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“Bank of America ‘eyeing Barclays'” where in the report does someone say “eyeing Barclays” – so why the quotes?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6162591.stm
Strange how those who are so quick to (often validly) point out the follies of the Iraq war, such as the BBC, whitewash the situation in Darfur and give viewers the impression that intervention will be a simple matter.
Kirsty “Holywood” Wark fails to point out these factors:
1. The Janjaweed, being able to melt into civilian populations, would be nigh impossible to defeat (civilian casualties innevitable).
2. Al Qaeda is very much active in Sudan, and will likely kill many UN troops. If they have indeed infiltrated refugee camps, it could get VERY ugly.
3. The burden of responsibility is placed on the US and UK, even though it is CHINA and FRANCE who should be asked to do more, especially as they have millitary presence.
4. Intervention by UK in Darfur will INCREASE risk of terror attack, as the BBC so likes to remind us about Iraq.
What this proves is that when the BBC is in favour of invading a country, it is less interested in the difficulties.
The BBC is rebroadcast by National Public Radio in the USA and receives money from Public Radio International and other US taxpayer funded institutions. Has anyone thought about trying to have their US funding sources cut? Its ironic that the BBC is so ridiculously anti-American yet they are being paid by and broadcast on our NPR.
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Looking forward to the Americans buying Britons most Arrogant Bank
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6162591.stm
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Zevilyn | 09.12.06 – 3:36 am | #
It’s not only in the (lack of) balanced reporting on Darfur that the BBC blatantly reveals its partiality.
What about all this that has been going on for the last 7 years under the tender care of Kofi and the UN (MONUC).
A veritable holocaust; deaths • 3.8 Million, refugees • 1.5 Million —- not to mention the numerous abuses etc. of the local populace by the UN forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
All of it being largely invisible in the BBC news output and priorities when compared to Iraq, Gaza/West Bank and Lebanon.
But then again the JEWS and the US are not implicated so it’s not really that important, is it? And of course it would reflect badly on Kofi, the UN and the various NGO’s who have been presiding over it all.
If the situation with IRAQ is ‘disastrous’ what words does one use to describe what’s going on in the DRC (Congo)?
Typical piece of bias in the Radio 2 9 am news this morning.
Apparently there is an investigation into whether some Royal Marines opened fire ‘indiscriminately’ on a civilian crowd in Afghanistan that were attacking their patrol.
This gives the impression that some of the most highly trained, highly disciplined infantry soldiers in the world put their weapons on automatic, stuck them at the hip and then let rip.
Now I wonder where this concept of ‘indiscriminate’ came from. Was the reporter there? Was it a word the army used? Somehow I doubt it.
You’d just love to put whoever wrote this stuff in the patrol with the Royals and let them give (or not give) the order to fire. Oh dear another BBC reporter hacked into tiny little pieces. Doh!
novelPhenomena | 09.12.06 – 9:43 am | #
I fully agree, all these so called BBC journalists/reporters should be fully embedded with frontline units and put on ‘point’ when the action starts.
Let’s see how they report matters then.
Death Sentence for US Ship Attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6217086.stm
Blimey, who have the Yanks attacked? Which ship did the att…. oh hang on: A military court in Jordan has sentenced three Syrians and an Iraqi to death for firing rockets at two US warships in August last year.
Jonathan Boyd Hunt
http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/ …apprentice.html
Think it’s the 5:34pm post?Brown’s Smith Institute (IMO) Slush Fund (using charity status) stinks to high heaven.Strange that the head of the Guardian Media Group is apparently on the board? (along with Polly Toynbee).Also-
Now that Mr.Fayed realizes that Diana & Dodi’s fate is to be portrayed as an accident,someone should ask him if he wishes to review his evidence RE: Hamilton,don’t you think?
Those nutty Americans, Part 34,561:
US man arrested in ‘grenade plot’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6163631.stm
Probably a nutty Christian, maybe one of those anti-abortionist extremists.
