11 Responses to Has the BBC Gone Mad?

  1. The Beebinator says:
    December 17, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Beeboid 1: Hello sailor fancy some shore leave
    Beeboid 2: yes, shall we drop anchor in poo bay
    Beeboid 3: i’ve got cocaine can i join in as well
    Beeboid 4: i’m doing research into homosexuality
                     in a warming climate due to catastrophic
                     human induced climate change, can i watch

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  2. deegee says:
    December 17, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    DEBATE STATUS
    Total comments:633
    Published comments:192
    Rejected comments:203

    This Have Your Say is CLOSED

    So 238 comments are in limbo? Neither published nor rejected – WHY?

    I wonder if missing comments were those shouting, even if they were taking the mickey, “YES, HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD FACE EXECUTION”? I took a brief browse through the comments. Did even one comment agree with the HYS proposition.

    Should those who insult Islam face execution? Hmmm?

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  3. piggy kosher says:
    December 17, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Should Islamic countries stop executing gays? ponder ponder..

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  4. sue says:
    December 17, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    It has even ruffled feathers at the Guardian

    “The BBC Pride board, composed of gay and lesbian staff at the corporation, lobbied the World Service to change the headline and close discussion “to minimise negative reflection on the BBC”.”

    And over at Harry’s Place they’re quite excited too.

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  5. Backwoodsman says:
    December 17, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    Oh, some faux outrage from our friends at the bbc, how sweet.
    Its like Jeff Randall says in the sidebar…” its visceral. They think we’re all fag hags.”

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  6. james caine says:
    December 17, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Rush Limbaugh is making jokes about the BBC’s bias over swine flu at the moment.

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  7. Abolish the BBC says:
    December 17, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    It’s a legitimate question and the BBC shape the world according to their Marxist agenda yet again by removing it.
    Anything to avoid insinuating that Islam is a wicked and barbaric faith that they have endorsed the wholesale immigration of.
    Maybe it’s starting to dawn on them at last, first they come for the gays then the Jews then anyone who doesn’t show sufficient dhimmitude, after that it’s for being the wrong type of Muslim.  As shown today with the conviction of a father who’s obedience to sharia superceded his love for a daughter by killing her in the name of his brand of Islam over another.
    The BBC will go to any lengths to avoid that awful dawning truth, they have cast the seeds of their own destruction.

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  8. Teddy Bear says:
    December 17, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    The BBC justified the debate thus Its editor David Stead last night insisted he had thought long and hard about posing the question. ‘We agree it is a stark and challenging question, but think that it accurately focuses on and illustrates the real issue at stake,’ he added. ‘If Uganda’s MPs vote to proceed with the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, they will bring legislation that could condemn people to death for some homosexual activities.’
    Contrast this with the murder of Christian families in Pakistan some months ago. It barely got a mention on the BBC website, and certainly didn’t merit any debate about the ideology that could justify this. Here’s all that was written on the subject:
    Pakistan Christians die in unrest
    Six Christians have been killed in religious unrest in Pakistan’s central Punjab, after days of tension sparked by the rumoured desecration of a Koran.
    The four women, a man and a child died as Muslim militants set fire to Christian houses in the town of Gojra, officials said.

    Here’s a more complete story about what happened in this incident where actually 14 were killed, most burned alive.
    According to the writer “Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth,” said Reverend Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International. “Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries.” Where are the Human Rights groups when we need them?

    Considering that there are far more Christians in this country affected by the global persecution by Muslims of others of their faith, of which the above is just one incident, one would think that the BBC would think this topic worthy of debate. Certainly worth more than the few lines given to it. Not only about this persecution, but also the lack of attention given to it by the various Human Rights Organisations – or at least that’s how they like to think of themselves.
    Maybe Robin Stead should think ‘long and hard’ about this.

    But then we are talking about the Muslim appeasing – similar agenda to the Human Rights groups BBC

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    • Millie Tant says:
      December 19, 2009 at 11:21 pm

      Pakistan Christians die in unrest  

      Six Christians have been killed in religious unrest in Pakistan’s central Punjab, after days of tension sparked by the rumoured desecration of a Koran.  
      The four women, a man and a child died as Muslim militants set fire to Christian houses in the town of Gojra, officials said.  

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      It’s interesting the way the Christians just “die” in BBC parlance, isn’t it?  Even after we are told that they were “killed”, they soon revert to dying: they just “died”, “as Muslims set fire…” as if the two things just happened simultaneously. 
      Like Mr Bojangles and his dog:

      His dog up and died, I don’t know, just up and died; after twenty years he still grieves…

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