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CNN`S Dan Rivers talked exclusively with Terrorist Jemaah Islamiyah
Video:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=3156504&ch=49799&src=news
The BBC, its hatred of America and how it uses our tax money in which to promote that agenda.
What fuels anti-Americanism?
What do you think is behind anti-American feelings in certain regions?
The BBC’s Washington correspondent Justin Webb investigated growing anti-American sentiment worldwide.
He travelled to Paris, Cairo, and Caracas to explore its cause.
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6681&&&edition=1&ttl=20070625174738
A comment added to the Telegraph’s report on “Seesaws”
Needless to say, I have written to Bowen in the past about the bias.
The reply was a jaw-dropping explanation of how Bowen and BBC report stories based on ’40 years of oppression’ by the Israelis.
Posted by Steve G NYC on June 19, 2007 7:01 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/19/do1903.xml
The BBC, its love for a particular faith and half a story
Woman wins ginger jibes tribunal
A waitress sexually taunted at work over her red hair has been awarded £17,618 compensation by an employment tribunal. Sarah Primmer, 41, of Renown Street, Plymouth, suffered a series of lewd and embarrassing comments until she was sacked from the city’s Rendezvous Cafe. She claimed unfair dismissal and sexual harassment at the establishment. The award was made against Mayflower Kebabs Ltd, Kemal Koyunco, Malik Aldogan and Laxtone Ltd. The Exeter tribunal chairman, Christa Christensen, said the “regular sexual harassment and innuendo” suffered by Ms Primmer had affected her self-esteem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6238332.stm
And here is what the BBC doesn’t report for the great unwashed;
Tribunal chairman Christa Christensen said in judgment that there was “regular sexual harassment and innuendo by Zia”.He asked Ms Primmer questions about the colour of her pubic hair, the size of her chest, the size of her boyfriend’s penis and which sexual positions she preferred.The chairman said an aggravating factor was the fact that Zia apparently translated his comments into Turkish for the benefit of other members of staff.
http://www.24dash.com/communities/22910.htm
Ginger abuse or sexual harassment BBC
The BBC, its love for a particular faith and half a story
“The tribunal was told he had apparently translated his comments into Turkish for the benefit of other members of staff. ”
is in the BBC news article.
NOTICE HOW THE BBC NO LONGER CALLS THEM PALESTINAN PRISONERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6235804.stm
While illc*nt (ex-BBC) defends the BBC’s use of kidnap when talking about Al-AnJohnston and capture when describing Gilad Shalit’s abduction by quoting the BBC’s own guidelines, I am not alone in seeing their choice of words as bias.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25993_Palestinian_War_Crime-_Gilad_Shalit_Tape_Released&only
pounce:
The BBC, its love for a particular faith and half a story
Or rather, pounce and his incessant need to find pro-Muslim bias in the most unremarkable stories.
As Jonathan points out above, your critique falls at the first fence.
“The tribunal was told he had apparently translated his comments into Turkish for the benefit of other members of staff” is in the BBC news article…despite pounce’s claim that it was not.
Rather like the non-scandal of the Kenyan religious schools…
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/patrickcrozier/1942040803175186263/#362140
…the scandal of the ginger waitress tells us nothing about BBC reporting at all, but everything about pounce’s unreliability and his determination to find bias which does not exist.
Biased BBC: pounce and prejudice
All this stuff about Glastonbury means that I feel compelled to pass on an observation I made at the weekend.
I attended the rival festival, Hyde Park Calling. For the uninitiated this was a different collection of popular beat combos entertaining those who prefer listening to guitar-based rock music while standing in a rain-sodden field.
It gave this here yokel a chance to visit the capital for the first time in years and see how Ken Livingstone’s city is getting on.
Well, the thing that most caught my eye was that each act performing had one of several signers – that is signers for deaf people – on stage with them.
Ponder that for a moment. Someone, somewhere felt it necessary to cater for those people who were hard of hearing. At a rock festival!
Now I am all in favour of inclusion where ever possible, but how many deaf people would say “I’m profoundly deaf, but despite that handicap I think I’ll shell out £45 and stand in a field while musicians play music that I am unable to listen to”?
