al-Bari Atwan, Editor-in-Chief of
Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper.
You can see him here stating that when Iranian missiles rain down on
No chance of him being banned from the BBC then.
link
The BBC has busied itself giving publicity to the antics of the ‘climate
change’ anarchists at Heathrow. How strangely silent they were on the facts
when reporting the break in at the Carmel Agrexco
warehouse. Missing was the manager’s comment, "They broke in. A lot of
them were drunk, they broke doors, spread papers everywhere and they were very
aggressive. They were singing about Hamas.”
The BBC was also strangely silent on the Turkish airline hijacking. Missing
from their report was the utterances of the two hijackers. Others have had no
such difficulty in reporting that they were shouting “We are Muslims”
When it comes to BBC ‘reporting’ I always treat their output as unconfirmed
until I have verified it from independent sources.
The solution is for those that wish to receive the BBC can pay for it. Those
that don’t wish to receive the BBC don’t pay for it.
Posted by Andy C on August 20, 2007 10:30 AM
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It's time the Blair Broadcasting
Corporation was kicked into the private sector and let them 'earn' their money
like some of the rest of the grubby media.
Posted by gordy on August 20, 2007 10:17 AM
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First praise to
the Daily Mail for this perfect story.
Please while commenting the stories you readers leave profet
Mohammed alone, he ain't running BBC... or prove me
wrong!!!
If a BBC reporter in
The muslims on the
Middle-East will still continue to suffer from
I consider Mr. Blair the greatest man of Modern history, he must be compared
with Alexander the Great of ancient times, but i
didn't like why did he accept his new job, being an
extended hand of Bush as he will never succeed on his new mission despite his
own efforts.
Posted by Burim on August 20, 2007 10:00 AM
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The BBC defacing
its own website?
I suggest readers check out the Biased BBC website on how BBC employees have
been defacing Wikipedia.
And as the BBC reports as a main news item that whilst the
CIA regularly edits wikipedia, the BBC's
transgressions were not reported at all.
Quite illuminating.
Posted by Mike T on August 20, 2007 9:53 AM
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No, anti-muslim
comments do not vanish immediately.
Those of us who are royally fed up to the back teeth with god-botherers of any sort crawling out of the woodwork, in the
way they have in the past seven years have had enough.
Let's facr it:
All religions are a combination of moral and physical blackmail.
It is just that islam is
where christianity was 622 years ago.
And neither is a pretty sight.
If the believers in imaginary friends would just practice as consenting adults
in private, and leave the rest of us alone - we'd all be a lot happier.
As for my self, I will "blaspheme" any religion you care to name, if
that religion and its' followers insist on spoiling my quiet life.
Posted by G. Tingey on August 20, 2007 9:44 AM
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Thank you NIKI for your wise
words.
Its high time that a documentary and book of the rise and spread of Islam was
published that doesnt take a cringing approach to
Muslims.
The cruelty of Islam and its persecutions and genocides as it spread across the
The destruction of Christian, Zorastrian,
Jewish, Buddist and Hindu peoples.
The Armenian, Pontic Greek, Assyriam
genocides.
The invasion and conquest of
The Reconquista and the freeing of the Christian
peoples of
The horrors of the Balkans and the torment of the Serbian people should be
known.
Someone, sometime, must speak the truth about Islam before it is too late.
Eventually the media MUST do its job in defence of
the truth so that our civilisation may be held up as
being superior to Islam. The Enlightenment, democracy, human
rights, science and the arts.
All it takes is a little courage.
But don't hold your breath.
Posted by Geoff Miller on August 20, 2007 9:38 AM
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One would dearly love to see the
demise of the BBC - with it's drab, unimaginative
programming and it's supercillious, condescending
reporters. As for its radio shows and presenters; one would rather read the
Beano.....
With regard to muslims on
the other hand, the people that staff the BBC are no different from the people
that walk our streets or sit in our bars. When trouble arrives, we all look
away.......
Niki is right of course, the Islamic faith is
everything claimed and worse. Its adherents are bent on the destruction of our
way of life and the superimpositon of their own in
its place.
In the end it is our Government and not the BBC that has to oppose Islam and
yet, when they do, we all complain about its undemocratic approach.
In the end, our fear, not Islam's strength, will be our undoing.
