The BBC did a hatchet job on the Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban, for his comments about Muslim migration into Europe and referenced a comment by the Economist made way back in 2007…….the BBC said..

‘Politics of the gutter’

Out of government, Mr Orban was regarded by political analysts as a populist, to the extent that in 2007 the UK’s Economist awarded him its “politics of the gutter award”, citing his “cynical populism and mystifyingly authoritarian socialist-style policies”.

 

And here is what the Economist said:

Politics of the gutter award: Given jointly to Ferenc Gyurcsany, prime minister of Hungary, for admitting that his government had lied, and for turning a blind eye to police brutality; and to Hungary’s opposition leader, Viktor Orban, for cynical populism and mystifyingly authoritarian socialist-style policies.

Have to say that Jeremy Corbyn must be in line for the next award then considering his ‘ cynical populism and mystifyingly authoritarian socialist-style policies.‘

But it is, as always, instructive as to what the BBC doesn’t tell us that the Economist also said….first that ….

Most worrying trend: Between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic seas there is not a single strong reforming government. Drift, muddle and sleaze were the hallmarks of 2006.

And yet the BBC complains that Orban is too strong, too reformist….curious they miss that one out.

Then, and this is all the more surprising omission considering the BBC is writing about immigration into Europe and defending it, there is this…..

Big question: East-west migration. The worst-governed ex-communist countries have lost a million people or more to emigration. Now local job markets are tight, and wages are rising, but not enough to attract many migrants back. The opportunities and the quality of government are still so much better in western Europe. Until that gap narrows, worries of depopulation in the east, and overcrowding in the west, will grow.

So the Economist thinks that there is ‘overcrowding in the west‘!  No wonder the BBC missed that little gem out.

Remember the furore over Cameron using the word ‘swarm’…apparently this meant he was dismissing the migrants (can we use that word?) as insects or animals (and listen to Sarah Montague snort in what is definitely a knowingly mocking way when Sir John Holmes talks of not seeing migrants as ‘animals’ in another interview…you know exaclty what went  through her mind and how she was thinking).

Remember Gordon Brown’s reaction to the ‘bigoted’ Gillian Duffy when she talked of immigrants ‘flocking here’.

Guess someone at the BBC didn’t get the memo….

Ending the war in Syria would make a huge difference – but that still looks a long way off. Syrians are the biggest group of migrants flocking to Europe.

‘Flocking to Europe’.…shock horror!!  Hang him out to dry.

Funny no one has denounced the BBC for such language.

The crisis deepens: Isis are threatening to capture a vital highway in Syria – its loss could spark the exodus of millions more refugees

 

Many credible voices, such as Lord Carey and Boris Johnson, are saying that Europe is essentially being invaded.  Had the migrants been armed we would look entirely differently at them but because they come over as ‘refugees’ they are treated benignly as if there are no very serious implications resulting from this tidal wave of people who are mostly Muslim entering Europe.

It is undeniable that what is happening is in essence everything that ISIL could have dreamt of…the increasing spread of Islam to Europe and all without any actual military/terrorist force having to be deployed.  People like the Prime Minister of Hungary suggest that this is a cultural time bomb inside Europe….one that we have already had plenty of evidence is ticking.

The BBC asks what is to be done?  It has several answers…

• Agreeing on asylum rules
• National asylum quotas
• Tackling migration at source
• Legal migration paths
• Sending migrants back

None of which solve the real problem…the war in Syria.  The BBC ‘solution’s’ actually increase the problem or ignore that real problem though they do admit that:

Ending the war in Syria would make a huge difference – but that still looks a long way off. Syrians are the biggest group of migrants flocking to Europe.

Why hasn’t anyone acted to make a genuine effort to end the war?  Because the same BBC and its fellow travellers would launch a media counter-offensive to prevent military action just as they did with Iraq and then proceed to paint Cameron as a war criminal over the course of the next 10 years.

Merkel has said that the refugee crisis is Europe’s biggest migration emergency since the second world war.

So treat this like the second world war.  Put together a massive coalition of forces and destroy ISIL.  Assad is almost certainly secure…..with Russian forces reportedly now moving in to support and bolster his regime making it very difficult to take action against him without getting a counter-reaction from Moscow…hardly likely to be something that brings peace to the world.

The West [& Saudi Arabia will have to be told to back off and stop supporting ISIL….and also to stop funding Muslim fundamentalism around the world] will have to accept that Assad is in fact the best hope for a stable Syria and Iraq and will have to fight alongside him to destroy ISIL even if not in an explicit coalition…. we joined up with the Communists in WWII so nothing new there.  The ‘Free Syria’ forces will have to be put back in their box..  Hard facts but the only way.

