Hi folks – back from my short break and tuned in to watch the Kay Adams presented “Big Question”. (Nicky Campbell must be off on a well deserved holiday, again) What a delight to know I am back in Blighty. This morning saw the following “issues” debated; “Is it time to get out of Afghanistan” followed by “Should we legalise and tax drugs” and then “Does Islam need better PR” The bias in the audience was unbelievable – hard to imagine that this programme was actually recorded in the UK but then again, with the BBC as selectors of the audience, who can be in any way surprised?
THE PREDICTABLE BIG QUESTION
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All we needed was “should buggering rent boys be made legal” and it would have made a perfect mornings viewing for the average beeboid.
What an utter waste of time that TV show is, also is there some reason every BBC show is presented by a Scot?
There’s not enough good PR in the universe to sanitise Islam.
Does Islam need better PR
No. It needs to shut the bleep up for the next 100 years. If I never hear the words “muslim” and “islam” again, it’ll be too soon.
It needs to drag itself from the 7th century into the 21st century.
It needs to change itself from a Jew hating, Christian hating, infidel hating cult into something a little more “loving”.
In other words, it needs a REFORMATION.
PRism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Hands up all those who are fed up to the back teeth of having to devote any brain activity in thinking about this (in my very own personal opinion) weird death cult?
I mean, they can do whatever they like behind mosk doors, so long as it’s lawful in the UK. But apart from that: YAWN. Enough already.
Nice pun there, Jack. 🙂 I’m putting my hand up here. I don’t get the fascination it seems to exert on some people. It is a downright obsession with some of them. I don’t get that at all. It’s of no interest to me whatsoever.
This programe has become a stage for islamic propaganda. The english woman who was so pleased with herself after she converted to islam was comical. She gushed on how fantastic it was for her to be enlightend on the benefits of her new religion likeshe had just changed brands of lipstick cause shes worth it. What a stupid sad cow. Emmeline Pankhurst must be spinning in her grave.
Can we be sure the BBC selects the audience? This programme must have an audience of about zero. Maybe the audiences are mainly composed of all the angry, bossy types who want to press their minority views. Perhaps they are the only people to reply to BBC requests for audience members.
The programme should be scrapped. It is a waste of money. Nobody takes any notice of it. Put the test card on instead. That’s what the BBC used to do when it knew hardly anyone was watching TV. Now it crams its main channels full of fillers like this, Car Booty and Doctors. It is pure self-indulgence and work creation for the benefit of the BBC’s employees and nobody else. No wonder the licence fee rises have beaten inflation for many years.
“Does Islam need better PR” The BBC are doing their best to promote that Islam is the religion of peace and cover for Islam. Just three months ago on the same program asked “Do we misunderstand Islam?” This show, yet again, had a stacked audience and guests to propagandise for Islam.
“Does Islam need better PR” No it needs to stop killing, terrorising and all the other shit that comes with this barbaric cult of sickness.
“Do we misunderstand Islam?” Not at all.
Does Islam need better PR?
The question projects an answer. Only a fundamentally decent organisation requires better public relations.
It’s hard to imagine the same question raised for any issue where the BBC has taken a stand or even one that is ignored.
Does the Monarchy need better PR?
Does Capitalism need better PR?
Does the Catholic Church need better PR?
Does fighting dogs need better PR?
Does Climate Change Skepticism need better PR?
Does the BNP need better PR?
None of them are likely BBC BQ subjects.
Does Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of the founder of Hamas, and Israeli double agent need better PR?
In what must be the most stupid decision ever made in America he is facing deportation as a terrorist. Homeland Security vs ‘Son of Hamas’. I checked the BBC site for their take on this and discovered nothing recent. He was interviewed on HardTalk by Zeinab Badawi but as a non Brit I can’t see it.
Like Gert Wilders, Yousef is getting the ignore treatment on BBC.
Come to think of it. Does Gert Wilders need better PR?
Saw the line themes for today’s programme and the guest – “poet” Benjamin Zephaniya and Mehdi Hassan of the New Statesman. I simply switched off because the chance of getting any objective critique of Islam and its violent histroy was zero.
“Mehdi Hassan of the New Statesman” Oh him again. Rent an Islamist?
The BBC is the best PR organisation money can buy (with our money).
This is the same mentality we used to get from the BBC producer who used to come here under the name of John Reith. When people here would complain about the BBC going overboard to tell everyone to love Islam after some incident, he’d scold us and say that the BBC really was trying to get Muslims to cool it and “you’re not helping”. Even then we were telling him that the BBC was approaching this Social Cohesion issue from the wrong direction.
I’ve always maintained that it’s not a case of Beeboids just loving Islam and thinking it’s great, but an intellectual failure in how to understand and deal with the situation.
Because people like the kind who are in high editorial and management positions at the BBC base their opinions on emotion and not reason, it’s difficult to change their minds about certain issues. Their identities, their sense of self, is largely based on having the correct thoughts and feelings. Their sense of self worth is built up by knowing that they’re better because they hold these approved thoughts. According to Freud, it’s a Defense Mechanism:
…one way for the rational self (ego) to
temporarily reduce this anxiety is to distort your thoughts and
perception of reality. These deceptions can help you maintain
an integrated self while searching for a realistic and acceptable
solution for the conflict between the superego and id that
produces anxiety (also you also might think of it in terms of
humanist theory when your experiences are inconsistent with
your self-concept).
It explains a lot.
If Islam is searching for P.R. what about starting with this?
Sure, Islam’s problem is just poor PR — just like New Coke!
From Earth Times today…
Eight Arab, five Pakistani and two Afghan militants were killed when bombs they were making exploded prematurely inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
The insurgents were assembling bombs in Desi Mosque of Yousifkhela district in the south-eastern province of Paktika on Friday, the ministry said.
Taliban militants beheaded a headmaster and torched two schools in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Sakandar Shah Mohammadi, head of Al Berooni School in Qara Bagh district of Ghazni province was beheaded on Saturday, the Education Ministry said in a statement.
On the same day, dozens of militants, riding on motorbikes, came to Zardalo area of the district and torched two elementary schools, district governor Muhibullah Khepilwak said. One of the schools was a girls’ school and the other for boys.
This is the vile and violent face of Islam. The truth which the BBC hides from us :
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/06/14/rabble-rousing-in-vienna/
And this is the kind of Muslim audience you can find about 5 miles from BBC news headquarters :
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/in-an-england-suburb-teaching-the-kids-jihad-and-jew-hatred/2/
John A.
Thanks for the links. Carol Gould is a master of writing first person pieces about being the lone voice of justice and truth in battles against tidal waves of furious opposition. She gets herself in these situations over and over.
She has even been in debates on Press TV, been interviewed by Yvonne Ridley and has attended trade union conferences that were bubbling with antisemitism and demanding boycotts of Israel.
She manages to convey that almost ‘misery memoir’ feeling of despair and hopelessness that’s in the air nowadays. I’m a fan.
“Does Islam need better PR”
Maybe the BBC should have this chap onto their next “Big Question” he seems to sum up what Islam is all about.
When I was growing up there were two big questions,
How many beans make 5? And where do flies go in winter?
Take comfort friends that the masses don’t listen to Radio 5. And the masses hate foreigners.
For the most part the minor BBC stations play to a minority audience.
Sometimes you are lot are in danger of thinking the people actually believe the BBC or even watch their news output. They don’t.