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The BBC brings us wonderful and highly misleading images of Islam in the UK….but others, less intent on hiding the truth, reveal all…are Muslims really fighting back in huge numbers against the ‘radicals’ even as more and more young Muslims become ever-more ‘devout’ and self-identifying as ‘Muslim’ first and foremost?….and did ‘radicalisation’ really start in 2003 because of the Iraq War as the BBC wants you to believe?….

From a Pakistani Muslim, Gina Khan……from 2007 and 2009…

Reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Birmingham

As a young child and teenager I grew up in an area where the majority was English but there were also Greeks, Chinese, Jamaicans and Indians living in the same community. Everybody got on and respected each other. My parents ran supermarkets, so we were integrated, if not allowed to assimilate as females because of the religion. And now the white people are leaving, the area has disintegrated, and it breaks my heart. Most members of my family have moved out.

The area has been Islamised. Mosques, mini-mosques and madrasas rise up on almost every street corner, but there is nothing for the youth. Drugs and crime has made the area unsafe for young girls. Social services and the police know what is going on. I have witnessed anti-west and anti-Jew posters and leaflets appear in shops run by young bearded Muslims. I watched the Islamists mobilise the Muslim community right under my nose. Before 9/11 the time I could not name it, but I knew something was not right, but it was being done in the name of Islam.

I left because there was no way I was going to raise my children as a lone mother in a community where the Imams or mosques did nothing to serve the community or teach a plural Islam. Even the schools were allowing little primary school girls to wear headscarves, and that has nothing to do with religion. The extremists have had over twenty five uncontested years to mobilise the minds of British Muslims and their backwardness now dominates some areas.

Multicultural polices are not working…

 

Gina Khan on Breaking the Silence

Being a British Asian woman from a Pakistani ethnic background, a Muslim, the atrocities commited in the name of Islam effected me profoundly. Being a Pakistani had its own stigmas – being female meant being treated as sub-human in relation to the Muslim man. I can see how the ideology works – half the ideology is about oppressing Muslim women. That’s evident when you note that the first thing Islamists do is reverse the rights and freedom of Muslim women, when they do manage to create an Islamic state, as in Afganistan or Iran. I wasn’t going to participate in my own oppression!

I have lived within the Muslim community in Birmingham. I’m a born and bred brummie, I had been speaking out for a while. I had been writing to a lot of people hoping someone would want to focus on the truth. I knew what I knew and didn’t want to forever remain silent at any cost.

We are engaged in a protracted and widely dispersed war at the Jihadists’ discretion, which I knew had been going on before 9/11; our goverment was in denial…and still is. My insight has been through personal experiences and those of people around me.

My father was indoctrinated with this ideology in the early 1980s…Dad would say ‘you kids don’t know nothing – Islam will take over, there will be mosques everywhere, you must think of your after-life – not this life. Kaffirs will burn in the fire of hell.’

His words would frighten me, and I had no reason to doubt his words of wisdom as he was reading the Quran and attending mosques where pious religious mullahs gave sermons about the Quran. He was becoming anti-Jewish, even though he had never met a Jewish person in his whole life. He was becoming anti-west although he never actually went back to live and retire in Pakistan until mum died.

Now in hindsight I realise he was brainwashed into an ideology – by the same mosques and mullahs in Birmingham that preach tenets of Jihadism. Pensioners as well as the young get indoctrinated. Dad had become colder and more disconnected the more religious he became.

In 1996 I remember seeing flyers and posters advocating meetings for Muslims to talk about Jihad – a call for the ‘umma’ and anti-west propaganda…in a chip shop in Ward End run by mullahs. I remember thinking: why haven’t the police arrested these guys?

When the horrendous events of 9/11 happened , I remember thinking ‘oh my God, they have started to attack the West’. I was gripped in fear…and I understood who the enemy was. I was shocked when I realised that Western governments didn’t know who the enemy was.

I remained silent for most of my life but I was seething with anger at Islamists…how did this goverment not sense what was coming, while many at the grassroots level could sense it ? Remaining silent wasn’t an option for me any more, especially when more Jihadists were being discovered and named locally. Many mujahideens were known to people who had gone off to fight in Jihad in Bosnia. One of the Jihadists who was arrested in Birmingham in February was a friend’s brother. A local British-born Pakistani lad in the armed forces had been killed in action in Afganistan, and I couldn’t believe they wanted to behead someone in the armed forces just to instill fear in us all.

