Two girls have acid thrown in their faces on a Muslim majority Island.
The BBC think this may be one of Mark Mardell’s ‘senseless tragedies’…
‘….it was the first time visitors to the island had been attacked in this way, describing the incident as “alien” to both the police investigating and the victims.
Officers had no idea as to the motive.‘
But just in case anyone should be speculating they highlight this:
“It was not a civilised act, it is not Islam.”
Why would anyone say that if there was no idea as to the motive?
Compare the BBC’s version of events to that given in the Telegraph:
Zanzibar acid attack: finger pointed at radical Islamic group as five questioned over assault on British teenagers
Five men are being questioned by police over the acid attack on two British charity volunteers in Zanzibar as suspicion grew that a radical Islamic group may have inspired the assault.
The BBC tells us (last updated (15:07 9th Aug) the police have no idea of the motive and that this is a completely alien event.
The Telegraph tells us that there is a likely motive and that it has happened on the island before, though not to a tourist….so not such an ‘alien’ incident to the police in reality.
And the victims were Jewish.
The attackers may have assumed they were Christian.
id say the BBC article is balanced. it contains a white lie and a black lie. The white lie is saying police dont know of a motive, and the black lie is not mentioning the girls were jewish.
The BBC – it even brings you racial equality in it’s porkie pies
“Porkie pies” … controversial language, in the week of bongo-bongo, nitty gritty and Oprah etc! We mustn’t force-feed such unclean food to ALL British subjects now, must we! I might have to report you to Ms Abbott and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown … for re-education!
oh golly – excuse my racism
Pork pies. Rascist. Remember, Dickens mentioned a pork pie in Great Expectations, but the BBC production turned it into a mutton pie. But can we talk of a muttony instead of a porky?
You cannot be serious, surely not?
If you mean the pork/mutton change and am hoping he isn’t serious too…
From a review
‘And yes, why on earth did the BBC change a perfectly good pork pie, which makes sense in the plot, and is lovingly described before its disappearance is noticed, into a mutton pie, an entirely different comestible? I can’t imagine that Mrs Joe would have served a mutton pie cold (ugh) and one gropes for any reason for meddling. You might think it is meant to show that the writers were cleverer than Dickens. But as they aren’t, it doesn’t. ‘
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/01/small-expectations-and-our-conversation-resumed.html
pork pies, victims of political correctness, you couldnt make it up.
‘Porkie Pies’, that’s cockney rhyming slang, and that must be driven from Banglatown with the white working-class scum that spoke it!
Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi
“Re- education,” I like it. This is what these facists are attempting to do to us and if we dont comply we are labelled racists and facists ourselves. Soviet Russia anybody?
Quote: It was the first time visitors to the island had been attacked in this way, describing the incident as “alien” to both the police investigating and the victims.
Its quite common for Muslims to attack for Muslims to throw acid into a woman’s face. Not alien at all. I think there have been several cases of this in the UK.
and then this
ONE OF BRITISH TEENAGE VOLUNTEERS ATTACKED WITH ACID IN ZANIBAR, SMACKED TWO WEEKS AGO BY MUSLIM FOR SINGING DURING RAMADAN……..
http://tundratabloids.com/2013/08/one-of-british-teenage-volunteers-attacked-with-acid-in-zanibar-smacked-two-weeks-ago-by-muslim-for-singing-during-ramadan.html
I have no idea why anyone in their right minds will go to any Islamic country.
Just why do they go? To brandish their liberal credentials? They are all in need of a reality check.
But liberals don’t do reality.
“They are all in need of a reality check”
They just got one.
Didn’t they just…A big one.
they come from london dont they? so they already live in an islammic area.
Let me be Captain Obvious again: police arresting five members of an Islamic group is a ‘fact’. Even if you think the Islamic angle is absurd and it was actually militant UKIP members, it’s still a fact and any *ethical* journalist should report that.
Refusing to report stuff that actually happened isn’t just bias, it’s malpractice.
No, it’s not malpractice, it’s propaganda.
It is both malpractice and propaganda. It is the wilful misrepresentation of fact (malpractice) to push a selected political narritive (propaganda)
The BBC manage to insert this into their hand wringing article:
“The BBC’s Tulanana Bohela, in Dar es Salaam, said Islam is the main religion on Zanzibar, and in more remote parts of the island, away from tourist beaches, there are signs asking foreigners to respect the local culture and cover up.”
Oh the irony!!
‘there are signs asking foreigners to respect the local culture and cover up’
Ah, signs.
I was once (!) in a bar in Thailand and noticed one to the effect that they truly respected the religious sensibilities of their middle eastern guests.
