Well then, last week saw the BBC sneer it’s way through the GOP conference in Cleveland. The Comrades were all over the event, seeking to emphasise division, flag up plagiarism and above all seek to damage Trump. This week sees the Democrat convention in Philly and the coronation of Hillary Clinton, the BBC’s preferred Presidential candidate. The problem is that she is PROFOUNDLY mired in scandal and loathed by those Bernie Sanders radical leftists so -what to do? The BBC wheels in that loathsome long time Clinton apologist Sidney Blumenthal on BBC Radio 4 Today at 6.55am to inform us that Hillary is the candidate who does not come from privilege (She’s filthy rich) and that she is beating Trump in most of the polls. (She isn’t, he leads her in several, including Ohio) and that everyone will rally behind her when they finally get to see the “real” Hillary on stage. Classic Clintonian denialism and fully embraced by an uncritical cheerleading BBC. In my opinion. If you think the BBC had a melt down when we voted to BREXIT can you imagine their horror at a President Trump?
Even the headline is disingenuous and intentionally misleading because the real problem is Islamist terrorism and immigration not random, ‘senseless’, murders by individuals…Gardner is trying to claim there is no overarching problem, it is an individual issue compounded by German government neglect.
Gardner has a psychiatrist tell us:
It is possible to find a common thread in the past history of murderers. He believes the clues are all in their dysfunctional backgrounds.
“It is a psychiatric problem,”
Curious how in contrast the BBC has scrubbed from the record that the killer of Jo Cox, Thomas Mair, had a well documented history of mental health problems and that the night before he killed Jo Cox he had sought help and been turned away. The BBC in that case preferred to ‘report’ that the murder was the result of the Leave campaign’s immigration ‘policy’ that incited a Far Right activist to kill. Why do they ignore Mair’s problems but tell us ‘mental health’ is the underlying problem for Muslim’s who kill? Odd how the BBC can link reasoned and measured discussion on immigration to a killing but won’t link an ideology that says kill all non-Muslims to terrorism.
What about all the many thousands that also have mental health issues but don’t go on to be terrorists? There are many levels of mental health problems…from stress to depression to murderous rages….so when Gardner say they were receiving help just what were they being helped with? Look at the Syrians on Bute now whinging about their new home and saying they are depressed….should we put them on a watch list? Is there some other contributory factor Gardner might like to consider?
Islam perhaps? Immigration of people who have a totally different culture and outlook on life and so will find it very difficult to integrate into a Western society…leading to self-alienation and possibly radicalisation and terrorism as they decide to revert to their own culture and religion….some choose to wear ever more distinctly Islamic clothing and take the war to the West through the media, law and politics, others will decide violence is the answer…there is no difference between the two other than the methods used…but for some reason the media and politicians thnk only the violent ones are a problem….their aim is the same…more Islam.
Gardner tells us:
Yet initial suspicions of an IS link to last Friday’s shooting rampage in a Munich shopping mall have been replaced by something closer to an individual, non-political grievance by the perpetrator. His killing spree bears a striking similarity to recent gun rampages by disaffected teenagers at US college campuses.
Likewise, investigators have concluded that the killing of a Polish woman by a Syrian refugee in Reutlingen is not connected to terrorism.
So there were ‘initial suspicions of an IS link’ regarding the Munich killings? Could have fooled me as the BBC absolutely refused to publish those links.
But what about this?:
His killing spree bears a striking similarity to recent gun rampages by disaffected teenagers at US college campuses….Likewise, investigators have concluded that the killing of a Polish woman by a Syrian refugee in Reutlingen is not connected to terrorism.
No mention of immigration or Islam…Gardner diverts us onto Mental health as the main problem when the real problem is immigration…the Munich killer was the son of immigrants and his bullies were all immigrants themselves.
Irnoically Gardner tells us:
“With a detailed look at the history of those perpetrators,” says Mr Aylward, “what we see is a sort of combination-lock of numbers that if arranged in the right sequence then the lock snaps open and a murderous attack takes place.”
He says far more work needs to be done to identify the signs leading up to such events before they happen.