In search of my religion I had also picked up books translated in English from the same bookshops that were raided. I had been a victim of domestic violence…the beating of women authorised in Islamic books and political Islam theories put my faith in turmoil. I’m pleased that other Muslim people are speaking out.

I have stated to many that this war will last at least 25 to 30 years. Prime Minister Brown, just like Mr Blair, won’t use the word ‘Jihad’ – they mention the ideology but never define it to their people, which I believe is counter-productive. Muslims themselves have to understand the concept and reasons behind the ideology, and it isn’t just because of foriegn policy; this ideology was being implemented long before the Iraq or Afganistan war. The only way to really understand the enemy and what Jihad means, is to understand the historical roots of Jihad, intertwined with the history of Muslim women and their struggle to be emancipated.

The real clash is between modern 21st century Muslims living in the present and backward-thinking Muslims with the mindset of the 7th century.

The goverment had until recently engaged and somewhat funded the MCB. In my eyes they are Islamists, they are Jihadists’ mentors.
They are not the voice of British-born Muslims or British Islam. Inayat Bunglawala gets on my nerves…everytime he makes a statement to the press, I wish he’d put a sock in it.

Initially Inayat Bungalawala had supported Osama bin Ladin, calling him a ‘freedom fighter’ in 2001; he supported Wahhabi Clerics and Hamas leaders, and currently these men want a new law so that banning religious discrimination can be implemented – which could shut down debates about Islam.

I know that I will have ‘issues’ if I’m critical of my religion and the supremacist attitude that govern us all currently…..

but what the heck, Islamists disrespect our logical reasoning and humanity every day. I have a right to my full humanity…I do not believe that whoever created me wanted me or any other woman to walk out of the front door with half the IQ He blessed us with, no one could suppress/oppress me or shut me up again – ask my ex-husband. I don’t want my daughter to have my life…I intend to set her free as a full human being, one day. She was born in a free country. She can write her own life script.

In the mean time I will continue to fight this mentality and backward mindset – I will exercise my freedom of opinion and debate…that’s what democracy is all about isn’t it?

‘You kids don’t know nothing – Islam will take over, there will be mosques everywhere, you must think of your after-life – not this life. Kaffirs will burn in the fire of hell.’

‘The extremists have had over twenty five uncontested years to mobilise the minds of British Muslims and their backwardness now dominates some areas. ‘

The BBC doesn’t do ads, except of course it does….relentlessly plugging its own programmes in ingenious and varied ways.

Yesterday we had an endless procession of ‘discussions’, or trails, or puff pieces for ‘Muslims Like Us’ which was to be aired last night.  All of course peddled the message about the wonders of Islam and Muslims and how the [boo hiss] ‘extremist’ Abdul Haqq was a very small minority and his views were not mainstream Islam…such as segregation of women…could have fooled us…and indeed anyone attending FOSIS events or indeed Labour Party ones….

I was lucky enough to catch one such discussion on Woman’s Hour where the presenter informed us that ‘Muslims Like Us’ was a desperately needed programme, one commissioned by a Muslim for the BBC…her intention to show that extremists are a minority in Islam and that women could show they were strong enough to stand up to the men…yeah…OK…in a controlled environment where nobody is going to be threatened or physically abused or intimidated…and they can freely leave the house if they wish.  Let’s see the real Muslim community at home around the kitchen table discussing ‘British’ foreign policy, white women, gays, Jews, British values and Israel….and the Islamic State.

Are the fanatics a mocked minority or those who rule the roost?

To me, England, for all its ills, was the promised land.

Instead, I have found the horror I fled has followed me here. It is all around, eroding the very core of everything Britain believes in.

Why, then, have successive Governments refused to acknowledge the incestuous cultures that have evolved in these ghettos? Why does no one challenge the existence of the so-called ‘Islamic Parliaments’, with their retrogressive laws, that exist in cities such as Bradford and Leicester?
In these cities, teams of vigilantes terrorise Pakistani communities. They turn up unannounced to homes, insisting that Ramadan is respected and checking that everyone has come to prayers. They force shops to close, they check that the community is fasting, that women wear the veil.
The defenders of our precious multiculturalism must get real. My message to those who promote these entrenched ghetto ideas is this: go home if you want to practise your form of Islam. There is no place for it here.’

