THOSE CONSERVATIVE MULLAHS.

Listened to a report on Today this morning around 6.20am concerning the saga of the death sentence handed down by the Afghan authorities to a 23 year old student whose crime was to download an article of the net on the treatment of women in Islamic societies and noted the references by the BBC correspondent to the “conservative” mullahs behind this rampant stone(ing) age intolerance compared to the “liberal” elements with Afghanistan that want to see the sentence reversed. Now I know that he is not actually suggesting that the Mullahs are card carrying members of Cameron’s party BUT the term “conservative” is smeared in this way by attaching it to the behaviour of these radical Islamic barbarians and I suggest to you that the BBC knows exactly what it is doing when allowing this language air-time.

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12 Responses to THOSE CONSERVATIVE MULLAHS.

  1. John Ward says:

    Yet another subliminal message that the BBC is sneaking into its audience’s minds… I shall listen out for this one or anything similar!

    Incidentally, I notice that you put your article titles within the body (in bold caps) instead of in the subject area. This means that, unlike other sites, your articles’ titles do not appear in places such as Politics Home’s Top 100 section.

    I’d be tempted to start putting the title in its rightful place, which could well attract more people to this site, which would be good.

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  2. Joel says:

    I would suggest that this is one of hundreds of ridiculous examples of bias you have detailed here…but that’s only a ‘conservative’ estimate…and you can take that with a ‘liberal’ pinch of salt.

    See what I’ve done there?

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  3. David Vance says:

    Joel,

    I doubt any cares less what you do, except perhaps for your parents.

    John,

    Thank you for that suggestion. I must do as you say.

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  4. Anonymous says:

    According to a previous post, the BBC freely admitted that they would refer to the Conservative party as ‘tories’. They can’t be doing it both ways can they?

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  5. Anonymous says:

    Joel:
    I would suggest that this is one of hundreds of ridiculous examples of bias you have detailed here…but that’s only a ‘conservative’ estimate…and you can take that with a ‘liberal’ pinch of salt.

    See what I’ve done there?

    Why doesn’t the BBC use the term “hardliner” in this instance? Fewer syllables. When typed it has fewer characters.

    The BBC’s Thesaurus seems to go AWOL for these stories and the word ‘conservative’ gets trotted out. No question that they do it deliberately.

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  6. Anonymous says:

    Of course it is so-called “Liberal” Liebour who have just introduced a law in this country making it an imprisonable offence to download images of sexual activities that they disapprove of (even when carried out by consenting adults). I notice Al-Beeb have been very quiet on this.

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  7. Anony says:

    I don’t know, I thought Joel’s comment could be read either way. Perhaps he is saying that the examples of bias were ridiculous (i.e. not really bias at all), perhaps he is saying that the BBC is ridiculously biased.
    Just trying to be fair!

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  8. la marquise says:

    Wahabist Taliban and those in sympathy with a hard-line interpretation of Shariah, see themselves as the avant-garde of an Islamic Reformation, propagating an ultra-modern purified Islam without all those silly, old-fashioned, civil-society calming, compromising, Sufic accretions. They are the modernizing radicals: the moderates are the conservatives. What’s wrong with the BBC’s version is not that it slights the British Conservative party but that it is misleading.

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  9. jeffD says:

    Joel…..Not to put too fine a point on it…you are a c*nt and you also work for the beeb.I know it and you know that I know it!

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  10. Hugh says:

    Joel doesn’t work for the Beeb.

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  11. Cheeta says:

    The BBC don’t have control over their reporting any more. The latest newcomers have, with a few exceptions, been recruited from universities ready-brain-washed. Not necessarily the front line staff (although they make a good example) but the research assistants, small story writers, deputy editors, report drafters, etc. They are mentored from an early stage in the ways of “free thinking”, (which is restricted thinking). They are encouraged to learn that “contraversial” is not wrong, even though it usually is. They are tutored to seek “the truth” even though this means part-truth. All this means that relativism grows unchecked in Liberal circles, and especially at the BBC. After all, they will say, simple fact is merely relative to those holding that opinion. So with all this relativism and restricted thinking and partial reporting, it is no wonder that a cultural bias manifests itself, and the sub-conscious of the author is, shall we say, a little unruly.

    So when I see the word Conservative in a negative light, I know immediately that there was probably no conscious effort to needle the British Conservative Party, but there was almost certainly a sub-conscious one to do so.

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  12. Bartleby the Scrivener says:

    “and I suggest to you that the BBC knows exactly what it is doing when allowing this language air-time.”

    This is hilarious. The term “conservative” has a long-established meaning, in exactly the same way as “liberal” does. When we describe Obama as liberal, we realize that we are not saying he is a member of the Liberal Democrats.

    Absurd and paranoid nonsense.

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