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The BBC knows and yet chooses to ignore.

The BBC knows that Islam has a very dark side and yet all too often chooses to ignore that.  Instead it seeks to normalise the religion and pretend that it can exist in perfect harmony within Western society.  The BBC expends a great deal of effort in actually hiding what is being done by Muslims to further the influence and power of Islam within society…such as denying that the Trojan Horse plot was real or that events in Cologne actually happened or excusing terrorism as the result of mental illness or blaming it on British foreign policy…not the fault of Islam or Muslims at all you understand.

The BBC is happy to use people from controversial organisations such as the MCB, Cage, MPACUK and individuals such as Mehdi Hasan, Tariq Ramadan or Myriam Francois-Cerrah who are ardent Muslim activists to be the face of Islam on the BBC.  The BBC knows they are controversial but ignores that.

There are exceptions of course.  The everyday big faces of the BBC such as Campbell, Derbyshire, Chiles, well just about any presenter really, will not dare say anything to upset a Muslim interviewee or caller….only occasionally do we get a spark of genuine journalism and the spirit of investigation and some backbone.

John Ware on Panorama seems unafraid to say the wrong thing about Islam as is Andrew Neil on occasion.  Neil however shamefully sold out to the extremists when ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson was interviewed on the Today programme but Muslim extremsist Mehdi Hasan protested that the interview was not challenging enough and so he provided a list of questions that he felt had to be asked of Robinson….Neil subsequently obliged and attempted a hatchet job on Robinson at the behest of Hasan as we’ve looked at previously.

Perhaps Neil was making up for things when he later in the year suggested that groups like the MCB weren’t doing enough to root out the extremists….kind of ironic when Neil does a voice over for Hasan.  In the course of his commentary he mentioned that one Muslim preacher, Shakeel Begg, had said that Jihad was the ‘greatest of deeds’….Begg subsequently sued and the judgement has just been passed…the BBC won its defence of the case the judge saying:

Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said four of his speeches showed he had promoted such violence and two that he had espoused extremist positions.

“Shakeel Begg, is something of a Jekyll and Hyde character,” he said.

“He appears to present one face to the general, local and inter-faith community and another to particular Muslim and other receptive audiences. The former face is benign, tolerant and ecumenical.

“The latter face is ideologically extreme and intolerant.”

“The various core extremist messages which emerge from the claimant’s speeches and utterances would, in my view, have been quite clear to the audiences.

“The claimant’s ostensible cloak of respectability is likely to have made his [extremist] message in these speeches all the more compelling and seductive. For this reason, therefore, his messages would have been all the more effective and dangerous.

“It is all too easy for someone in the claimant’s position of power and influence as an Imam to plant the seed of Islamic extremism in a young mind, which is then liable to be propagated on the internet.”

Trouble is of course what Begg said isn’t ‘extreme’…it’s just Islam as laid out in the Koran.

Begg’s career might make you roll your eyes as you see that he has been influential in many supposedly anti-extremist organisations…

He works closely with the police. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Independent Advisory Group to Lewisham Police which advises the police on local issues, especially those relating to the Muslim community. He represents the LIC in the Safer Neighbourhood Team and the Hate Crime Working Group which includes a cross-section of people from Lewisham, including a member of the LGBT community. On 21st October 2014 the Claimant participated in the LIC’s hosting of a visit by the Safer Neighbourhood Team from the Metropolitan Police Service, led by a police inspector. Since 2007, the Claimant has worked in gang mediation and mediated between the opposing ‘Shower Gang’ and ‘Anti-Shower Gang’. He was a member of the Lewisham Community Police Consultative Group (LCPCG) from 2005 until December 2009.

This is unfortunately the case up and down the country and throughout government and other institutions that employ such people as Begg in the belief, hope, that it promotes interfaith harmony and peace and will reduce radicalisation.

What’s interesting from the judgement is that it is clear that the BBC dug deep into the meaning of Islam and the ideology propagated by the likes of Begg as part of their defence….that extremism in Islam, that the BBC so ironically tells us  is the religion of peace, being their defence.