A man has been arrested in the US state of Illinois on charges of plotting to explode hand grenades at a shopping centre, the FBI said. An FBI statement said the man, Derrick Shareef, 22, tried to trade stereo speakers for four hand grenades and a gun from an undercover agent. Officials said he was acting alone and was not part of a wider group. Mr Shareef had allegedly told an acquaintance he wanted to commit acts of “violent jihad”, the FBI said.
Let’s see what LGF has turned up:
He made a one of those viseos: This may be my last will and testament, the last words I have spoken to those who know me, to those who do not know me. My name is Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef.
http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/2006/12/comrade-konrad-sith-apprentice.html
Previous was wrong link (to site as a whole) sorry.
http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/2006/12/comrade-konrad-sith-apprentice.html
Car bomb blast in holy Iraqi city
A car bomb has killed at least six people and injured dozens in the holy city of Karbala, Iraqi officials say
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6164091.stm
Holy City?
When was the last time you saw the BBC quote the Vatican as a Holy City?
How about the Golden temple, Lourdes, Jerusalem ? In fact it appears that the BBC is only willing to quote something as Holy if its users pray to Mecca five times a day.
Don’t believe me have a search.I did using the attributes that Different anon used in which to glean from the BBC database all the articles the BBC has wrote about Sudan, Oil and China.
Here have a look;
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.bbc.co.uk+holy+city&btnG=Search&meta=
Allah Ackba It appears the BBC is somewhat loath to quote any others faiths pilgrimage points as ‘Holy’ I wonder why?
The BBC and half a story;
Thousands of post offices ‘to go’
The closure of thousands of post offices looks set to be announced next week, with rural loss-making outlets likely to bear the brunt of the cuts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6163931.stm
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The government has been accused of making things worse for post offices with the withdrawal of key contracts such as the Post Office card account, which is used to access pensions and benefits.
The Government? It’s a shame the BBC forgot to mention this knock out blow to every post office in the land in the above article;
The BBC and half a story;
Thousands of post offices ‘to go’
The closure of thousands of post offices looks set to be announced next week, with rural loss-making outlets likely to bear the brunt of the cuts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6163931.stm
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The government has been accused of making things worse for post offices with the withdrawal of key contracts such as the Post Office card account, which is used to access pensions and benefits.
The Government? It’s a shame the BBC forgot to mention this knock out blow to every post office in the land in the above article;
Post Office loses TV licence deal
The Post Office will stop selling television licences after losing its contract with the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4865482.stm
The BBC and half a story…
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UK Ambassador suffers months of harassment and BBC service in Moscow mysteriously goes off the air after the Litvinenko murder
Russian regime is accused of intimidating British interests
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-2495179-2,00.html
Why isn’t this blog on the list for a Webby?! Shoot, if I’d remembered it was going on, I’d have nominated it myself. Or did it get nominated and just not make it to the finals?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6164337.stm
The Hajj is a ritual designed to show that everyone is equal.
Mecca is so holy that no non-Muslim is allowed to enter.
Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others…
The BBC and half a story;
Turkey seizes ‘al-Qaeda’ suspects
Ten people with suspected links to al-Qaeda have been arrested in Turkey, police have said. Among them was a lawyer described as al-Qaeda’s leader in Turkey, the state-run Anatolian news agency said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6164789.stm
The above was published at 14.32 (2.32pm) today.
And here is what Reuters published at 11.21 this morning;(the Initial report came out at 0920)
Police seize Turkish Qaeda leader
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police have detained a lawyer who admitted he was the leader of al Qaeda in Turkey, Anatolian News Agency reported on Saturday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?storyid=2006-12-09T112142Z_01_L09462231_RTRUKOC_0_UK-QAEDA-TURKEY-ARREST.xml&type=worldNews&WTmodLoc=World-C3-More-4
Al Jazeera at 13.39;
‘Turkish al-Qaeda chief’ arrested
Turkish police have detained a 25-year-old lawyer who has admitted he was the leader of al-Qaeda in Turkey, state-run Anatolian News Agency has reported.The detainee has not yet been named.