Unfortunately one guest was not on message…a Muslim convert who converted in 1969, Saba, who indeed thinks Haqq is wrong…what did he get wrong?  The timing.  Now is not the time for threats…first in Islam you must discuss and persuade…only if that fails do you ‘bash’ the non-compliant non-Muslims.  Ooops.  She tells us that it is high time for a programme like this to ‘normalise’ Muslims in the Public’s eye and we must realise that Islam is for the entire planet…ooops.  Yeah…thought that was the BBC plan…to make Islam seem harmless, normal and everyday…when the truth is much more sinister and dangerous for Western democracies [Just look at the photo above to imagine the brave new world under Islam]

So Saba revealed the truth about Islam…violence is quite permissible to enforce Islamic domination and Islam will take over the world.

Want the truth? A Muslim tells all….

The Talibanisation of British childhood by hardline parents

In 2003, Bakri told a journalist that their brand of Islam would get to increasing numbers of young minds and hearts.

It has – and to their parents, too.

The rapid spread of rigid, diehard Islam is deeply worrying. Yet those in power, focused on terrorist cells, seem oblivious to this other peril.

I could never have imagined, nine years on, that the Taliban would be claiming to have ‘won the war’ in Afghanistan.

Or, much worse, that our politicians and Muslim ‘leaders’ here would allow their twisted ideology to spread across Britain.

Make no mistake, Taliban devotees are in our schools, playgrounds, homes, mosques, political parties, public service, private firms and universities.

And if we are to have any hope of combating them, we need to stop this attitude of appeasement and understand why so many Muslims are attracted to the most punishing forms of belief, suppressing women and children.

In a no doubt absolutely coincidental juxtaposition Woman’s Hour followed that with a discussion about the Mafia in Italy and how they treat women….basically as slaves with not a little bit of violence…the presenter told us that this was ‘shocking in 21st century Europe’.  HMMM….can’t help thinking we were supposed to then think we shouldn’t critcise Muslims for similar practises….errr…except of course such behaviour by a famously violent criminal gang is illegal whilst seemingly part of Islam…odd that the BBC should compare the religion of peace with such a brutal, bloodthirsty and violent mob though.  Must be some mistake.  Wonder when the BBC will declare Muslim practices ‘shocking in 21st century Europe’…instead they promote them and encourage mass immigration of those who follow that ideology.

However to show just how much trouble we are in there’s also this fawning and foolish piece in the Telegraph…

Muslims Like Us is a wake-up call for Islamophobes everywhere

From the moment Haqq walked into the Apprentice-style luxury rented accommodation and started handing out leaflets about how women should dress, it was obvious he was not going to get very far spreading his message among these housemates. What became immediately clear was that try as he might – and boy was he trying – his fellow Muslims found him nuttier than the fruitcake he doubtless regards as the food of Satan.

“This is so pathetic,” said housemate Saba, as Haqq refused her greeting with the observation that the Koran forbids him from shaking hands with a woman, “what he gives you is the illusion of knowledge. He’s bogged down in the literal interpretation of words.”

This was the fundamental (and fundamentalist) point. For most of the housemates, Islam was a background comfort in their lives, prayer an opportunity for contemplation. It was certainly not the excuse for fascistic intolerance. These were good folk no more likely to be swayed by Haqq’s dogmatic misreading of the Koran than would be the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Besides, what made Muslims Like Us so compelling was that Haqq was an oddball sideshow. What this programme did was shed light on a section of society systematically vilified for the actions of its Haqq-like loony fringe.

So someone who follows Islam in a devout and conservative manner is an oddball on the lunatic fringe who exercises fascistic intolerance as revealed to him by the perfect word of Allah in the Koran?  Jim White, the writer of that piece, clearly could have had a good future at Ratners as their PR monkey.

A new open thread to keep things moving…no sign of ideological diversity at the BBC yet so keep naming and shaming…

The BBC is attempting a fresh assault upon our perceptions and the Truth as it broadcasts ‘Muslims Like Us’ in the hope that we all come to realise Muslims are just like us…’Us’ being normal, liberal, democratic beings who value democracy, freedom of speech and thought and freedom of lifestyle without it being regulated by some bloke in a beard who dictates to us from a 1400 year old book that tells us to kill the unbelievers.

The Guardian gives us the lie…

“It’s no surprise that out of 10 contributors, nine of them through the course of the two hours do everything they possibly can to distance themselves from his views. I think that’s quite representative of what happens in the Muslim community all the time.”