A shame of course that all that will be forgotten and shoved to one side in everyday discourse and debate on current events on the BBC whether it be actual terrorism or the problems associated with massive Muslim immigration into Europe. Islam will once again be the religion of peace and it will again be racist to raise concerns about Islamic doctrine and teachings and of course Muslim activists will be sitting in BBC studios peddling their lies once again and the BBC will once again choose to ignore that.

As always the BBC does have the outlier programmes that touch on sensitive subjects but the conclusions drawn and the information turned up by such programmes doesn’t filter through to the BBC in general and its everyday presenters continue to present an utterly false picture of the world as a result of a misguided sense that it is the right thing to do as they don’t want to ‘demonise’ certain segments of the population however ‘challenging’ their behaviour or words.

This is a general problem within the BBC and not just relating to Islam…there seems to be some structural or procedural failure that stops the flow of information from specialised programmes out to all the troops resulting in the presenters continuing on relying on their own resources and all too often prejudices to guide their presentations.  This is not the case with climate change where the BBC has a rigorously enforced and policed system to make sure the messaging is correct and that off-message programming is stopped in its tracks [ala Quentin Letts].  So the BBC can do it when it wants to…it just isn’t really interested in getting the facts right about Islam enough to run such controls…unless they are being sued it seems.

The reality of Muslim ‘moderate’ groups…

On January 16, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles sent a letter to more than 1,000 imams across Britain asking for their help in fighting extremism and rooting out those who are preaching hatred. He also asked them to explain to Muslims how Islam is compatible with being British. The letter said:

‘We must show our young people, who may be targeted, that extremists have nothing to offer them. We must show them that there are other ways to express disagreement: that their right to do so is dependent on the very freedoms that extremists seek to destroy. We must show them the multitude of statements of condemnation from British Muslims; show them these men of hate have no place in our mosques or any place of worship, and that they do not speak for Muslims in Britain or anywhere in the world.

You, as faith leaders, are in a unique position in our society. You have a precious opportunity, and an important responsibility: in explaining and demonstrating how faith in Islam can be part of British identity. We believe together we have an opportunity to demonstrate the true nature of British Islam today. There is a need to lay out more clearly than ever before what being a British Muslim means today: proud of your faith and proud of your country. We know that acts of extremism are not representative of Islam; but we need to show what is.’

Muslim groups responded by accusing the British government of stoking “Islamophobia.”

In an angry response to Pickles, the Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, Mohammed Shafiq, wrote:

I wish to express my dismay at the letter sent by the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles MP, this letter is patronising and factually incorrect and typical of the Government only looking at Muslims through the prism of terrorism and security.

We do not need to be patronised by a Government that claims it wants to give young Muslims an alternative to the extremist narrative and then refuse to discuss foreign policy.

In terms of British values, is Mr Pickles really suggesting as the far Right do that Muslims are detached from mainstream society? I hope the Minister clarifies his comments.

In an interview with Sky News, Talha Ahmad of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said:

The letter has all the hallmarks of very poor judgment which feeds into an Islamophobic narrative, which feeds into a narrative of us and them.

In a response to Pickles, the MCB wrote:

We do take issue with the implication that extremism takes place at mosques, and that Muslims have not done enough to challenge the terrorism that took place in our name.

This is why we responded to the media, and an assertion in some quarters, that you were somehow endorsing the idea that Muslims and Islam are inherently apart from British society. We reject such notions.

We also reject suggestions that Muslims must go out of their way to prove their loyalty to this country of ours.

The president of the Bradford Council for Mosques, Mohammed Rafiq Sehgal, said the letter was “highly objectionable on several grounds” and that it “blames and targets the Muslim community.” He added:

We ask Mr Pickles to publicly apologize to the Muslim community for bringing this peaceful section of the British society into disrepute. Blaming Muslims may win Mr Pickles and his party some support from the right wing voters but it does not help good community relations.