http://english.aljazeera.net/News/Templates/Postings/DetailedPage.aspx?FRAMELESS=false&NRNODEGUID=%7b591FF1AB-5BA7-43C7-BF09-7C768A45EAC9%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fNR%2fexeres%2f591FF1AB-5BA7-43C7-BF09-7C768A45EAC9%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest
How about the world renowned Evening Echo from Cork at 10.17 this morning;
‘Al-Qaida leader’ detained
Turkish police have detained 10 suspected al-Qaida militants, including a lawyer who identified himself as the group’s leader in Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported today.
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=274208950&p=z74zx99xx&n=274209937
or even the Middleeast news line at 07034
ANKARA [MENL] — Turkey has captured a man believed to be the chief of the Al Qaida network.Officials said the suspect was arrested in the southern city of Hatay. They said the Tunisian national operated along the Turkish-Syrian border.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2006/december/12_10_2.html
The BBC and half the story.
One of “Today”‘s favoured clerics
She said the Bishop of Southwark, Right Rev Tom Butler, 60, tossed out her baby’s toys and refused to leave the car outside a South London bar on Tuesday night. Asked if he had been drinking, he replied: “I am the Bishop of Southwark. It’s what I do.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006570145,00.html
Have Your Say
Should hostage takers be punished?
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=4943&&edition=2&ttl=20061209151709
What leniency should be shown to kidnappers?
The freed British hostage Norman Kember and two other men held with him in Iraq have said they “unconditionally” forgive their captors.
Their fellow American hostage was found shot dead in Baghdad in March.
The hostages said they had no desire to punish their kidnappers.
Should hostages forgive their captors? What signal does this send out? Are actions of kidnappers part of a cycle of violence they themselves experience?
Gee, I don’t know, I guess it’s OK if they only kill Americans… But seriously, is this really up for debate?
Steve_Mac
the idiocy of the BBC sets a new standard.
at least those posting answers to so mule-thick a question are much smarter.
The BBC and gutter-snipe ignorance.
Steve_Mac:
The only reason the odious Kimber “forgives his captors unconditionally” is that he has been on their side all the time, and that his fanaticism is such as to survive even direct contact with the murderers. Let us make an experiment. Let the British State withdraw all his entitlements – State pension, use of the NHS, etc. Do you for a minute imagine that he would ever forgive them?
Fabio
LOL
Zevilyn:
Strange how those who are so quick to (often validly) point out the follies of the Iraq war, such as the BBC, whitewash the situation in Darfur and give viewers the impression that intervention will be a simple matter.
Kirsty “Holywood” Wark fails to point out these factors:
1. The Janjaweed, being able to melt into civilian populations, would be nigh impossible to defeat (civilian casualties innevitable).
2. Al Qaeda is very much active in Sudan, and will likely kill many UN troops. If they have indeed infiltrated refugee camps, it could get VERY ugly.
3. The burden of responsibility is placed on the US and UK, even though it is CHINA and FRANCE who should be asked to do more, especially as they have millitary presence.
4. Intervention by UK in Darfur will INCREASE risk of terror attack, as the BBC so likes to remind us about Iraq.
What this proves is that when the BBC is in favour of invading a country, it is less interested in the difficulties.
Zevilyn | 09.12.06 – 3:36 am | #
Zevilyn, you have touched upon the ridiculousness of the BBC position regarding Iraq. As much as they like to bleat on about ‘Civil War’/’Worse than Civil War’/Vietnam/Armageddon/etc. if the US and UK were to withdraw from Iraq and a true civil war were to erupt – with all the ethnic cleansing and genocide that would surely ensue – who do you think the BBC would expect to enter Iraq and end the killing?
How much harder would it be to solve after we have pulled out? How many more lives would be lost (both civilian and military).
The BBC only favours military action in a ‘Peace Keeping’ role. As far as they are concerned, our army should be an international peace keeping force.
