The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude
Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of Islam-critical speech on its channels are the frank acknowledgements that BBC policy is shaped by fear.
During a recent interview (full transcript) for a University of Oxford project, BBC director general Mark Thompson provided the most in-depth admission yet of the BBC’s double standards with respect to faith. Christianity, he explained, receives less sensitive treatment because it is “a broad-shouldered religion, compared to religions which in the UK have a very close identity with ethnic minorities.” Specifically, Islam in Britain is “almost entirely a religion practiced by people who may already feel in other ways isolated, prejudiced against, and where they may well regard an attack on their religion as racism by other means.” Thus, when asked whether the BBC would run a Muhammad-mocking program on a par with the Jesus-ridiculing Jerry Springer: The Opera, which it aired over Christian protests in 2005, Thompson answered that it would not. Depictions of Islam’s prophet, he maintained, could have “the emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography” for Muslims.
Concern about Islamist violence undergirds BBC self-censorship, as evidenced by Thompson’s citations of the Salman Rushdie affair, which he described as “an absolute watershed,” and 9/11. “A threat to murder … massively raises the stakes,” Thompson pronounced. “‘I complain in the strongest possible terms’ is different from ‘I complain in the strongest possible terms and I’m loading my AK47 as I write.’” Jonathan Neumann of Commentary observes, “The lesson the BBC appears to be teaching — a lesson we always knew and apparently is also policy — is that complaints get more credence if they are backed up by force.”
Thompson’s publicly enunciated views have evolved and serve as a microcosm of creeping dhimmitude, which refers to the subjugated status of non-Muslims under Islamic law. Four years ago, Thompson bemoaned the “growing nervousness about discussion about Islam and its relationship to the traditions and values of British and Western society as a whole.” Seeing the BBC as a defender “of freedom of speech and of impartiality,” he contended that it and other media outlets “have a special responsibility” to make certain that debate on any religion “should not be foreclosed or censored.”
Just six months later, Thompson introduced his argument that Islam, as a minority belief system, must be dealt with carefully. “There’s no reason why any religion should be immune from discussion, but I don’t want to say that all religions are the same,” he opined. In the BBC’s defense, however, he boasted that it had not shied from displaying the Danish Muhammad cartoons — which seemingly had yet to reach the level of “grotesque child pornography” that they would in 2012. A BBC spokesman attempted to soften his words further: “What Mark Thompson said is that all religions are not the same — he did not say Islam, or indeed any faith, should be treated more sensitively than Christianity.”
But now the mask has dropped for good, with double standards being confessed and visions of firearms elbowing out high-minded expressions of tolerance. Though his candor is refreshing, it does not begin to offset the lengthy and damaging record of cowardice that has defined Thompson’s eight-year reign.
The BBC’s asymmetrical approach to Islam and Christianity was palpable long before Thompson admitted to it. An internal memo leaked in 2006 provided an important glimpse of the prevailing worldview by revealing that BBC officials had deemed it acceptable to show a Bible, but not a Koran, being tossed into the garbage. Numerous insiders have gone public since then to confirm and criticize such policies. In 2008, comedian Ben Elton deplored how “the BBC will let vicar gags pass but they would not let imam gags pass,” which he attributed to “genuine fear … about provoking the radical elements of Islam.” Former BBC radio host Don Maclean lamented in 2009 that programs “seem to take the negative angle every time” regarding Christianity, even as they are “keen on Islam.” News anchor Peter Sissons, who left the BBC several years ago, echoed him in a book published in 2011: “Islam must not be offended at any price, although Christians are fair game because they do nothing about it if they are offended.”
At its most obnoxious, this mindset is manifested in bizarre inversions of reality, such as the infamous scene of a fanatical British Christian decapitating a peaceful Muslim in a 2008 episode of the BBC archaeology drama Bonekickers. One reviewer slammed “the BBC’s paint-by-numbers version of political correctness,” adding that “a Martian watching TV drama of late would probably conclude that the country is crawling with homicidal Islamophobes.” Christians accused the BBC of smearing evangelicals by attempting to “transfer the practice of terrorist beheadings from Islamist radicals” to them, but the BBC Trust exonerated the network. The BBC spy series Spooks ignited a similar storm in 2006 when it showed Christians carrying out grenade attacks against Muslims and a bishop organizing the assassination of an Islamic cleric.