It could be that the organisers wanted to cater for minorities within minorities; deaf people who were also very stupid perhaps?
Apart from Neil Finn (of Crowded House) none of the artists seemed to think that this was at all remarkable.
Anyhow, I think resource allocation should have been different – instead of a team of signers a few additional bag searchers and trash collectors would have been better.
Question for Londoners: is this sort of thing typical of the stuff going down in your city?
Biodegradababble:
While illc*nt (ex-BBC) defends the BBC’s use of kidnap when talking about Al-AnJohnston and capture when describing Gilad Shalit’s abduction by quoting the BBC’s own guidelines, I am not alone in seeing their choice of words as bias.
No, indeed. Your opinion is confirmed by littlegreenfootballs (though they look suspiciously like rugby balls to me), who were awarded the “Best Israel Advocacy Blog” award from the Jerusalem Post in 2005, apparently. So no chance of bias there, then…
Biased BBC: Comfortably Dumb
Anonymous on signing for the deaf at the Hyde Park concert:
It could be that the organisers wanted to cater for minorities within minorities; deaf people who were also very stupid perhaps?
Anyhow, I think resource allocation should have been different – instead of a team of signers a few additional bag searchers and trash collectors would have been better.
Question for Londoners: is this sort of thing typical of the stuff going down in your city?
What? Consideration for the less fortunate? How appalling…
Oh wait, here’s an article about how deaf people can appreciate music through vibration without hearing it like the rest of us…
Scientists believe they have discovered why deaf people can enjoy listening to music and why some can perform or, like Beethoven, even compose.
Dr Dean Shibata, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Washington, has found that deaf people sense musical vibrations in the part of the brain other people use for hearing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1678419.stm
So people who can enjoy music in a different way get a little help understanding what the singer’s saying…
Which part of non-metropolitan Britain does not believe in helping people?
Biased BBC: Comfortably Dumb (reprise)
The “deaf-signers” at the Hyde Park concert were not giving their time and expertise for nothing. They were paid for out of general taxation.
The fact that this kind of public expenditure is completely useless and parasitic may eventually lead people to question whether they wish go on paying for it, and if not, to vote accordingly.
The same applies to the BBC television licence fee.
Which part of non-metropolitan Britain does not believe in helping people?
Tell you what, why don’t we build a stair lift to the summit of Mt. Everest? That way mobility-impaired people could get up there. I mean, why should summit views be limited to those who have full use of their limbs?
Sheffield floods @ 9.20pm
Sky News [which costs me nothing] has live pics of helicopter rescues in Sheffield town centre.
BBC [the ppl who boast about ‘having more correspondents than anyone else] is showing still pics of… err, well there’s a muddy puddle, and a car, and a bigger puddle….
so its back to Sky.
Pathetic BBC. Heads should roll.
What? Consideration for the less fortunate? How appalling…
how condescending.
so how was glastonbury hillhunt,the lentil burgers good ?
p.s we didn’t miss you….,well maybe just a bit.
further to above…
If I complain to the ASA about the misleading Beeb ads ‘we bring you breaking news as it happens’ [or simlr] then will they have to pull them?
If I complain to trading standards about BBC mis-selling, can I reclaim my license fee?
..and Sky is now showing ppl being rescued from trees by helicopter – live! BBC is showing recorded footage from ‘earlier today’.
The Beeb obviously has no live feed. I suspect there’ll be an ‘internal inquiry’ into how utterly outclassed they were on this.
Talking of disabilties. Has anyone seen ‘Me Too’ on Cbeebies? The blind fruit & veg salesman always makes me laugh. How the hell does he stack his stall so precisely each morning, and I hope he has washed his hands as he fumbles about. Oh sorry, he never fumbles & has no problems finding the required item as it’s just to his left & slightly down. He’s also a pretty good artist. Yeah!
I’m 70% deaf & know my limits, why can’t the Beeb acknowledge others limitations. We not all superheroes!
Biased BBC: Comfortably Dumb (reprise)
hillhunt | 25.06.07 – 9:04 pm |
are you a pink floyd fan by any chance
hillhunt…..yawn.
callmedave:
are you a pink floyd fan by any chance
hillhunt…..yawn.
Nah. Ted Nugent butters my grits. Or gutters my Brits. Or buggers my tits.