This demands not just airstrikes but a massive presence on the ground.  Kurdish forces, and certainly not Iraqi forces, will not dislodge ISIL. Only the combined might of many countries will rapidly end this and it has to be done now.

Lord Carey advocates airstrikes, George Osborne wants to smash ISIL,  the former defence secretary Liam Fox says that “handwringing” about the plight of the refugees was not enough and action was needed to deal with the “root of the problem”…

 “You’ve got to deal with the [migration] problem at source, which is this evil Assad regime and the Isil terrorists, and you need a comprehensive plan for a more stable, peaceful Syria. A huge challenge of course, but you can’t just let that crisis fester. We’ve got to get engaged in that.”

Even the ‘tread-lightly’ Matthew Parris in the Times thinks that the answer lies in tackling Syria telling us to ‘Stop crying if you’re serious about migrants’.  He says that saying ‘we must do more’ when we see photos of dead children is not a policy….a ‘shaft of ice should enter the soul’ when considering the issues and we should not be swayed by emotive photographs or presumably BBC ‘journalism’.

He argues that the likes of the BBC have been exploiting the photograph of the drowned boy but we should not be swayed by this when deciding how to react, and that if we don’t get it right social cohesion in Europe will fall apart with all that entails….

Basic human decency takes us not a quarter of the way to a solution…Millions of migrants from another culture settling across Europe in a short time is not the answer for the countries they come from, or for us.

Every effort must be made to stop this accelerating…..There will be casualties and, yes, “casualties” is a euphemism for dead people. It isn’t easy to pit, against the power of one heart-rending photograph, a string of abstract nouns about the future social cohesion.  But we must try.’

He is suggesting military action is the solution and that Muslim migration is a danger to Europe echoing the words of Orban and Carey and Boris Johnson.

The BBC has been avoiding serious discussion about military action as the solution…as shown above its main concern is the migrants and their comfort and when given the opportunity Sarah Montague failed to explore the issue when raised by Sir John Holmes. which is kind of remarkable for the BBC’s prime news and current affairs programme bearing in mind that this is probably one of , if not the, most pressing issue at the moment for the UK.

The BBC will of course not want to raise the question of the effect of Muslim immigration into Europe but it looks like it may well be forced onto their agenda with so many voices expressing serious concerns about this issue.

The only solution to Syria is boots on the ground.  The BBC will hate this as it not only opposes any military action but is more than happy to see European unity and cultural solidarity smashed by immigration as it does in the UK seeking to encourage the notion that there is no such thing as ‘English’ identity.

The BBC does not really want a solution to the emigration crisis, it thinks the ‘crisis’ is in fact everything it, and the hard left, has dreamt of for years.

The BBC et al have been scathingly dismissive of the Hungarian approach to migration especially the Prime Minister’s suggestion that Hungary should only take in Christian migrants as Muslims will ‘threaten to undermine Europe’s Christian roots’.  The BBC have decided he is an extremist….Hungary PM Viktor Orban: Antagonising Europe since 2010.   However if you read the piece you will come away thinking there is nothing that Hungary has done that is ‘extreme’, judging by the BBC’s seeming criteria for such a label the Tories would also be ‘extremists’…but then what’s new?

Orban was roundly condemned for his words…

He denied that the emergency was a refugee crisis, but one of mass migration.

“Those arriving have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture. Most of them are not Christians, but Muslims,” he said. “This is an important question, because Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

“Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? There is no alternative, and we have no option but to defend our borders.”

But is he right?  Judging by events not just from around the world but inside Europe itself you have to say he probably is.

So how will people now react to the words of Lord Carey?:

Britain should make Syrian Christians a priority because they are a particularly vulnerable group. Furthermore, we are a Christian nation with an established Church so Syrian Christians will find no challenge to integration. The churches are already well-prepared and eager to offer support and accommodation to those escaping the conflict.

Some will not like me saying this, but in recent years, there has been too much Muslim mass immigration to Europe. This has resulted in ghettos of Muslim communities living parallel lives to mainstream society, following their own customs and even their own laws. Isn’t it high-time instead for the oil-rich Gulf States to open their doors to the many Muslims who are fleeing conflict? Surely if they are concerned for fellow Muslims who prefer to live in Muslim-majority countries, then they have a moral responsibility to intervene.

The Guardian has reported only his comments on airstrikes in Syria they have dodged his other comments…. the BBC has not reported any of his words at all at present.

He also says:

As a European Union, we should be prepared to close the doors to large numbers of economic migrants and return them to their countries. A proper process of registration must be conducted, ideally in refugee camps on the borders of Europe. And if the numbers get too large, we should be prepared to admit refugees on a provisional and temporary basis, reviewing their status periodically until they can return home.

