Obama not also claiming these lost boys for his virtual family then?
The BBC is in a bit of a quandary….a mixed race killer who likes the IRA (one of the BBC’s favoured terror groups)…..they can’t avoid mentioning the IRA but perhaps, as with the Hispanic George Zimmerman, they can pass Harper off as purely white and settle for rolling their eyes in disgust at the white race…never mind that the mass killer Chris Harper Mercer is mixed race…half black…this is his aunt apparently…
In fact the BBC manage to avoid mentioning his race at all, which is unusual for the BBC…..if he’d been white/white you can guarantee it would have been mentioned, repeatedly…they had to settle for ‘conservative/Republican’ to try and damn him.
Though the BBC mentions that and his penchant for the IRA they don’t mention his link on his MySpace page to this fellow Mahmoud Ali Ehsani who has some interesting photos, and captions to go with them…one being ‘“my brave soldiers keep on fighting for the liberation of Palestine against Israel. fuck Israel. Kill the Jews. jews are the only infidels.” The rest all tag the ‘brave’ Mujahadeen…should add Mercer says he’s not himself religious…..
Now Harper isn’t a Muslim so why avoid mentioning the link whilst mentioning all the other interesting connections on his Myspace page?
I’m wondering where the campaigns are to call this man a terrorist as with the white supremacist Dylann Roof?
Today also brought another BBC sleight of hand where they duck an inconvenient fact. Remember ‘Clockboy’ and the BBC’s endless reports on him?
It looks like they are less keen on another 14 year old Muslim schoolboy’s talents…the BBC merely reported on the news bulletins that he had been discovered due to his behaviour at school but didn’t expand on that. They slipped in this less than expansive and informative comment buried deep, deep in their web article…
The court previously heard the teenager had been referred to the authorities by his school on several occasions for threatening behaviour, including telling one teacher he would “cut his throat and watch him bleed to death”.
The BBC then tries to explain away his actions…
The youth had found an online jihadist community through his first smartphone which “filled a void” caused by problems he was having at school and at home as well as a degenerative eye condition.
Poor lad…I’m sure the teacher would have had a Robert Fisk moment as their throat was being cut and think...’I deserve this, I’m white, privileged and have the blood of countless natives on my hands due to Western colonialism’….
“It doesn’t excuse them for beating me up so badly but there was a real reason why they should hate Westerners so much.
“I don’t want this to be seen as a Muslim mob attacking a Westerner for no reason. They had every reason to be angry – I’ve been an outspoken critic of the US actions myself. If I had been them, I would have attacked me.”
The Telegraph is more thorough and revealing about his threats…the boy had threatened far more than just slitting the throat of one teacher….
A two-day sentencing hearing was told on Thursday that the youngster, who had a troubled family life, had frequently threatened to kill his teachers, including one who he told he would “cut the throat”.
He told another “you are on my beheading list” and said he had moved “above” another teacher.
He threatened a teaching assistant with a pair of scissors and told another “your time has come”.
Why totally ignore that in news bulletins and minimise it to the extreme in the web report?
Perhaps the BBC thinks people might make a connection between how they reported so sympathetically on the ‘clock’ that looked like a bomb and the claims of injustice and islamophobia that must have inspired the reaction to it and the BBC’s latest reports as they look and see a 14 year old Muslim boy in the UK threatening to behead teachers and the BBC downplaying his threats. It would then be obvious that even 14 year olds cannot be so easily dismissed as potential ‘Jihadis’ and therefore the reaction to ‘Clockboy’ could be seen as entirely justified and wise… his clock did after all look like a bomb…..
Following on from the Confederate flag becoming taboo can we now expect a similar fate for the Irish tricolour which featured so prominently on the gunman’s Facebook page. The BBC can run a series of programmes and articles detailing all the atrocities carried out by IRA terrorists and murderers and explaining why their actions fully justify this “hateful” symbol being wiped from history. I’m sure Mr Corbyn would agree that this was necessary for the greater good.
(On that subject am I the only person who has lost all respect for the miserable coward golfer Bubba Watson who over-painted the flag on the roof of the General Lee earlier this year?).
Expect the term ” Far left, extreme radical, black supremacist,” then again, probably not.
The ‘maker’ of a clock that looks like it could have been a bomb is invited to the White House. The hero who was shot seven times holding a door shut so his classmates could escape a biracial shooter is not invited. Who would be more like Obama’s son if he had one? The clock deconstructor, the shooter or the hero?
I think we all know where Obama’s loyalties have always been . Thank God he will be out of office soon.
‘In fact the BBC manage to avoid mentioning his race at all, which is unusual for the BBC…..’
Why would they mention it? There’s no indication that it’s in any way relevant…which would be why it’s not mentioned.
‘The BBC is in a bit of a quandary….a they can pass Harper off as purely white and settle for rolling their eyes in disgust at the white race…never mind that the mass killer Chris Harper Mercer is mixed race…half black…this is his aunt apparently…’
So this is entirely made up then, as the BBC doesn’t mention his race?
Just the usual race hustling from Alan.
“Why would they mention it? There’s no indication that it’s in any way relevant…which would be why it’s not mentioned. ”
That’s never stopped them before when they’re trying to cause race riots. And I presume you think it’s not relevant this time because the perpetrator was not white! (That is a statement not a question btw.)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/10/cnn-alters-photo-of-umpqua-killer-chris-harper-mercer-to-make-him-look-white/