Proud Iraqi soldier waves the Iraqi flag as Ramadi is recaptured
The Iraqi Army, that is the Iraqi National Army, has recaptured Ramadi from ISIS, with the help of Sunni tribal militia.
The BBC’s ME correspondents must be distraught, this news having undermined their carefully crafted campaign and narrative about the Middle East that gloated about the rise of ISIS and the ‘fall’ of the ‘indiscriminately drawn borders’ that were imposed when Britain and France ‘carved up the Middle East’ with the ‘secret Sykes Picot’ agreement….and that no Sunni would support the Shia majority government of Iraq anymore.
Trouble is the BBC’s narrative is complete and dangerous tosh…a deliberate deception and misreporting of history with the usual aim of painting Britain or the West as the villains in the piece.
The problem with the BBC narrative of an Imperial Britain imposing its will is that Arab forces were united with Britain to end the rule of the Caliphate, that is, the Ottoman Empire, they also welcomed Britain remaining in the area to help them establish their countries which fairly quickly gained independence. Sykes Picot was not an agreement drawn up in secret and imposed upon the Arabs…the Arab leaders were deeply involved in negotiations and there were many debates and arguments about the borders…they were not just drawn up with a random stroke of a pencil along a ruler. As for an unworkable nation state composed of different ethnic groups? [Where now the BBC’s love of multiculturalism?] It was Turkey that insisted the Kurdish area become part of Iraq…they didn’t want an independent Kurdish state….the Kurds also had most of the oil in their region and it was thought that Iraq would prosper as a whole with that source of revenue.
There was nothing secret or random about the creation of Iraq and other Arab states. They were the result of long drawn out negotiations between many states and groups all with vested interests. The BBC’s journalists paint a picture that is so untrue that it is obvious that it is designed purely to attack Britain and give credence to the Muslim grievance narrative that feeds into the Terrorist narrative and serves to draw in more unjustly disgruntled Muslims as recruits.
Lord Hall Hall’s news organisation is as much responsible for creating the anti-Western narrative that portrays Muslims as victims of the West as any Jihadi social media propaganda.
About time politicians and the security services sat up and took note of what one of the world’s most powerful and influential news services is doing.
Well put Alan. My Second World War vintage parents used to discuss some of the BBCs coverage of Irish affairs in the 70s with reference to something they referred to as “offering aid and comfort to the enemy”.
Tolerance of the BBCs ludicrous “neutrality” on Islamic fundamentalism and British interests continues to baffle me.
As does the free pass given to the Ottoman Caliphates contribution to the Balkan situation in the 90s and the current (and past) problems in the Middle East.
It is wilfully forgotten that Sykes-Picot was the solution to the chaos left by the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate.
I don’t believe in conspiracies but there can only be two logical explanations to the BBC’s craven attitude towards Islam and its refusal to address the link between certain verses in the Koran and Islamic terrorism. The first is that the BBC realises that demographically the country has already passed a tipping point with one out of every 10 babies now born in Britain being a Muslim (2015) and that in two generations Muslims and sharia law will be the law of the land in Britain and the BBC will remain as the impartial voice of Islam as it was the voice of Blair/Brown in promoting open door immigration, impartially. The second is that the 60’s radicals now in charge of the BBC, like Lord Hall Hall, are ignorant of the Koran as written and prefer remain in their multiculti fantasy world a while longer and at the same time gather together enough FU money so they can skip off stateside when the Islamic law of numbers shows its real face.
I`d agree here kane.
The BBC leftards hate all religion-but if Islam can be seen in the light of an anti-racist socialist alliance that loathes Jews and Americans-and it`s culturally patronising to tell Muslims that their Stoning Age barbarism is anything but “appropriate”( if a bit harsh at times).
Also-if the demographics pan out and more immigration continues-well we can see who`ll hold the whip hand over society , and they`ll be voted in anyway…and all those anti-Israel campaigns,Trump petitions will come in hnady for the new Islamic masters and their convenient bag carriers in the camel corps of the Foreign Office etc.
And-lots of heroin, lots of paedophile tolerances-and , if you`re otherwise inclined-loads of male only jobs will open up and as amny nubile wives as you can afford…and easy divorce too.
Michel Houellebecq lays it out well in his “Submission” book…worth a read I`d say, eerily prophetic Id say.
As opposed to the BBC Foreign Correspondents who think we`ll get a yes Vote, no Trump and Hillary…wrong on all three counts I hope.
About time politicians and the security services sat up and took note of what one of the world’s most powerful and influential news services is doing.
Somebody on here – it might have been Guest Who – always used to finish their post with the footer ‘BBC – the traitors in our midst’.
It’s time we all started to take that seriously.
Not me:) I think it was/is Pounce.
No argument from here, though.
Not forgetting that the Foreign Office is so infested with arab lovers they construct our policies towards the arabs such that they favour their interests to our country’s disadvantage.
I am just reading ‘Little History of the World’
by a EH Gombrich.
Its a condensed history, covers not so much the dates but the consequential actions of the Greeks and the Romans aspirations to stop the attacks by the hordes from the East. (amongst other problems). The history of Muslim madmen with unbelievable wealth and influence (ignoring any sandy borders and accepting Egypt as the most powerful in the region). Trouble existed well before Julius Ceaser invaded Britain or BBC cretins started to re-write that the Arabs are a fun loving and generous people. They have been barbarians before and the world they believe in is very much authoritarian and brutal. The Greeks gave us the power to question authority and power (not without war), the Romans gave us civil engineering and the law courts. In Islam its kill or be killed. Only the BBC would think that Catholics are the enemy. Only the EU would use the hordes to quash debate, close down accountability and allow the enemy to freely walk into Europe and offer no (Roman) tribute but claim our own benefits, our culture, our churches, our English way of life; is about to become brutal and short. Rather than admit defeat Politician’s claim – like Cameron, Clegg or Corbyn – they (Islam) can be integrated, but alas it is WE that shall be ‘integrated’ into Islam (by default) according to EU rulings. To not ‘offend’ Islam (or anybody that you disagree with) is a sure a sign of weakness. It is really is life (or death) that rules, not BBC drama. Trouble ahead. Even if the Military prevail in Syria there is no end in sight back home as we will be forced to surrender our national identity and be accused of bigotry or discrimination (by Arabs claiming our country to use as their own) those that can afford to fly first class to the Bahamas (Yentob and the like at the BBC) whilst we (common people) watch disbelieving the BBC propaganda. That we benefit being in the EU.
My many friends from the ME, Palestinian and Jordanian mostly, tell me that you can tell which of France and England oversaw their countries post SP by the development of their democracies (sic) and by the recent (pre-Arab rising) comportment of their citizens, even by their driving standards. Having visited these countries I can but concur.