It’s not enough to send aid to refugee camps in the Middle East. There must be renewed military and diplomatic efforts to crush the twin menaces of Islamic State and al-Qaeda once and for all. Make no mistake: this may mean air strikes and other British military assistance to create secure and safe enclaves in Syria.

So a triple whammy for the BBC….no more Muslims, no more economic migrants and military action to crush Muslim extremists.

The BBC are scouring Wikipedia for the dirt on Lord Carey as you read.  The hatchets are being sharpened and a counter-narrative prepared to prove him not only wrong but possibly mad and more than likely the long lost son of Adolf Hitler.

Standby.

This demonstrates perfectly how the rhetoric over the immigration crisis has got vastly out of hand and people have lost their marbles…the Daily Mail’s Robert Hardman sinks to the depths here…

A desperate father and a train ride with such grim echoes: ROBERT HARDMAN on the trains carting migrants off to detention camps in Hungary

Through the condensation fogging up this oven of a railway carriage, an exhausted, ecstatic face pressed itself to the window yesterday morning.

In the morning queues for loos and standpipes around Hungary’s largest railway terminal, several thousand of the saddest souls on Earth began to dream that they were on the move again after a two-day standstill. But not for long.

By lunchtime, the truth was out and spreading like wildfire through this infernal dump. This train had not been going anywhere near the border with Austria, let alone the longed-for embrace of Germany. It had all been a monstrous hoax. A Hungarian policeman admitted as much with a mirthless snigger the moment it left the station.

This cargo – there’s no way they could be described as ‘passengers’ – was actually destined for a railway siding next to the Bicske detention camp a few miles outside Budapest. The only welcome was police wielding batons.

As word reached back to Keleti, there was disbelief – as much among locals as the migrants themselves. You did not need to be a historian to sense the chilling echo of Europe’s not-too-distant past. The last time people were duped on to trains around here, they ended up in Auschwitz.

Pathetically, after making the explicit association with the concentration camps, he adds:

Let us be clear that there is nothing remotely comparable to the Nazi era in the conduct or intentions of the Hungarian authorities.

And oh yes…that ‘desperate’,’caring father’…..the one who got all the sympathetic photos in the papers and who is the main subject of Hardman’s piece? …look at exactly what he did to his pregnant wife who was holding a baby…

The BBC does a hatchet job on a firm of lawyers who support the Christian employee in the US who refuses to marry gay couples….The legal team behind Kentucky’s defiant clerk

We are told that ‘It has been labelled a hate group and one of twelve organisations embarking on an “anti-gay crusade” in the US, but it is a group that anti-gay rights activists are increasingly turning to to represent their views.’  So fairly clear how we are supposed to perceive this firm and Christian views.

Fair enough you might say if a certain group’s views are judged illiberal and prejudiced but of course that’s is only fair enough if the BBC applies the same standards to all religions…..not just the one that Muslim Mishal Husain declared was deeply ‘unpleasant and backward’…and it wasn’t Islam.

How is it that one of the BBC’s favourite commentators can get away with this, and indeed his religion get away with it?…

As a Muslim, I struggle with the idea of homosexuality – but I oppose homophobia

I am also (to Richard Dawkins’s continuing disappointment) a believing Muslim. And, as a result, I really do struggle with this issue of homosexuality. As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes.

 

Paradoxically, ‘as a Muslim’, he quotes the Koran to prove that Islam is not homophobic:

Out of the 114 chapters of the Quran, 113 begin by introducing the God of Islam as a God of mercy and compassion. The Prophet Muhammad himself is referred to as “a mercy for all creation”. This mercy applies to everyone, whether heterosexual or homosexual.

Er…how is it that ‘as a Muslim’ then he has a problem with homosexuality if the Koran says all is fair in love and war?…well not war obviously, there is no mention of war in the Koran!

Just another example of the BBC’s hypocrisy….and they’re not in short supply today…….

The BBC must be squirming with embarrassment then over this…

‘I can’t believe they picked him over me!’ Eggheads’ CJ de Mooi claims Strictly bosses snubbed him for Jeremy Vine after he asked for same-sex dance partner

Eggheads star CJ de Mooi has blasted BBC bosses for being behind the times after claiming he was snubbed for a place on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing because he asked for a same-sex partner.

The openly gay 45-year-old – who sits on the panel of the hit BBC quiz show – said producers opted to go with the programme’s host Jeremy Vine after he asked to dance with a man during negotiations.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, he said: ‘I can’t believe they picked Jeremy over me. I’m quite upset. It’s because I wanted to dance in a same-sex couple.

