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  1. David Preiser (USA) says:
    April 11, 2012 at 2:55 am

    Amusing post from Cranmer on Cameron’s pandering to Mohammedans scheme:

    Tory Cabinet ministers ordered to attend Mass to appeal to Roman Catholic voters”

    Intrepid defenders of the indefensible keen to prove us wrong when we say you never hear something on the BBC are welcome to give this one a shot (I’m talking about the humor aspect here, not simply reporting it). Can anyone imagine any of the usual edgy suspects constantly bashing the Tories do it this way?

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  2. Reed says:
    April 11, 2012 at 4:08 am

    File under ‘haven’t you anything better to ̶w̶h̶i̶n̶e̶ report about?’…

    Are our street names sexist?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17203823

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  3. Guest Who says:
    April 12, 2012 at 5:50 am

    Oo, is it safe to come out again, he asks, tentatively?

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  4. wally greeninler says:
    April 13, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    BBC gets a special mention at Raymond Ibrahim’s blog while discussing MSM downplaying of the appalling treatment of Christians in many Muslim countries. (Extended quote from recent BBC reportage of recent evens in Nigeria, under ‘Blurring the distinction between persecutor and victim’

    http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11539/media-whitewashes-muslim-persecution-christians

    Silence or muddying the waters on this issue amounts to complicity. If there was a public clamour about it in the west, it might well lead politicians to press for an amelioration of the situation for Christians in Muslim countries .Grotesquely the BBC house style book seems to insist hat Pakistan’s scandalous blasphemy laws should be described as ‘controversial’. Non-muslim citizens of his country (and even a few Muslim ones) would not regard them as controversial, they would regard them as an excrescence.
    The silence of our own archdruid is inexplicable – the Pope makes some noises, but ever since the Strasbourg speech incident (which, it could be argued, was fomented by the BBC) he is well aware that even mild criticism of Islam by a leading public figure brings only isolation and flak. The leading UK figure campaigning for the rights of Christians in Muslim country is the Rev. Patrick Sookhdeo. Significantly neither his name, or his charity, the Barnabus Fund, receive any returns in a search of the BBC website.
    He’s not an insignificant figure:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Sookhdeo

    Has anyone spotted him gracing a BBC studio discussion? Must be a damned rare sighting if they have, particularly since Muslims seem to be getting up to a hell of a lot more of this kind of thing lately.

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