Monthly Archives: August 2010

HORRIBLE HISTORIES….UPDATE

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An update for you. It starts at roughly17 minutes in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snz1m

Some jarring quotes:

“A time when the Christian people of Europe decided to go to war with theIslamic people in the Middle East just becasue they didn’t believe in the samethings…hard to imagine I know.”

“The Pope doesn’t like to share”

“Heaven hungry Christians”

“The Muslims weren’t about to take all this lying down, no, no, they FIGHTBACK”

“Christians come up with a ground-breaking new plan – anotherCrusade!”

“The Christians get the pants thrashed off of them”

And do they describe the Islamic conquerers with equal sarcasm?

“Saladin is a Muslim leader who has been building a huge empire over inthe Middle East.”

“Luckily for him (Richard the Lionheart) though, Saladin was a jolly nicechap and agreed to a peace treaty with Richard” 

Gotta love Islam.

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HORRIBLE HISTORIES….

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Anyone out there caught the BBC’s “Horrible Histories”? A B-BBC reader spotted this…

“I had to gulp at the opening introduction. There was a reference to the Westerners deciding to go to war with the Muslims because ‘they happened to live there’ laced with sarcasm. The rest of the narrative was blantantly anti-west. Who wrote this script, I wonder?

Am I being paranoid or have they completely missed the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 7th century, attacks of Muslim Seljuk Turks, murder of pilgrims and the consequent aggressive expansionism that led to the Byzantine Empire issuing a desperate call for help to the Pope?

It’s like describing the reason for D-Day as a war on Germany because Germans ‘happened to live’ in France.

I am shocked and above all disturbed by the inversion of teaching to the youngabout such an important time in history.”

Historical revision, with lashings of dhimmitude, is par for the BBC course, sadly.

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MENTAL HEALTH NO-BRAINERS…

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It’s odd that when the BBC runs a programme concerning the day release from a secure unit of violent offenders/sex offenders with mental health problem, the issue revolves around the fact that the offenders are “tagged” and whether this may be a civil rights violation. Not a mention of whether releasing these VERY violent people into the local community should be happening in the first place. I suppose in the BBC prism that’s just a no-brainer.

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MORE SEX EDUCATION, PU-LEASE

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Another story the BBC was always going to spin. There were half a million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases last yea with more and more younger people getting infected. Up pops the BBC report on this in the prime post 8am news slot and the angle is clear, we need MORE sex education and the budget for sex education must NOT be cut. Agenda clear. I don’t suppose anyone at the BBC pondered why it is that the increase in STD’s has directly parallelled the increase in sex education in our class-rooms and the establishment of an “anything goes” society. Liberals have got their free love but it’s paid for in diseased teenagers but you will never hear that view on the State Broadcaster/

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MAVERICK

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I had to laugh at the BBC’s treatment of US General James Conway’s remarks that Obama’s deadline to get out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban. The General was speaking common sense, of course, but he has committed the unspeakable crime of contradicting Obama and the BBC was not impressed. He was dismissed as “a maverick” on the Today programme. Yes, leave the expert opinion of those in the theatre of war to one side and better instead pay heed to strategic giants like Sir Jeremy Greenstock. (On at 8.29am to waffle about Iraq)

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THE NASTY PARTY…

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The BBC leads the Radio 4 news this morning with the shock horror revelation that the June budget will hit poorest families hardest, or so alleges the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Yes, those Nasty Conservatives are back in power and instantly hurting the poor and disadvantaged, thank goodness we have the BBC to repeat this claim. Tomorrow. Tories eat their own babies? It strikes me that the BBC has become the official opposition to the Colaition, doing the work of Labour whilst it seeks to reconstruct itself.

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Hannan Calls BBC Bias On Elected Police Chiefs

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The excellent Dan Hannan MEP raises the issue of BBC bias in the issue of directly elected police chiefs on his Telegraph blog today:

There was a snotty, sneering, superior piece about elected sheriffs on Radio 4’s PM programme this evening. Inevitably, it included an interview with Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. Sheriff Joe admires the Republicans, thinks there is too much illegal immigration, is beastly to scoundrels and enjoys vast support. This, in Beebworld, makes him a one-man argument against democratic policing. Indeed, until now, BBC audiences might have been forgiven for believing that Mr Arpaio was the only sheriff in the United States.


Today’s feature branched out very slightly, and interviewed one other sheriff candidate, a chap from rural Alabama who seemed to have been chosen because a) his accent would make British listeners think of Mississippi Burning and b) his name was Jimmy Ray Swindle.

You get the idea. Allow people to choose who directs their local police force and you are likely to get racists, half-wits or crooks – often with hilarious redneck names. Just in case we missed the message, the correspondent spelt it out with his closing words: “While popular elections may increase direct accountability, it [sic] doesn’t necessarily lead to better policing”.

The tone of the BBC article and their hostility to elected police chiefs is understandable. The BBC and ACPO will defend each other because circling the wagons is the only way to prevent accountability being forced on them.

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Qualifications Not Required

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Writing on her blog in 2006 Katia Moskvitch says “In about a month I will finally graduate and become a “real” journalist!“

How’s that working out for her? Becoming a Russian reporter for the BBC was only the start – having demonstrated her scientific prowess with this Junior Wikipedia and GCSE textbook-fueled report on  nuclear power we now witness her inevitable rise to:

BBC News – Geoengineering ‘not a solution’ to sea-level rise
By Katia Moskvitch
Science reporter, BBC News

BBC Science at its best: Believe in global warming? Good. Know anything about science? Okay, doesn’t matter, you’re in anyway. Can you start on Monday?

Hat-tip to Englishman’s Castle

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THE NIQAB EMPOWERS BUT DOES THE BBC DECEIVE?

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A Biased BBC reader writes… 

Newsnight (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tkx6p/Newsnight_23_08_2010/13 minutes in) had a go at explaining how the niqab is an empowering choicemade by Muslim women without pressure from husbands or brothers or indeedclerics. (Yes, seriously)

I watched it and then by coincidence was clearing out old newspaper clippingswhen I found one from the Sunday Times in 2006 about the teacher, Aishah Azmi,who wanted to wear the veil in class. She at first insisted it was her choiceto wear it but later admitted that it was as a result of a fatwa from YusufSacha, a Muslim cleric in West Yorkshire.

Newsnight only revealed the first name of one of the interviewees asRamaisa(spelling?) and that she was a professional. Looking at the clippingAzmi looked the spit of ‘Ramaisa’…..even though wearing the niqab she hasdistinctive eyes….her accent is also very, very similar to that on a youtubeclip.

Her photo is available on the internet.

I wonder if I’m right….I’d lay money I am and that the BBC has used anIslamic campaigner and changed her name to present the image they want to.

Note also that these women started to wear the veil 8 years ago….2002…justafter 2001, just as the 2 brothers at ‘Forest Gate’ started becoming moreIslamic due to the influence of 9/11 as Bin Laden intended….a battlecry…..as Lawrence of Arabia recognised: ‘Such people demanded a war-cry andbanner from outside to combine them, and a stranger to lead them, one whosesupremacy should be based on an idea: illogical, undeniable, discriminant:which instinct might accept and reason find no rational basis to reject orapprove. This was the binding assumption of the Arab movement; it was thiswhich gave it an effective, if imbecile unanimity.’

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