I get the impression of a mass of fed-up ordinary folk who are being nannied and bullied by a self-appointed moral and intellectual elite. C’mon, Brits! Where’s the spirit of Runymede? You look like a bunch of sullen, pox-ridden peasants.
As Greece was occupied during the Crimean and Cold wars, we must displace the current residents with Albanian Pelasgian aborigines (Kosovar Style) to keep them from giving the soviets access to the straits and propogate their Heresy of Photius.
Thompson has it completely backward: the UK is not the world and there’s no reason to treat it as such. In fact, the native Christian religion is far more identified with one single ethnicity and Islam, IN the UK, is the broad shouldered on.
The UK is slowly but surely handing over their culture to Third World immigrants and for no real reason I can see but some weird and nebulous view of diversity as being a good thing where every actual fact suggests quite the opposite.
Why does the UK feel anyone has the ‘right’ to come to their country or no sense of ownership of that country, of having built that country with their own specific genius? One can only conclude the UK is being led off a cliff by ivory tower liberals who never have to actually come closer to an immigrant than their TV sets, which only reaffirms their self-righteous views on the innocence and good of the Third World.
While that happens on TV, in the actual street, Muslims protest against troops supposedly “their” own and plot to blow up things. Pakistani’s rape the health system by causing financial crisis due to their refusal to stop marrying their cousins. Many of them are on welfare or occupy affirmative action slots that are a direct reflection of TV, but not their actual capabilities. Were these so-called capabilities so evident, then there own countries of origin would reflect this innate genius but in fact reflect the exact opposite.
Time of both America and Europe to wake up to the fact that people who can’t lift themselves simply can’t be lifted. Why? Who cares? I’m not an experiment in fixing the world.
The reason is economics.
In just about every Western country, the native population is getting older. The median age of the native population continues to increase, as citizens live longer due to improved medicine, and couples bear fewer children due to increased affluence and effective family planning. In Germany, the birth rate of native-born Germans is now below replacement levels, leading to a *shrinking* of native-born.
And as we have seen from our own experience with Social Security, that makes those types of retirement entitlements unsustainable in the long run. All these entitlements for the elderly have to be financed with taxes on the young. More elderly and fewer youth will lead to collapse of the welfare state. In Europe, this is happening faster than in America, where millions of Europeans who work in civil service can retire in their fifties or sometimes even in their forties.
So the only way to compensate for that is to import millions of young immigrants who will pay taxes for those old-age entitlements.
the native population is dying in all western societies as per the plan of the progressives who brainwashed us all into thinking the world was over populated and we must stem the flow. when in reality they need us to die off to make room for the third world population who no one has ever, nor will ever, educate to reduce their population. illiterate, 7th century islamic brain washed people are much easier to rule then we fat, stupid, lazy unwashed peasant masses of the western world have proven to be
The “population bomb” wasn’t the only brain-washing going on. There was/is also the incessant drum-beat of recreational sex. It’s all about “getting some.” Having sex compulsively without forming any attachment is now regarded as “healthy sexuality.” Abstaining is regarded as weird and evidence of some mental disorder. Abstaining is called unnatural; “stifling the course of nature” – a phrase that never seems to come up when discussing abortion, which actually defines it quite perfectly!
They’ve created a pattern of sexual ethics that requires rubbers, pharmaceuticals and an abortion clinic in every town… and they profess that it’s natural. And I thought people who needed costumes and handcuffs were weird! Sheesh!
And, to close the circle, as Jonah Goldberg (“Liberal Fascism”) and Gene Veith (“Modern Fascism”) have both pointed out it is the very actions of the modern Progressives, with their fascination with sex and their control of the entertainment industries, that the Muslims are reacting to when they call America “The Great Satan” and accuse us of corrupting their young (which we are).
There was/is also the incessant drum-beat of recreational sex. It’s all about “getting some.”
