And on time, a new Open Thread for you to detail the bias as the weekend approaches…
“Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) hath Allah promised good. But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,” Quran Chapter 4: The Women, verse 95
Some quotes from the BBC’s ‘Muslims Like Us’….
Britishness…British values for me, colonialism, institutional racism, theft and genocide…and race.
-The race thing. The majority of racist abuse I’ve ever taken in my life has been from other Muslims.
It is an irony that the BBC’s ‘Muslims like us’ programme, meant to reassure us that Muslim were just like us, in fact confirmed every ‘prejudice’ you might ever have held….only one true liberal among them, the rest soon reverted to fundamentalist attitudes and many revealed strong anti-British feelings…it reflected real society and showed how so-called ‘moderate Muslims’ weren’t really moderate and that a few determined ‘radicals’ could dominate a community….either by persuasion or force of personality or indeed of physical intimidation…the less radical in the end surrendering rather than argue their position….as in the TV show as in a real community…those prepared to use cultural ‘pressure’, blackmail, or even force, such as intimidating women into wearing the hijab or veil, will win….helped by the useful idiot non-Muslims…Muslims like us was commissioned by the woman, Fatima Salaria, who is now the BBC’s head of religious programming….a deliberate appointment by the BBC, after already appointing one Muslim to the post, to rub peoples’ noses in Islam. Islamisation? The BBC is there to help….the ‘Telephate’ cometh. The BBC loves to humanise Muslim terrorists…lovely lads and lasses led astray or made angry by nasty Islamophobians…
Look at this story about “An extremist in the family”, which will pull on the heartstrings of those feeling sorry for the poor, delicate radical wannabe Islamic terrorists out there waging war, raping, torturing and butchering for fun.
We hear from Nicola Benyahia, painting her son, who has gone off to Syria, to be pure and angelic, all with a blasé, matter of fact approach to dumping your life and going off to fight for IS. As if to normalise the most deplorable of acts and point fingers at everyone else.
And look what the political editor of the New Statesman thinks…..the ‘Liberal’ media is bonkers and completely delusional…….
Thousands of Londoners turned out for a vigil for the dead and injured after the terrorist attack in a show of defiance and solidarity…it’s just a shame that they will be so badly betrayed by the politicians who are now making fine speeches about defending British values and the British way of life, and of course betrayed by the Media, the BBC in particular, as it starts the blame game, blaming failures in the security services, failures of the Prevent programme, failures of British society to accept and integrate Muslims, failure to ensure a foreign policy that meets the approval of Muslims, and of course the BBC’s exoneration of the killer as we find he is not really a Muslim, he has perverted the real religion, and that he has been a victim of British society’s antipathy towards Islam and Muslims….er…even though he isn’t a real Muslim.
Sadiq Khan said at the vigil…..
“Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism”.
Of course that’s nonsense as not just Londoners but the political establishment and the Media cower before and pander to the Muslim narrative of victimhood, the narrative of a ‘backlash’ against Muslims, a narrative that says radicalisation is only a result of discrimination and disaffection compounded by Islamophobia which only increases when terror strikes…thus the real victims are Muslims…and the Establishment does indeed cower before that ‘argument’ making Muslims the favoured group with special status….with evermore liberty to follow their religion…where will that lead?…You can see where devolution took us as the SNP get evermore confident and demanding…and you can see that the politicians will bow down before the onslaught of their demands as Gordon Brown’s proposals to give the SNP massively increased powers and freedoms illustrates. How long before we have a Muslim ‘calipahte’ within our borders, a mini-Pakistan with its own laws and independent status?
The BBC is already providing that platform for Muslim activists to press that agenda as we were told by the Today show that Muslims feel unfairly picked on by the ‘prejudiced’…asking ‘Do Muslims fear an adverse impact on their community?‘[from a backlash from prejudiced, racist people]…such prejudice mustn’t be allowed to drive communities apart [Isn’t it Muslims themselves who segregate themselves and live in ghettoes?]…Muslims are the victims and government programmes like Prevent only add to that perception that they are being unfairly targeted…the Prevent programme is ‘rotten, toxic and counter-productive’. [Believe it or not the man saying this was a Muslim from the government’s own ‘Hate crime advisory group’…any wonder things don’t work?]