Yep, let’s have a detailed look at what drives them….first they wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for immigration which sumps then in a totally alien environment that they refuse all too often to adapt to, two Islam isolates them and itself is the cause of alienation, and as they identify more with Islam and soak up the anti-West narratives of the Muslim agit-propagandists and of its allies in the Western media who pump out the ‘West is attacking Islam’ and ‘the problems in the Muslim world are all due to Western foreign policy’ narrative, they turn ever more against their host countries and want to do something to ‘help’ Muslims. Usually by killing as many as possible.
Gardner disengenuously tries to suggest that counter-terrorism officers think mental health issues are the problem…
At a recent meeting of Western counter-terrorism officers in Washington, it was concluded that agencies well-practiced in confronting ideological organisations like IS were ill-equipped to deal with lone individuals bearing murderous personal grievances.
The challenge becomes even harder when a troubled individual with mental problems is cynically recruited by a terrorist organisation, thus blurring the lines between the two.
Gen Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and NSA, say the phenomenon “allows the truly troubled and the truly dangerous to reach for a broader cause that gives meaning to their alienation”.
The concept of terrorist organisations preying on disturbed people to further their aims is not new.
But that isn’t what they said, Gardner slips in his own thoughts about ‘a troubled individual with mental problems’ and then links the words of Gen Hayden to his own, but Hayden talked of alienation…that’s not a mental health issue, that’s more often than not cultural and social….if you want to live by a certain ideology but it is at complete odds with the surrounding one you are going to be frustrated and as said Muslim activists whip that up into an anti-West narrative which is supported by the likes of the BBC.
The Telegraph has a much more realistic editorial on the problmes that Germany [and the rest of Europe] faces:
Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s interior minister, has suggested that such attacks raise questions about an immigration policy that has seen more than one million migrants enter Germany largely unchecked over the past year, many from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Raising such questions may appear logical and sensible, but Germany’s debate about migration issues does not always follow logic or common sense. Thomas de Maizière, the federal immigration minister, attempted to argue that the open door offered to migrants by his boss, Angela Merkel, is not relevant to the recent attacks.
While Mr Herrman’s attitude is more realistic, Mr de Maizière’s is more typical of Germany’s political debate about issues of immigration, integration and security. For many reasons, some of them historical and understandable, many German politicians are wary of acknowledging, first, that there are questions about whether all immigrants can smoothly integrate into Western societies and accept Western values and, secondly, that some voters have legitimate worries about the arrival in their country of people whose attitudes seem far removed from their own. This reticence should end, because it risks doing real harm.
Western democracies are now frequently experiencing political events that were previously considered unthinkable, at least by their political elites. If there is a common theme to Brexit, the candidacy of Donald Trump and the rise of the Front National in France, it is that political establishments which ignore and ridicule voters’ concerns about issues including immigration and cultural cohesion are simply storing up trouble for the future. Such concerns do not go away just because politicians refuse to acknowledge them, instead erupting unpredictably. To avoid these eruptions, those worries must be addressed sensibly and calmly by mainstream politicians. Otherwise the only beneficiaries are fringe factions more inclined to exploit social problems than solve them.
Too many German leaders remain in denial about the questions raised by Mrs Merkel’s open-door immigration policy. They must end that denial and start answering those questions, before less savoury elements offer their own answers.
The underlying problems are immigration and Islam….without them the problem wouldn’t exist regardless of the mental health treatments available in Germany.
Gardner and the BBC are not only in denial but are actively working to hide the real problems…..but it’s not just a matter of terrorism or ‘mass killings’, they of course totally ignore the other problem, that of crime…the murders, the rapes, the assaults, the gangs, the drugs, the robberies and frauds carried out by immigrants…all only occuring because they have been allowed into the country…how many people would still be alive if uncontrolled immigration hadn’t allowed in vast numbers of unknown people?
If Gardner was looking for one of the root causes of the problems that Europe now faces he need look no further than his own bathroom mirror or at the big sign above his workplace that says ‘BBC’.
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12 other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German town of Ansbach.
How to sanitise?
The state of Bavaria’s interior minister said the 27-year-old man had detonated the device after being refused entry to the music festival.
If only he had been let it, right? Also, if only he not been turned down for Asylum. The sheer frequency of these acts of violence by Muslim immigrants is getting the BBC to the point where it can no longer cover for them. The Lone Wolf explanation is wearing very thin.
President Obama’s half-brother Malik has announced that he is voting for Donald Trump in the next election.