From the Offspring song Hit That
What was a family
Is now a shell
We’re raising kids now
Who raise themselves
Sex is a weapon
It’s like a drug
It gets him right into that grave that he just dug
Declining populations are also a result of a demoralized people. Its happened before in the past where populations lost touch with the values and ethics that made them strong. Of course, its much easier to avoid reproduction these days with contraception and abortion. The high expense of socialist economies also have an effect. If it costs a fortune just to live and children a greater fortune on top of that, then people will have fewer kids. That is except for recent immigrants or those on the dole. Without the either the conditioning of natives in the first case or lack of care about having kids if more kids equals more handouts in the latter, then those groups will have more kids. Either way, they increase the pressure on the state meaning more taxes and regulations, which means the cycle repeats and accelerates.
And if half the people in America are not paying any taxes one can assume immigrants from the Third World are in mostly in that group.
I agree that immigration is loved because it provides false economic growth and a certain amount of revenue on sales taxes, car ownership, etc.
However I do not get the argument that we cannot shrink back our population without wrecking the place. We will certainly wreck the place by sheer numbers no matter where they come from.
How is a declining population that is below replacement levels defined as “effective family planning”? Sounds like BAD planning to me.
Depends on what your plans are, doesn’t it. Progressives don’t plan for the long-term, and are seldom willing to sacrifice their own pleasures for it (unless it promises greater power). They want careers and pleasure now; one child as heir is sufficient.
Immigrants are allowed to bring their elderly relatives to live with them (at least in Canada). It’s called Family Reuinification. Thus immigration is not solving any demographic problem.
So correct, and Canada is only the way station, or stop over on their way to the USA…Heaven help us all to take back our nation…..Australia was kind enough to accept a lot of lebonese to their country, for reasons that all the wars against this group or another in Leb. was so deadly, now the thankless people want to take over the entire country of my beloved Oz….
And not only do the “new Canadians” bring their moms and dads, they bring their prejudices and values as well.
Don’t like the guy your daughter married, just send them and electric kettle filled with explosives or load them into a car and run them off a short pier!
That’s their morality.
Yes, and there are those who still deny that 53 million abortions in the US since 1973 is no problem. Demography IS destiny and we’ll soon be “enjoying” the fruits of others wombs.
It starts with antisemitism/antizionism…but doesn’t end there
Funny that I ran across this column only a few days after remarking to my husband that the BBC had turned into a total shill for Islam. My comments were prompted by two shows we’d seen back-to-back on the BBC while traveling in Thailand. The first show was a travelogue on Kuala Lumpur. The hostess of the show was a Muslim and she spent a long time fawning over the (admittedly little-visited) Islamic Art Museum of KL. The rest of the show seemed dedicated to convincing the audience that Islam’s influence on Malaysia had resulted in nothing but positives for the country.
The next program I believe was Hard Talk (a show I typically avoid due to its absolutely terrible interviews); the guest was the president of the Philippines. The interviewer relentlessly hounded President Aquino about the Catholic church’s power in the country, professing outrage at the church’s influence on the government and the population, getting especially huffy on the church’s stance on contraception.
So, to sum up, according to the BBC: Islam having huge influence in Malaysia = good, Christianity having huge influence in the Philippines = bad.
Thanks BBC, I don’t know what I would do without you to keep me from having double plus ungood thoughts.
The trouble is the BBC does not sell themselves out – they sell everyone else out.
Does anyone still treat the BBC seriously? Al Jazeera is well staffed by former BBC denizens; nearly all mid- and upper-level jobs are advertised in The Guardian; and the hapless news bigots on Radio Four define all the modern meanings of the word ‘grovel’. By comparison, the NYT newsroom is fascist.
The British people, as is their wont, bleat endlessly and do what is sometimes known locally as Sweet FA.
You’d be surprised.
I’ve talked with American “progressives” who told me that the only news sources they trust are MSNBC, the BBC, and al-Jazeera.
Have you guys ever actually watched Al-Jazeera? It’s more balanced than the BBC. They do long documentaries – just saw one where they tore Nasser’s Egypt a new one for taking over Greek and any, foreign businesses back then. Ethnic Greek, yes, but their own citizens. One of the fabric shops was still open after all these decades and the Greek guy, who’s father had it stolen, went for a visit.
Egypt has never fully recovered.
They just did another 2 parter on Norman Finkelstein, and considering how one-sided Finkelstein is, it was more balanced than Finkelstein himself. They did not go out of their way to make him look good but directly challenged his career.