Cheers,
Charles
Posted by Charles Baxter on August 20, 2007 9:12 AM
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May I come back in to add that I
think the BBC a disgrace when it comes to dealing with Muslim/Islamic matters. As NIKI has correctly pointed out, there's a vast -
and probably growing - literature that, properly read and presented would offer
an entirely fair, revealingly "alternative" picture of a creed that
the BBC seems ever keen to appease and whose "peaceful" nature has
been grossly exaggerated. Setting fairness aside for an imaginary moment, were
Islam to be conspicuously portrayed as uniformly intolerant and bloodthirsty;
and Muhammed as a land-grabbing tribal leader with
questionable tendencies, then the Corporation would surely be scrambling to
provide "balance" and to appease raucous, community protests. But
not, it seems, the other way round. The BBC is not averse to bias, but it has
to be licenced bias: the favourable
sort. The "Religion of Peace" variety.
And were a political party to stand on a manifesto that formally preached
hatred and death to Jews, that changed its tune as you went through it, that
reduced all non-party members and most women to secondary, subordinate status,
that banned public criticism of its founding philosophy, issued fatwas against authors, that micro-managed people's lives
and that had a proven track-record of war and slaughter, the BBC would be
flushed and foaming with crimson indignation: sparing no effort to expose and
condemn its bellicose and totalitarian doctrine. But call it by a certain
religious name however...........
I feel we have a great deal properly to be disturbed about. Deeply
disturbed.
Posted by sebastian on
August 20, 2007 8:37 AM
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The BBC makes me sick. Let's get
rid of them.
Posted by andrew cramb on August 20, 2007 8:34 AM
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Drop in to the My Telegraph blogsite (see the link at the left) and you will see the
sacred and the profane or even the profane about the sacred juxtaposed most
days.
link
There has been a new rigour there lately as to the
personal insults end of writing and other kinds of dirty tricks but essentially
it is a free forum and people do come out with some quite shocking statements -
not all of which can be left to stand for too long.
Religious bigotry is just one of many recurring threads. The BBC may have been
slow to act but all similar sites face the same issues.
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The left wing bias of the BBC has
been apparent for so long that most accept it as the norm, like toast and
marmalade. But it surpassed itself the other day when introducing John
Redwood's report with a ten year old clip of film making him seem ridiculous
while trying to sing the Welsh national anthem that he obviously didn't know
while equally embarrassing film clips of Mr Brown are firmly censured. We ALL
pay for the BBC and it is about time the Corporation faced up to the
responsibilities of a national broadcaster.
Posted by Simon Marshland on August 20, 2007 7:50 AM
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Perhaps the modified story line
should be modified again to paint the terrorists as middle class English people
blowing up the BBC out of frustration at having their intelligence insulted.
Remove the license fee and this crass behaviour will
be of interest only to themselves and to their voluntary subscribers.
Posted by Philip Alsop on August 20, 2007 7:41 AM
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First, praise to the Daily/Sunday
Mail for complaining to the BBC about this following detailed information
passed to it by a Lizard from the superb Little Green Footballs website
www.littlegreenfootballs.com
Next, disgust and outrage over the BBC for its blatant bias.
On to the Daily Telegraph. There is an excellent blog at this newspaper, Holy Smoke, on which readers are
able to discuss and impart useful information on, amongst other topics, the
subject of Islam. Certain articles of the DT, over the years, have elicited
readers' comments and it is evident that some of the readership has a deeper
knowledge of Islam than the paper's writers, columnists and editorial staff.
Why is this? The books, the internet sites, the lectures, the facts are all
there to be perused, analysed, critiqued and then
presented, yet this never happens. Neither the doctrines, the ideology nor,
especially, Mohamed, are ever discussed.
I know why this is so with Mohamed: a warlord who after almost 10 years had
made himself the ruler of Arabia, whose personal example as "a model of
perfect conduct" (as the Koran states), would repel any decent person who
had the facts of his life, words and deeds to hand and whose message of
intolerance and permanent warfare still plagues the world after 1400 years. The
ideology, with its denial of free will, its degrading view of humanity
(especially of the female sex), its rejection of debate, free speech and
freedom of conscience; these are only the most obvious keys to explaining 1400
years of economic, political and social instability and stagnation in countries
now predominantly islamic. Where is any recounting of
its history of conquest, subjugation and destruction of cultures, ethnic and
religious groups? How many readers know of its invasions and attempted
conquests of European, Asian, and African as well as Middle Eastern lands and
of the persecutions still inflicted by its continuing slave trade in several
countries?
