Look away, look away.

The BBC ‘manages’ Islam out of the story:

Tower Hamlets Council ‘culture of cronyism’ criticised

Remarkably the BBC doesn’t think it important to quote what would seem a fairly incendiary statement from Eric Pickles which both the Telegraph and the Guardian quote…..

Mr Pickles told the Commons, adding Mr Rahman’s administration had allowed homophobia, anti-Semitism and religious extremism to “fester”.

“The abuse of taxpayers’ money and culture of cronyism reflects a partisan community politics that seeks to trade favours and spread division on the rates,” he said.

All the more remarkable that the BBC fails to quote such a line when they are always so concerned about social cohesion and multi-culturalism.

This is the closest they come to anything hinting of an ‘ethnic’ flavour to the affair…..

The report also found that a proposal to award money to lunch clubs for Jewish, Sikh and Hindu communities resulted in £99,212 being awarded to Bangladeshi or Somali groups, none of which had applied for the money.

 

But even that is disengenuous….spot the difference…Jews, Sikhs, Hindus….all religions, then the BBC switches and we have Bangladeshis and Somalis, both nationalities…..why not just use ‘Muslim’ which is the crucial identifying element to consider when examining anything Luther Rahman does…..his actions as Mayor seem always to be looking to promote the Muslim communities’ interests and to further the dominance of Islam in the area….he didn’t send money their way because they were Bangladeshi or Somali but because they were Muslim.

Andrew Gilligan at the Telegraph has for a very long time been investigating and exposing Rahman and his cronies in Tower Hamlets.  The BBC was very slow to take an interest even when serious allegations were being made.

You can now see why events in places like Rochdale were allowed to go on for so long when not just the police and social services but also major media providers refused to tackle anything that would mean confronting elements of the Muslim community.

The BBC thinks its silence and cover up of such sensitive matters is in the interests of community cohesion and peaceful coexistence.  It’s not.  They always come out, but not before a huge amount of damage has been done.

Jon Donnison is infamous for his support for Hamas and his anti-Israel stance.  He continues the same narrative in Australia where his preoccupation is with the Islamic side of life there….in particular of course the ‘wave of Islamophobia’ sweeping across racist Australia.

Today he tweets a link to his FOOC piece on this subject (He’s so proud of it he has pinned the Tweet to the top of his feed)…

Curiously he totally ignores the murder of a Shia Muslim , or Non-Muslim in the eyes of Sunnis, outside a mosque in Australia:

IS supporters shot man outside Greenacre mosque: Witness claims

A man who was shot outside a mosque in south-west Sydney was the victim of an attack by local Islamic State (IS) supporters, a witness has said.

Rasoul Al Mousawi, 47, was shot in the head in an industrial area on Rosedale Avenue, near the intersection of Brunker Road at 1:15am (AEDT).

A friend of the victim, a Shia Muslim who did not want to be identified, said a group of men drove past the Houssaineyat-Alnabialakram Association in Greenacre several times before the shooting, calling out “IS lives forever”.

“They called us ‘Shia dogs’ and they threatened to come back down tonight and kill you, shoot you, whatever,” the man said.

“We didn’t believe them and we went home and we got a phone call that one of our community members got shot in the head.

“He was walking his family home so he can come back and do the cleaning (at the mosque) and they shot him in front of his family.

 

Not sure why Donnison has a job at the BBC when he is so clearly biased, and not biased towards something relatively harmless but towards people who are extraordinarily dangerous and who influence the Muslim youth in this country to radicalise.

Dame Pauline Neville Jones told us, on the BBC (10:46), that we are in a major propaganda war about what kind of society we are, what kind of society is civilised and we must work hard to dissuade Muslims from joining organisations like IS.

She went on to say that the attraction towards IS by many young Britons is ‘a commentary on our ability to create inside our country an integrated society where people want to belong and pull together.’

She relates this to the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham where people live in enclaves and don’t want to belong….the BBC of course suggested we should just let them Islamise the schools if that is what the parents want.

She says that this failure to deal with the reluctance to integrate affects our ability to control terrorism.

The BBC’s journalists, promoting Islamism and Islamist terror groups along with continuing to feed into their narrative about foreign policy,  create an atmosphere where Muslims feel they are victims, the West is attacking them (rather than the other way round) and that they are justified in attacking the West in ‘defence’ of Islam.

It is a propaganda war that the BBC has long served on the wrong side of.

Some graffiti on a wall, put there by who knows who, and Donnison claims Australia is Islamophobic.  A Muslim is shot, probably by another Muslim, and he doesn’t want to know.

You have to laugh…the BBC sponsoring a ‘festival of ideas’ based on free thought.

Today (09:00) on R4 we have ‘Start the Week’...which I’m pretty sure I heard Anne McElvoy just introduce as looking at the evils of consumerism and asking is it a result of the worst economic system known to man?…that’ll be capitalism of course.

