Must be something in the air…Is The BBC Biased notes that Muslim Aaqil Ahmed, in charge of the BBC’s religious programming, has decided to broaden the appeal of Songs of Praise and spread the joy around, broadcasting from many places of worship and denomination…but definitely will not be heading Mosqueward…until of course we hear of a lovely, joyous coming together of Christians and Muslims, evidence of the tolerance, mutual respect and friendship that exists between the two religions…and proof of that is that Christians are graciously allowed to visit a mosque…from which the BBC will broadcast the propaganda.
Noggin in the comments has coincidentally linked to the same fellow in a story from last year that will confirm much of what we have heard about the good Aaqil, his professional qualifications and his leanings.
Questions raised about the running of the BBC’s religious affairs department
These are trying times for Aaqil Ahmed, head of religion and ethics at the BBC.
As we revealed in the last Eye, some of his department’s commissions for Songs of Praise are now being scrutinised by the Beeb’s investigation unit, which has been told by Lord Patten that “if on investigation there is any suggestion that a criminal offence has been committed, the matter should be referred to the police.” Ahmed’s reaction to the story was to announce that he is launching a “witch hunt” (sic) to find our source.
Meanwhile, he has another hefty headache. The Ottomans, a three-part series in which Rageh Omar wanders through the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, is beset by problems and falling even further behind schedule. Although 18 weeks had been allotted for editing all three one-hour programmes, the first two have already taken 30 weeks, including delays for an expensive re-shoot in the Middle East. The main problem is Ahmed’s ignorance arrogance, which have resulted in hours wasted trying to persuade the contributors to give interviews backing his eccentric interpretations of religious history. At the last count he even omitted reference to the Crimean War.
As is his custom, Ahmed assigned the production not to experts in his department but to an old freelance chum, Faris Kermani, who made many programmes about Islam for C4 when Ahmed was head of religion at the channel and later followed him to the BBC to make The Life of Muhammad. The justification for engaging Kermani was that he could gain exclusive access to middle-eastern locations and contacts that were somehow out of the reach of the BBC. In the end, however, this was handled by department staff using a local fixer in the usual way.
As costs spiral out of control, the job of rescuing the production has gone back in-house, too, with the department’s main development executive – helped by a producer on attachment from BBC Bristol – striving to bring some order and intellectual rigour to the chaos.
Also good to hear a Labour MP this morning remind us, on the savage murder of Peter Kassig by ISIS, that Islam is a fine and peaceful religion.
I note with interest the BBC insists on calling Peter Kassig by the Muslim name he chose to use under duress in an attempt to save his own life under threat from his Muslim captors….
US hostage Abdul-Rahman Kassig ‘killed by IS’
A video posted online claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
Apparently this is ‘A photograph of Abdul-Rahman with his father, Ed, fishing on the Ohio River in Indiana in 2011’…no, no it’s not. It’s a photo of Peter Kassig.
And that’s despite his captors giving him his real name in the video of his death…..
“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen, of your country”
The Telegraph has the right idea…
Peter Kassig’s family call for restraint after beheading video
I noticed this article at the BBC:
Songs of Praise to change
Oh I see, is this a tacit admission that the wholesale immigration of Catholics from eastern Europe has changed the denominational makeup of Britain?
I think so, but the BBC won’t quite admit it.
At least they’re no longer parroting the old line about Islam being the fastest-growing religion in the UK.
Thank heaven for small mercies.
No their now playing that inconvenient truth down.
INBBC’s Muslim Ahmed uses his politically pivotal position at INBBC to:-
a.)
propagandise a soft pro-Islam view of history (by recruiting Muslim, ex-Al Jazeera presenter, such as Rageh Omaar) to give us a phoney non-Islamic imperialist, non-Islamic slavery, non-Sharia version of history;
b.)
revise INBBC’s presentation of Christian celebration.
Did you see The Crusades series? Before the titles had even rolled, the first few minutes of the first episode were spent establishing the ‘fact’ that it was a completely unprovoked attack out of the blue by Christians on poor, innocent muslims, who were just going about their normal, everyday business. While they were explaning this, footage rolled of a nice muslim family laughing, joking, and eating ice cream together.
Beautifully done…
And how was it that the Muslims acquired the Holy Land? A religious revival in Palestine perhaps?