So, Al-Jazeera, has better standards than the PC morons at the BBC. It’s like the shanty town hooker saying the Prez’s Treasury Agents lacked class. We’re bigger morons than the morons.
The ‘progressives’ represent about 20 % of America. The real people of America attend to none of the propaganda put out by those three entities. The majority of Americans like the way America was set up for limited government, freedom of speech, religion etc. We like sovereignty and the protection of our borders and an immigration policy that lets in only a few people of whom we approve, not everybody. Do not look to the socialist-marxists progressives for what is really happening in America
If one only says nice things to people with a tradition of misogyny, slavery, murder, and bigotry –will they become civil people?
I think not. Sometimes you need to hear the truth, no matter how ugly it is. Christians put up with this crap all the time. They can too. If they can’t, they will suffer the consequences.
Remember, they chose to move to the UK, not the other way around.
the only answer to this is for all of us ignorant infidels to start rioting in the street and slaughtering people when anyone says something that “offends” us. then, an apparently only then, will our voices be heard and respected. Uncontrolled, wholesale slaughter is the answer as proven by muslims.
I can understand why you say that based on the article’s evidence that actual fear of violence drives the BBC’s policies. I doubt that actual threats of violence would work in the favor of Christians though.
I think that if Christians and other non-Muslims started making that kind of threat, the PC crowd would triumphantly declare that this was proof positive that all they’ve been saying about the inherent intolerance of Christianity and other religions towards Islam, the (cough) Religion of Peace. They’d use that to justify any number of measures against any non-Muslim that had any problem at all with Islam. And tolerant Christians (and other non-Muslims) would be too embarassed by political correctness to deter those measures.
In fact, on some level, maybe that’s what the BBC is hoping for: to provoke Christians and other non-Muslims to at least threaten violence so that repressive measures against non-Muslims can be at least proposed. An actual act of violence would play into their hands even better and increase the odds that some kind of repression against non-Muslims would be created.
Isn’t it frightening how they use our tolerance against us?
Good point – and precisely why Christians are commanded to act peacefully as individuals.
BBC news is a regular feature on National Public Radio; as if NPR wasn’t slanted enough. That should make you puke.
It did not happen in vacuo… Britain made the BBC and the BBC made Britain. Both are due a purgative and an emetic. But there is none left to administer the medicine. Sheer poesy.
The thing about terrorism is that it works.
“The lesson the BBC appears to be teaching — a lesson we always knew and apparently is also policy — is that complaints get more credence if they are backed up by force.”
Which is why nobody wants to annoy a Muslim, even if it means ending free speech in a country. I wonder if Geert Wilders had his own mob of followers in Holland, people who would be willing to riot, kill, and destroy property for him, if the Dutch government would be so quick to try and silence him. Force means everything to the Europeans and the Muslims can produce a lot of it very quickly. Muslims can produce riots, flag burnings, car burnings, broken shop windows, and multiple threats against peoples lives in Western European countries with very, very, little provocation. Christians cannot, or put more accurately, Christians will not. So like angry little children, the Western Europeans try to humor Muslims as much as possible in order to prevent any domestic violence. Violence they never seem to condemn, by the way. Because if they openly condemn it, they worry they will only cause more of it.
This is blackmail pure and simple on the part of the Muslims. Who do they think they are threatening people in this manner? And who are the Europeans for tamely submitting to these immature animals? If they don’t take a firm stand against this, Europeans will lose the very rights they’ve fought for over hundreds of years. And all because a violent minority just can’t bear to be criticized about anything. It’s pathetic.
America should heed this lesson, because if we do not, we will be no better than the Europeans. And we’ve worked too hard for well over 200 years to preserve our rights. We’re not about to lose it to a bunch of whining little religious zealots. I hope.
It might help to remember that the Bitish establishment today are the lineal decendants of the 30′s generation who among other really dumb things shouted Winston Churchill down in the House of Commons for being so crass as to tell them abandoning Czechoslovakia was “An unmitigated defeat” You can always tell an educated Brit, you just can’t tell ‘em much.
Goodbye BBC. Like NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, you are worthy of the trash bin prize of history.