They are so short-sighted, it beggars belief.
Jeff Randall lets rip on keeping Christmas Christian – even though he’s agnostic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=J0OJ3JTQT4UN1QFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/12/08/do0801.xml
“The freed British hostage Norman Kember and two other men held with him in Iraq have said they “unconditionally” forgive their captors.”
so if we follow that logic, will Mr Kember “unconditionally” forgive the S.S. soldiers that dropped Zyklon-B into the gas chambers at Treblinka and Auschwitz?
Mr Kember is ,i’m afraid, so deluded, that he can’t even see the work of Satan on this planet. (i’m atheist btw, just using a term that he might understand)
Pounce, re: the post offices. In this case it’s not even half the story, as every major media outlet has spectacularly failed to mentiong the elephant in the room. Again.
These post-offices are closing because of an EU directive requiring “competition” to be enforced in all sectors. This isn’t real competition, of course; it’s the sort of faux competition that makes a mockery of the word, forcing successful businesses to close up or face government censure. The post offices are being closed to make way for EU-mandated franchises on the existing postale network, while the idea that a company might try and set up a competing postal network is simpy not even raised. The PO was also forced to sell off most of its london parcel courier service so that our “government” could tick the relevant boxes on the directive, and since it used that service to subsidise its national postal network it’s really not surprising that they started cutting corners. Some of this sell-off and closure of post offices is a conseuence of that. The rest is, as in Ashton Under Lyne (downt he road from me), enforced “competition”.
On top of that, because it was a regulatory directive and not a simple legislative one, our parliament didn’t even get the chance to rubber-stamp the whole thing. They were simply bypassed.
It’s a big elephant, this government over the sea.
archonix writes:
“It’s a big elephant, this government over the sea.”
It certainly is. And another aspect of the enforced EU nonsense on the postal service is the absurd new pricing scheme for letters: introduced to satisfy the mad ravings of crazed Eurocrats.
And the relevance of this to the BBC? Simply that it will never reveal the truth of how much self-governance we have lost. Indeed, it will connive to make sure we lose ever more.
Oh that pricing scheme drives me nuts. It’s a “harmonising” thing and, since the french use it and we don’t, we have to change. Idiots.
Of course it seems that the EU might be coming apart at the seams fairly soon…
http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20061209140817701
Saturday, December 09 2006 @ 07:04 PM EST
BBC news claims the following:
“Jimmy Carter Book Facts Ignored by Media”
“And now we are experiencing it again, the Dennis Prager story, thousands of readers. A story about Jimmy Carter, his new book and the plight of the Palestinians. And Google ignores it as if it does not exist. This is horribly wrong and Americans deserve to get some answers as to why they are not being told the truth. It directly affects US security, and this important aspect is left out. Even when it comes from one of the most respected peace leaders of our time, Jimmy Carter.”
I decided to experiment on my own. I googled “Palestinians” and “The wall”, and I got “1,250,000 for palestinians and the wall. (0.14 seconds)”
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=palestinians+and+the+wall&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
I’m wondering why they would allege such a thing without actually trying it first.
Sorry, sorry: Scrape my earlier post. I rushed in where even angels should tread very carefully. That was not BBC but some media outlet called BBS. Damn.
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UN downgrades man’s impact on the climate
A United Nations report on climate change will claim next year that mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/10/nclimate10.xml
Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world
Russian pair challenge UK expert over global warming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1552092,00.html
Any bets that the BBC don’t mention that UN climate change report ?, the Global Warming nonsense will have cost us £ billions before the world realises “Global Warming was all a Loony Lefty Conspiracy.
When the true believer communists saw that their great “western” hope and funder the USSR was falling the Reds became Greens. This is really an old story.
Viewers force BBC to honour Walliams
Claims of vote rigging as Channel-swimming comic misses sport awards shortlist
THE BBC has bowed to public pressure and will tonight honour David Walliams, the Little Britain comedy actor, for swimming the Channel, at its sports personality of the year awards.