Do you know what the answer is? Let the Muslims run the de-radicalisation and security programmes themselves…no, really. Let’s have murderers, rapists and burglars all run the police, justice and prison service…I’m sure they feel unfairly targeted by the police and court system…surely only they have the knowledge and integrity to produce a system that really works….for them….just so long as they are not angry and disaffected eh?
But what are these British values and way of life that we defend? The question is is it compatible with Islam…and the real answer is……no. How can it possibly be….a 1400 year old doctrine that hasn’t changed, and cannot change, one that preaches hatred towards the ‘Kufaar’, hatred towards gays, that makes women second class citizens, that allows slavery and religious war until ‘Islam reigns supreme’, as opposed to a modern, progressive set of values that promote democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of thought and lifestyle, gay rights, feminist rights, anti-racism and a rich and varied lifestyle that encourages difference, innovation and individuality?
The politicians and media will never admit the truth about Islam because then what? Shut down all the mosques and ban Islam? Never happen, so they continue to bury their heads in the sand and bluff their way as they lie to the public as society is gradually Islamised by the self-same politicians who are too afraid to make a stand. The Telegraph tells us of the truth…
People in MI5 tell me that denying the connection between Islamism and terrorism derives from the belief that if you accept it, there’s no hope for a multicultural society in Britain: we would just have to recognise that part of the population is permanently liable to become terrorists.
Churchill was also one who told the unvarnished truth..
“Mein Kampf…..The new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”
Of Islam….
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Even Boris let slip the reality…
To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia – fear of Islam – seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture – to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques – it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim’s mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.
The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s medieval ass?
Will May get 18th century on Islam’s medieval ass or will she continue to peddle the lie that the terrorist attack had nothing to do with Islam?
Tom Holland: We must not deny the religious roots of Islamic State
Salafism today is probably the fastest-growing Islamic movement in the world. The interpretation that Isis applies to Muslim scripture may be exceptional for its savagery – but not for its literalism. Islamic State, in its conceit that it has trampled down the weeds and briars of tradition and penetrated to the truth of God’s dictates, is recognisably Salafist. When Islamic State fighters smash the statues of pagan gods, they are following the example of the Prophet; when they proclaim themselves the shock troops of a would-be global empire, they are following the example of the warriors of the original caliphate; when they execute enemy combatants, and impose discriminatory taxes on Christians, and take the women of defeated opponents as slaves, they are doing nothing that the first Muslims did not glory in.
Such behaviour is certainly not synonymous with Islam; but if not Islamic, then it is hard to know what else it is.
The London attacker has been named as Khalid Masood, the BBC tells us lots about him except of course his religion…they even tell us that he, presumably, posed as a teacher when hiring the vehicle that he used in the attack…no doubt the BBC would portray this as the cause of the attack..so disaffected was he by government ‘cuts’ to the education budget that it drove him to attack Parliament….pretty sure the BBC will find something in his life to explain away his terror attack and pass the blame onto ‘society’.
Still, the BBC is on a bit of a Jihad of its own against the government….did you notice that in the couple of weeks before the by-elections in Copeland and Stoke, in which Labour campaigned hard on the NHS, the BBC was pushing out lots of bad news stories about the NHS and its budget….just before the last PMQs before the by-election vote the BBC released its latest research…subsequently quoted in PMQs by Corbyn. Was the BBC trying to support Labour in the by-election? Similarly you may have noted the BBC going in hard on education….referring constantly to ‘budget cuts’ when in fact no cuts have been made, more money put in in fact…..as the NAO reports…‘government increased the schools budget by 7.7%‘. What is different is pupil numbers…they have shot up…due to migrant mothers having so many kids…another reason the NHS is under so much pressure. The BBC didn’t once make that connection in my hearing during all the discussions that flooded the airwaves.
Yesterday the BBC released another piece of its research on education, again just in time for PMQs and funnily enough Corbyn’s subject was education. Coincidence?
School governors have pointed to a “catastrophic” squeeze on budgets, as the government prepares to introduce a new funding formula for schools.