Asking what that meant exactly, I was told that they were getting little fed up with minor princes dropping off the dish-dash in the limo en route to Patpong, getting slaughtered on Black Label and beating up the youngest hostesses they could find.
So if one ended up in the river, well, ‘respect.
On this too, one suspects the BBC would have no idea.
There must be an enclave of white supremacists somewhere on Zanzibar.
EDL Stone Town branch?
After all, according to the BBC, it’s the EDL that drives Muslims potty…nowt would happen if they didn’t exist.
“The BBC’s Tulanana Bohela, in Dar es Salaam, said Islam is the main religion on Zanzibar, and in more remote parts of the island, away from tourist beaches, there are signs asking foreigners to respect the local culture and cover up.”
As the girls were covered up – wearing long skirts – it appears the hate towards them was connected more to race, rather than dresswear.
Think how the harpies of the BBC and libby-left react if you dare to suggest that women who wander round city centres in micro-miniskirts and paralytic at three in the morning are perhaps unwise and putting themselves at risk of rape.
Maybe this woman didn’t choose her words carefully but I hope to hell she is not trying to imply that somehow these girls ‘had it coming to them’…
And therein lies the hypocrisy and self-contradictory insanity of the lefty Feminist. Women never ever deserve to be raped, no matter how they are dressed, unless they are underage white girls who “were groomed by” …sorry “teased and led on” Islamic gentlemen, who clearly, being from such an innocent and peaceful religion, would not be able to resist the lusty charms of such young women (12 year olds)…
The BBC racist feminists make me sick!
When it is an anonymous idiot on twitter writing fantasy abuse about rape, then the BBC are so strong in support of “the sisterhood!”
When it is Islamic perverts actually rape, …… silence!
“Zanzibar: Muslim group suspected of attacking British girls with acid because they are Jewish”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/08/zanzibar-muslim-group-suspected-of-attacking-british-girls-with-acid-because-they-are-jewish.html
Mardell could do with studying the history of Islamic conquest and jihad in Zanzibar-
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-srch.cgi?search=zanzibar&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20
Every other sod on this planet knows that acid attacks frequently occur in Muslim countries but this common knowledge does not deter the BBC from playing ignorant and downright misleading.
Don’t believe me? Just head over to the BBC website and read a few reports yourself. Utter garbage! One even gets a hint from some of the BBC articles that Islam is the victim!
its been mentioned on this blog before (in link below) about how al beebi fails to report all the facts when it comes to acid attacks by mulsims. a good example to the bbc’s bias being demonstarted in this matter is…
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-case-in-point.html
The Beebinator,
“its been mentioned on this blog before (in link below) about how al beebi fails to report all the facts when it comes to acid attacks by mulsims.”
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-case-in-point.html
From the link; “Can anyone think of a good reason why the BBC appears to have censored the detail of the niqab from this particular story”
Ah yes, see how the BBC wilfully censored the details:
http://bbc.in/16AFg3t
“Naomi Oni, 20, said she was attacked by a person wearing a veil covering their face…”
http://bbc.in/1cALYg6
“Naomi Oni, 20, told BBC London she was approached by a person wearing a veil covering their face…”
http://bbc.in/16AFFTL
“Naomi Oni, 20, said she was attacked by a person wearing a veil covering their face…”
But never mind Mr Poopinator at least you are right in stating that it’s obviously another one of those “acid attacks by muslims”. Oh, apart from the slight detail (hardly with mentioning really) that in April “Mary Konye” was arrested and charged with the offence. “Mary” being another one of those old traditional
ChristianMuslim names…Dez, all your links PROVE the point! The niqab was part of the story, I can see different letters involved in ‘niqab’ and ‘veil’, can you? That is Beebinator’s point, the BBC deliberately misled by changing the facts.
There’s about a 50% chance that Nigerian Mary Koyne is a Muslim by the way.
If guilty of course .In court she denied all charges
Stewart,
“If guilty of course .In court she denied all charges”
Oh look, as soon as the woman charged turns out not be a Muslim; up pops Stewart to claim she might be innocent after all; because, you know, she’s not a Muslim.
How utterly disgusting and pathetic this blog has become.
You are completely free to feck off and read something else then – at least you are not being charged £145.50 a year to read either this blog or any other blog.
I was simply pointing out the facts that you had left out.So please don’t project the actions or motives or your sick and twisted mind on to me.
It would be better for you to simply come to terms with your pathological self hatred
You cannot hope to address it until you admit to its existence
Span Ows,
“I can see different letters involved in ‘niqab’ and ‘veil’, can you? That is Beebinator’s point, the BBC deliberately misled by changing the facts.”