Not sure she did say that but it would certainly fit with the BBC anti-consumerism, anti-capitalism narrative….I will check later….update….just checked and she did  say that (08:34) but added ‘apart from all the rest’.  Still the BBC flinging mud though in the direction of….keep asking those questions and raising doubts….subtle agitprop?  Thoughful in the comments says the programme was quite good and couldn’t detect any bias so I will have to bow to someone who has listened to it.

Back to free thinking and the BBC are all over Merkel’s stomping on David Cameron’s supposed intention to cap immigration saying that this would lead to the British exit from the EU…getting the 08:10 spot on Today this morning.

Strange the BBC totally ignored Andrew Neather’s explosive revelations about Labour’s dangerous immigration policies.

Free thinking not usually allowed if it’s about something the BBC disapproves of.

Perhaps UKIP should hold an alternate Festival of Ideas….call it perhaps a ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’.

A tabloidesque heading for this post for sure, and yet based upon the facts, as reported by the Home Office, that drug use is most prevalent amongst mixed-race people and gays.

Not something the BBC will ever be splashing across its front page or headlining in the news bulletins.

However the BBC is happy to put this dodgy headline up in lights, and to use it repeatedly in those news bulletins….

No link between tough penalties and drug use – report

There is “no obvious” link between tough laws and levels of illegal drug use, a government report has found.

Liberal Democrat Home Office minister Norman Baker said the report, comparing the UK with other countries, should end “mindless rhetoric” on drugs policy.

He accused the Conservatives of “suppressing” the findings for months.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the research did not offer “specific conclusions” and said he did not “believe in” decriminalising drugs.

LibDem Norman Baker has been given a great deal of space to slam the Tories and to push his own pet project…the decriminalisation of drug possession.

The problem is that he bases his claims on the findings, as he tells us, of a report commissioned by the LibDems:

Drugs: International Comparators   October 2014

And that report really based its findings on the actions of only one country…Portugal:

Much of the most relevant data in this area comes from Portugal

Not sure why the LibDems commissioned such a report when in 2012 another report looked into the same subject over six years and concluded:

Possessing small amount of drugs ‘should not be crime’

The penalties for drug misuse should be relaxed so that possession of small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence, the government has been urged.

The recommendation comes in a report from the UK Drug Policy Commission, which undertook six years of research.

However, it does not call for the decriminalisation or legalisation of most drugs.

“We do not believe that there is sufficient evidence at the moment to support the case for removing criminal penalties for the major production or supply offences of most drugs,” it said.

So after six years of research it didn’t recommend decriminalisation of all drugs….perhaps that’s why the LibDems commissioned yet another report in the hope that it would fit in with their own policies.

Luckily it did.  Or did it?

The BBC headlines certainly say it did…and the report did indeed say ‘We did not in our fact-finding observe any obvious relationship between the toughness of a country’s enforcement against drug possession, and levels of drug use in that country.’

However they did find countries like Sweden and Japan had strict drug laws and low incidence of drug use…but dismissed this as most likely a cultural antipathy towards drug taking rather than effective judicial policies.

That quote is used to suggest that tough penalties for those in possession of drugs do not lead to reduced drug use and ipso facto we do not therefore need tough penalties, and, they may in fact be counter productive….but that headline could equally be ‘No link between weak drug laws and drug use’ 

However the whole report cannot provide any conclusive proof that decriminalistion itself lowers drug use.

It in fact admits….

It is not clear that decriminalisation has an impact on levels of drug use.

The only demonstrable benefit comes from the lowered costs in the justice system with fewer people going through the courts and having to go to prison.  The police still deal with the drug users, having to direct them to treatment centres and courses instead of charging them, and so police time and costs are not reduced.

In fact far from showing a reduction in drug use decriminalisation showed an increased in drug use….The Czech Republic saw a rise….as did Portugal, though Portugal’s drug use has now leveled off……

The Czech Republic and Portugal have similar approaches to possession, where possession of small amounts of any drug does not lead to criminal proceedings, but while levels of drug use in Portugal appear to be relatively low, reported levels of cannabis use in the Czech Republic are among the highest in Europe. Indicators of levels of drug use in Sweden, which has one of the toughest approaches we saw, point to relatively low levels of use

Portugal decriminalised drug possession in 2001 and saw an increase in drug use for the next six years until 2007 after which usage dropped away and leveled off.

Curiously whilst the chart show a decrease in use another one shows an increase in arrests to a level above that pre-2001:

It is not clear at all that Portugal’s decriminalisation has caused a reduction in drug use….any other benefits such as health come as result of treatment and harm reduction programmes.

There are many variables.  You have to ask how many drug users there are in a country, then how many are actually arrested, how many are charged, how many are merely cautioned or sent to treatment.  Different countries will use different measures to deal with drug users even when they haven’t decriminalised drug possession and therefore comparison and drawing meaningful conclusions must be almost impossible…..

