Love listening to Planet BBC, it is another world.
The 1400 year war between the Sunni and Shia? The BBC asks will it become the 30 year war of our time on the Today programme (o8:50).
And apparently this 1400 year old war between two religious sects is not a religious war merely a ‘sectarian’ war….a 1400 year old war that started…guess when….in 2003 with the Iraq war when those multicultural Iraqis who loved each other and thrived in their mix of Shia, Sunni and Kurds (not the usual BBC narrative when blaming Sykes Picot for imposing an unwanted national identity on naturally antagonistic communities) were traumatised and turned into sectarian bigots by the invasion.
Kind of misses out the real history of the Sunni Saddam Hussein brutally suppressing the Shia and Kurds…hence them kicking off when his boot was off their throats….funny how the BBC can forget inconvenient history…
Shia Muslims were oppressed by Iraq’s Baathist regime for more than 30 years and excluded from the highest ranks of power.
They make up the majority of Iraq’s population – accounting for as much as 60% – and their support is seen as vital if any new Iraqi government is to have legitimacy.
Oh yes and you know what….how did our guest (Mary Kaldor…usual lefty academic) explain the problem of ‘extremists’ creating sectarianism?…people aren’t naturally sectarian apparently and you see children, ‘if UKIP were to use violence on our streets then the divisions between being British and not being British would be much more acute.’
Yes she really did compare UKIP to the terrorists in Iraq and John Humphrys said absolutely nothing to correct her.
John Humphries et al, promote an image of themselves as tough, uncompromising interviewers, not letting any misrepresentation of the facts escape unchallenged. This is what we are supposed to believe. In letting a lie and a slander pass unchecked Humphries is himself a liar and a slanderer – or simply stupid.
BBC, in the words of Saga Noren, from the Crime series “The Bridge” (paraphrasing): Your self image does not correspond with reality.
When Jihadi John was eventually vaporised, there was much more sympathic noise from the BBC than there has been intelligent reporting of the attempt on Nigel Farage’s life. Disgraceful in a supposedly free democracy.
I don’t listen to the rancid O’Brien anymore, but has he apologized for his slur on Nigel Farage yet re the attempt on his life?
A man by the way O’Brien isn’t even fit to lick the boots of.
UKIP supporters are dangerous , they may not bomb , shoot or head hack people they do something far more of a threat to a democracy ; they vote .
It also seems that the left-wing morons think that words of truth used by Trump and Farage are more dangerous than bombing the Islamic State to death and destruction. I bet Cameron would never say anything politically correct on this issue, despite his ability to kill them with bombs.
Cameron is in favour of bombing the Islamic State, but as far as I know Farage is against this because its none of our business.
Islam is not my main interest, but I am only in favour of using the threat of bombing as a deterrent against the Islamic State attacking Britain. The idiot Cameron threw away the deterrent in an instant, and I cannot imagine Cameron arresting British Muslims for treason. I suppose the lefties use the racist view that legally British Muslims are not, and never will be British, and therefore cannot commit treason. National Socialism, used by the lefties, for the benefit of British Muslims. Therefore only UKIP has sanity on its side.
Also a Question Time audience shows that only left-wing people can get worked up into a frenzy that leads to violence. The threat of violence used by those invited to inhabit BBC audiences, is intended to intimidate the opposition to left-wing views, which in open free debate, are always exposed as the views of idiots.
I’d really like to know what all these people who want to ban Trump are so afraid of? Are they really unsure of their own arguments, or do they believe they are protecting all us poor intellectually inferior souls who have failed to see the light and agree with them?
old, no, Trump is a potential terrorist ! LOL ! But, you are right. These people know that they have no intellectual arguments so just want to stifle the opposition. Pathetic , but reminds me of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It is fear of the truth !