When the bombs went off in London on 7/7 we were told that the real victims were Muslims….not the 52 dead and 700 injured.

Seems the BBC still continues with that mentality.

The Central African Republic has been suffering for nearly a decade with a war started by Muslim militias.

The world and the BBC long ignored this war.  Just as they ignored the 5 million killed in the Congo.

In 2012 the UN said this:

“The world doesn’t seem to notice that the Central African Republic is facing a catastrophic situation,” said Daniel Bekele, Africa director. “Seleka fighters are killing civilians and burning villages to the ground while some villagers are dying in the bush for lack of assistance.”

The Seleka are Muslim militias.

The Guardian reports this in November 2013:

A massacre of the innocents is taking place in the heart of Africa as the world looks the other way.

Militias in the Central African Republic are slitting children’s throats, razing villages and throwing young men to the crocodiles. What needs to happen before the world intervenes?

Fear of the Seleka’s brutality can be seen in ghost villages that line a rutted dirt road running north of Bangui through a vast sprawl of lush green African bush. Mudbrick houses with thatched roofs stand empty beneath the trees, raising the question of where the residents have fled. The answer can be found in Bossangoa, where about 34,000 people have sought refuge at the St Antoine de Padoue Cathedral.

Everyone at the Catholic mission in Bossangoa is Christian.

The latest eruption began in March when the unpopular president, François Bozizé, fled by helicopter with five suitcases after being overthrown by a loose coalition of rebels, bandits and guns for hire known as the Seleka, meaning “alliance” in the local language. One of its leaders, Michel Djotodia, declared himself president — the first Muslim to rule this majority Christian nation of 4.6 million people. What Médecins sans Frontières termed “a crisis on top of a crisis” for the population accelerated considerably in September when Djotodia officially disbanded the Seleka. Many of the rebels refused to disarm and leave the militias as ordered but veered further out of control, killing, looting and burning villages. They also systematically stripped administrative offices down to the light fittings and destroyed public records.

The US estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced – many hiding in the jungle without access to malaria or HIV treatment – and 68,000 have gone to neighbouring countries.

The Seleka are playing judge, jury and executioner without regard even for Djotodia.

Even the BBC knows the truth:

The CAR has been in turmoil since Michel Djotodia ousted Francois Bozize in March and installed himself as the first Muslim leader in the Christian-majority country.

The mainly Muslim Seleka rebel coalition which brought him to power has been accused of atrocities against Christians.

But no dramatic headlines…no ‘34,000 Christians face slaughter’.

This was the best the BBC could come up with:

Central African Republic: French troops expand operations

Unlike the treatment they give Muslims:

CAR conflict: UN warns 19,000 Muslims ‘face slaughter’

or the equally dramatic:

‘I’ll be last Muslim in CAR’

The truth is the original violence starting in 2004 was begun by Muslim militias and the present violence, begun in 2012, was also started by Muslim militias….where they attempted to take control of the whole country…which has a Christian majority.

The Americans have concerns:

We are also deeply alarmed by the prospect of CAR becoming a safe haven for violent extremists.

That’ll be Islamic ‘extremists’.

The BBC has other ideas about where the blame lies:

Despite this recognition of the roots of the violence….

‘This phase of CAR’s troubles began when largely Muslim Seleka rebels stormed through the country last year.

They toppled the government in March and installed their leader as interim president.’

….it seems that when it comes to interpreting what that means we get a completely different picture from the BBC:

‘Across this chaotic nation, many thousands of Muslims are now under siege. Some families have found shelter in mosques or churches. A few are protected by French or African peacekeepers. Most are now desperately looking for ways to escape abroad.

After months of horrific violence, a once well-integrated society has divided sharply along religious lines. The Muslim minority finds itself splintered into an archipelago of isolation and terror.

Despite some heroic efforts at local mediation, the situation appears to be changing fast, and for the worse, with thousands of Muslims now abandoning towns that had been considered relatively safe.