Or something….
seem to remember you saying live aid
2 was worth it for seeing pink floyd reform,i smell porkies
and i’ll bet double live gonzo’s never ever been near your record deck.
Bryan:
deegee | 24.06.07 – 1:52 pm,
Ah, light dawns. Thanks.
(Too tired to respond to your post above.)
Bryan | 24.06.07 – 11:46 pm | #
What!?
Did you not notice that he singularly failed to answer my question?
cockney
Ah yes “art and culture” as a description of what it is that goes on at Glastonbury. I admit it’s not the type of music I like – or, rather, have liked since I grew up. I also admit it may be a genre in which Britain leads the world and probably generates a lot of money but “art and culture”? I don’t think so.
MisterMinit | 25.06.07 – 10:54 pm,
What question? Give us a link or the date/time. I can’t go trawling through the thread to find your question.
And who failed to answer it? Me or deegee?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26004_Danes_Burn_Mohammed_in_Effigy#comments
Is this great or what – now Scots have to have a license for their furry sporrans! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6234290.stm
It’s good to know it’s not just America that’s gone completely nuts! 😀
Pounce,
Tetched off by poster TB’s comment
on HYS: What Fuels Anti-Americanism:
I can’t think of any other country which has bombed and invaded as many nations as the USA.
I asked if that included Russia and Red China, not to mention Germany and Japan and even, forgive me, a certain nation with the initials UK, (Hey, you guys invaded us – twice!!) BTW TB is a fellow American, which doesn’t really surprise me. Homegrown anti-americanism dwarfs anything overseas.
Why has it taken a wet cleric to point out that mass migration is changing our nation asks MAX HASTINGS
“There is no case for weasel words. The reality facing this country is simply stated. An almost unlimited number of people from poor countries, and from societies where they are oppressed and threatened, want to come to Britain.
At present, they are arriving in numbers which threaten our social stability and the capacity of communities to absorb them, and indeed promise to change the character of this country.
Today, as a result of the Tories’ near-silence, more than a few of their natural supporters seep away to lunatic fringe groups”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=464355&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=464&in_check=N
The BBC, still covering for their terrorist friends:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6239604.stm
Cpl Shalit has been held for a year after being seized by militants near the border between Gaza and Israel.
Cpl Shalit was in fact kidnapped by terrorists, not militants, well within the border, in Israeli territory.
No, indeed. Your opinion is confirmed by littlegreenfootballs (though they look suspiciously like rugby balls to me), who were awarded the “Best Israel Advocacy Blog” award from the Jerusalem Post in 2005, apparently. So no chance of bias there, then…
Biased BBC: Comfortably Dumb
hillhunt | 25.06.07 – 8:55 pm
Of course illc*nt is more a Huffington Post man, no bias there either. From the same LGF link:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25993_Palestinian_War_Crime-_Gilad_Shalit_Tape_Released&only
Boobaloo
I agree with you giginthesky. My point is we should not care about what happens to a jewish soldier … he’s probably killed many innocent people in the name of Israel, he’s not innocent in any way. The only innocents are the civilians. Frankly, I dont think anyone does care about him, its just the media which has become a passive conduit for propaganda by pro-isreali and zionist lobbies.
If Israel actually wanted peace, there would’ve been peace a long time ago but, what Israel wants is all of Palestine and all of Lebanon. They can only have this via two methods: Genocide and constant war.
Hillhunt: Huffing and puffing.
max:
How the hell does citing a few articles interspersed over the past year prove me wrong about the BBC’s willful failure to report adequately on the Jihad being waged in southern Thailand? Last week, some thirteen schools were burned to the ground by Islamists in southern Thailand. Many people were also murdered in drive-by shootings and roadside bombs injured others. The BBC has not adequately reported any of this. Buddhist school teachers, rubber-tappers and labourers are murdered, beheaded, doused in kerosine and burnt on a daily basis in southern Thailand. And the BBC is deliberately ignoring it, or is at the very least under-reporting it. That is a fact. And they have their reasons for doing this. And I think we all know what they are. It would also have been nice if the BBC had given more coverage (or any at all, because I can’t recall seeing any) about the case of Lina Joy in neighbouring Malaysia who recently lost her case to legally convert from Islam to Christianity. Federal Court Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim’s ruling in Kuala Lumpur (capital of “moderate” Malaysia) that “You can’t at whim and fancy convert from one religion to another” would have enlightened many viewers in the UK about the true nature of that much vaunted Islamic virtue: tolerance. The reaction of the assembled large crowd outside the courtroom who cheered and shouted “God is great” would have enlightened them even more.