A snapshot survey of 4,000 governors by the BBC sheds light on the existing funding pressure in England’s schools.
National Governors Association head Emma Knights does however back the principle of the new funding formula.
Ministers say schools are funded at record levels and that the budgets rethink will end inconsistencies.
But the dramatic impact on already stretched budgets – even before the funding formula kicks in – has left ministers under pressure from Conservative backbenchers and head teachers in all areas of England.
Note nowhere does the BBC mention the actual cause of the ‘crisis’….
The difficulties being faced by schools across England were spelled out by the governors who responded to the BBC questionnaire.
“Diabolical”, “devastating” and “catastrophic” were among the words used to describe prospects for schools.
So…where exactly do the governors ‘spell out the difficulties faced by schools’? The BBC has merely produced a list of reactions not causes. Where are the causes of these dramatic impacts, the funding pressures, the catastrophic squeeze on budgets?
Oh hang on is this the explanation?…
The underlying financial problems faced by state schools in England were highlighted in a National Audit Office report in December last year.
The spending watchdog said schools would have to find £3bn in savings by 2019-20, amounting to budget cuts of 8%.
No…nowhere do we get the root cause of the ‘underlying financial problems’ ….some of the so-called cuts are in response to higher wage, pension and NIC costs…the BBC misses off the last bit of the quote…‘by 2019-20 to counteract cumulative cost pressures, such as pay rises and higher employer contributions to national insurance and the teachers’ pension scheme.’...the budget isn’t cut, it’s costs going up that mean efficiencies have to be made…..the schools have to choose between these and pupils’ education…but the real cost is more pupils…note the BBC’s report fails to mention this quote from the NAO…
Mainstream schools have to make £3.0 billion in efficiency savings by 2019-20 against a background of growing pupil numbers and a real-terms reduction in funding per pupil.
The Department’s overall schools budget is protected in real terms but does not provide for funding per pupil to increase in line with inflation. In the 2015 Spending Review, the government increased the schools budget by 7.7% from £39.6 billion in 2015-16 to £42.6 billion in 2019-20. While this increase protects the total budget from forecast inflation, the Department estimates that the number of pupils will rise over the same period, by 3.9% (174,000) in primary schools and by 10.3% (284,000) in secondary schools. Therefore, funding per pupil will, on average, rise only from £5,447 in 2015-16 to £5,519 in 2019-20, a real-terms reduction once inflation is taken into account.
Only in the BBC’s ‘reality check’ do we get a mention of pupil numbers…and no mention of immigration as the cause…a ‘baby boom’ but whose ‘baby boom’?…..
Reality Check verdict: The absolute amount of money in the pot for schools in England is at record levels but once you factor in rising pupil numbers, inflation and running costs, schools will have to cut approximately 8% from budgets by 2020.
It is true that this is the biggest pot in cash terms, but, of course, how generous the pot is depends on how many pupils there are in the system.
There was a baby boom in the early 2000s, which has been hitting primary schools for several years and is now moving up through the secondary system.
Between 2009 and 2016, the school system expanded to take in an extra 470,000 pupils.
The Department for Education says that between 2016 and 2025 there will be a further increase in the state school system, up from about 7.4 million pupils to about 8.1 million.
So there is a crisis in school funding, despite record levels of spending….and the BBC is not keen to spell out the real cause…mass immigration…and its costs. Immigration remember is beneficial and economically virtuous….as long as we ignore the extra billions we have to pump into the NHS, schools and housing, not to mention prisons, to keep the infrastructure going in order to cope with all these new people.
Record spending and wes till can’t cope…guess the answer must be more immigration as it’s so economically beneficial and pays for itself…no?
The secret to political success? Lying with sincerity. So says Mary Ann Sieghart, Chair of the centrist Social Market Foundation think tank, who has just done a programme shilling for the ‘centre ground’ of politics for the BBC called “Can The Centre Hold?”