In an interview with the New York Post from his home in Kenya, Malik said he was voting for the Republican candidate because ‘he speaks from the heart.’
‘Make America Great Again is a great slogan,’ he said. ‘I would like to meet (Trump).’
The former Democrat voter said he was voting for a Republican after feeling ‘deep disappointment’ at his half-brother’s presidency.
Kelvin McKenzie got himself into a lot of trouble in recent times by writing an eminently sensible columnon the utter crassness of Channel 4 using a Hijab wearing news presenter to cover the slaughter of 84 innocents by a Jihadist on the promenade in Nice.
The BBC has picked up on this and is running with the notion this is somehow “hate speech” because a bunch of bed wetting snowflakes have had their feelings hurt. I have been on BBC London twice in the past few days to a/ Defend freedom of expression b/Suggest that Channel 4 are professional media provocateurs and c/ The Hijab is arguably a political as well as a religious expression and has NO place in a publicly funded broadcaster such as the BBC. I went on to add that so many of those who bleat about the need for “diversity” seem to have a nervous breakdown when that is extended to diversity of opinion! I bet the BBC would love to emulate Channel 4!
The BBC really is wretched. In the past few days, Germany has been at the receiving end of two terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims. The BBC’s treatment of these attacks has appalled me.
The Munich shopping centre massacre posed a few problems so initially the BBC postulated that the attacks was most likely carried out by some “far right neo Nazi” type, enraged about the wonderful multiculturalism Merkel has visited upon the country. That balloon popped when it became apparent the killer was a Muslim, or a “German-Iranian” as the BBC prefers. His name was Ali Dawed Sombol or “David Somboly” as the dhimmfied BBC prefer to call him. Nine lives lost. BBC narrative morphed from him being initially a “far right neo Nazi” to instead being a sort of bizarre “Anders Breivik” tribute act. God forbid he is described as JUST another angry murderous Muslim. I spotted this earlier, NOT on the MSM.
“Investigators are now discounting previous statements the shooter had researched the massacre by A. Breivik”
Gosh, I never seen that coming. So, the new media narrative is the poor fellow was bullied and had a keen interest in massacres. I see. He was also a lone wolf. Until….
Munich police arrest 16-year-old friend of the attacker who killed nine people in the city on Friday
Two lone wolves?
Then came the news that a pregnant woman was hacked to death and two others injured in the German town of Reutlingen by a …Syrian “refugee”. The BBC chose NOT to cover this story in ANY way on its 6.30pam and 10.00pm TV News . This cartoon sums the whole damn thing up well.
The BBC does everything possible to sanitise Islamic Jihad across Europe. In that regard it IS part of the problem we face. Agree?
We’re half way through summer now, and so far for most places, the summer has been fairly underwhelming, with temperatures around average, limited amounts of sunshine, and quite a bit of rain.
However, as we head towards the end of the month, things are starting to feel much more summer-like with a dose of hot, humid weather across much of the country. It does look as through we’ll see a return to fresher, more changeable weather before too long, but still there are some hints of further spells of warm and bright weather at times as we look towards late summer.
The BBC’s reaction to the shootings in Germany by Ali Sonboly is fascinating….they absolutely avoided any mention of early reports that suggested an Islamic angle to the killings but did publish reports that he shouted he was German and that he also shouted racist abuse…failing to tell people of the context and that he wasn’t shouting racist abuse against foreigners….the BBC immediately going for the interpretation that this could be a Far Right attack.
Now it seems that the BBC is being rather circumspect when it comes to reporting his name….downplaying the fact that he is called ‘Ali’…even though pupils at his school called him that. The BBC has history here as it frequently alters the names of Muslims to engender sympathy or to avoid links to Islam and radicalism.
The BBC’s pro-Hamas Jon Donnison changed the name of his Palestinian friend and colleague when a Hamas rocket fell short and killed his son [Donnison and Co reported falsely that it was an Israeli bomb], changing it from Jihad to Jehad in the hope the readers wouldn’t think the worse.
Then we Alyan Kurdi, the young boy drowned in the Med. The BBC changed his name to ‘Alan’, not a bad name but it wasn’t the boy’s. The BBC wanted desperately to make him seen less foreign so that people would connect more to him and thence other immigrants in a similar plight and so disrespectfully changed his name in an act of political propaganda intended to make people scared to criticise open borders in case they seemed heartless or racist.