I too noticed the moral inversion in the Bonekickers episode. But then, the series was so laden with far-left ideology that I eventually found it unwatchable. Many reviewers over at Netflix had the same reaction.
A useful backdrop to this column is the book “Londonistan”. It’s not just the BBC that is kowtowing to Islam. Muslim radicals take advantage of Western tolerance (and now, hate speech laws) to establish themselves and England has become a nexus for Islamic terrorism.
A final point. The BBC does not have a double standard. They have a single standard and it is fear. Let’s dispense with accepting their rationalization that they respect anyone other than themselves.
Bugger this British PC dhimmitude crapola! Not in MY America. Not now, not ever. Prognostication: My children’s grandchildren will re-tell the heroic tales of our moment in history, when we good Americans once again saved the world and stood up to the rising tide of Islamofascism sweeping the globe. God Bless America!
Early each morning I switch back and forth between BBC America and a certain well-known American news program. Even though the BBC is supposed to be a ‘hard’ news program if I want hard news I watch the American news program—it’s easy to guess which one I’m referring to. One does not get reality from the BBC; one gets the news version of the UN–it seems that the BBC is staffed in about the same way.
Several months ago there was a segment on BBC America about a giant cross in California that had been struck by lightning. OK, the BBC doesn’t like Christianity and a giant cross being hit by lightning is a newsworthy item to them—anything negative about the US is also a journalist plus. At the end of the segment the Muslim anchor made a snide remark about the cross being struck by lightning. Again, OK, he’s a Muslim and he doesn’t like Christianity, as in all Muslims don’t like a true ‘religion of peace’ competing with their phony version of one. I expected the BBC to remove this guy, whose first name is George, from his anchor slot, but next morning there he was, a BBC approved and certified bigot. I didn’t watch BBC America for several months after that, but recently returned to it to remind myself of what could happen here. Even the other American morning news programs haven’t gone in for this degree of dhimmitude.
Hello Mate has been replaced with “SILENCE, I KEEL YOU!”
You dont HAVE to be an extreme Left Wing Gay or Lesbian Islamophile moonbat to work for Al Bee Bee Cera but it sure as hell helps if you are.
The BBC is disgustingly gay and left wing but America too is being fed a constant drip of Islamophile, Multi Culti, Affirmative Action, anti Christian, anti American,anti Heterosexual left wing moonbat propaganda and not just by the News outlets such as CNN, NBC, MSNBC and all the other alphabet outlets. But also insidiously in Hollywoodlands so called TV “entertainment” programmes and movies too. We are also bombarded with it in the Lame Stream EneMedia and of course it is pumped into naive gullible young heads at Colleges and Universities all over the Western World by rabid left wing Academics and Teachers.
The fight back has got to come before its too late. But maybe it already is, if that unmitigated disaster the undocumented, unqualified. USURPER Obambi gets re-elected then it will be.
I’m afraid it may already be too late. We have been fed this pro-Islamist garbage since at least 1979. Back then it was: the Iranians aren’t true Muslims; they belong to an ‘extremist’ sect. The Saudis are the ‘conservative’ Muslims and they are our friends.
Not even 9/11 could change the minds of people who had made their bed with the Saudis. Witness George W. Bush and the ‘religion of peace’ tripe. Our downfall has been a long time coming. We are in an advanced state of decay but the plain and simple truth is: we don’t value our culture or our history enough to defend it.
Oxford
You have out done yourselves with the ignorant tripe of molesting the one religion that can save your over extended butts. Get ready for the paybacks promised. You already lost the covenant of power and wealth promised and received to Ephraim. So go for the gusto and the suicide belt and remove all doubt that you are as dumb as a bag of rocks.
Dumb begets dumber.
[Depictions of Islam’s prophet, he maintained, could have “the emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography”]
From all accounts, Muhammad was extremely well-acquainted with child pornography!
It’s not just the BBC which admits to fear being the reason for its actions. Some 5 or 6 years ago, the Independent newspaper published an anti-Semitic cartoon, evoking a huge protest. Subsequently, the British Political Cartoonists Society awarded it its “Cartoon of the Year” prize. Dr. Tim Benson, President of the Society, was asked why political cartoonists were so reticent about similar cartoons involving Islam, and he replied, “But they would suffer death, wouldn’t they?”.