It would be inappropriate to compare the success of drug policies in different countries based solely on trends which are subject to differences in data collection, and are affected by various cultural, social and political factors besides legislation, policing and sentencing.

It is not clear that decriminalisation has an impact on levels of drug use. Following decriminalisation in Portugal there has not been a lasting increase in adult drug use. Looking across different countries, there is no apparent correlation between the ‘toughness’ of a country’s approach and the prevalence of adult drug use.

 

The report says:

As in Portugal, prevention and treatment are a key element of responses to drugs in the UK.

 

Which is probably why drug use is dropping in the UK and why Norman Baker is wrong.  There is no evidence that decriminalisation reduces drug use, the opposite seems to be true in fact, it is treatment and harm reduction programmes that are the real policies that benefit drug users the most, keeping them healthy and helping them come off drugs.

Sweden and Japan have tough drug laws and have low drug use, possibly as much to do with cultural disapproval than anything else, the Czech Republic introduced similar laws to Portugal and yet saw a steep rise in drug use…as indeed did Portugal.

Portugal only saw a fall in drug use six years after the introduction of decriminalisation after which drug use actually rose for that six years but there is no proven link between decriminalisation and that belated subsequent fall in drug use.

All in all the report comes to no conclusions at all concerning the decriminalisation of drugs and the use of drugs.  It did make that statement that ‘Looking across different countries, there is no apparent correlation between the ‘toughness’ of a country’s approach and the prevalence of adult drug use’,  however to me that seems as if it was as much wishful thinking as based upon the substance of the report….inserted because that is what someone wanted the report to conclude.

Norman Baker, when making his attacks on the Tories, seems to forget that he signed the forward to the report which states that:

The Coalition Government is delivering on the commitments in our 2010 Drugs Strategy, and there are positive signs that our approach is working.

Where there are differences in practice between one country and another, these are often informed by different social and legal contexts. What works in one country may not be appropriate in another. We explore these differences in this report. In many cases, they illustrate the complexity of the challenge, and demonstrate why we cannot simply adopt another country’s approach wholesale. The UK continues to pursue a balanced, evidence-based approach to the misuse of drugs. We promote this approach internationally, and we seek to engage and learn from other countries as the challenges evolve.

Our legislative approach to drugs misuse, based in the Misuse of Drugs Act, provides us with the flexibility to control emerging harmful drugs and target illicit supply. Police and the courts have discretion to take an informed and proportionate approach to an individual caught in possession of controlled drugs.

Based on what we have learned, the UK will continue to advocate a balanced, evidence-based approach to the misuse of drugs internationally.

The BBC seems to have forgotten that aspect of this business and have given Baker free rein to trash the Tories when the BBC should asking him tough questions about his blatant hypocrisy and two-faced treachery saying one thing in private and something different in public…there must be an election coming.

It’s not as if the BBC don’t know the significance of that signature….

Lib Dem Home Office minister Norman Baker, who signed the foreword of the report along with Home Secretary Theresa May…

 

However they delve no further and don’t raise any awkward questions for Baker.

Regardless of whether possession should be decriminalised the BBC has taken the most eye catching sentence out of the report, one that in fact bares little relation to the rest of the report, and presented it as if it was the unassailable truth….a supposed conclusion that is at odds with the Tories’ drug policy…and indeed Norman Baker’s if we can believe what he signed up to in the foreword.

Certainly that was the impression I got as I listened on the radio…tough laws don’t reduce drug use but decriminalisation does.

The BBC tells us that :

Mr Baker’s claims have been fuelled by his department’s own report, which finds no link between how tough a country is on drugs and how many people use them.

 

But the report does not say that at all.  It certainly tries hard to make that conclusion but admits it cannot in all honesty do so….as the BBC paradoxially also reports:

The report said it would be “inappropriate” to compare the success of drug policies in different countries because data collection and many other factors differ between each one.

But it said “some observations can be made” and it was “not clear” decriminalisation has an impact on levels of drug use.

So to be clear….there is no link between tough laws and a reduction in drug use…and it was also not clear that decriminalisation reduced drug use….but the BBC chose the most dramatic headline, and at least in its bulletins, were happy to imply decriminalisation would reduce drug use.

Once again the BBC reduces a complex subject down to soundbites in its news bulletins which just happen to favour a line that many at the BBC themselves might look kindly upon….an added bonus is that it is a policy disliked by the Tories.

“We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue”

Labour MP Simon Danczuk tells us that Cheap immigrant labour has cost blue-collar Britain dear

He blames the politicians who don’t care about the working class…..and we know from Andrew Neather that the Labour Party recognised the threat to the working class but deliberately concealed the problem so that they could continue with their ideologically driven immigration policy regardless of the cost in jobs and community……the Neather revelations told us that….

As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

There’s been a cosy agreement among the main political parties around immigration and Britain’s labour market for too long. The thinking is that we cannot survive without a record injection of cheap migrant labour.