Is the BBC a homophobic hate group then?

Oh and one more….not done Stewart Lee for a while (not in a gay way…not that that would be wrong!) so here goes…..he doesn’t like religion and has made a programme about the illiberal nature of blasphemy laws….

Whilst he is happy mostly attacking Christians he does mention Islam in there…however when back in the real world and having to make those dangerous ‘blasphemous’ statements he’s a lot more coy when it comes to Islam…in fact rather than attack Islam and Muslim extremism he attacks those ‘Islamophobes’ who are brave enough to stand up and have their say so don’t let the title of the video fool you….and his latest tour apparently has the same narrative about Islamophobia…

There is a bidding war going on as to who is the most humane, the most compassionate, who can get the most brownie points for making the boldest bid for pro-asylum seeker empathy.

Labour’s Yvette Cooper opened the bidding, no doubt as a cunning ploy in her leadership election run, with a grandiose gesture of 10,000 whilst Andy Burnham claimed he had always been thinking along those lines and she had stolen his glory.  Meanwhile the world’s conscience that is Bob Geldorf trumps them both with a personal pledge to adopt 4 Syrian families.

Not to be outdone the Green’s Natalie Bennett displays the usual measured and rational approach so long associated with the Greens and suggests we take in 250,000…or 1 in 8 of the refugees…not sure about her maths as there are over 4 million refugees from Syria alone..never mind those from Afghanistan and Eritrea that she also thinks in need of help.

Finally of course, and where would we be without him, there is the right irreverent Giles Fraser who has said that the Bible is clear: let the refugees in, every last one

Thousands more, says David Cameron now, grudgingly conceding to popular pressure. But why not all of them? Surely that’s the biblical answer to the “how many can we take?” question. Every single last one. Let’s dig up the greenbelt, create new cities, turn our Downton Abbeys into flats and church halls into temporary dormitories, and reclaim all those empty penthouses being used as nothing more than investment vehicles. Yes, it may change the character of this country. Or maybe it won’t require anything like such drastic action – who knows? But let’s do whatever it takes to open the door of welcome.

Another good paycheque gone into his bank account then.  Nothing like a bit of controversy to get yourself into the papers or on TV and sex up your career prospects…and Giles is an expert at that…having fled his job in disgust at the capitalist ogres of the Church who wanted outrageously and selfishly to use their churches without them being occupied he has gone on to make a tidy wedge, ironically, from his worthy statements that he churns out relentlessly proclaiming both his humanity and his anti-Establishment credentials at the same time.  No wonder the BBC and the Guardian snapped his talents up.

From the Guardian:

Quotas…how does that work?  If the migrants don’t want to live in the country they are forced to go to what use are quotas and why should one country or another then have to take them just because they have decided they want to go there?

The Today programme devoted the last half hour to the migration crisis….that’ll be half an hour and the other 23.5 hours on the BBC devoted to promoting the migration crisis.

They had on Sir John Holmes, former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.  (08:39)  I’m not sure why they [Sarah Montague, emoting beautifully about migrants as per the norm] had him on as they pretty much ignored everything of relevance that he said….’everything’ that is if it didn’t reflect the BBC’s own extreme position on immigration.

Holmes said that there is an asylum crisis but there was also an underlying migrant crisis, ie that of economic migrants.  Montague ignored that serious point that has been raised before, that the question of how many refugees any country can take is also wrapped up with the issue of the number of economic migrants that have already flooded into a country.  Holmes also made the very relevant point that quotas simply won’t work because the migrants have no intention of being told where to live….so all the pressure on the UK to take ‘their quota’ is nonsense if most migrants seemingly want to go to Germany.  Holmes says the UK has done very good work in helping the refugees in the Middle East but he says we should take more here..however he also said that accepting asylum seekers wasn’t the answer and that the crisis in Syria had to be addressed.  You may have expected Montague to leap on that in a journalistic fashion, but no, she dodged asking the question, perhaps the answer would not be to the BBC’s liking….how to siolve Syria?  That’s the only question that really matters.  But not to the BBC?  Usually the BBC is all too eager to end a war if it means stopping the West or Israel bashing Muslim terrorists…but seemingly not a war that sees Muslim terrorists being all too successful.