We are supposed to think that the ‘house’ represents the Muslim community and the genuine religious and political make-up of it and that Muslims almost to a man reject ‘extremism’.  But the ‘extremism’ is actually Islam, the fundamental, pure Islam as it is supposed to be…the whole point of Islam is that it was ‘revealed’ by God in order to replace Judaism and Christianity which had been perverted by their followers as they broke up into sects and picked and chose what they wanted to from their scriptures.

Tim Stanley in the Telegraph spells out the truth…that it is the fanatics, the conservative Muslims, who rule the roost….and the programme demonstrates this despite the Guardian interpreting it otherwise….

It puts ten British Muslims in a Big Brother-style house to see how they’ll get on. Nine are quite normal, only one is a fanatic.

And yet it is the fundamentalist who dominates the screen and makes his housemates change to suit him. It confirms the view that Britain does not have an Islam problem. It has a fundamentalism problem – and our innate decency, which is common to Britons of all races and religions, actually incubates it.

Not a conclusion the BBC intended…that Britain does have an Islam problem….and that it is the ‘tolerant’ BBC that incubates such problems by refusing to acknowledge them even when they stare them in the face as in their own programme.

Of course we’ve already seen this… Mark Easton informing us that if Muslims wanted Islamic fundamentalist schools, and that kept them happy, then they should have them…..and of course, infamously, that extremists like Choudary, were the new Ghandis, Churchills and Nelson Mandelas, to be celebrated in the future as ‘revolutionary’ thinkers.

Giles Fraser is of a similar bent as he promotes mini-Pakistans, segregation and eventual civil war in the Guardian…

Assimilation threatens the existence of other cultures

It adds immeasurably to the richness and diversity of how life is apprehended that not everyone sees the world in the same way. It is mind-expanding to be challenged by those who commit to another way of life. What a miserably grey one-dimensional place it would be if the dominant model of middle-of-the-road liberal secular capitalism became the only acceptable way of living.

Why is integration such a self-evidently good thing? 

Muslims. They are serial offenders in their resistance to the hegemony of integration. They won’t allow the Borg-like values of secular liberalism to corrode their distinctiveness. They seek to maintain their religious convictions and way of life. They refuse all that nonsense about religion being a private matter. They stand strong against the elimination of diversity. And we are all immeasurably richer for their resistance.

Yes…terror, bombs, beheadings, murders, Muslim patrols, constant blackmail to pressure us into adopting backward and unpleasant Islamic values and the attempt to subvert British schools in order to Islamise them.  Yep….so much richer for that ‘resistance’ to British values.  Non-integration threatens the existence of our culture and society.

What ‘Muslims like us’ hides is that the Muslims in the programme do not represent the vast majority of Muslims and that young Muslims are in fact becoming more like the one ‘extremist’, ever more devout and fundamentalist, identifying solely as Muslim and not British.  What’s missing is the fact that there is no compulsion…participants can leave the house when they like unlike Islam and their community which pretty much traps them into the culture and religion…and the BBC refuses to accept the power that a few ‘extremists’ hold over the community as they enforce Muslim values.

The Government has acknowledged the importance of “soft power” in global politics with an unprecedented £85m investment in the BBC World Service to support initiatives in Russia, North Korea, the Middle East and Africa.

‘When the legend becomes fact print the legend’.  Obama is certainly doing that with Trump and his Russian ‘backers’.  Obama  leaves Office doing his utmost to damage Trump whilst he has the opportunity.  He is rushing forward an investigation into the hacking of Clinton’s emails and is telling the world that the Russians did it…politicising the intelligence services for his own ends…never mind the ‘facts’ aren’t so clear cut…and of course glossing over the genuine story…that being Clinton’s failure to secure sensitive information…..

Intelligence agencies do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing” the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks, a second senior U.S. official said.

And that Wikileaks has denied the source of their ‘leak’ was Russia…

Julian Assange is denying that the Russian government is the source of WikiLeaks’ trove of hacked emails from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, that have produced embarrassing and potentially damaging messages about the Democratic nominee.

Curious how the Hero of the Left is now the enemy as his anti-Establishment site also takes on the Liberal Establishment.

There is a loud cry of ‘foul’ in the air as the Democrats try to claim Trump was only elected because of Russian interference in the election [not due to Liberal failures and incompetence then?] and outrage at the thought Russia might actually have interfered…

Incoming Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Saturday called for a bipartisan congressional probe into the reports of Russian electoral interference. “That any country could be meddling in our elections should shake both political parties to their core,” the New York Democrat said.