Listening to the news on 5Live and the top story was a court case, not the one in Northern Ireland where a judge struck down a claim that NI should have a veto over Brexit and  that Article 50 couldn’t be triggered by the government, no not that one, but the one about the Uber drivers who successfully claimed they were employed by the company.  Now that might be a story of import and interest but it is not by any stretch of the imagination as important as the decision in Northern Ireland on Brexit….given that it may give us an idea of how any other cases might go on the mainland as well.  The Brexit story didn’t even merit a mention in the news bulletin…quite extraordinary when you consider how the BBC forensically goes over all Brexit related news…just look how it is putting so many resources and time into trying to undermine the Nissan success story.

Checking the website and the Brexit story is not on the frontpage, nor amazingly on the UK page…Uber is top there.

I can in no way imagine the BBC so rapidly making the Brexit judgement into a non-story had the claim been successful and Brexit put on hold…..the fact that Brexit continues is just as important a story and yet….all has gone quiet at the BBC on the website and on the radio at least.

The court case result is a huge knock back for the Remain activists who refuse to accept the democratic decision and work to use every means to undermine the result.  The BBC seems to be hiding what is a big story.  One can only conclude that the result is not to the BBC’s liking and that it seeks to keep up the myth that Brexit is somehow illegitimate and that the only valid recourse is another referendum….which you might think was odd given that the BBC spent a lot of time and effort telling us how destabilising the uncertainty of the actual referendum was and how disruptive and destructive to the economy it was….proof positive you might think that the BBC in fact cares not one jot for the economy nor for the welfare of the workers, despite all its claims otherwise, but is solely intent on the Grand Project being implemented come what may and at whatever cost just as the EU itself is.

Top story in NI right now according to the BBC?

Man charged in teen webcam blackmail probe

I feel I must apologise on behalf of all taxi drivers everywhere as I am ashamed of the actions of this man who told Lily Allen to get stuffed, I’m sorry for what she had to suffer….

Lily Allen says taxi driver refused to drive her and told her to ‘find an immigrant’

Lily Allen said she has had a “glimpse of what it feels like to be discriminated against” after being shunned by a taxi driver.

The London-born pop star said she was turned away from a black cab after being told to “find an immigrant” to give her and her daughters a ride.

The alleged interaction between Allen and the unknown taxi driver comes after she apologised “on behalf of my country” after seeing the squalid conditions refugees had lived in at the Calais camp known as the Jungle.

Actually no…good on you mate.

This was a sad little nothing of a programme from the BBC…clearly the BBC has decided that a scattergun approach to Brexit is the best chance to counter it by spreading as much anti-Brexit shrapnel around as possible in the hope that some will hit the target…

Europeland

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe introduces a Recycled special on the place that has obsessed us all summer long, so buckle up as we find out what is so different about Us and Them. With journeys to the continent and back to Westminster again combined with the powerful slicing of leading voices in the European debate – Tony Benn and Margaret Thatcher from 1975; Boris, Nigel and Dave from 2016. Plus the voices of leading historians, and comedians, attempting to make sense of the great European divide. Exhilarating radio you’ll not hear anywhere else.

As far as I could make out it was just a mishmash of nonsense that was almost entirely meaningless…but of course threaded through were little digs as the Brexiteers…the  finale bringing that all together in a highly amusing edit of clips of Boris and Co trying to make them look foolish and stupid.

BBC agenda or just how the cards fell?

I note with interest the producer of the programme is Miles Warde….Miles eh?  So BBC.  But shouldn’t that be ‘Kilometres’ Warde?  So much more continental.

How many times has the BBC tried to paint Leave voters as now regretful about the way they voted?  Time and time again the BBC has tried to spin this narrative…all in aid of the campaign to get a second vote….if only these voters now had a second chance as they realise what a mistake they’d made.

The BBC’s ‘Listening Project’ programmes are a continuation of this spin as we either get a programme with more pro-EU voters than Leavers or one with a supposed balance but the Leave voters are all there saying how sad it all now makes them feel….when you get one saying he voted and then noticed all the UKippers were over 70 and looking glum and he realised his mistake as he looked at his fresh young daughter whose hopes were now dashed…have to think we’re being sold something.  The BBC says it didn’t editorialise…and yet of course the interviews have been selected and edited for broadcast, and ususally done by a BBC person…so we’re not getting the unadulterated versions, nor the versions that don’t fit the BBC agenda.