Duh; “niqab” is the Arabic word for “veil” in English. You are complaining about the BBC using English words now? You must be apoplectic every time someone refers to Germany rather than Deutschland. Do you accuse them of “changing the facts”?
“There’s about a 50% chance that Nigerian Mary Koyne is a Muslim by the way.”
Erm no, there is very little chance that someone called “Mary” is a Muslim.
What about ‘Michael’?
‘Duh; “niqab” is the Arabic word for “veil” in English. You are complaining about the BBC using English words now?’
I am, especially when the Arabic words ‘alluha akbar’ become the English words ‘Islamic benediction’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23584265
I can’t wait to hear your explanation for that, Dez.
LOL, Dez, I presume you blushed with shame whilst writing that. Find something where at least you have part of a leg to stand on.
Oh do fuck off Dez,
You know damn well that the BBC did NOT mention the Niqab for a full 24 hours AFTER all the other national press did, not because they wanted to inform, but because they could no longer hide the fact.
Naomi Oni was attacked in December 2012, the story broke after Naomi Oni left hospital, 1 month later, your BBC links are from February 2013…
Phewww, good old BBC, on the ball as ever.
Good old Dez, a sanctimonious prick, as ever.
(Sorry for swearing chaps, but he does my head in.)
oh golly its dez
The poopinator,
“oh golly its dez…”
Sorry Mr Poop, but pointing out the massive gaps in your knowledge doesn’t make me a troll. it just demonstrates that you haven’t got a single clue what you are talking about. But you knew that already. Didn’t you? Surely?
if obama had a gimp, he’d look just like dez
Chop,
“Good old Dez, a sanctimonious prick, as ever.”
Gosh, yes, how sanctimonious of me to point out that Mr Poopinators claim that the BBC had failed “to report all the facts” was completely false.
Gosh, yes, how sanctimonious of me to point out that Mr Poopinators claim that Naomi Oni was the victim of a “Muslim attack” was also completely false.
Grow a spine; admit to yourself when you are wrong; and move on.
dez how could the claims be completely false, did you bother to read the isthebbcbiased thread.? the bbc is constantly in damage mitigation mode for islamic savages
Dez, take your own advice, read what Beebinator wrote first, then realise what an ass you’re making of yourself.
Dezi, if you Beebinator “Poopinator”. That means you work for the Poop, and the way you defend the Poop you must be in it right up to your eyes. You’re certainly full of it.
1st line should read “if you call Beebinator”
That’s why I no longer get too worked up about this sort of thing. Irritated, yes, but no point in raising the blood pressure.
As you say, everyone knows who does this kind of thing. Even if they agree that it’s for the public good not to report, they still see that the BBC hides and obfuscates when necessary. And, as the BBC becomes more brazen, they are beginning to question what else the BBC has decided is good for us not to hear.
I have even heard on the news via Classic FM that *they* (whoever are *they*) attacked the girl because of mistaken identity. Well that just about clears that up then. It just gets worse by the day the so called journalism in this country doesn’t it?
So they were after some other Western women and got the wrong ones? Well, I guess they all look alike to a Muslim, what with their uncovered faces an’ all.
Absolute BBC obfuscation, one is tempted to say lies. Where are the trolls who infest these pages? One of them, just one to defend the BBC in this case. Where are they?
They are all having a staff meeting at al-beeba HQ in Londonistan, to decide their next attack strategy.
The night shift trolls are especially bright around midnight.
Didn’t I tell you the nightshift would appear after the staffroom meeting? And. On the nightshift.
the contrast between the bbc’s determination to investigate way-cist attacks in on ethnic mi-nor-wities in england and jews abroad is sickening
The Beeb’s Islamophilia has spread to Radio 3. Rob Cowan’s guest this week was Baroness Asfah. Cosy chats about Ramadan all week. Then this morning the couple touched on Islamophobia.
I cannot say I have noticed the corporation airing Christian views during Lent on such a music programme.
Peter Stroud,
“I cannot say I have noticed the corporation airing Christian views during Lent on such a music programme.”
Oh well, if you didn’t notice it; it obviously never happened:
http://bbc.in/15Ywdgk
“Music for Lent”
http://bbc.in/15Yy5pb
“Bach for Good Friday… the justly celebrated settings of the Passions by St Matthew and St John.”
http://bbc.in/15Yxnsb
“The BBC Singers, at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, present a selection of musical reflections on words from St John’s Gospel and the Book of Genesis…”
Or perhaps it’s just another example of B-BBC endlessly wallowing in it’s own self-pitying victim status.