We all know the benefits of immigration. Our country has been enriched greatly by migrants. But there’s been far too little said about the consequences that uncontrolled immigration has on poorer, working class communities. And when a note of caution is heard, a near evangelical chorus that believes nothing bad ever comes from record immigration always drowns it out.

On both sides of the political spectrum there’s a dogmatic belief that the free movement of cheap migrant labour can only bring bountiful returns. The right is in thrall to big business and slavishly continues to feed its addiction to cheap migrant labour. While the left constantly argue that without record immigration the National Health Service would collapse.

Both arguments are bogus.

The argument of the right is wrong because a cheap, disposable and compliant labour force only brings insecurity, resentment and a breadline existence. It’s the opposite of the confident, proud and secure communities we should be building. While the argument of the left allows a bizarre ‘diversity dogma’ to trump all other reasoning. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be training up more doctors and nurses here for starters. And why are we constantly recruiting nurses from developing countries where they are struggling to provide basic care?

To many in the Metropolitan bubbles this is all quaint talk, as the working classes to them are an invisible people, an all but extinct tribe. But there’s a lot more of them than they realise and they won’t be beaten down and ignored forever. If politicians continue to demonstrate a lack of understanding about their lives and ignore their demands for a fairer deal they will soon make their existence painfully known to all main political parties – at the ballot box.

 

That ‘cosy agreement’ between the political parties is held together by the silence of the BBC, silent on the downsides of immigration but extremely vocal about the supposed benefits.

The BBC, instead of being a critical outsider questioning policies, has been an insider cheerleading from the front for mass immigration allowing politicians to do as they like without having to answer for their actions.

Metropolitan elitists, well paid and privileged such as Evan Davis with his French boyfriend, whilst applauding the immigrants flooding here to work the bars, restaurants and fancy shops they frequent, are in reality exploiting them ruthlessly for their cheap labour, either keeping the prices down in those establishments or providing cheap builders and other workers to improve their already comfortable existences….and what of the countries that have educated and trained this workforce at their own expense only to find they have taken that expensive training to make the wallets of the rich and famous go even further in La Grande Bretagne.

Orwell told us that:

“We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue”

That robbery does indeed continue….but now we import the wage slaves to maintain our standards of living and think nothing of the British working men and women we put on the scrap heap by doing so.

And the BBC is part of the conspiracy.

Roger Harrabin, a strange conflicted, tormented soul unable to square the ethics of being a professional journalist with his desire to campaign for the climate change lobby.

He’s settled for the green blob.

Harrabin admitted he was a climate change campaigner:

I have spent much of the last two decades of my journalistic life warning about the potential dangers of climate change.

 

Harrabin knows many of the Public are sceptical about climate change, especially when they see their bills falsely inflated by green taxes.  He goes so far as to suggest Sceptics should be brought in from the cold and given a hearing…here and here he toys with the idea…and yet still manages to slip in a few sneers for the Sceptics and some cheerleading for the likes of the CRU’s Phil Jones.

Even today Harrabin whilst luring in an unsuspecting ‘sceptic’ to the BBC can’t help trying to discredit that ‘sceptic’ whilst supposedly taking him seriously.

The Today programme announced to us that the IPCC was about to reveal its latest thinking on climate and would tell us that we will suffer irreversible climate change if we continue pumping out CO2…..the Today programme tells us that such reports are ‘resisted by a very vocal minority’.

So you get the idea….sceptics are noisy, a minority, a bit of a nuisance and…no mention of just how credible they are….but we are told Sceptics are coming into line with mainstream thinking.

Hmmmm…..isn’t it more true to say that the ‘settled mainstream science’ is being forced by facts on the ground to admit that they have got things serously wrong and it is they who are now coming into line with the sceptics rather than sceptics now ‘agreeing’ with the mainstream?

On the Today show Harrabin spoke to Nic Lewis (15 mins) whom he pointedly called ‘Mr Lewis’ in an attempt to persuade us that he is not a scientist and has little real authority to speak on the subject of climate change.

Harrabin ‘interviews’ Lewis but we don’t actually hear the interview just Harrabin’s interpretation of it…here he tells us the three points that apparently sceptics and the ‘Mainstream’ agree on….

• CO2 from humans has contributed to warming the planet.
• The current pause will end…sometime because of CO2.
• If we double CO2 emissions it will result in a rise of 1.7°C

I rather think all those points could easily be contested.

That last point for  instance….Harrabin goes on to say that the range of likely temperatures given by Lewis matches the IPCC’s.

No, it doesn’t.  Harrabin is spinning, this Today report is all about trying to make out that sceptics have suddenly seen the light and have slowly come to the same conclusions as the IPCC.  They haven’t.

Here is Nic Lewis’s own report from March this year in which he says….