There are simply not enough French or African peacekeepers to patrol this vast country, and almost no credible local institutions in place to intervene. Christian militias continue to operate roadblocks and openly warn of their determination to kill or expel all Muslims.’

So no mention of this…’The US estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced – many hiding in the jungle without access to malaria or HIV treatment – and 68,000 have gone to neighbouring countries.’ as the result of Muslim attacks?

Just the Christians to blame then.

The BBC downplayed or ignored Christians being ‘ethnically cleansed’ by Muslims from the Middle East….even telling us that Christian communities were thriving there…even in Gaza.

The BBC pretty well ignored the conflict in the Congo until last year….but sprang into action when it was suggested that Christians were being massacred around the world by Muslims:

Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?

As of course it did when the question of Muslim demographics was raised….trying to deny a high Muslim immigration and birth rate would lead to challenging social and cultural upheavals in Europe.

Somewhat undermined by the BBC’s very own favourite Muslim commentator Mo Ansar:

And for many conflicts such as this one in the Central African Republic the BBC has long tried to downplay the religious aspect to any fighting…preferring to categorise it as ‘tribal’ or a conflict merely about ‘land’…..Nigeria  a case in point.

Until now…when it suddenly becomes ‘religious’, a land racked by Christian violence…much as Buddhists were solely to blame for violence in Burma…..as in the Middle East where Muslims are always the innocent victims…..”This is a new torpedo for the blame game.”…”Every week we hear new reports that this is a Jewish state, there will be a transfer of the Arab population, we will be sent into exile. We ignore them. We are staying steadfast in our land,”

Oh those Jews!  What legendary torture for the Palestinians will they think up next?

Funny how a 60 year war by Muslims against the Jews is considered a fair and reasonable response whilst Christians battling Muslim militias trying to conquer their land are ‘ethnically cleansing the land and slaughtering thousands’.

The Jews were legitimately granted the land of Israel by the international community whilst that can’t be said of the Muslim militias in CAR who are attempting to conquer and colonise the land and impose their religion on the Christians, as in Nigeria.

Who, in those circumstances has more right to defend their land?  And yet it is the Christians who are vilified by the BBC not the Palestinians.

Muslims pick a fight, and when they get their backsides kicked, the BBC rushes to defend them and report on their ‘victimisation’.

Perhaps, if as in this country, they didn’t go around killing non-Muslisms, beheading unarmed soldiers in the street, trying to force their religion upon everyone, they might not get so much ‘islamophobic’ attention.

Liked this, the BBC’s latest ‘special interest’:

Freedom eh?  The BBC’s taking a great interest in ‘Freedom’.

‘What freedom looks like to you’ it reveals.

Wonder what it looks like in Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia declares atheists terrorists under new laws targeting citizens who ‘call for secular thought in any form’

Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists in sweeping new laws that threaten up to 20 years in prison for almost any criticism of the government or Islam.

The BBC hasn’t caught up with this story yet….sure it will.

Or maybe not…

Funny…they are always so keen to report ‘hooman rights abuses’ when Human Rights Watch makes a complaint…..if the abuse is done by the US or UK….but not in this case.

Maybe Mark Mardell will corner Obama and demand answers:

Dispatches: Obama Refuses to Talk Human Rights in Saudi Arabia

Following Obama’s meeting with Saudi King Abdullah on Friday, reporters asked a senior administrative official whether Obama had raised human rights issues. The official replied, “The focus of the meeting was strategic and regional topics.” When pressed for a yes or no, the official said, “no.”

The BBC does take the time for this little bit of fun from Saudi though:

#BBCtrending: The story behind Saudi Arabia’s ‘first kiss’

Here’s the original….74,000,000 viewers can’t be wrong.

“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way.
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar!”

The Muslim Brotherhood….loveable rogues….or as Jeremy Bowen declared them:

“conservative, moderate and non-violent”.

Later updated, corrected, to this:

Though you might argue with the ‘non-violent’ bit as well……Hamas being a Muslim Brotherhood group.

