Interesting that the BBC doesn’t mention Charlie Hebdo at all in this report about an atheist blogger being hacked to death by ‘Masked attackers’.
The blogger, Ananta Bijoy Das , was a critic of ‘religious intolerance’…..eventually the BBC admits that an ‘Islamist’ has been arrested. Is an ‘Islamist’ a Muslim or not in the BBC lexicon? Did Ananta Bijoy Das provoke Muslims and insult their religion and so, you know, deserve to die?
The BBC tends to the view that Charlie Hebdo and the exhibition of Mohammed cartoons in the US that was attacked recently were ‘provocative’ and the people involved almost deserved to die….or at least we shouldn’t really mourn their deaths as they brought them foolishly upon themselves by ‘insulting’ Muslims.
The BBC is curiously quiet about who is to ‘blame’ for the deaths of these other people who express criticism of Islam in particular and end up dead as a result. Why no mention of Charlie Hebdo in the report? The BBC mentions the deaths of other Bloggers critical of Islam murderd by Muslims so where is the link to one of the most high profile and politically significant of such attacks?
Does the BBC think these bloggers are somehow ‘better’ people? Perhaps the colour of their skin defines how the BBC inteprets whether or not they can be killed with impunity or not. Does the BBC not link to Charlie Hebdo because it thinks Charlie Hebdo deserved their fate and doesn’t want to give credibility to their criticism of Islam by linking them to other more ‘respectable’ critics of the same religion? Of course we have seen that reaction before from the BBC and the Left….the EDL apparently ‘polluting’ the public discourse whilst other people, such as Peter Tatchell, who said exactly the same as the EDL, are heros.
The BBC’s take on what is an Islamist:
Ian Jolly, the BBC newsroom’s style guide editor, offers this guidance to BBC journalists; he starts by distinguishing between ‘Islamic’ and ‘Islamist’:
“The first simply refers to anything related to the religion. The second is derived from Islamism, defined in the dictionary as ‘Islamic militancy or fundamentalism’.
“Our own view is that an Islamist is someone who derives a political course from Islam. But it’s vital that we make clear what sort of course that is. For instance, there are Islamist political parties in various countries and Egypt has an Islamist president.
“So, if we are talking about Islamists pursuing a violent course, we should say so – ‘Islamist militants’, ‘Islamist rebels’, ‘Islamist extremists’. But context is, as always, important too and once we have established what we’re referring to then ‘Islamists’ on its own can be an acceptable shorthand.
If only Britain had laws like Texas
The BBC could call them Islamofascists or IslamoNazis , although it could cause confusion in their minds as in There Was A Counter Demonstration by the EDL Against Islamofascists.
what these followers of the most peacefull religion in the world islam do anymore does not shock me .yes of course the bbc go out of there way to play down the islamist and muslim links to these terrorists attacks carried out by muslims who commit terrorist attacks in the name of islam,isis stated there next goal is to enter europe via italy to carry out there jihad through the gates of rome,1000s of muslim isis sleepers cells are risking there lifes and drowning to get to europe to carry out there orders from isis to carry out jihad in are europeans citys and towns,bty,nigel farage was the only politician to have the guts to point this fact out in the election,today wisely the majority tory goverment have woken up to to this fact and has refused to be bullied by the eu,nick clegg and co and forced to take in 1000 of these bogus asylum seeking aka isis terrorists from entering are country,thank god for that i say.
“Our own view is that an Islamist is someone who derives a political course from Islam”
Islam itself is a political course. What about devout Muslim? Would that be too honest?
‘The BBC tends to the view that Charlie Hebdo and the exhibition of Mohammed cartoons in the US that was attacked recently were ‘provocative’ and the people involved almost deserved to die….or at least we shouldn’t really mourn their deaths as they brought them foolishly upon themselves by ‘insulting’ Muslims.’
Care to provide one iota of evidence of that? No, none will be forthcoming.
This is the usual dribblings from a semi-literate cretin Alan. I see nothing has changed in that regard.
When has the BBC said we shouldnt mourn their deaths? here?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30835619
maybe here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30797614
What about here then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30724678
Care to take back these baseless accusations? Or just carry on regardless?
‘The BBC tends to the view that Charlie Hebdo and the exhibition of Mohammed cartoons in the US that was attacked recently were ‘provocative’ and the people involved almost deserved to die….or at least we shouldn’t really mourn their deaths as they brought them foolishly upon themselves by ‘insulting’ Muslims.’
Care to provide one iota of evidence of that? No, none will be forthcoming.
This is the usual dribblings from a semi-literate cretin Alan. I see nothing has changed in that regard.
When has the BBC said we shouldnt mourn their deaths? here?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30835619
maybe here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30797614
What about here then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30724678
Care to take back these baseless accusations? Or just carry on regardless?
Why hold back? Tell people what you really feel.
The BBC has its perceived victim groups and none of them have white skins. The BBC will always pour attention and sympathy on the darker-hued inhabitants of our planet.
Having said that, I tend to agree that Alan is off the mark here. Despite their white skin, the BBC would have sympathised with Charlie Hebdo writers and cartoonists because of their left-wing stance and their irreverent mockery of Christianity.
Mockery of Islam, though, is totally taboo in BBC world and that would to some degree have influenced BBC reaction to the murders.
It’s a great pity that the BBC, along with the vast majority of media, did not publish the cartoons. A wonderful opportunity to give Islamic terrorism the finger and stand by the principle of free speech was missed.
“Swedish Pen told the BBC they were in the process of submitting an appeal when they heard of Mr Das’s murder. The group has demanded an explanation from their government, the BBC’s John McManus reports.”
In one of his incisive commentaries on the dhimmification of Europe, Pat Condell said that Iraqi Christian refugees were denied safe haven in Sweden. And now a secular blogger was denied a visa, which might well have saved his life.
Whoever is in control in Sweden, it’s no longer the caring Swedes.