We in the UK are generally fed up with being blackmailed [a word we can no longer use due to its 'racist' connotations] into having to pay the license fee for the BBC, notwithstanding our paying extra for our cable/satellite providers. The BBC is a hard left, Muslim loving, anti-Semitic to the core organisation. It refuses to publish the Balen Report into its treatment of Israel and rides rough-shod over any criticism it receives. You can follow the blog Biased BBC which demonstrates all that I have written above.
Biased-BBC has no interest in solving or fixing anything. They whine endlessly and do zip.
As for ‘blackmail’, Scotland Yard just put ‘blacklist’ on the… er…’list-of-unknown-color’ of banned words because of negative, racist confusion implied by the allegedly less-loaded but clearly supremacist word ‘whitelist’. Obvious to advanced thinkers everywhere, wouldn’t you say?
Brits are whipped, beaten and beyond parody. You have no one to blame but yourselves.
You are quite correct to point out the stupidity of the Left wing moonbats in Europe but Americans should own up and realise that RACIST Affirmative Action ,Political Correctness and Euphemistic word use ORIGINATED in the USA and spread to Europe not the other way around. I mean what IS an African American is he BORN in Africa NO were his parents BORN in Africa NO. Why do others become unhyphenated AMERICANS and what makes them so SPECIAL.
Brits are whipped, beaten and beyond parody. You have no one to blame but yourselves.
Whoa there! I wouldn’t get to high on the horse. Our citizenry has for more recourse than do the Brits to redress grievances and we are still making a steady march into servitude. We aren’t too far behind the UK. If we were as disarmed as they, we’d probably be in the same boat. I welcome conservative brothers from every country, no matter how oppressed. I wish I could send some of this country’s deadbeats to the UK and trade them for good, hardworking, freedom minded Brits.
Thanks, but I’ll stay on the horse. Why do we have more ‘recourse’? Hardly by accident.
In the UK, all TV owners must pay an annual license fee of more than $225 for the privilege of tuning into the BBC and being fed Big Brother crap daily. It’s a kind of national Stockholm syndrome. The enforcement and penalties are real — surveillance vans roaming the neighborhood, random knocks on your door, prosecution, fines, jail. Yes, jail. Yet despite countless hearings, investigations, steering commitee resolutions, pilot studies, red, white, blue, green papers and Uncle Tom Cobbley’s kitchen sink, nothing has happened or — being Britain — will happen. Each year they moan more, then pay up. And put up with it.
And look for someone to blame. And bleat and bleat.
You say you seek allies (‘conservative brothers’, oh my — oxymoron alert), but these people are broken reeds, unreliable and worse than useless. On the long journey ahead, I prefer to rely on my fellow citizens.
I lived in London from 1997 to 2001 and I still remember the scare tactic adverts on the tele about not paying your television tax. They were similar to our drunken driving ads. The fines for being caught without are outrageous.
And don’t get me started on Her Majesty’s motorway tax and how the government steals that money. One paper, I think The Telegraph, had an article saying barely 20% of the road tax money goes into actual road repair and the rest goes into Parliament’s coffers.
In fact, both Islam and Judaism are off the table as media subjects; Islam because of violent threats, and Judaism because of 1933-45. For Christianity (including Catholicism and Mormonism) it always Open Season. How classically BBC to say that Christianity is a “broad shouldered” religion, so that it can be the target of bigotry. No offense, but are there any believing Christians left in the UK, besides the Queen? Certainly not in the intelligentsia.
C.S. Lewis wrote extensively about this sort of thing. It’s a blatant attack on Christianity, the Progressives thinking that they can reach some sort of deal with Islam (or simply convert – after all, Islam demands only lip service to the 5 Pillars; after that you’re free to do what you can get away with). Christianity has this annoying tendency to demand that you actually repent of your misdeeds and do the right thing.
Of course Islam may not be so accomodating as the Progressives think, as noted by Jonah Goldberg in “Liberal Fascism.” I wonder how the elite will react when their children start becoming suicide bombers.
One also wonders why the English are so worried about violence. After all, one purpose for the existence of the State is to keep order, that’s why it has a monopoly on legal violence. Oh, that’s right – the English police are almost totally disarmed, so as not to incite the criminals (who have lots of guns).