‘…a lower observationally-based temperature range of 1.25–3.0°C, with a best estimate of 1.75, for a doubling of CO2. By contrast, the climate models used for projections in AR5 indicate a range of 2-4.5°C, with an average of 3.2°C.’

In other words his range of temperatures is far below that of the IPCC…and the figure for temperature when CO2 levels double is almost half that of the IPCC…1.75 and 3.2 °C respectively….not as Harrabin claimed both agreeing on 1.75.

Again here Lewis says the same:

The CMIP5 [IPCC] models ultimately warm on average about 3.2° C when the concentration of CO2 is doubled. This is approaching twice the level suggested by the best observational studies

 

Lewis tells us that:

Virtually all the models that the IPCC uses in its report have been running too hot over periods as long as 35 years, long enough to judge them on a climatic timescale

Harrabin himself last year reported the IPCC’s doomladen predictions:

Harrabin admits that that was only a theory…it may be that climate is not as sensitive to CO2 as ‘mainstream scientists’ told us…..it maybe we get no temperature rise above 2.5° C but he says ‘that is very optimistic…and we will probably see much worse.’

Mainstream scientists, he tells us, suggest that 2 – 4.5° C is more likely and ‘there is little reassuring about that’

 

2-4.5° C?  So an average of 3.2 not 1.7 as Harrabin today claimed the IPCC suggests.

Harrabin slips in a cheap couple of sneers telling us that ‘Mr Lewis’ is a Cambridge educated mathematician with a career in financial consulting…though unlike most sceptics he’s published his findings in scientific journals.

Harrabin doesn’t mention that he also studied physics at Cambridge and is a highly skilled statistician as well as having spent many years studying climate change.

Harrabin curiously omits to mention that Lewis is also an expert reviewer for the IPCC….so credible enough for them to utilise his expertise.

We might ask just how many times Harrabin has published his scientific research in science journals…the answer would of course be never….Harrabin being an English graduate.

By his own standards Harrabin should not be reporting on climate change due to his lack of paper credentials….and yet he consistently attacks sceptics for their apparent lack of professional qualifications.

Harrabin demonstrates his own lack of understanding by confusing CO2 emissions with CO2 concentrations….from Nic Lewis himself via Bishop Hill:

As you know, Roger Harrabin’s piece on global warming that included excerpts of his interview with me aired at 7.15 this morning on Radio 4.

Unfortunately, his piece confusingly muddled up both CO₂ emissions with CO₂ concentrations and equilibrium climate sensitivity with the transient climate response level.

For an English graduate words and meaning must surely be something you could grapple succesfully with…so even in his own field of expertise Harrabin can’t cut it.  Not too good with either numbers or words it seems.

Harrabin’s Today report was pure spin that tried to undermine the Sceptic case by saying that they were now agreeing with the IPCC.

However Nic Lewis has never been a ‘sceptic’ in the sense that Harrabin uses.  Lewis believes that man-made CO2 is warming the planet but that the planet is not as sensitive as the IPCC makes out…but in fact he goes further than the IPCC….

In AR5 the IPCC felt even more certain (95% certain, compared to 90% inAR4) that humans have caused most (more than 50%) of the warming since1950. The media treated this as the major conclusion of AR5, but it is in fact a relatively trivial finding. The high-quality observationally-based estimates for climate sensitivity discussed in this report assume that virtually all the measured warming (not just since 1950, but over the last 100–150 years) is due to humans.

The far more important question now is how much warming is likely in the future under various scenarios.

Curiously when you read the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s blurb they say almost the exact same thing….they accept global warming is happening but that they disagree with the level of warming and the policies adopted to combat it…..

The Global Warming Policy Foundation is unique. We are an all-party and non-party think tank and a registered educational charity which, while open-minded on the contested science of global warming, is deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated.
We are in no sense ‘anti-environmental’. There is a wide range of important environmental issues, which call for an equally wide range of policy responses. Our concern is solely with the possible effects of any future global warming and the policy responses that may evoke.

 

And yet Lord Lawson is banned by the BBC from appearing.

So we have a climate sceptic who isn’t really a sceptic but whose positon is presented by Harrabin as the new dawning of reality in the sceptic’s camp as they merge with mainstream thinking. Harrabin spins the figures to make it appear the IPCC is correct on likely future temperature scenarios. Harrabin sneers at sceptics.

In summary we have Harrabin spinning like mad, misleading listeners and trying to discredit sceptics….what’s new in his approach to reasoned debate on climate change?  Nothing.

BBC’s Mr Climate Change and £15,000 grants from university rocked by global warning scandal

Nigel Farage is in the Independent today asking why the BBC et al mocks or simply and lazily vilifies UKIP when a great, great many people support its stance on immigration and Europe…..

Liberal shows like Mock The Week just can’t understand why Ukip has so many supporters

Where does Mishal Husain get her news from?  Al Jazeera?

