It amuses me that whilst the BBC struggles to actually assignate the label “terrorist” to the likes of Al Queda, or the IRA, or Hezbollah, or pick your terrorist gang here, it IS able to call its own DALEKS terrorists! So in a fantasy world, it can attribute moral value but NOT in reality!!
“MILITANT” DALEKS…?
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Funny, Biased BBC always complains that the Beeb never uses the word terrorist, and yet…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=terrorist
Plenty of stories there to refute the Biased BBC BS.
You don’t get the distinction, do you ?
When terrorists blew up the centre of Dahab on the Red Sea – the BBC called the perpetrators “militants”. No matter that Brits were killed there. They virtually always avoid the word “terrorist” EXCEPT :
1 They have been forced to use the T word for events in Britain , under duress after public and political fury following 7/7 when they first started by using their weaselly “militant” description. People from this site pointed this out to journalists on the UK press to try to get the BBC creeps to use the right and only fitting word.
2 If someone is DESIGNATED as terrorist – eg by a government or in a trial or in a quotation from eg a Minister – then they don’t use their weaselly description. But this does not always happen – there have been enough times when an overseas police spokesman has described something using the T word but the BBC edited the T word out.
The screenshot you gave ironically gave on the right hand side a link to the weaselly editorial guidelines the BBC uses. The starting point – and the almost universal rule – if anything happens abroad do not yourself describe it as “Terrorist” !
I have noticed a new trend. If anything happens near a mosque in the UK – the BBC leaps to describe it as “terrorist”. I don’t recall them using the T word when synagogues or churchyards have been desecrated.
Sometimes they are nothing but “asian” “men” playing with “fireworks” other times they’re nothing but “islamophobic” “terrorists”.
Context, you see?
“The screenshot you gave ironically gave on the right hand side a link to the weaselly editorial guidelines the BBC uses.”
Weaselly? They’re laid out in plain English, with a sensible statement of the emotive issues involved. They’re so clear, even David Vance would be able to understand them. If he could be bothered.
They are weaselly – they are a copout that allows BBC journalists to avoid the T word nearly all the time, even when it is obvious terrorism.
Persona non grata no they are not. they actually are selective towards avoidance of offence towards Islam at the expense of non Islam. THis purposefully causes offence to te majority of the population the corporation was set up to serve.
Spot on John Anderson.
Well put David Vance
The BBC website carries a timeline of Egypt’s history. Listed events include :
1997 – “gunmen” kill dozens of tourists at Luxor. No use of the dreaded T word
2004 Dozens of Israelis killed by bomb attacks on the Red Sea – no use of the T word
2005 More dozens killed at Sharm-el-Sheihk – by “bomb attacks” Not TERRORIST bomb attacks
2006 20 people killed in Dahab on the Red Sea. No mention of the T word – perhaps it was a tsunami ?
What was disgusting about the weaselly terminology the BBC used for its many reports on Dahab was that British tourists were killed by the terrorists. Not long after the BBC had been hauled over the coals for failing to use the T word after 7/7 (In fact the first report used the T word but the BBC then edited it out !!!)
2006 – Hezbollah is described as a “guerilla” group
2009 – “bomb attack” in tourist area of Cairo. (Damn clever bombs they have out there – never needing a terrorist to place or detonate them ?)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13315719
Try googling “Dahab” on the BBC website – a diving reort site of that had 3 terrorist bombs in 2006, with British tourists involved , after similar attacks in Taba and Sharm. Lots of BBC reports on Dahab – but virtually none of them use the T word unless quoting an Egyptian official. It is always the weasel words “militants” or “suicide bombers”.
The BBC – always trying to minimise Islamist terrorism.
Anyone defending the BBC’s weaselly and adamant avoidance of the T- word deserves nil respect.
….and most of the BBC reporting did not describe the Islamist atrocities in Bali and Mumbai as “terrorism”. Hundreds killed. That is sick, disgusting “journalism”
Al Beeb is actually correct on this one.
Thanks to a previous poster for this link.
IRAQ.
Two contrasting ‘reports’ on same event of Sunni and Shia Islamic jihadists massacring each other during Ramadan.
1.) ‘JihadWatch’:-
“Iraq: Jihadis strike favored Ramadan hangouts — ‘we didn’t hear anything except ‘Allahu Akbar,’ and then everything was destroyed.’
[Opening extract]:-
“Note AFP’s headline: ‘Bombs strike favored Ramadan hangouts in Iraq,’ as if the bombs just decided to strike the Ramadan hangouts out of some ‘Islamophobic’ impulse. In reality, Islamic jihadists are striking their fellow Muslims for being of the wrong sect, or insufficiently Islamic. ”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/iraq-jihadis-strike-favored-ramadan-hangouts—-we-didnt-hear-anything-except-allahu-akbar-and-then-.html
2.) INBBC, cryptically, censoring out the words: ‘Muslim’, ‘Islam,’ ‘jihad’, ‘Allahu Akbar’:-
“Wave of car bombs kills at least 30 in Baghdad”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23393600
Of course, that was yesterday.
And today the Islamic jihad mass murdering shifted to two prisons near Baghdad, to get Al Qaeda detainees out-
( A Chinese agency report)-
“Armed attacks on 2 prisons near Iraq’s capital kill 29”
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8336689.html?
Ukrainian in court on terror and murder charges
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23419077
Whereas it’s Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo and Drummer Rigby, of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was stabbed to death andTwo men are due to go on trial in November accused of his murder.
Not a bit of “terror” anywhere to be seen.
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