Of course what was it that would have allowed Russia to interfere?  The fact that Clinton kept her sensitive emails on a private email server that could be so easily hacked.

That rather points out very clearly why the fact she kept her emails on an insecure server was important, never mind the actual contents that revealed so much ‘bad news’ for her.  She enabled a foreign power to use those emails to interfere in one of the most important political events in the US calendar…the Presidential election.

The story isn’t that Trump may or may not have been helped by Russian black ops but that Clinton enabled that….note that Obama is admitting by his actions that the emails were important and damaging to Clinton…and if so then it is irrelevant if Russia hacked them…..weren’t they doing the US Public a service by bringing such ‘crime’ to light?  Or is Obama saying they should have been kept in the dark about Clinton’s crime?

Then again the US has never interfered in other countries’ politics has it?  Never mind past history let’s look at the current President’s record….

Barack Obama on the EU referendum: I won’t tell you how to vote but here’s how I want you to vote

Or how about the upcoming election in Germany…any favourities Mr President?

Obama Swoons Over Angela Merkel, All But Endorsing Her Re-election

I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people’s politics…..[but]….You know, if I were here and I were German and I had to vote, I might support her.

I’m guessing Gaddafi wouldn’t be too happy about Obama’s interference in his country having been removed from power and slaughtered….and let’s not even get started on US interference in South America or the rest of the Middle East such as ‘regime change’ in Iraq.

I’m also guessing Obama wasn’t so unhappy when Cameron denounced Trump as ‘stupid, divisive and wrong’…and not a bit dangerous…

David Cameron calls Donald Trump ‘dangerous’ in fresh attack

David Cameron has refused to apologise to Donald Trump for saying the US presidential candidate was ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’ to suggest banning Muslims from entering the US.

The BBC and Guardian as we know ran a full-on anti-Trump campaign that vilified, mocked and demonised him…perhaps Obama should launch an investigation into foreign media interference in internal US politics…especially as it was so deeply dishonest and unbalanced.

Then again the BBC’s World Service is designed specifically to interfere in other countries’ politics to  promote western values, democracy and liberal progressiveness on a whole range of subjects….projecting ‘soft power’   Which is why it so frequently gets blocked in countries like Iran and North Korea.

The Government has acknowledged the importance of “soft power” in global politics with an unprecedented £85m investment in the BBC World Service to support initiatives in Russia, North Korea, the Middle East and Africa.

“The World Service is one of the UK’s most important cultural exports and one of our best sources of global influence,” said Lord Hall

Weapons of mass persuasion….Soft Power…

The US was once the undisputed global powerhouse. Now it is under threat from contenders who use the influence of culture and lifestyle to fight for global economic and political dominance.

This political manipulation is referred to as soft power – achieving what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your customs – thriving on control, not force.

In this series, Philip Dodd investigates how this cultural rivalry is being formed and what weapons of persuasion are being deployed, from global sporting fixtures to cultural events and educational projects.

Time for another one of these….any bias about?  Perhaps some careless talk?…such as Emma Barnett talking of ‘IRA soldiers’ giving the murderous terrorists a massive amount of undue respect that the BBC never affords to British soldiers whom they hound at every opportunity….Barnett, as she rejected claims that there was a witch-hunt against British troops in NI, never once mentioning Phil Shiner’s fall and the false claims he made that the BBC peddled as fact for years.

Historian Niall Ferguson has already seen the light with Trump and after lambasting him for months now recognises he may just be the man for the job…but there’s more….Niall has had a double-double-take you might say and is now a fan of Brexit after similarly having spent months attacking it.

Let’s get down to brass tacks and the essence of his message…one that the BBC needs to read and understand….

‘This is not about GDP, it is principally about the complete loss of control of the EU’s external border and what that implies for our country’s future.’

Not about GDP.  The BBC ‘fought’ the Brexit campaign, and continues to do so, purely on the basis of the economics…as they saw it…showing it in the worst possible light.  The BBC refused to engage in debate on the actual issues that concerned the Leave voters, immigration and sovereignty, and it still does.  The BBC continues to pump out endless reports of economic doom and gloom ‘because of Brexit’ and limits the debate to that subject.  The idea of course is to portray Brexit as hugely damaging and a failure in the hope that there will be another vote and it will be influenced by all the ‘bad news’ that the BBC has been flooding the airwaves with for so long.