It seems that BBC staff can’t do simple Math.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
In this page, Under “Bad phrase” column, the number of comments is listed as
Comments (17)
But, when I clicked on the comments, there are only 11 comments.
It has taken a little longer than I expected Now it is pay back time for those Banks (UK&US) for reckless lending, a 10 year boom backed by nothing else than cheap credit. While China has been building a sustainable economy.
“Banks set to call in a swathe of loans”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/26/cnusecon126.xml
Cpl Shalit has been held for a year after being seized by militants near the border between Gaza and Israel.
Cpl Shalit was in fact kidnapped by terrorists, not militants, well within the border, in Israeli territory.
Biodegradable | 26.06.07 – 1:29 am
I recall it was discussed here that in the months after the kidnapping the BBC did a funny little dance, mostly reporting that he’d been captured in Gaza but occasionally grudgingly conceding that he’d been captured in a cross-border raid from Gaza.
Now they are back to hiding the truth yet again.
More slippery than a bar of soap.
But, when I clicked on the comments, there are only 11 comments.
S | 26.06.07 – 6:24 am
Someone gave a long technical explanation for that on this blog a few months ago, but I still dunno why it happens.
But if there are in fact 6 hidden comments, I’d really like to see them rather than watching the BBC try to hide its treasonous actions.
But you are right. I’ve noticed that BBC staff (and other journalists) have an allergic reaction to math. Could be that’s why they have such difficulty with simple logic as well.
MisterMinit | 25.06.07 – 10:54 pm
Did you not notice that he singularly failed to answer my question?
I assumed your question was:
So how does this show the BBC’s hatred of Jews exactly?
I gave three indicators:
1) Offensive use of the noun form ‘Jew’ as adjective. Google “Jew AND adjective” for pages of references.
2) Offensive and incorrect use of ‘infidel’ as a synonym for non-Jews/Gentiles. Apart from the adaptation of Muslim rather than Jewish terminology the word intrinsically relates to the second-class status of non-Muslims.
3) The snub implicit in But I don’t have time for religious revelations Revelation is generally not a Jewish trope but why pick on the Jews at all when there were so many other religious targets?
The Jewish tent was apparently organized by Jewdass.org who don’t provide an email for contact. So it’s possible the journalist was simply quoting a weak attempt at satire. If you can provide photographic evidence or another report using the same words I will happily back-down.
I took the report to be a gratuitous throw away line by BBC reporter secure in the belief that the BBC (and the sub editors) will overlook ‘mild’ antisemitism. Had it raised any red flags in editing the offending paragraph could easily have been rewritten. A banner on the Jewish tent said “‘Jew Tent’ Jews and Infidels welcome” but I didn’t have time to explore this further. 🙁
The BBC, how it champions a certain minority and harming yourself.
Pipe dream
The impending smoking ban in England could spell the end for cafes which practise the ancient habit of shisha. “I know this is going to sound like a strange description,” said Kate as she inhaled deeply on her shisha pipe. “But it’s almost the equivalent of being on your own and getting into a lovely fragrant bubble bath.” She’s a devotee of shisha, the Arabic water-pipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt using coal, passed through an ornate water vessel and inhaled through a hose. Shisha smoking venues first started appearing in England along the Edgware Road in the 70s, largely fuelled by the Gulf Arab expat community.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6238382.stm
But BBC no matter how much your make the ancient practice of Shisha sounds like euphoria at the end of the day it is still smoking.
However the BBC informs the reader that shisha is actually a team building event;
“Shisha cafes, in which pipes can be shared between friends, are seen as an alternative to the pub for a social night out. “For myself, I know I’ll lose a place that I can go out with my Asian friends who I can’t go out to the pub with,” Kate said of the impending ban.