Mishal Husain, the BBC’s Muslim presenter who thinks that Hamas rockets are pretty harmless and that it is part of her job to improve the image of Islam made a slight factual error this morning claiming that (08:52)

‘The Israeli authorities have reopened access to the Al Aqsa Mosque this morning….closed yesterday after unrest following the fatal shooting of a Palestinian.’

 

Trouble is that’s just not true as even the BBC reported yesterday…..

A spokesman for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has described the closure of a disputed Jerusalem holy site as a “declaration of war”.

The move came amid tension and violence after the shooting of a Jewish activist. Israel’s PM urged calm, saying Mr Abbas was stoking unrest.

The holy site will reopen on Friday, Israel’s economy minister says.

 

And what of that ‘Palestinian’?

Israeli police later killed a Palestinian suspected of shooting him. Moataz Hejazi, 32, was shot after reportedly opening fire when police surrounded his home.

 

So the mosque was closed because a Palestinian shot an Israeli Rabbi and then that Palestinian killer was shot resisting arrest.

Not quite the tale Husain cobbled together.

Later in the day we had Kevin Connolly giving us an analysis of the historical context and background to events in Jerusalem….apparently the start of the problem was the Israeli’s ‘supreme conquest’ of Palestinian territory in 1967.

Strange, I thought 1967 had the Israelis routing the massed Arab armies who were ready to annihilate Israel but instead fled the field leaving Israel in charge of the land by default…..they didn’t ‘conquer’ it as Connolly suggests.

Facts and language….the proper use if which determine people’s perceptions and reactions.

The BBC’s mis-use of both is fuel to the fire for the ‘radical Islamist’s’ narrative.

It is interesting that Connolly talks openly about the Muslim reaction to any Israeli incursion into the Mosque….it would set off violent repercussions across the Muslim world.

Connolly mentions the Crusades, no doubt doing the usual BBC thing of trying to suggest that Christians have a history of violence in religion’s name thereby intending that we should not judge Islam for its violence…trouble is…Christianity doesn’t tell you to hate the non-believers, it doen’t tell you to kill them.  The Koran does.

But it is that Muslim reaction to any Israeli incursion that is interesting because Muslims continually refer to the Crusades as something that even now radicalises Muslims, just another point in history that Muslims have suffered persecution at the hands of Christians.

Never mind that Muslims attacked and conquered Jerusalem and the Crusades were an attempt to regain Christian land.

Connolly’s admission that Muslims would set the Middle East alight to get the Al Aqsa Mosque area back, Temple Mount to the Jews of course, tells you something of the hypocrisy of the Muslim narrative that feeds their grievance industry and the subsequent terrorism.

They complain about the Crusades and yet would do exactly the same thing should they be excluded from the Mosque.

We’ve had Alvin Hall’s interesting and original treatment of Black musical history on the BBC and now we have another attempt to rewrite it and turn everything any Black person ever did or said in history into an act of resistance against the white ‘Massa’…..

Dr Hepcat and the Hepster’s Dictionary

In this programme we hear about the music of Cab Calloway and his ‘Hepster’s Dictionary’ the roots of which, we are told, are the slave slang of the plantations invented as a code to befuddle and undermine the authority of the white ‘Massa’.

The language and Cab Calloway’s jive talk was ‘racial politics’, Calloway was a cultural warrior battling aggressive eurocentricism….white culture in other words.

Or so we are told by the BBC whose interpretation of Calloway’s intentions is somewhat self-serving.

Desperate to make us realise the suffering of the Black American they tell us that the word ‘Pounder’ used as a description of a police officer, was because the police used to ‘pound’ on Blacks…nothing to do with them being ‘pavement pounders’ out ‘pounding the beat’.   There’s one they missed…cops on the ‘beat’.  Must have a deeper significance.  Similarly we are told that ‘Bebop’ was actually a reference to the sound truncheons made on Black heads as they were set upon by white ‘pounders’.

Or it could just be this:

bebop, also called bop,  the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music.

Did the slaves create a secret language to enable them to resist white oppression?  Or did the language develop its own unique shape in the same way that any language does when a group of people are essentially isolated from other groups and develop their own language…its just a fact of life not a conspiracy, not a revolution.

The BBC is talking crap…..or racially motivated, politically charged, emotive language designed to create a particular misperception of history to suit Black activists intent on stirring up racial grievances.

Here’s a different interpretation…..

Each generation has their own slang and lingo, a language that defines them. Each generation also has a purveyor of cool who creates a language that only the initiated understand. During the 1950s and 60s, Frank Sinatra created a personal lingo that influenced a generation of swanky and swaggering men.

But before Sinatra, there was Cab Calloway.

In addition to writing and performing great swing music, Calloway created an entirely new lingo. He never took his hepster slang too seriously; it was all about having fun and being unique. Soon lots of people wanted to speak just like Cab. To help facilitate this, Calloway produced a Hepster Dictionary in 1940 that accompanied Cab Calloway sheet music.