Naturally she doesn’t actually say ‘lie’ but that is the basis of her plea…do what the Dutch Prime Minister did, make right-wing sounding noises in order to con the voters into voting for him….time of course will put an end to that, charade but too late, he’s in power for a good while yet. She helpfully wrote her piece up in the Telegraph…
Embracing patriotism and identity could reinvent the liberal centre
Tacking to the right can help traditional conservative parties lure back voters from the fringes. That’s what Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, did when he told immigrants that if they didn’t like Dutch liberal values, they could leave, and when he prevented Turkish ministers from attending rallies in The Netherlands.
Embrace patriotism and identity? The BBC must have been choking on their lattes when they heard that….though somewhat relieved to hear it would all be a sham, a charade to once again fool the voter…as in the Netherlands and as with New Labour.
She goes on…denouncing the BBC and Remain’s attitude…the shrill screech that Leave voters are ignorant and wrong…..but also tackles the BBC narrative of just reporting Brexit as purely an economic issue and ignoring the real issues such as sovereignty and immigration and the subsequent issues of culture and identity….you can win by ‘crafting a message around a sense of nationhood. It’s not just “the economy, stupid.”‘…
Is it just a matter of explaining to voters in ever shriller tones why they are wrong? I don’t think so. For what centrist parties haven’t been good at acknowledging is that politics is as much about identity as about economics. You can argue all you like that GDP is boosted by immigration, but if people see their neighbourhood and their country changing in ways that make them feel uncomfortable, it’s no use telling them that they’re deluded.
Centrist parties need to reclaim the message of patriotism from the Right.
Yep, crafting a message about patriotism and identity…that was the secret to New Labour’s success…and all the time the ‘patriotic’ Blair was working to ethnically cleanse Britain, import millions of foreigners who would, he hoped, vote both for Labour and the EU in any subsequent vote, and to sell us out to the EU.
Believe.
Time for a new one of these. I couldn’t bear to watch the BBC eulogise IRA mss killer Martin McGuinness yesterday and from what I hear from others I was right to stay away from the love-in. Meanwhile, Jihad on Westminster bridge…
Whilst the BBC refused to report eye-witness statements that the attacker in London was Asian looking it has been fast to correct Channel 4’s claim that Abu Izzadeen was the attacker…note BBC calling him ‘Trevor Brooks’ and not his new Muslim name...from Guido…
Tonight on Channel 4 News Simon Israel named hate preacher Abu Izzadeen AKA Trevor Brooks as the Westminster attacker. The BBC say they are wrong and that Izzadeen is still in jail:
Confirmed from multiple sources – official and community – that Trevor Brooks NOT attacker. He’s still in jail despite what others report.
Channel 4 News went back to a red-faced Israel at the end of their report, he reverse ferreted and said there was “some doubt” over his original report. Abu Izzadeen’s brother has called up Channel 4 News to tell them he wasn’t the attacker because he’s still in jail. Quite a blooper.
Not seeing or hearing much from Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan…at least Livingstone was out there loudly proclaiming his disgust at the 7/7 attacks. Where is Khan? Oh no he has finally responded. Presumably if this attacker is confirmed to be a Muslim that at least will please Khan who said that moderate Muslims were Uncle Toms.
Although it looks like the killer is not Abu Izzadeen it’s interesting to look back at this video…taken inside one of the largest and most prestigious mosques in Britain, the Regent’s Park Mosque, as he preaches loudly and openly about Jihad. The BBC et al tell us relentlessly that radicalisation just doesn’t happen in Mosques…which this video disproves, as did the C4 Dispatches programme, Undercover Mosque….which, unlike the above C4 news, the BBC absolutely ignored.
The Long View of Targeted Fake News
Jonathan Freedland compares the current wave of fake news stories, particularly those targeted at Muslims and immigrants in the UK, with the anti-Semitic story of an eight-year-old Christian boy, William of Norwich, who was murdered in woodland outside his native city in 1144. His death was later reported as a Jewish conspiracy and ritual, becoming the founding myth of the so-called ‘blood libel’.
