Load of old Khant

 

Always thought ‘Citizen Khan’ was a documentary with the usual BBC policy of removing all the really awkwardly inconvenient truths about Islam.  Obviously not…..

A BBC sitcom has been criticised as “Islamophobic” during a Commons debate about whether the BBC’s programmes and staff reflect UK diversity.

Labour’s Rupa Huq criticised Citizen Khan’s depiction of a “quite backward” family of Muslims.

The show was accused of stereotyping Muslims when it started in 2012 and its creator, Adil Ray, has told the Radio Times he had received death threats.

Citizen Khan prompted complaints when it launched in 2012 and Mr Ray has previously said he had received abuse from people who believed it was making fun of Islam or stereotyping Muslims.

Muslims stereotype themselves….Citizen Khan ‘quite backward’ or quite a truthful picture?

 

Oh yes and another grandstanding complainer…

Mr Umunna attacked the “representation of our Muslim communities” on TV.

He said “rising Islamophobia” could partly be blamed on broadcasters’ use of “community leaders who purport to speak for that community but have no mandate whatsoever to do so”.

Well Umunna no doubt is entirely ethical and sincere in his statements…or you might think it is a cynical grab for the Muslim vote…

Labour Hasn’t A ‘Hope In Hell’ Of Winning Election Without Ethnic Minority Voters, Warns Chuka Umunna.

As for the BBC being the cause of rising Islamophobia that might just in fact be due to Muslims’ own behaviour and what the Koran says….and as for unrepresentative ‘community leaders’…does he mean like the extremist, sorry ‘conservative’, MCB which represents over 500 Muslim organisations and which is widely accepted as the main Muslim voice?  The MCB whose fingerprints were all over the Trojan Horse plot? As I said, Muslims ‘stereotype’ themselves.

The BBC picks Muslim speakers who do represent the mainstream Muslim view and that is the problem…the BBC also endorses the views of these people in relation to foreign policy, Israel and the alleged ‘war on Islam’ being conducted by the West and unfounded claims of Islamophobic ‘racism’….the BBC is a source of radicalisation itself…it feeds the Jihadi pipeline recruits by reinforcing their prejudices.

Look at the latest from one of the BBC’s favourites.…..MPACUK’s Raza Nadim….google him to see how often the BBC brings him on….

‘Uncle Tom’ and ‘House Muslim’ are not racist labels – they are political ones. Only an Uncle Tom would say otherwise.

Consider also that MPACUK urged its readers to become Mujahadeen and to fight Jihad you wonder how these guys stay out of prison…are they ‘house Muslims’ flying a false flag as extremist nutjobs?  Maybe they really work for Mossad.

Nadim’s whole case was based upon Muslims or Blacks doing what white people do…so the terms are racist and hugely offensive and intended to be so.  Still the BBC likes him.

The BBC also comes in for some stick from the ever vigilant Labour MP David Lammy who complains…..no, not this old one…David Lammy mocked for fuming at ‘racist’ BBC after report on Sistine Chapel’s black and white smoke…but for this…

The BBC must address its lack of diversity – or risk losing viewers

The BBC already commits itself to ‘reflect modern Britain accurately and authentically’, and one of its public purposes, set out in the Royal Charter, is to ‘represent the UK, its nations, regions and communities’. When it comes to making good on these intentions, the evidence suggests that the BBC is falling short of the mark.

Not one of the BBC’s eight executive directors is from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background (and just two are women).  Meanwhile its 21 strong executive team includes only two people of colour. Just 13.2 per cent of BBC staff are non-white, a net increase of just 0.9 per cent compared to 2011, despite a raft of strategies and initiatives aimed at boosting diversity.

Ethnic minorities are well within their rights to ask why they should continue to pay their license fee at all. BAME viewers, which will account for a third of the total audience by 2050, are beginning to turn their back on the BBC.

Only 6.7 per cent of the corporation’s senior management are from BAME backgrounds. If those decision makers are overwhelmingly white, middle-class men from metropolitan London or the home counties, who hire people in their own image, then content and programming will lack the fresh perspectives and authenticity that will speak to minority communities.

The BBC must take bigger strides to represent the diverse tapestry of communities and identities that make up our nation. 

What’s the problem?  14% or so of the UK population is non-white and 13.2% of BBC employees are non-white.

Also if we go down that route, and why is it just non-whites that Lammy is concerned with?, is he racist?, what about Irish, or Scots, or Welsh, or Americans or French, Ozzies, redheads, people with one arm, people who like dogs or people who like farming programmes etc etc and then there’s the political identities…where oh where is the representation of the right leaning majority?….Andrew Neil just isn’t enough though he does his best.  Absolutely no voice or presence on the BBC for them…why should they pay the licence fee for a media organisation that pumps out programmes that present a world view that is totally at odds with so may people in this country?

The BBC always proudly proclaims its independence…but it’s not….a bit of whinging from Lenny Henry and the BBC fills its programming with BAME faces, a bit of sabre rattling from Muslims and the BBC fills its programming relentlessly with pro-Muslim propaganda, a word from Nick Robinson and we get little to no reporting on Jeremy Corbyn of any merit.

Citizen Khan may not be funny but that’s OK because the BBC’s very much the joke these days.