All week the corporation has been receiving complaints from viewers about the absence from the 10-strong shortlist of Walliams, 35, who made the crossing in a remarkable 10Å hours.
In a year of sporting disappointment, some have alleged that the BBC has rigged the voting process to avoid a potentially embarrassing victory for the actor known for his transvestite sketches and catchphrase “I’m a laydee”. Past winners include the late Bobby Moore, Sir Steve Redgrave and Ian Botham.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-2496461-523,00.html
An Anti-War view, but not the kind you will see on the BBC:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=17545
Intelectually honest and consistent, even if you disagree with it, which is more than can be said for the Beeb’s output and commentary.
On the subject of the Post Office, the EU’s meddling means that many poor people without bank accounts, pensioners, and those in rural areas, are going to get completely screwed.
The big winners from the EU policy are the banks, because without the Post Office there is no alternative to them.
BTW I have just recalled that the BBC dismissed Nintendo as a “toy company” a few years back and said Microsoft and Sony were the only serious (i.e big corps with heavy media connections) contenders.
Oh, how stupid they are going to look now, with the “toy company” likely to give Sony and MS a serious kicking (look how the DS is killing the PSP).
Zevilyn | 09.12.06 – 3:36 am
What this proves is that when the BBC is in favour of invading a country, it is less interested in the difficulties.
I’m unconvinced that the BBC is in favour of invading Sudan. After all, the country is under the control of Arab Muslims. This certainly makes it out of bounds in the BBC’s book. In its half-hearted reporting on Darfur, the BBC continually tiptoes around the central fact of the genocide carried out by Arab Muslims against African Muslims.
The BBC appears to be quite content to see the genocide continue. It’s appalling.
An example of that bias which Jeff Randall calls ‘visceral’.
Radio 4 ‘Sunday’ programme. (Mr) Ed Stourton in chair. Two guests are debating whether Israel is guilty of human rights violations in the Palestinian Territories.
The prosecution kicks off. The Defence responds. Mr Ed cross examines the defence on behalf of the prosecution. Defence responds briefly. The same pattern is repeated. The piece then ends as it begun – with a speech for the prosecution.
“What’s wrong with that?” someone (John Reith?) might ask. Well two things.
Firstly, the amount of time given to the two protagonists was unequal, with substantially more time being given to the prosecution to put their case.
Viz – prosecution = 2mins 55secs uninterrupted exposition time including 1m 27secs at the end of the piece • the crucial time, as this is the final impression which the listener takes away.
defence = 2m 05 secs.
Secondly, the way Mr Ed used his power of cross examination. He twice cross examined the defence whereas he left assertions made by the prosecution unchallenged. In the second intervention it was certainly a hostile cross examination conducted on behalf of the cross examination.
Such use of editorial power is very telling, and the balance of this piece is typical.
Damn.
Should read
“Secondly, the way Mr Ed used his power of cross examination. He twice cross examined the defence whereas he left assertions made by the prosecution unchallenged. In the second intervention it was certainly a hostile cross examination conducted on behalf of the prosecution.”
Schoolboy-Error | 09.12.06 – 11:18 am
http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/2006/12/comrade-konrad-sith-apprentice.html
Yes, thanks for that. I can’t say I’m suprised. The symbiosis between the Labour Party and the entire UK media (both broadcast and print), most especially The Guardian and BBC, is utterly staggering. It’s frankly a wonder that the Conservative Party has lasted quite as long as it has.
What do the BBC report about what is going on in France –
“BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell enjoys a cartoon book about French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, and grasps the strategy of his Socialist rival, Segolene Royal.”
BUT NOT THIS –
“In a classified report, the French military has concluded that a network of 25,000 Muslim fighters are participating in the worst violence in France in more than 40 years.”
Read it all here –
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/12/frances_transfo.html#comments
The Mushroom media ‘keeping us in the dark and feeding us bullshit’.
??? Britain Next, I would guess ???