If that doesn’t get you, they inform you the ban is destroying s certain culture;
“”If you look at the impact of taking the shisha out of this culture, you’re talking about disrupting and destroying the whole pattern of community activity.”
Mind you credit must be given to the BBC for also giving the other side of the story from that community;
Dr Azzam Tamimi, an Islamist campaigner said, on a recent visit to Shishawi cafe: “I am one of those who believe it is forbidden in Islam to smoke, because it is forbidden to harm yourself.”
AH the BBC brings out Dr Azzam Tamimi in which to say that under Islam it is forbidden to harm yourself. Which is funny as the BBC had this to report about Dr Tamini 10 months ago;
Dr Azzam Tamimi, who is one of the guest speakers at the ExpoIslamia convention, has said suicide bombings are justified in certain circumstances.
Maybe one of the BBC clones would CAIR to inform us mere plebs just what that old BBC staple, Dr (Does my bomb look big in this) Tamimi stands by saying it is forbidden under Islam to harm yourself.
The BBC, how it champions a certain minority and harming yourself.
The BBC, how it champions a certain minority and harming yourself.
Pipe dream
The impending smoking ban in England could spell the end for cafes which practise the ancient habit of shisha. “I know this is going to sound like a strange description,” said Kate as she inhaled deeply on her shisha pipe. “But it’s almost the equivalent of being on your own and getting into a lovely fragrant bubble bath.” She’s a devotee of shisha, the Arabic water-pipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt using coal, passed through an ornate water vessel and inhaled through a hose. Shisha smoking venues first started appearing in England along the Edgware Road in the 70s, largely fuelled by the Gulf Arab expat community.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6238382.stm
But BBC no matter how much your make the ancient practice of Shisha sounds like euphoria at the end of the day it is still smoking.
However the BBC informs the reader that shisha is actually a team building event;
“Shisha cafes, in which pipes can be shared between friends, are seen as an alternative to the pub for a social night out. “For myself, I know I’ll lose a place that I can go out with my Asian friends who I can’t go out to the pub with,” Kate said of the impending ban.
If that doesn’t get you, they inform you the ban is destroying s certain culture;
“”If you look at the impact of taking the shisha out of this culture, you’re talking about disrupting and destroying the whole pattern of community activity.”
Mind you credit must be given to the BBC for also giving the other side of the story from that community;
Dr Azzam Tamimi, an Islamist campaigner said, on a recent visit to Shishawi cafe: “I am one of those who believe it is forbidden in Islam to smoke, because it is forbidden to harm yourself.”
AH the BBC brings out Dr Azzam Tamimi in which to say that under Islam it is forbidden to harm yourself. Which is funny as the BBC had this to report about Dr Tamini 10 months ago;
Dr Azzam Tamimi, who is one of the guest speakers at the ExpoIslamia convention, has said suicide bombings are justified in certain circumstances.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5268256.stm
Maybe one of the BBC clones would CAIR to inform us mere plebs just what that old BBC staple, Dr (Does my bomb look big in this) Tamimi stands by saying it is forbidden under Islam to harm yourself.
The BBC, how it champions a certain minority and harming yourself.
The BBC, how it champions a certain minority and harming yourself.
pounce (correction) | 26.06.07 – 9:15 am
Mind-boggling. Tamimi reckons it’s OK to blow himself apart but smoking isn’t. Must be because a Muslim smoking doesn’t kill Jews.
Pounce: at any rate, how ancient can it be, since tobacco was introduced to Europe – and to Turkey – in the 1500s? Not older, I imagine, than pipe and cigar smoking and snuff chewing.
Aha.
No mention I see of this morning’s Today programme feature on ‘honour killings’ pegged to a File on Four investigation due for broadcast tonight.
Despite the use of the ‘M’ and ‘I’ words.
And despite the reve4lation that ‘honour killings’ in UK are being spurred on by Islamist extremists – some with terrorist connections.
Just the kind of story that would be highlighted here if it had been in the Telegraph.
But the fact that it was the BBC who ran this investigation – and came to these conclusions – doesn’t suit the B-BBC agenda, which is to misrepresent the BBC as in thrall to Islamist interests.
Northumbrian | 26.06.07 – 3:26 am |
I’m not disagreeing with you at all. What you point out is correct.