 

So rather than being a political statement the Hepster chat and dictionary was in fact all about having fun and being different….and helping people to understand his music and life….so being different but not that different.

What the BBC and its Black activist presenters don’t tell us is this:

Cab Calloway: On the Yiddish Side of the Street

In 1930s New York, no cat was more of a “hepster” than Cab Calloway. The son of a lawyer father and a church-organist mother, Calloway met Louis Armstrong while at Chicago’s Crane College. There he learned to scat-sing so well that he left school to relocate his well-trained tenor voice, and his band, to an extended engagement at Harlem’s Cotton Club. He soon hit the dance halls and stages of the wider world, barely stopping to breathe until the 20^th century was almost over. Along the way, he took it all in: the sights, the sounds, and the fine points of the language of the streets, eventually publishing the first-ever dictionary of African-American slang, The New Cab Calloway’s Hepsters Dictionary: The Language of Jive, in 1938.

But there was another “hep” language floating around 1930s New York: Yiddish.

Yiddish laced the speech of Irving Mills, a man of Odessa Jewish stock who became Calloway’s manager. The language of meshugas, dzhlubs, and mamzers resonated more than a little with Calloway.  In partnership with Mills, he soon found ingenious ways to infuse his act with retooled Yiddish folksongs, hilarious, if ironic, parodies of Jewish black-face performance, and mock cantorial melismas that incorporated his own unique brand of pidgin Hebrew, morphing into jazz-jive jargon at the drop of a white Panama hat.

It all started with “Minnie the Moocher,” a tune he co-wrote with Mills in 1931, and which became his first major hit, the first number-one song by an African-American performer, and his theme song for the rest of his career.

So Calloway’s most famous song, his big break, had some Jewish influences. Guess they were slaves too once.  It all works.

The BBC must love that.

Still, as long as you’ve got the message that Blacks have suffered, and continue to suffer, at the hands of their white oppressors, the BBC’s job is done.

The Significance of Muslim growth in the UK

Peter Allen told us yesterday that ‘It is very difficult to wake up the world and make it care about North Korea.’

Of course no one takes North Korea seriously.  Thank God that we have the BBC to remind us of what a dangerous and nasty regime it is!

Of course the BBC, in the shape of John Sweeney, had a famous stab at uncovering North Korea as they went undercover for 8 days.   So desperate were the to bring us the terrible truth about the ‘neo nazi’ communists of North Korea that they were willing to put the lives of several students at risk…but…it was worth it the BBC tells us…

North Korea is….‘A state that is more like Hitler’s Germany than any other state in the world, It is extraordinarily scary, dark and evil….. We maintain all of the students were aware of the risk.’

We didn’t learn a great deal from Sweeney’s Great Expose.

We did learn more yesterday as a girl who escaped from North Korea told Peter Allen that she witnessed the execution of a woman whose sole crime was to be caught watching a Hollywood movie.

That for some reason made me think that there is a striking similarity between the extraordinarily scary, dark and evil North Korea and the BBC.

North Korea doesn’t want its population watching films and reading journalism that might open its eyes to the real world outside the bubble imposed by the regime.

Similarly for the BBC which imposes its Big Brother approach to censoring the news in a similarly brutal fashion…not with a bullet to the back of the head but with a bit of character and reputational assassination…..ala the EDL’s Tommy Robinson or UKIP’s Farage.

That Big Brother was once again in action yesterday as Peter Allen, having obviously read the Guardian’s Today’s key fact: you are probably wrong about almost everything, started preaching to us about our misconceptions about Muslims and immigration……he mixed in other figures but you and I know the real message he wants to impose upon us….it is highly political….as the Guardian admits….

Britons overstate the proportion of Muslims in their country by a factor of four, according to a new survey by Ipsos Mori that reveals public understanding of the numbers behind the daily news in 14 countries.

People from the UK also think immigrants make up twice the proportion of the population as is really the case – and that many more people are unemployed than actually are.

Such misconceptions are typical around the world, but they can have a significant impact as politicians aim to focus on voter perceptions, not on the actual data.

Bobby Duffy, managing director of the Ipsos Mori social research institute, said:

These misperceptions present clear issues for informed public debate and policymaking. For example, public priorities may well be different if we had a clearer view of the scale of immigration and the real incidence of teenage mothers.

 

 

Just so we’re clear…you are absolutely wrong about the numbers of Muslims in this country…and the numbers of immigrants and the effects they have upon communties.

Muslims and immigrants are wonderful and bring huge benefits to the country.

Your ignorance, stupidity and prejudice is all that stops you from recognising this.

The BBC is here to help you overcome such prejudice and hatred.

Not sure just how reliable the survey was…The research, carried out by an online survey of approximately 1,000 people aged 16 to 64.

Pretty indepth then.