Why no mention in the Telegraph of the doctrines of Islam: the DT printed
Bishop Michael Nasir-Ali's remarks that there is no
compulsion in Islam when that bit of taqiyya was long
ago "outed" by Telly
readers and anyone else who knows that Sura 2.256 was
abrogated (by Muhamad) with the instruction that
"whoever changed his deem (islamic religion),
then kill him" and by the Sword Verses. Why did the DT allow Christopher Howse's Sacred Mysteries column to state the absurdity that
"allah," the ancestral pagan moon god of Muhamad's tribe, was the same as God and yet permit no
dissenting and informed comment to this theological and historical
misstatement? Why are the full implications of islam's denial of Christ's divinity not mentioned?
Why does the Telegraph not acknowledge that it is the hateful verses of the
Koran and the ahadith which explain the hatred
against Jews and Christians which is espoused in mosques world-wide, NOT by
'extremists', but by those who are quoting these 'holy' texts quite accurately?
When the source is intolerant, what manner of 'moderation' can or should one
expect? Would informing readers of traditions such as 'taqiyya,'
the lies and dissimulations (and silences) which Moslems may avail themselves
of in order to protect their ideology and themselves from scrutiny by others,
not assist in explaining just why there is a "silent majority" of
Moslems who are unwilling to assist police in their inquiries?Why
does the DT not inform its readership of what Sharia
law actually comprises, that it is meant under islam
as the only law for all peoples and that parts of Britain are already under sharia law jurisdiction with the open agreement of the
present British government?
Why, in fact, am I typing this and doing the Daily Telegraph's job for it?
Posted by NIKI on August 20, 2007 6:31 AM
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I think there's an ulterior BBC
motive at work here, dressed up as a sort of Corporation "virtue".
"Retaliation" has probably crossed minds. Or, to
utter the "M" word for them, Muslim retaliation. BBC knees are
knocking at the prospect.
AREs, whose "terrorist" acts are miniscule
and amateur in comparison, are a much safer bet. They can publicise
them with bold impunity. Not much risk there.
But by taking this softer option, the BBC strengthens the very view of Muslims
- as something dangerous and best avoided - that it seeks to bury.
The BBC's line of timorous least resistance is actually far more telling about
Islam than it is humiliating to militant Animal Rights.
Don't a coward's deeper thoughts lie more in silence than in speech?
Posted by sebastian on
August 20, 2007 6:27 AM
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The BBC Website is seemingly
administered by Muslims who denigrate Christianity at every opportunity. At
least we can see their objective in our society.
Posted by Voyager on August 20, 2007 6:01 AM
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There is a deadly logic to the
symmetry of State and state media.
The cowardice and political correctness displayed by our state subsidised media is merely an accurate reflection of the
same qualities so-cherished by the Labour government.
You will continue to die on the London Tubes and on the buses, at the hands of
British radical Muslims, just as you embrace them with your votes for spineless
government.
The time is long overdue for a new Thatcher to seize the reins and correct the
murderous imbalance that is destroying the once 'Great'
Posted by Graham Mitchell on August 20, 2007 4:56 AM
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It is not as though this is the
first such occurrence. An episode of Spooks took the extraordinaty
storyline of Israelis impersonating Muslim terrorists. Rageh
Omaar shows a sanitised and
ahistorical series about "benign" Muslim
rule in parts of the western
You ask why? Two short words - Fear and Oil.
Keep hammering on about the Balen Report, by the way. Auntie hopes we will
forget it. Time for a leak?
Posted by Richard Dell on August 20, 2007 4:56 AM
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We should all refuse to pay our licences until this nonsense stops.The
BBC does NOT speak for me or the majority in this country. However if they
persist they will surely help the Muslims to create a Muslim state.I'd like to see them wear the hijab,stop
drinking and have the self discipline to pray to Allah five times a day with
their bums in the air.
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The BBC is sickening and always leftie biased. I have just come
back from
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3)
The BBC Can Not Possibly Spy Against
British Troops!