“Depictions of Islam’s prophet, he maintained, could have “the emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography” for Muslims.”
Yes except the followers of Mohammed and the left love child pornagraphy in case you haven’t noticed. The BBC reasoning is so flawed as to be no reasoning at all.
One more bit of truth is that whatever you tolerate you get more of, take bad lawyers for example. Are not lawyers the facilitators of this dhimmitude? ACLU in this country for example.
Until Al-Beebzera releases the Balen Report, ANYTHING it says is suspect at the very least. If they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding it?
The BBC leads the dhimmi death march of the West.
You know, it is possible to force the issue. Here in America there are specialty toilet paper companies that will print any design you like on the paper for quite reasonable fees, and discretely.
Of course that would be wrong.
My fellow Christians, shouldn’t we be PROUD of this? The fact that no one is afraid to mock Christianity but are terrified of insulting Islam is a good sign. It means we, as a group, have developed a tolerance to insults. It means you and I can behave ourselves like Christians should–as in not flying into a violent rage whenever someone mocks our religion.
C’mon, smile now. Don’t be so negative and whiny about this double standard.
it also means you will be slaves too. and remember islam dosent just want to destroy christian, they want to destroy all not islam. a sense of humor isnt bad. but not being able to respond to actual threats like the whole of islam IS a BFD and VERY BAD. If the christan god wont let you defend yourself and allows you to be a slave then i strongly suggest finding another god, perhaps one with testicles, cause history only cares about the winners not loosers
A “threat”? Some news agencies are too P.C., but it’s not like the whole world is bowing to the demands of Muslims. Calm the heck down.
We don’t need to “defend” ourselves against insults to our religion, unless you mean giving an intelligent answer if the insult is meant as an argument against the truth of the religion. I’m not automatically a slave when I’m calm about mockery. I am NOT against challenging Islam, either.
There is much truth in two statements above:
“The British people, as is their wont, bleat endlessly and do what is sometimes known locally as Sweet FA.”
“Biased-BBC has no interest in solving or fixing anything. They whine endlessly and do zip.”
But what exactly do we do and why have you not done whatever it it is to NPR, MSNBC, CBS, CNN and so on?
you fight. you do whatever it takes to either make them see the light or stop them. if you have to be outside their houses throwing rocks then do so. but you need to understand that you are now fighting fo your life and freedom. there is no being polite and ‘sensitive’ to others feelings. This IS a war. either people are with or against you, it is just that simple. drive islam from your shores by ANY MEANS NECCESARRY! or die and be enslaved…your choice.
then stop using BBC cowards as refrence and keep loudly and publicly chastising them for their cowardice. let their people be killed and subjigated under the foulness of Islam and their garbage prohet mohammed. when they finally realize their mistakes, and beg for help. say “NO” and let them die as well. this isnt a big deal to me. either you are with freedom or with the foulness of islam. anyfools who are on the fence now are and should be considered cannon fodder. Im tired of seeing our soldiers die to protect cowards without even common sense or the most basic survival instint afforded to even the lowest forms of life on this planet. Are my words ‘harsh’ too bad. this is war, its time we treated it as such. we have been dying to wage a PR campaign to make our enemies love us. i would slaughter a million children of islam of any age with pride to save 1 american life.So why am i going to balk to stand criticism when Islam would gladly slaughter a million islamic children to kill 1 american. anyone want to challenge me then bring it. just remember MY way means you live and your children live in freedomand prosperity. while the people you want to coddel and excuse want to kill you and enslave your children. i proudly say death to islam!
Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen…
Our friends in the news entertainment biz are obeisant about a lotta things, but their dealings with Moslems takes the cake. I call it tiptoeing on egg shells cuz Western Man is at his absolute worst in their dealings Moslems. And why not? Moslems are dangerous people who routinely threaten ruination and murder. Hell, their program is laid out rat there in the belief system’s holy scriptures. Moslem are dangerous cuz they have a unique singularity of purpose and have backed it up with a great and well documented history of delivering on their threats. To ponder the source of all those Islamic genocides over the last 1,400 yrs, try this on for size:
We shall urge you to go against Infidels and set you over them. Then they will not be able to stay as your neighbors for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy – a fierce slaughter – murdered, a horrible murdering.