Was amused by the 9 year old twins,[9 mins 40 secs] very well spoken and very well coached by their parents expressing their great sadness about the vote…mum’s life was nice and easy coz of the EU, Europe is now the Dark Continent cut off and mysterious, Britons just won’t be able to get there any longer and the twins’ grandparents, in France and Germany, will never see them ever again as Europe is closed forever now….and Brexit will be a terribly hard road..in fact like a jagged mountain that will be very hard to climb whilst the EU is a sunny pasture that  is lovely and welcoming for one and all….and children’s futures are blighted for ever.  Yep, think the parents have been working hard on that story at bedtime.

Just for the kids…and BBC journos…there’s this from the Spectator:

A handy guide to Left-wing people for the under 10s

Left-wing people in the olden days

Left-wing people used to like working-class people.

Left-wing people have “enlightened comedians” who make jokes on “panel games”. These are broadcast on the television and BBC Radio 4.

The enlightened comedians make people laugh at right-wing people, whom they consider stupid. In the olden days, comedians made jokes about Irish people, but these comedians weren’t clever like the enlightened comedians.

Instead of the Irish people, the enlightened comedians make jokes about working-class people.

Because they care, they use special words like “Glaswegians”, “Sun readers” and “UKIP supporters”, so the working-class people will not notice.

Working-class people do funny things like drinking Monster energy drinks, eating Haribos and watching television. This is funny and the enlightened comedians are helpful because they point at them and laugh, so we know who to laugh at as well. It is very funny and we all laugh because we are enlightened too.

Further reading

In the 1930’s George Orwell wrote about the left-wing people he knew in “The Road to Wigan Pier”. It is very funny.

I have known numbers of middle class Socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table-manners. In his heart he feels that proletarian manners are disgusting…he hates, fears, and despises the working class.

I know it’s not JUST the BBC but the State Broadcaster has fallen in line with the current globalist narrative of demonising Putin and seeking conflict with Russia. Hillary Clinton has given the clear signal that if elected she wants to confront Russia – so much easier on the optics than dealing with radical Islam. The Conservative Government and NATO fall into line and Russia is painted the blackest of the black colours. it’s curious because I remember the time when the comrades at the BBC held a candle for the USSR, but that was then and this is now. So the BBC peaceniks support a war-hungry Clinton who might just cause WW3. Funny old world.

Yesterday was a day of positive economic news for the UK economy. Clearly this does not suit the BBC narrative of post-brexirt vote doom and gloom. So we have the perfunctory acknowledgement that the Government has done well to keep Nissan manufacturing in Sunderland and then …the immediate conspiracy theories as to what “deal” has been given to the Japanese car manufacturer. Behaving like an echo-chamber of an enraged Labour Party, the BBC has been postulating what “sweetheart” deal May may have offered Nissan. Is this the same BBC that damned the Government for NOT offering Port Talbot a sweetheart “deal”? We have the UK performing superbly from an economic point of view with daily positive news and the BBC leads the charge to undermine this. They really ARE ‘enemies of the State”. Pathetic posturing shills for Labour and an affront to robbing us off the TV License tax.

The weekend beckons and so time for a new Open Thread. Here is where you detail the rancid bias.

Oh no!!!! The apocalypse is upon us, recession, mass unemployment, businesses decamping en masse to Europe and concentration camps are being set up across the UK for anyone not quite white enough.

O hang on….wait one…..that’s a load of old bull….a scoop of bull that you heard first on the BBC.

Great disappointment in the corridors of the BBC today as the British economy defies their most hopeful dark predictions of doom and disaster and a return to the 30’s in all its scenarios as the Nazis were predicted to be marching across the British Isles by now after Brexit.

The BBC hasn’t given up the fight though as it does its best to talk down the economic good news and to dismiss the Nissan decision to invest once again in the UK as a ‘dodgy deal’.