Or Can It?
BBC BEYOND BELIEF Wednesday, June
20, 2007
How is the BBC's attempt to overcome its stupid liberalism going? Not so well:
Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours
yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in
The request was removed from the website after it sparked furious protests that the corporation was endangering the lives of British servicemen and women.
According to accounts last night, a story on a major operation by US and
Iraqi troops against al-Qa'eda somewhere north of
Last night the BBC confirmed the wording of the request was: "Are you
in
The article continues: "A spokesman was unable to offer a detailed
explanation of why anyone at the BBC should be seeking such information."
I can think of a few reasons. Posted by Tim B. on 06/20/2007 at
05:23 AM
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4) From Take-A-Pen's
The BBC - edits the news to fit its Political
Agenda?
Returning to
London on
There was no
shortage of news: 15 British naval hostages had recently been released by
The Pope had
led a candlelight procession around the Coliseum in
Three British
Muslims of Pakistani descent, born in West Yorkshire, appeared in court in
Locally a black
youngster had been knifed to death, the sixth in
With all of
these current items what did the BBC include in its national news headlines
this Easter Saturday morning the 7th of April? … "
Clearly the
deep-rooted obsession to portray 'nasty Israelis oppressing defenceless
Palestinians' continues unabated in the bowels of the BBC. The several rockets
fired by Palestinians into the town of
The
world-shattering news about an Israeli military rocket (shot at group of Palestinian gunmen
preparing to launch a Kassam rocket) was
followed by news of a demonstration in
One must assume
therefore that in having to remind listeners of the continued abduction by
Palestinians of the BBC correspondent in
Obviously the
BBC and others are concerned about the plight of Alan Johnston and fear for his
safety- even the Archbishop of York John Sentamu,
mentioned the BBC reporter in his Easter address, 'he is not your enemy' he
told the Palestinians. This has been put more bluntly both by the BBC and by
the Palestinians, saying clearly that
In a biography of Alan Johnston broadcast later that same Easter Saturday and repeated on Easter Sunday, there was a tribute from Liliane Landor the BBC World Editor. Of Lebanese descent, Liliane is responsible now for all the BBC World Service News and Current Affairs programmes in English.
Liliane Landor's Arab background (not
the language only but years of Arab activism in here career) may be interesting
for those who wonder at the process whereby the BBC maintains an
institutional bias against the State of
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We used to believe that the BBC was a great and
free-thinking institute.
It is still true - UNTIL it comes to
politics, particularly to
From Take A Pen's
An Insight into Auntie's Thought Control
Why is it that such an enormous organisation as the BBC has but one point of view when it comes to reporting the news?
During an exchange with BBC news editor Gavin Allen some time ago about the lack of balance in the presentation of news, he made the point that the BBC does not represent the British Government viewpoint.
Then whose views are represented I asked? Why are there no variant points of view? Why are BBC news reports presented so monolithically and why are differing opinions not heard when the news is analysed?
Some understanding of the process whereby the BBC is able to present news with just one uniform voice came to light recently in a posting on Stephen Pollards web site:
http://www..stephenpollard.net
Stephen Pollard is President of the Centre for the New Europe, a Brussels-based think tank. Previously he was senior Fellow and director of its health policy programme. He is also a political columnist with The Times and Daily Mail.
He wrote as follows: http://www.stephenpollard.net/003098.html.
"A BBC mole has sent me this briefing for BBC staff from the BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, on what lies ahead this year [2007]".
[Jeremy Bowen you will recall was appointed by the BBC to the
newly-created role of
The BBC described his appointment as follows:
"The new role is designed to enhance our audience's understanding of
the
In order to provide a broader perspective on wider Middle East issues, Jeremy will be based in the World Affairs Unit in London, but will travel extensively throughout the region."]
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Bowen
To: Editorial Board; News World-Bureaux-Eds; News
World Asseds; News Leadership Group; Mark Byford & PA; Simon Wilson-NEWS; Jerusalem Bureau;
Newsg World-Affairs-Unit
Sent: Fri Jan 05 15:16:16 2007
Subject: FW: Mini briefing on the Israeli and Palestinians
'2007 has started as unpromisingly as 2006 ended. The out