That was a BBC programme from yesterday [Tuesday], a programme that suggest Muslims today are victims of a ‘blood libel’, that the Media are spreading false stories about Muslim actions and beliefs and are thus contributing to their feeling of being under siege. Naturally Freedland said that the Bible was the source of anti-Semitism and that the story of the blood libel must be familiar to his Muslim guest in today’s context. It is the usual BBC fare that peddles the pro-Muslim/anti-Press narrative and say things about Christianity and the Bible that they would never say about Islam or the Koran. An irony that the very next day a white supremacist plows a car through a crowd of Muslims and knifes a Muslim police officer to death on the streets of London.
Who was the Muslim guest? Our old friend Miqdaad Versi, a Muslim Council of Britain stooge…the Assistant General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, the extremist Muslim organisation that campaigns to stop the anti-terror and anti-radicalisation programme ‘Prevent’, that was at the heart of the Trojan Horse scandal and which provides the Islamic theological justification as to why Ahmadis are not ‘Muslim’…hence we get numerous violent attacks on Ahmadis by ‘real’ Muslims.
He’s a Muslim lawfare activist who makes up spurious complaints about Muslims being oppressed by the Press in order to try and silence them….he targets Right-wing media in particular….the BBC, as seen in today’s terror attack refuses to report eye-witness statements that said the attacker ‘looked Asian’…they refuse to report it, despite reporting all the other specualtive and half-known claims about the event because they don’t want to demonise Muslims. Turns out the witnesses were right that he wasn’t white…he may in fact turn out to be a black convert…but that would have been hard for witnesses to tell at distance and in fast moving events….still, the BBC should have reported it….they didn’t precisely because of Muslim activists like Versi who play the Muslim victim card to the full.
In this case he tells us that Muslims are suffering from these fake news stories abut them…such as lack of food at Ramadan causes Muslims potentially dangerous side-effects…the BBC itself reported on a train crash and pointed out that Ramadan fasting was potentially dangerous…Versi of course didn’t target the ‘Muslim friendly’ BBC…
Fasting and driving
The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has published research on the effects of fasting on fitness to drive.
It says fasting can have a range of effects including tiredness, dizziness, dehydration, headache, and a reduction in concentration, prompting safety concerns.
The report advises workers to ask for physically demanding tasks to be delayed until after Ramadan, and says managers must be aware of the potential effects of fasting on their staff.
He also claims stories that point out problems with Halal food, such as inhumane methods of slaughter or that customers are unwittingly buying or being forced to eat food that has been killed in that manner and is ‘blessed’ in the Muslim manner are false…no one is bothered about Halal food apparently….but that’s just not true…and we all know the opposite…that Muslims are outraged at the slightest hint that their food is in any way tainted by Kufar practices or content.
He tells us that the £5 note story was fake…and yet it wasn’t…the Treasury has pulped notes due to their animal content…but the story was about Hindus complaining not Muslims…so this is a fake story about a fake story from Versi….New £5 Note Containing Tallow Prompts Hindus To Express Concerns
He tells us this all creates the impression that the Muslims are ‘The Other’ and thus creates division and hatred…except of course it is Islam that creates division and hatred….it is Islam that makes Muslims think of themselves as ‘The Other’ whilst all else are ignorant, unwashed cattle.
So are Muslims the victim of a Press fake news barrage, a blood libel that demonises them?
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What the police are saying is a terror attack in London…the BBC wants all the facts….
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Curious how the new ban on electronic devices on aircraft coming to and from a certain six nations is not being described as anti-Muslim, nor is the BBC using the descriptive ‘Mostly Muslim countries’ when reporting which countries are being affected…
The ban affects direct flights to the UK from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.
….unlike of course when Trump banned travel from 7 countries because they were breeding grounds for violence and jihadis, not because they were ‘Muslim’….every BBC report included the ‘Mostly Muslim’ prefix, trying to paint Trump as islamophobic.
The BBC manipulating your thoughts by peddling a news narrative that they have engineered to deceive you.
Donald Trump and his advisers rail against “Islamic terrorism”. Will the … advisers
, who echo the president’s most bellicose anti-Muslim rhetoric. President Trump says his US executive order is “not a Muslim ban” and … from seven mainly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
US President Trump suspends refugee admissions and temporarily bars … And anyone arriving from seven Muslim–majority countries – Iraq.
Google fears employees from seven Muslim–majority countries may not be allowed back into the US.
