The Englishman takes issue with the latest ‘We’re all going to drown” BBC story, on rising sea levels in Perth, Western Australia.
As he puts it : Two minutes with Mr Google and another scare story falls apart….
also in the Pacific – a teacher is beheaded in the Phillippines :
Police in the southern Philippines say the severed head of a kidnapped schoolteacher has been found in a bag at a petrol station. Gabriel Canizares was abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants three weeks ago. His body is still missing. He was travelling with colleagues on the island of Jolo when he was seized. The militants had demanded a ransom equivalent to $42,000 (£25,000; 28,000 euros) for Mr Canizares, which his family refused to pay. Education Secretary Jesli Lapus expressed shock at the teacher’s killing, saying six other teachers who had been kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf earlier this year had all been released despite threats to behead them.
Hmm. Tell us more about these ‘militants’ ?
Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for many of the country’s worst terrorist attacks, including the firebombing of a ferry in Manila Bay that claimed more than 100 lives in 2005, and the abduction of American tourists in 2001.
A land mine explosion under a military convoy carrying American troops on 29 September killed two US Army Special Forces soldiers – the first US military deaths in the southern Philippines in seven years.
Hmm. Any idea who these people are and what their motivation might be ?
* tumbleweed blows across street *
Any idea who these people are and what their motivation might be ?
Are they psychiatrists suffering from Pre-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Proxy?
Robert Spencer highlights the strong response to this atrcoity from the Phillipine government, unworried by handwringing fears of a “backlash”. I notice that the AFP report quoted doesn’t tiptoe around the subject like the BBC:
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) – The Philippine government on Monday vowed to take revenge against Al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants after they dumped the severed head of a kidnapped school principal at a petrol station…
President Gloria Arroyo’s office said the Abu Sayyaf, blamed for the country’s worst terrorist attacks and other beheadings of kidnap victims, was behind Canizares’ murder, and vowed tough action against the militants.
“We shall make them pay for the enormity of this savagery,” Arroyo’s spokeswoman, Lorelei Fajardo, said in a statement.
Incidentally, Robert Spencer is on The Dennis Miller Show between 5-6pm GMT today.
Atrocious spelling of “atrocity” there.
Not to mention “Philippine”.
don’t worry DB make some more spelling mistakes and you can be the PM 😛 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226278/Gordon-Brown-angers-mother-fallen-soldier-condolence-letter-spelt-family-wrong.html
The BBC have ‘no idea’ who these people are or what their motivation might be, anymore than they know about Hasan’s. Even today they write
Maj Hasan’s motives for the shooting are unknown, but some reports said the US-born Muslim had been unhappy about being deployed to Afghanistan.
despite so much else that has become known about him since the shootings.
So perhaps THE BBC will find ‘some reports that say these killers were unhappy about the recent storms in the Phillipines’ and run that as their motive.
“Maj Hasan’s motives for the shooting are unknown, but some reports said the US-born Muslim had been unhappy about being deployed to Afghanistan. “
And that somehow excuses him for muliple murder.
that somehow excuses him for muliple murder
Who said it did?
OMTE – Misses the point as much as the BBC avoids making it.
My guess is they serve each other.
These damb Buddhists are always beheading Christians.
Oops, should read “damn” !
There’s a long standing belief, not exclusive to the BBC and not exclusively excusing Muslim atrocities, that it is society and not the perpetrator that is responsible for crimes.
For your enjoyment.