I’m guessing she had an agenda that didn’t include anything that not only stopped a war but stopped the flow of migrants to Europe….despite her admitting that the current situation just encourages more to come to Europe...’it is unlimited’.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of listening to the Chief Rabbi on the Today programme lecturing us about humanity…he’d just had a conflab with the Pope who declared that ‘We all share this world together, therefore we need to care for this world together,’”...the chief rabbi told us we must help these people ‘knocking on the door of Europe’.…hmm….whilst I support the existence of Israel I have to say I’m not being lectured about how we must reach out to everyone and open the borders when he doesn’t say the same about the Palestinians….when I hear him advocating a ‘one state’ solution for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I might take his words and sentiments seriously…but he knows that such a policy would destroy Israel….strange he doesn’t recognise the same will happen to Europe…as Boris Johnson has already alluded to with his ‘mass migration doomed the Roman Empire’ comment..

We need a paradigm mindshift he tells us…we look on these migrants as if they are from Mars he tells us….the Palestinians might say the same, he doesn’t tell us.

He refused to name numbers which makes his pleas meaningless….though definitely ‘some of them should be allowed in’

Webb managed to get him to proclaim that economic migrants were equally worthy of ‘asylum’ as their lives were in danger.

The BBC got what it wanted.

I was also listening to Lyse Doucet the other day on the TV news and if I hadn’t known she was BBC reporter I might have mistaken her for some sort of pro-immigration campaigner as she told us that something must be done and more migrants must be allowed in….having said that one look at her Twitter feed says it all…here curiously echoing the good Rabbi’s words….

lyse doucet ‏@bbclysedoucet 23 hrs23 hours ago

lyse doucet retweeted jagmeet singh

#oneworld

lyse doucet added,

jagmeet singh @pre_vakeel

#migrantcrisis @bbclysedoucet

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It seems we are being fed a line on the migration crisis and people are happy to look the other way and accept whatever is said if it makes the migrants tales more harrowing and piles on the ‘guilt’ that puts pressure on politicians to open the borders.   The Today programme had a tale of terror from Kobane in Syria telling us of the dreadful dangers that the inhabitants still live under and that many are still fleeing…could that have been a counter to the story that the father of the drowned children has gone back to Kobane in war torn Syria to bury his family and live there which no doubt has raised a few eyebrows in question about his reasons for taking that terrible risk with his family…

Aylan Kurdi buried alongside brother and mother in Syria

The funeral of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip and their mother takes place in their hometown of Kobane in Syria

The father whose wife and sons drowned as they attempted to reach the Greek island of Kos from Turkey warned fellow Syrians not to risk the lives of their loved ones by attempting to flee the country, as he buried his family on Friday.

Apparently he is now saying he will stay there with the graves of his family.

This is a man who put that family onto a tiny boat to make an unnecessary sea crossing knowing that his wife was terrified of the water and that a 3 year old and a 5 year old, without life jackets, would have no chance of survival if the worst happened, as it did, as he should have expected.  He is no hero or ‘victim’ of the West and its asylum policy as the BBC seem to be trying to portray him as.  Every sympathy for his wife and children but for him?  Not so much.

His family were safe in Turkey but we were told that because of a log jam in the Turkish asylum process applicants were forced to take the dangerous DIY route in dangerous small boats…how true is that?  They could of course head off across land or go by ferry perhaps….in May the Telegraph reported that Syrians were in fact being allowed to take ferries to Greece quite freely and openly…

Residents of Greece’s eastern Aegean islands say ferries carrying hundreds of Syrian migrants at a time are making the short hop from Turkey’s coast, with Turkish officials making no attempt to stop them boarding.

One other thing….a UKIP candidate tweeted this: “The little Syrian boy was well clothed and well fed. He died because his parents were greedy for the good life in Europe. Queue jumping costs.”…now maybe the word greed is one of those trigger words that are too honest to be allowed but why the outrage…other than the fact it was a UKIP man who said this?  After all Tory Malcolm Rifkind on the Today programme said exactly the same thing in less emotive wording…

The point I would have to make from a humanitarian view, I don’t blame people wanting to find a better life in the countries of northern Europe, but from an asylum point of view, if you are already in Turkey than your life is not in danger, your children are not going to lose their lives, your children are safe from Syria, so it becomes a separate issue as to whether the countries of Europe should be expected to have, as it were, an open ended position for anyone who wants to come here.

No BBC journalist declaring Rifkind is the ‘worst human alive’:

H/T Don’tblamemeivotedukip:

The BBC confirmed to Breitbart London that Morrison’s use of his BBC-linked Twitter account was inappropriate, and that the licence fee-funded journalist had removed the comment.

A spokesman for the organisation said: “The BBC has clear social media guidelines which staff must adhere to, even when using personal accounts.

“We have spoken to Alex and reminded him of his responsibility to uphold our guidelines. He has deleted the tweet.”

That family would still be alive if they didn’t think the streets of Europe were paved with gold and were encouraged to do so by the pro-immigration extremists cheerled by the BBC.