3 musical recitals – as opposed to discussion on the spiritual meaning for Christians , nor any discussion on their continued persecution in Islamic lands –
So it would appear that, despite your best efforts ( if not intensions) Mr Stroud’s impression remains unchallenged –
How is it you usually sign of your caring ,sharing posts?
Stewart,
“3 musical recitals – as opposed to discussion on the spiritual meaning for Christians…”
“RADIO 3 LIVE IN CONCERT: MUSIC FOR LENT
Live from St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, Martin Handley presents a concert of music for one of the most solemn periods of the church year: the forty days of Lent. For Christians, this is a season of spiritual reflection and self-examination, and tonight’s concert includes works in that penitential vein by French and Czech composers. Poulenc’s four motets have become a classic of the choral repertoire – as has his simple and heart-felt setting of prayers to the Black Virgin of Rocamadour, a work which marked the recovery of his lapsed Catholic faith after a spiritual crisis.”
Yup, nothing at all to do with the spiritual meaning for Christians; not one tiny little bit.
Grow a spine; admit when you are wrong; and move on.
There you are , as Peter Stroud says, no discussion .
All that time spent trawling the minutiae of the BBC back waters and you still cant refute his case
your apologies and obfuscation are becoming increasingly desperate is this the sign of some internal conflict I wonder
So no discussion then, just as Stewart said?
‘Or perhaps it’s just another example of B-BBC endlessly wallowing in it’s own self-pitying victim status.’
I think you’ll find, Dez that most of the stuff on here is factual evidence of BBC leftist bias – you know, the sort you sympathize with.
I think you’ll also find that you don’t have an answer to 99% of it by which most people will conclude that, by such absence, you tacitly admit the BBC is biased.
this was a hate and anti semetic crime,this was a terrorist attack,these young ladys was targeted by these muslim islamist racists for not one reason but for two reasons,no 1 they was jewish,no 2 they was western women.that was the motive behind this racist and anti semetic crime,what i cant understand about this racist attack is this,where are the left in this country coming out condemming this.why all this silence from them,where are the tim stanleys and his likes writing blogs about this racist attack,oopps sorry,i forgot tim posh boy stanley has had a sudden love affair with islam and muslims so we will leave him out of this,but you get my point,why all the silence from the left and the other media outlets,could they just be as anti semetic as these muslim attackers,i wonder.
The “silence from them” is because they are too busy attacking minor points raised (see Dezi’s two posts above) for them to comment about the important things like the motives for this vile attack and the perpetrators of it.
The height of hypocrisy and crass insensitivity has to be Channel 4 sending a female Muslim reporter to the hospital where the young women are being treated to cover the story. I shook my head and turned the tv off.
Before BBC-NUJ starts blaming Britain for Zanzibar’s slave trade…
“The Slave Trade in Zanzibar”
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Slave-Trade-in-Zanzibar&id=3552245
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/07/12/an-insult-to-islam-pakistani-acid-attack-victim-describes-horrific-assault-she-faced-over-her-christian-faith/
On Radio 5 a reporter told us that the girls were dressed conservatively and respecting local dress codes.
So we are expected to understand it is not as if they were provocatively dressed and therefore inviting such an attack.
If the reporter had made such a comment about an attack on women in the UK he’d probably be sacked.
Today’s update from the Telegraph. I can’t seem to find it on the BBC though, perhaps someone can help me?
Radical preacher wanted over Zanzibar acid attack shot in police raid
A radical Muslim preacher wanted for questioning over the acid attack on two British tourists in Zanzibar was shot on Saturday night as he fled police trying to arrest him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zanzibartanzania/10235328/Radical-preacher-wanted-over-Zanzibar-acid-attack-shot-in-police-raid.html
Nope; just checked and can’t see it anywhere. SkyNews has it though: http://news.sky.com/story/1127173/zanzibar-acid-attack-suspect-preacher-on-run.
So, we have a preacher who misunderstands Islam now.
We go from an immam on albbeba who cant counter any of Robert Spencer’s logic because well, it IS after all Spencer’s specialist subject, and on to an islamic preacher who really cant understand all those nice bits in Mein Kampf, oops, q’ran.
What is this world coming to
How long before we see that sweet mugshot of him on BBC mainnews?
Interesting it appears that a Muslim cleric carried out the attack (http://news.sky.com/story/1127173/zanzibar-acid-attack-suspect-preacher-on-run ) It has strangely disappeared from the bbc website with no further updates.
They will now go and stand in a corner, fingers in ears singing, lalalala cant hear you lala!
When the link appears, Dez will post it for us, he’s good at that.