Jim Miller compares and contrasts the Sun‘s treatment of the visit to Britain of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who advocates wife beating, execution for homosexuals and suicide bombing by children, to the BBC’s much more insipid account.
Reader Patrick Bramwell sends another link and writes:
An utterly appalling whitewash of Al-Qaradawi on today’s UK BBC Online. The man is the soul of moderation, in tune with the mainstream Arab thinking, and a peacemaker!!!
This one is a real doozy so far as BBC bias goes.
In defence of Magdi Abdelhadi, who wrote the piece, the assertion that al-Qaradawi is in tune with mainstream Arab thinking may well be correct. It is notoriously difficult to know what people in unfree societies really believe.
Midweek 22nd January 2025
“Benefit cheats could be stripped of driving licences” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg9px4q0y6o Why single them out? Why not paedophile, tax cheats, shop lifters…