What I was trying to say is that when they do bother to report on and from the region, they favour their Islamic friends’ viewpoint and use the same sort of relativism/disinformation/ommision/pro-Muslim slant they use when dealing with the Middle-East.
If you read the articles I’ve linked to, which are examples of their pro Islamic bias, you’d see what I mean.
Re: Aha.
One instance of the BBC doing what they’re supposed to do proves what exactly?
Anybody else see the BBC report this article or is it as I surmise been relegated for a reason.
BBC ‘sorry’ for Iggy racist word
The BBC has apologised after rock star Iggy Pop used a racist term during the coverage of the Glastonbury Festival. During a studio interview after his performance, the veteran musician made the remark while talking about visiting shops in north London. Hosts Jo Whiley and Mark Radcliffe made no on-air apology on Saturday night, prompting three viewer complaints. A spokesman for the corporation said: “We would like to apologise if anyone was offended.”
…………
In the interview, the singer launched into a long anecdote about going to Camden, and visiting “Paki shops”. The presenters on the BBC Two programme made no reference to the word after it had been said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6238680.stm
Yup BBC nothing like 4 beheadings and a funeral in which to make you quake in your boots with worry in case the victims of the world come looking for you.
BBC’s directors to waive bonuses
BBC executives have waived their annual bonuses for 2006/2007 after failing to meet their full diversity targets. According to the corporation, the BBC Direction Group had “collectively decided” not to take bonuses valued at about £350,000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6240208.stm
Silly me, there I was thinking that a bonus was something extra, not of the normal pay plan. So please spare me this BBC sanctimonious cods wallop about how magnanimous the BBC executives are for given up something that isn’t a given.
What would be noble of the mandarins at the BBC is if they took a pay cut. )can’t have that can we. If they actually gave the British public a non political program which they would actually watch. (Think Father Ted, Doc Martin, Teachers etc..)
Sack Abu Bowen, Plett and their acolytes and bring in newer fresher blood untainted by shisha smoking.
So there was the ITN News last night, dramatic shots of people being rescued by helicopter from a flood in a major English city, Sheffield. By way of contrast, the BBC had live action all right – a chap stood beside a nice looking bridge in a place called Tenbury Wells which must be in the Midlands somewhere.
Does anybody know where Tenbury Wells is? And why it’s so important? Senior Beeboids live there? Or have a country cottage perhaps? Or is it just the Beeb spending money getting reporters to places where the story isn’t?
I wouldn’t mind were it not that I have to pay for this rubbish.
pounce – from your post:
“The BBC had pledged to employ 12.5% of black and minority staff by 31 December 2007.”
12.5%? How exactly did the BBC come up with that figure?
The BBC, Honour Murders and a smoke screen.
‘Honour’ violence ‘terror-linked’
There are links between some cases of “honour” violence in Britain and extremist groups abroad, a BBC investigation has been told.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6239804.stm
What a crock of shite from the BBC. By implying that maybe, just maybe the warped idiots who commit crimes of honour are a small minority who have a habit of blowing up London underground therefore absolving the male oriented culture of Islam which oppresses women in the name of religious freedoms.
Religious freedoms which if looked at in the clear light of day amount to clear breaches of human rights for all except male muslims.
Yet the BBC promotes this image that only a small minority subscribe to the notion of Honour crimes and that small minority are also the ones who want to blow up the world. Yeah right maybe that explains how Muslim women in the west are forced to wear religious garbs which exist only in the Middle East. Yet Muslim men for some strange reason can wear what they want. But according to their coda they are more pious than women. Yet when was the last time you saw a Muslim man beaten for wearing western clothes?
Another white-wash from the BBC in which to excuse a far-right oppressive movement from the mores of it nature which have no right to be sanctioned in any country (never mind the west) as a religious right. Terrorist indeed. What next from the BBC that the smoking is good for you?
The BBC, Honour Murders and a smoke screen.
“…. and snuff chewing.”
Fabio P.Barbieri | Homepage | 26.06.07 – 9:21 am
Please don`t try to chew snuff, it goes up the nose 😉
Anybody see the Gordon Brown Panorama last night. Fantastic – riped him to shreds I thought.