A little more has surfaced about ‘Green Helmet’ and ‘creative journalism’ ex Lebanon.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185655.php
Not strictly on topic
but worth a read.
“Of course it seems that the EU might be coming apart at the seams fairly soon…
archonix | Homepage | 09.12.06 – 10:48 pm | # ”
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/12/whiff-of-panic.html
is it just me, or does the lead photo in that article have a whiff of the USSR ?
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4640/388/1600/830820/Prodi%20social%20europe.jpg
the more i look at it, the more scarey it is.
archduke
Why wouldn’t it have the whiff of the USSR? Apparently Prodi was a KGB agent after all!
The Today Programme site is somewhat Stalinist too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/
In other news, John Boloton rules and shows exactly why he’ll be missed, in the Today Programme’s Godless Advent Calender. Click on number 4:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/adventcalendar/index.shtml
yeah – heard that live the first time around. short , sharp Bolton answer to a meandering,endless, agenda setting Beeboid question….
he’ll be missed alright.
“Ambassador”(British) “suffers months of harassment and BBC service
in Moscow mysteriously goes off air after the Litvinenko murder”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk (Dec.9)
Has the BBC publicly condemned the Russian government for this censorship? Or, is the BBC using its typical cop-out that this case only has to do with the BBC World Service,
which is financed by, and reflects, UK Labour government interests?
The BBC and selling out to the enemy.
I see the BBC has no problem informing its masters of British troop movements.
British soldiers to escort VIPs
A group of British soldiers has been handpicked to escort diplomats through central Baghdad – one of the most dangerous routes in the world. About 50 Scottish soldiers from 6/36 Battery – part of 40 Regiment Royal Artillery – have been chosen for the high-profile task. They will collect top consular officials from the city’s airport and take them to the fortified Green Zone. The artillery unit will take up its three-month posting in the New Year. The gunners from 6/36 Battery have been preparing for their new role since arriving at base in Shaibah, near Basra, in October.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6166613.stm
lets see,
Inform the terrorists of British troop movements;
“They will collect top consular officials from the city’s airport and take them to the fortified Green Zone “
When they will take up position;
” The artillery unit will take up its three-month posting in the New Year.”
Where they are now;
“The gunners from 6/36 Battery have been preparing for their new role since arriving at base in Shaibah, near Basra, in October.”
What kind of vehicles they will use;
“Travelling in convoys of snatch Land Rovers, the heavily armed soldiers will escort visitors, who will be riding in armoured Mercedes cars.”
And just who they left behind at home so that our own aspirant terrorists can do their bit for Mohammed and Allah;
“The 24-year-old is due to marry his partner of four years, medical student Sarah Mulvany, 22, in Aberdeen in July.”
It seems that while the BBC has no problem withholding the names and location of terrorists in the UK. It doesn’t have the same problem with those the faithful wish to kill.
The BBC and selling out to the enemy.
“Britain starts to drop US term ‘war on terror’.
“British Foreign Office is urging government officials to stop using the US term ‘war on terror’ amid concerns it angers British Muslims.” (AFP report, source below).
Will dhimmi BBC follow suit?
As ‘Jihadwatch/dhimmiwatch’
(rightly) points out:-
” This measure makes no sense as an
attempt to improve its relationship with Muslim communities. The term
‘war on terror’is itself a symptom of
our elected officials’ failure to name the enemy – who and what we are fighting, and by extension, why. It would be encouraging if the decision
to drop ‘war on terror’ came in order to rebrand it as something accurate and useful – say, the ‘war
against jihad’ – but clearly, what will follow the retirement of this term will be more euphemisms for what was a euphemism in the first place.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/ (10 Dec).
Imagine youself using the replacement phrase, al Beeb:
‘WAR AGAINST JIHAD’. It has a certain ring to it: the ring of truth.
A propos the ongoing violence in France there was a brilliant article last year by Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihadwatch:
“The Legacy of Algerie francaise: France algerienne”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008890.php