And never mind this…..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal, as stated by Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was to reclaim Islam’s manifest destiny, an empire, stretching from Spain to Indonesia…..

Muslim Brotherhood goal: Islamic world domination  – “…the Islamic Ummah [nation]… can regain its power, be liberated and assume its rightful position which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men, as the teachers of humanity…”
– “…know your status, so that you firmly believe that you are the masters of the world, even if your enemies desire your degradation…”

– “It should be known that Jihad and preparation for Jihad are not only for the purpose of fending-off assaults and attacks against Muslims by Allah’s enemies, but are also for the purpose of realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state, strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world…”  [So not ‘defensive’ in the way you might interpret the word ‘defensive’…more along the lines of ‘pre-emptive attack is the best form of defence’]

– “…Jihad for Allah is not limited to the specific region of the Islamic countries. The Muslim homeland is one and is not divided. The banner of Jihad has already been raised in some of its parts, and it shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, the State of Islam will be established…”

Means: Jihad – a mandatory religious duty. “This is followed by the power of arms and weapons… This is the role of Jihad.”

“You should be prepared to answer the call of Jihad whenever you are called, in any region of the Islamic world. Our Islam is universal not regional, and all Islamic countries are one homeland. Go out to battle, oh believers, young and old, by foot or on horseback, under all circumstances and conditions”

So non-violent?…..‘Go out to battle, oh believers…..‘

Sounds fairly unviolent…depends on the context I suppose!

Why is that of interest?

The BBC reports:

David Cameron orders review of Muslim Brotherhood

Prime Minister David Cameron has commissioned a review of the Muslim Brotherhood’s UK activity, No 10 says.

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist movement which has been declared a terrorist group by Egypt’s government.

Number 10 said the review would examine the group’s philosophy and activities, and the government’s policy towards it.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said that the “main conclusions” of the review, which is due to be completed by the summer, would be made public.

The BBC still reports this:

‘Says it rejects use of violence and supports democratic principles’

and this:

Whitehall officials have suspected for some time that a small number of people belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood here in the UK also have links to violent extremism.

But these are believed to be individual cases rather than part of a collective policy.

Ahhh….so once again we’re being told the Muslim Brotherhood is really an organisation ‘of peace and tolerance’…and it’s just a small group, no doubt perverting the Muslim Bortherhood’s true beliefs.

Perhaps Frank Gardner, security expert, should read up a bit more on the Muslim Brotherhood and their beliefs and aims.

The BBC tells us that this is its most famous slogan:

“Islam is the solution.”

I might suggest that this is the more famous, or infamous one…curious the BBC doesn’t quote such a well known ‘slogan’:

“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way.
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar!”

I look forward with interest to the government’s conclusions…though as ‘ No 10 has not provided any details on which bodies are to be involved in the review’ it is difficult to judge just how genuine the appraisal will be….certain groups will no doubt try to influence the outcome in favour of the Muslim Brotherhood and downplay their dangerous beliefs and activities.

And let’s not forget there are many that are happy to ignore such things if it gets them a vote or two…… the SNP were desperate to get Osama Saeed, a Muslim Association of Britain member (part of the Muslim brotherhood), as one of its MPs.

Talk about selling their soul for the ethnic vote.

Scottish National Party to endorse Islamist candidate

Later today, Friday 17 April [2009], Osama Saeed will be endorsed by the Scottish National Party (SNP) as their prospective parliamentary candidate for Glasgow Central by Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson MP at a rally at the SNP’s spring conference in Glasgow. If elected to Westminster, Saeed, a former spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain (a front-group for the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s largest Islamist movement), will be the UK’s first ever openly Islamist MP.

His world vision:

The return of the caliphate

“It is our view that the Labour government has masterminded the unnecessary imposition of competition, backdoor privatisation and the undermining of all postal services.”    said the CWU….a union affiliated to Labour!

The National Audit Office has released its report into the partial privatisation of Royal Mail.