This is an interesting BBC take on the news that the economy is still growing…

Brexit supporters will take these figures as a sign that warnings about the economic costs of voting to leave the EU were nothing more than scaremongering. Remain supporters will argue that they were warning about potential damage over a period of several years. They say that only prompt action by the Bank of England saved deeper damage to the economy and that worse is to come.

Remain alarmists were not merely predicting damage over a period of several years, they were predicting instant and ruinous economic armageddon on a Brexit vote.  The Treasury, supposedly neutral and ‘expert’, but in fact merely parroting what its Remain boss wanted it to say, predicted a possible -1% figure for GDP in the 3rd Quarter and Osborne et al were predicting instant recession….from Guido…

David Cameron: “The job you do, the home you live in are at risk. The shock to our economy after leaving Europe would tip the country into recession.”

George Osborne: “A vote to leave would tip our economy into year-long recession with at least 500,000 UK jobs lost”

Treasury: “UK economy would fall into recession”, predicted 2016 Q3 growth between -0.1% and -1%

IMF: “Brexit would trigger recession”, predicted -0.3% GDP for Q3

Bank of England: Mark Carney said “It would be likely to have a negative impact in the short term… I certainly think that would increase the risk of recession.”

OECD: Short term impact of -1.25% GDP

Curious how the BBC, so keen to quote those ‘expert’ voices before the referendum, now have suddenly forgotten all that massive scaremongering.

The BBC is eager to try and persuade us that manufacturing and ‘real’ industry outside the Services is struggling and indeed on 5Live as their business reporter travelled around the North talking to businesses we were told that this GDP figure was all down to Services and that manufacturing was slumping.  However the interview that followed completely demolished that so-called analysis as the businessman said that business in the area was ‘very vibrant’ and that they were exceptionally busy.  He suggested the figures were wrong and out of date and too low and that the alarmism of the ‘experts’ in the run-up to the vote had put a brake on things as confidence took a hit but that was over now…the interview ended rapidly there.  Just the norm for BBC business analysis….how many times has the BBC told us businesses were in dire straits only for call after call to say they were not only keeping ther heads above water but that they were thriving?

Listen to any BBC ‘debate’ on Brexit and you will almost certainly hear an attack on Gove for his scepticism about the ‘experts’ who were supposedly doing their professional duty and giving us an accurate and reasoned economic forecast…and yet the truth is he was right…the ‘experts’ were wildly off mark and one reason for that is that they were peddling personal and politicised views dressed as impartial analysis.

Where is the BBC’s take down of these experts?  Where was the BBC’s take down of those experts during the run up to the vote?  There was none…the BBC fully accepted the ‘experts’ analysis because that’s what the BBC itself wanted to believe and wanted you to believe.

Fraser Nelson in the Spectator does ask the big question….

The question, now, is: why did so many intelligent economic analysts and commentators get it so wrong? How did some of the finest minds in Britain get themselves worked up into such a state that they predicted an immediate recession?

There’s a case for the Treasury, and other economists, to work out what happened here. The behaviour during the Brexit campaign does undermine trust in government. Economic forecasts are supposed to be dispassionate. Today’s publication of the Q3 data might be a good time to ask what went wrong.

The answer is simple….what went wrong was that a hugely powerful group of pro-EU people and institutions were allowed to peddle a massive lie…and the BBC, amongst others, allowed them to do it…not just allowed them to do it but actually participated in spreading the lie, adding to it, spinning it into an untruth so big that they thought no-one could dream of questioning it.

Once again the BBC has willingly allowed itself to be hijacked and used to undermine democracy and do the bidding of the supposed elite, vested interests….so often the ones that the BBC attacks when it is in Labour supporting mode but clearly in desperate times one’s enemy’s enemies are your friends however unpleasant they may be…and the BBC teamed up with nasty Tory politicians, big business and bankers to shore up the corrupt and anti-democratic EU.

The BBC is the real danger to Britain, Democracy, society, culture and our future.