Alan was not the boy’s name, Alyan was…a fine Arab name …
Alyan is an indirect Quranic name for boys that means “one who climbs upwards”, “one who ascends”, figuratively meaning “high”, “supreme”, “exalted”, “great”. Alyan is an ancient Arabic name used since before Islam. It is derived from the AIN-L-A root which is also the root for the common name Ali.
Utterly different to the Celtic, or is it French, name Alan.
The BBC now reports the Munich killer as ‘David Sonboly’ more often than not, missing out his name ‘Ali’ for some reason…
On Saturday we had the ever more hopeless Frank Gardner, supposedly the BBC’s expert on security issues. On the Today programme he gave us his analysis of the Munich shootings telling us that as the killer was an Iranian [so possibly Shia] there was almost certainly no chance that he was with the Sunni Islamic State. He made no mention that a witness reported him shouting Allah Akbar nor that the Islamic State were praising the killings on social media.
As for the killer being Iranian and therefore not at all likely to be in ISIS…The Iranian population is around 20% Sunni….who are pretty well persecuted by their Shia rulers….and therefore one could surmise that the boy just might be from Iranian Sunni refugees. It’s a possibility that Gardner just didn’t bother to consider as he determinedly tried to scrub out any perceptions that this may be a terrorist event telling us that there were no religious or political overtones [remember this was long before we had an official German briefing on their conclusions] and that there was no IS connection and that the boy clearly held a grudge, was probably mentally disturbed and this was more like the US than IS.
This was Gardner jumping to conclusions very early on, conclusions based as much on wishful thinking as much as fact and is pretty much the narrative that the BBC churns out every time we have an attack that looks like it may have an Islamic link. Remember Nice? No links to the Islamic State and a lone wolf who was mentally unstable and had become an instant Jihadi, quickly self-radicalised? Turns out he has links to IS and had planned the attack for over a year with several likeminded fellows. The BBC got lucky this time in Munich, their default narrative turned out to be true, but that doesn’t hide the fact that they failed to report all the claims which were just as credible as the ones the BBC did choose to report and that they now seek to scrub Islam from the killer’s name.
The BBC is possibly not the worst offender here though. It started off with overheated claims of links to Breivik and added in long sections on Breivik and his crimes for good measure…turns out they were wrong….the killer was obsessed with mass murder not Breivik’s politics…and why would an Iranian, Muslim, son of immigrants, take up with someone who was against Muslims and immigrants?
The gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings and had an obvious link to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, German police say.
Police who searched the 18-year-old’s room say they found written material on attacks.
Some German news outlets have claimed right-wing nationalists are behind the incident while others have pointed the finger at Islamic State after a witness claimed the killer shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
Supporters of the Islamic State militant group have been celebrating the attack on social media.
“Thank God, may God bring prosperity to our Islamic State men,” read one tweet in Arabic on an account that regularly favours the radical Islamist movement.
A witness to the horror also claims the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar” – God is Greatest – as he opened fire after bursting out of a McDonald’s toilet.
The Telegraph is possibly worse though as it links the Munich killings not only to the Far Right as a whole but to nationalist groups as well…which can range from the mild UKIP to the SNP and the BNP and on…..
Nationalist and far-Right groups are enjoying a surge in support across Europe, propelled by the migration crisis, sluggish economic growth and waning confidence in the EU.
And although their ideas have moved into the mainstream, a violent hardcore remains on the fringes responsible for a string of “lone wolf” attacks.
The German police and politicians seemed all too quick to pronounce the killings in Munich as the work of a lone madman and to link it to a right wing mass murderer….any chance they were trying desperately to pull Merkel out the brown smelly stuff?
SPIEGEL: Was it a mistake to allow so many migrants to enter into Germany last year without knowing who they were?
De Maizière: We were shocked by the murders of the NSU. We have also seen young people commit massacres in schools. Such instances leave you stunned and asking yourself: Is it not possible to recognize this earlier? Can it be prevented? That there are such excesses of violence is, unfortunately, a fact of life. We do everything we can to prevent something like that, but to a certain extent, a society must endure it — as bitter a pill as that may be to swallow.
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