The Privatisation of Royal Mail

The Department was successful in floating Royal Mail. But its approach was marked by deep caution, the price of which was borne by the taxpayer.

The BBC has given this headline status and has been giving the lions share of coverage to the critics, Labour in particular….we do get defenders of the share price but they do not balance the critics.

That aside there is one glaring hole in the BBC’s coverage gives Labour plenty of airtime to say things like this:

The government “botched” the privatisation of Royal Mail, short-changing taxpayers by hundreds of millions of pounds, by selling shares too cheaply, Labour has said.

….and yet, once again, as with mine closures, and the economic crash, the BBC conveniently forgets the history and context behind events…when they are uncomfortable and embarrassing  for Labour….or so it seems.

Chuka Umunna was given free rein by Sheila Fogarty (13:09ish) claiming that ‘Labour would never have privatised Royal Mail……it doesn’t make sense…the government has privatised the profits and nationalised the debts’

He went on….‘The taxpayers have been disgracefully shortchanged and are owed an apology…ultimately the person who is responsible is the Prime Minister and he should apologise.’

[Well…when we get an apology from Gordon Brown for his ‘ultimate responsibility’ for the economic apocalypse he left us with perhaps Cameron might consider one.]

However….‘Labour would never have privatised Royal Mail?‘…em… they had every intention of doing so.

Not only that but their imposition of a disastrously strict regulatory regime brought Royal Mail to its knees….from a profit making, pension paying success, it became an economic disaster zone having to go to government with a begging bowl.

And there’s always room for Labor’s Margaret Hodge to add her ‘independent’ assessment on the BBC:

Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said the sharp rise in Royal Mail’s share price since the sale showed “the department had no clue what it was doing.”

What about that glaring hole in the BBC’s coverage though?

Labour now says that Royal Mail was sold off too cheaply…..the Public are shortchanged and Cameron must apologise.

Would that be the same Labour party that had already, in effect, privatised the Royal Mail for free, giving its most valuable assets to its private competitors at prices, enforced by Labour’s Regulator, that meant Royal Mail made huge losses as it was forced to deliver competitor’s mail at below cost.

What did the bosses at Royal Mail think?

“regulation gone mad”…the new price regime would “choke the company” and the universal one-price service.

What did the postal worker’s union, the CWU, think?

“It is our view that the Labour government has masterminded the unnecessary imposition of competition, backdoor privatisation and the undermining of all postal services.”

You might think that was relevant to the debate today….but not a single mention on the BBC today of this rather embarrassing history for Labour.

Or that Labour ‘masterminded’ putting 60,000 postmen and women on the jobs scrapheap…..

Modernisation – Royal Mail is needs massive upgrading and staff cutting

It’s already happening under public ownership. Over 60,000 jobs have been lost from Royal Mail in the last five-six years with more disappearing as machinery and delivery revisions are brought in.

Labour had already privatised Royal Mail…it allowed private companies to asset strip and cherry pick the best bits of Royal Mail’s business for peanuts….putting it and the universal service in jeopardy and destroying a once solvent pension fund…now a very hefty charge on the public purse.

And Labour claims the sale was rushed to get in ahead of industrial action…so that would be strike action by the CWU union, affiliated to Labour, which forced the ‘premature’ sale of shares at a low price…costing the tax payer, god bless ’em, millions?  Hmmm..dodgy argument there I might have thought.

So who is responsible for ‘giving away’ Royal Mail and ‘nationalising the debts’?

First and foremost it’s the Labour Party in reality.

Just a shame the BBC isn’t doing its job properly and challenging their own narrative rather than allowing them to grandstand as the defenders of the Public Finances….LOL!

For a more balanced and indepth look try this site for a view on the privatisation:

Taking Stock…Royal Mail’s IPO in HIndsight

It’s always a bad idea to compare ‘independent’ sites with the BBC…they are all too often far better at providing indepth information and analysis….you realise just how bad the BBC can be despite the massive resources.