- Allah in 33:30 of the Holy Ko-Ran
Whoa. Didn’t Dubya pronounce that Islam is a religion of peace?
The tragedy in the UK is not that the BBC has been cowed by the muslims but that the BBC is proud of the fact.
All the media are sh*t-scared of islam and muslims and have been for years.
There is no “cutting edge” comedy anymore, so why even watch?
Haven’t watched SNL in years, turned it on a week or so ago and it was a ridiculous skit about a bat mizva. Wow, that’s pushing the envelope.
Nicely linked and footnoted, so I’m guessing that the purpose of the article was to offer some firepower to those of us who are still trying to convince the unconvinced that islam not only isn’t just another ideology, but that it’s a totalitarian ideology? Thanks for that.
As for the rest of us, we already know.
Where are all the Blacks demonstrating about Islams SUPPORT of Slavery and condemning Arabs and Arab Muslims for not only being the SLAVE MASTERS and TRADERS way back when but STILL the Slave Traders TODAY. Where are all the Blacks demonstration about BLACK on BLACK violence which is ENDEMIC in their community. Where are all the Blacks demonstrating about Black on Black SLAVERY which existed in Africa long before a single WHITEY ever set foot there and which continues TO THIS DAY. I tell you were they are converting to Islam in absolute UNEDUCATED IGNORANCE.
Where are all the FemiNAZIs demonstrating about Islam’s MISOGYNY. Where are all the left Wing moonbats demonstrating about Islam’s Arab SUPREMACISM. Where are all the Left wing moonbats demonstrating about Islamic Dictatorships in Saudi and Theocracies in Iran.
Where is the Lame stream EneMedia protest and exposures of such outrages.
NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.
But let a “WHITE” Hispanic kill a Black THUG in self defense and they are all over it. Meanwhile the ‘whistle Dixie’ when two WHITE reporters get beaten up by a BLACK MOB.
Its not just Al Bee Bee Cera which is a left wing mockery it is virtually all of america’s Lame Stream EneMedia that is just as guilty too.
My sentiments exactly! American blacks either do not, or choose not to educate themselves with the historical facts of slavery. It is much easier to blame long-dead slave owners for your current misfortune than actually do something about it.
The BBC in 2004 commissioned one Malcom Balen to produce a report on its Middle Eastern journalism specifically regarding Israel- This being paid for by the tax payer.
They specifically carried out this exercise, as they were being accused of anti-Israeli bias.
To date and after much cajoling the report still remains under raps.
I have written to the BBC on a regular basis asking “Why”-?
The only one response was “Because we do not have to.”
So, over on Drudge today we get this story about police refusing to charge a gang of Muslims who were raping young girls because they didn’t want to appear racist. Notice the perps are called “Asians”, so even a story condemning political correctness is politically correct.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9253250/Rochdale-grooming-trial-Police-accused-of-failing-to-investigate-paedophile-gang-for-fear-of-appearing-racist.html
Asia is 30% of the Earth. They just don’t want to say Middle Eastern and Muslim. Say Asian is like saying an American is anyone from Tierra del Fuego to the Bering Straits. Not much chance of someone taking insult of profiling there. They should’ve just said they were of this Earth but non-human and left it at that.
As long as the Beeb is convinced that it is delivering what it concludes its audience wants, they will continue to go down the path they are on.
“The UK is slowly but surely [destroying] their culture … for no real reason I can see …”
ORWELL ON THE VON HOFFMANS:
“Within the intelligentsia, a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain is more or less compulsory, but it is an unfaked emotion in many cases. During the war it was manifested in the defeatism of the intelligentsia, which persisted long after it had become clear that the Axis powers could not win. Many people were undisguisedly pleased when Singapore fell or when the British were driven out of Greece, and there was a remarkable unwillingness to believe in good news, e.g., El Alamein, or the number of German planes shot down in the Battle of Britain. English left-wing intellectuals did not, of course, actually want the Germans or Japanese to win the war, but many of them could not help but get a certain kick out of seeing their own country humiliated . . . . In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong.”
- George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, 1945.
As for the reason, please see: “The Age of Envy.”
http://freedomkeys.com/ar-ageofenvy.htm