And em…

Here is a much more honest appraisal of how the Muslim population is growing in size and influence…and what the future might hold….an assessment made by a Muslim:

The Significance of Muslim growth in the UK

Surveying what was written about the figures from the 2011 census confirms what was expected; the Muslim population has grown by 73% in just 10 years making it the fastest growing group in the UK excluding those who describe themselves as having no religion. The Muslim population in the UK jumped from 1.7 million (3%) to 2.8 million (4.8%) establishing itself as the second largest religious group after Christianity. In fact, as researchers have confirmed, the increase is potentially greater than this as it is very likely that a large percentage of the 7% of the population who did not answer the optional question regarding religion are Muslims.

As a matter of fact, the Muslim population has become a significant percentage within the fabric of the total population in the UK. Furthermore, Muslims have become the majority in one of the main boroughs in London, Tower Hamlets, reaching 34% while the proportion of Christians is at 27%. Moreover, in a number of places Muslims make up one of the major groups, reaching 34% in Newham for example, while the proportion of Christians is 40%. There are at least 1 million Muslims in London forming at least 10% of the capital’s population notwithstanding the significant Muslim populations in Birmingham and Manchester.

Although it is difficult to perceive how such figures are viewed by thinkers, journalists, politicians and the general non-Muslim mass, there have appeared a number of reasonable analysis and recommendations from the results of the census. Dr Leon Moosavi who is a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, (specialising in the sociology of race and religion and an expert on Muslims in Britain) concluded, “by the next census Muslims may even double again and make up 10% of the population. These statistics encourage us to think more carefully about the provisions made for British Muslims and the ways in which they are an integral part of the nation” including many other positive statements in the article that are worth reading.

Here is why you should pay attention to their words and what they could mean for your society….. you’ve heard fo the ‘Trojan Horse’ haven’t you?:

Muslims must rise up and publicly debate the role of Orthodox Islam in Public life.

British Muslims should re-think how they view their presence in Britain, realising that it is their country in which they will spend their future as Muslims. Muslims must work hard to establish Islam in the UK, or at least ensure that the UK is a suitable place where Muslims can live without compromising their faith and such may entail the involvement in the socio-political dynamics of the country.

The British Government must be extremely cautious not to fail its people by making the detrimental mistake of ignoring the real needs of the second largest religious group in the country. The official recognition of Islam and what it entails will solve the many problems Muslims face today. Incorporation of the Muslim personal law within the judicial system should be looked into more constructively and Muslim lawyers and scholars should work hand in hand to integrate the key elements of the Muslim civil law.

The Educational system should furthermore recognise the specific needs of the Muslims while the Ministry of Education should accommodate them. However it must be clearly understood that the responsibility will always remain on the Muslim educationalists along with law experts to engage with the system such that they influence the necessary changes. Similarly, it is high time for Muslims to consider building a strong Islamic financial alternative for their needs such as housing and education.

The census additionally shows that the Christian population of England and Wales is ageing whilst the Muslim community is relatively young.

This sends a very strong message to Britain and to the international community that it is almost impossible to change Orthodox Muslim norms. Is it then worth the effort of liberal Muslims to continue in their attempt to promote liberalism while it is the pure Orthodox Islam that is flourishing and penetrating people’s lives?

If the BBC doesn’t understand what that means here’s a hint…..the Mooslims are coming.

Peter Allen on the previous day was talking about immigration (11:27)….he told us that ‘Nobody puts the case for the advantages of immigration and yet they’re clear enough…I want to hear some positive things about immigration.’

Clearly he doesn’t listen to the BBC….but at least we know that we can rely on Allen to give us an impartial and accurate picture of what is going on.

The benefits of an influx of 270,000 foreign immigrants, every year, swamping our towns and cities must be enormous.  I’m sure.

Good old BBC, and Guardian, moving into gear to make sure we are thinking the right thoughts.

Curious that the same IPSOS survey came out last year….note the same anxieties about our ‘misconceptions’…

The Perils of Perception

People are wildly wrong when we ask them about many aspects of life in Britain, as highlighted in a new survey by Ipsos MORI for the Royal Statistical Society and King’s College London.

Just to pick out three big errors on who lives here: on average, we think 24% of the population (one in every four people!) are Muslims – when the real figure is around 5%; we think 31% are immigrants – when the official figure is 13%; and we think 36% are aged 65+ – when in fact only 16% are.

 

The man bringing us this ‘research’ is Bobby Duffy, head of IPSOS with links to Demos and the IPPR, and a campaigner it would seem for open borders…he tells us that immigration concerns are the preserve of the ‘Far Right’ which of course intentionally fails to recognise that a majority of the population have legitimate and reasoned concerns…

Remaining sensitive to these concerns will be important for politicians who are conscious of the need to keep the extreme right marginalized.

The EU needs to hold fast in its defense of Schengen. To give ground would not address the real problem—the porous nature of a small portion of the external border. It would also threaten the free movement of people, trade and money that European economies need now more than ever.

Any link that this ‘new research’ has been released as we head for the Rochester by-election with UKIP the front runner?