You may also recognise that Ferguson is saying Farage was right when he used a photograph of massed immigrants heading into Europe to illustrate his point about the failure of the EU to control EU external borders and that this would also threaten us in Britain.

It is curious that the BBC don’t report what Ferguson says…he is after all an influential and famous historian that if he’d said Brexit was a disaster would have been headline news and the subject of a Nicky Campbell phone-in.

Also consider that the BBC is desperately trawling around to get Leave voters to say they now regret voting leave and using that to suggest we should have a second vote…why no interest in those who regret voting for Remain?

What does Ferguson say?  The EU is a complete and dangerous failure…..and Cameron’s ‘reforms’ were a fraud [that the BBC loved]…..

With hindsight, he said, David Cameron should have rejected the ‘absolutely risible’ offer from the EU on migration and backed Brexit as well.

Professor Ferguson then listed the EU’s failures over the past decade including the euro, which he said had been a ‘disaster for all the reasons we said it would be in the 1990s’.

‘It has been a disaster for southern Europe and has only worked for Germany and northern Europe,’ he said.

‘European security policy, especially with respect to North Africa and the Middle East, has been a disaster.

‘On the migration issue the European leadership got it disastrously wrong. On the question of radical Islam the European leadership has fundamentally got it wrong. One has to recognise that the European elite’s performance over the last decade entirely justified the revolt of provincial England that was what we saw in Brexit.

LOL

Corbyn’s hi-jacking of the Labour Party in concert with his Marxist chums was one of the political bombshells of the last year…..his vehicle of choice was ‘Momentum’ which the BBC admits played a crucial role in getting Corbyn elected leader…now Momentum is being hi-jacked  by the hardcore Trots.  A fairly big, and amusing, story you’d have thought.  The BBC begs to differ and hides it away on the politics page as a small side-bar report even though the Times had a two page spread and little Owen Jones is going into melt-down trying to save his beloved Leader’s fan base. [oh yes…are the Corbynistas mere ‘populists’ or a genuine political movement that represents the genuine, reasoned and informed views of his voters?]

What else does the BBC not think newsworthy?  Oh yes…remember Brexit, one of the greatest constitutional events of our history apparently, remember the two massive court cases about Article 50? Remember that the House of Parliament held a vote on triggering Article 50 yesterday?  NO?  That’ll be because that vote has all but disappeared from the BBC…not a mention on news bulletins on the radio, and it is relegated to a ‘what the papers say’ item on the UK page and an actual report tucked away on the politics page.   Extraordinary….a vote that was the subject of those two court cases in essence, cases that the BBC followed relentlessly and reported in exacting detail is now of no interest at all it seems.

Maybe, just maybe, the vote did not go the way the BBC wanted it to.  Brexit is drawing nearer and the BBC is having to think up new ways to stop its progress.

Lawyer Phil Shiner has had his come-uppance and lost all credibility for his witch-hunt against British troops….

One allegation concerned his claims at a press conference in February 2008, when he said British troops had killed and tortured Iraqi civilians at the 2004 so-called “Battle of Danny Boy”, in southern Iraq.

The tribunal heard Mr Shiner accepted he acted recklessly in saying Iraqis were taken alive and later murdered after the gun-fight.

The aftermath of the battle became a central point of the Al-Sweady public inquiry.

The five-year investigation, which cost £31m, ruled in 2014 that allegations of murder and torture made against British soldiers by Iraqi detainees were “deliberate lies”.

Mr Shiner denied the claims he made were dishonest.

The BBC unquestioningly reported Shiner’s accusations as fact.  No mention of their own part in all this by the BBC.

Let’s have Lord Hall apologise to all those troops and their families who were put through hell and whom his ‘news’ organisation maligned.  Perhaps he should consider his position.  Perhaps MPs and the government should start asking questions about the role the national broadcaster played in the witch-hunt.

Yesterday the BBC was attacking the MOD for having prosecuted Sergeant Blackman for shooting a seriously injured Taliban…however why did the MOD prosecute?  Because of the enormous pressue put upon them to show they were absolutely perfect and 100% adhering to the Geneva Covention and human rights considerations by the reporting and anti-war narratives from the likes of the BBC,, as above, that put massive, unrealistic and unreasonable constraints upon troops in battlefield conditions.