“Also good to hear a Labour MP this morning remind us, on the savage murder of Peter Kassig by ISIS, that Islam is a fine and peaceful religion”
Alan it is absurd and relentless, isn t it, but he isn t PM
David Cameron – Islam Is Peaceful and Compatible with Democracy – UN General Assembly
David Cameron After Latest Beheading Says Islam A Religion of Peace
(Dhimmi) David Cameron – Attack ‘Betrayal of Islam!’ – 23 May 2013
Cameron calls Islam a religion of peace.
David Cameron justifying and clearing Islam from guilt of Woolwich Muslim Murder attack
If an act committed in the name of Islam reflects well on Islam then it’s proof Islam is good.
If an act committed in the name of Islam reflects badly on Islam then it has nothing to do with Islam and it’s proof Islam is good.
It’s quite simple really.
The logic of the argument applies to AGW/Climate Change as well.
just listened to stephen nolans show who is on holiday just then with that poor useless fill in for him nial from the asian network,, but who was on defending the erosion of christianity at the bbc, oh yes, the appointed by the pro muslim biased bbc muslim religious affairs mr alllah hu akbar Aaqil ahmed,his total arrogance and nastyness towards bishop stephen lowe who is more left wing than a fidel castro sign who for once was defending christians was just sickening,the end of christanity at the bbc has started with Aaqil ahmed and will finish with him.gone will be songs of praise on sundays to be replaced with songs from the koran is he has anything to do with it,as for the muslim convert peter kassig,if he thought that by converting to islam and changing his name to abul rahman kassig would save his bacon there( pardon the pun) from beheading from these racist islamic sunni muslim state lot then he was truly wrong,lets not forget as well that 12 brave but defenceless syrian soldiers was beheaded by these isis vermin as well today that the bbc tend to ignore because of there bias against the syrian goverment,lets take the gloves of here and stop messing about,bomb isis with napalm,chemical weapons and then the ebola virus,that is the only way we can truly defeat these isis racist scum from the face of the earth.
The BBC is biassed against Assad as his government is a secular one.
Video: Robert Spencer on Sun TV on Obama, Assad and the Islamic State
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/video-robert-sp…
As I’ve said for a long time, Assad is, by what passes in the ME, a good guy. Under his regime, Christians and other minority people, can practice their religion and culture in freedom that is not available in countries such as Sauidi Arabia ie our ally.
The totalitarian left and the equally evil Islamist ideology, have a marriage going back to the 1930s.
Stuart, couldn’t agree more. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like burning muslim extremists. Dropping in some Ebola victims bodies to help it along wouldn’t go amiss.
Now I’m waiting for the GCHQ thugs to break in at 4am and arrest me for stating what the majority of this country thinks. We are so fxxxxd.
I am only guessing but I suspect workers at GCHQ are well aware who our enemies are and what those enemies plan to do. Don’t blame GCHQ for the blind and deaf attitude shown by the Government.
With the proviso, that GCHQ itself has not been infiltrated.
dont worry innocent civilian,i dont think the gchq lot would touch us with a bargepole bearing in mind are goverment are already bombing the crap out of isis in iraq at the moment,what we and well respected retired ex generals want is a different strategy in dealing with isis,but it would make a great story in the news and court case it we was charged with wanting to bomb the hell out of isis muslim mass murderers when are goverment and allies are already pounding them daily with airstrikes in kobani and the iraqi border.
As Stuart says, don’t worry Innocent Civilian because they can’t touch you with a barge pole but I would keep an eyes out for US warplanes carrying napalm (aerial incendiary bombs) as it can still be used under certain circumstances ..
“Use of aerial incendiary bombs against civilian populations, including against military targets in civilian areas, was banned in the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III. However the United States reserved the right to use incendiary weapons against military objectives located in concentrations of civilians where it is judged that such use would cause fewer casualties and/or less collateral damage than alternative weapons”
Sorry
Missed off the bit saying that it would be the perfect weapon to use against ISIS
One supposes Stuart that the BBC will happily choose not to report the ISIS bombing or fatalities as this can ‘counter productive’ on the war against ‘extremists’. Whilst in another BBC programming twist they will be paraded as British fighting heroes who should not be discriminated against because of their atrocities and should be allowed to go back on UK state benefits and sponsored holidays to kill anybody Catholic or Jewish. Sort of BBC passport of death.
‘Toady’ this morning is refering to Kassig by his muslim name. Yet the two converts who murdered Lee Rigby in London are only ever referred to by their pre-muslim names.
Thanks, BBC – got the message. GOT IT!
It is all rather confusing.
But there for sure will be a BBC Editorial Guideline to either explain how to justify such variability, or if it doesn’t can be ignored anyway…. for the purposes of doing what the BBC wants, when it wants…