One God, One Faith, One Mosque

The BBC gets it wrong again and again.  Instead of reporting the news it takes a ‘line’ and presents us wth a story that is pre-packaged in such a way that we are supposed to absorb the ‘message’ the BBC wishes to impart…and it nearly always has a ‘message’.

The BBC’s own prejudices, beliefs and values colour everything it does and this means it gets things spectacularly, and dangerously, wrong.

For the past 5 years it got the political ‘mood’ of the country entirely wrong, believing that the election was going to be decided upon a very particular set of criteria…ones remarkably similar to those put forward by Labour as their election message.

Here’s Harriet Harman in a recent interview with the Independent in which she lays out why Labour lost…

The BBC also allowed its prejudices to shape its coverage of all things Muslim. They rushed to tell us that all the evidence pointed to the Boston bombs being the work of white supremacists, and Mark Mardell tried to dismiss an Islamist terrorist attack at Fort Hood as a a “senseless tragedy”, devoid of deeper meaning.’….in other words absolutely nothing to do with Islam and the killer’s well known devout beliefs.

Of course on a larger scale the lies told about the Iraq Dossier by the BBC led not only to David Kelly’s death but a narrative about the legality of the war that has fed into the radicalisation of Muslims and subsequent years of terrorist threats and the growth of ISIS.

It’s still at it, downplaying the threat from Muslim activism and even defending and promoting it.  Here’s Mark Easton telling us that perhaps we should accept that Muslims should be allowed to take over schools and turn them into centres of Islamic propaganda…Trojan horse’ scandal – extreme or diverse?

Here he is again, telling us that perhaps Muslim extremists are heroes along the lines of Nelson Mandela and Ghandi or even Churchill…..Should we value extremism?

And here’s the BBC spinning away about the latest Muslim bomber….IS recruits: Victims or criminals?

The BBC got the narrative spectacularly worng on 7/7 when 52 people were killed and over 700 injured by Muslim bombers and the BBC tried to present the bombers, those ‘young British Muslims’ as the BBC preferred to call them, as victims of British society…the usual claims of them being disenfranchised, marginalised and discriminated against.  The BBC rapidly had to change its tune as it realised that the British public weren’t buying that as people lay dead and dying and yet today the BBC have reverted to type and are back to spinning their narrative of Muslim murderers as the real victims…

Dominic Casciani, home affairs correspondent

Talha Asmal’s family say he was groomed. That makes him, in their eyes, a teenage victim, rather than a criminal or terrorist.

Ten years ago, the UK had the same debate about suicide bombers from Yorkshire who killed 52 people in London in the 7/7 attacks.

Now I think I can safely say there was no debate about the 7/7 Muslim murderers being victims…if there was one it was one held solely within the confines of the rarified atmosphere of the BBC Bubble.  This is pure propaganda by the BBC that is designed to feed into the latest narrative we are being force fed about the 17 year old Muslim who joined ISIS and became a suicide bomber….he of course is a victim himself…did I ever hear the BBC even mention the real victims who died in the bomb attack?  No.

The BBC’s narrative on Islam and the ‘radicalisation’ of Muslims is completely worthless and dangerous…excusing and glorifying terror and failing, deliberately, to nail the reasons for that ‘radicalisation’…..the essential fact that all these terrorists are Muslim and driven by their religion to do the things they do in that religion’s name…to defend Muslims and Muslim countries against the Kufar.

Not being honest about the real motivations behind the rise of the Jihadis means you have zero chance of tackling it, one way or another.

Here is a classic example of the BBC ‘looking the other way’ as it is fed a line by the Islamist Baroness Warsi on the Today programme yesterday(from 08:10) who declares that the solution to radicalisation is to let extremist groups, those defined by government as ‘beyond the pale’, put their agendas in place….by not talking to them the government is not talking to the Muslim community….the government has ‘disengaged’ with the Muslim community….

“Let’s first of all be very clear about finding the evidence base of what are the drivers to radicalisation. It may make for uncomfortable reading but it is only when we start to have that honest conversation that we unpick what is now becoming a generational challenge…

Sadly over the last six or seven years there has been a policy of disengagement with British Muslim communities. It is incredibly odd and incredibly worrying that over time more and more individuals, more and more organisations are considered by the government to be beyond the pale and therefore not to be engaged with … Unfortunately the coalition government carried on that policy. It is now time to end that policy of disengagement and start speaking to the British Muslim communities”

The BBC completely ignored the implications of what she was saying….that the extremists and their views should become ‘acceptable’ and even more worrying that these organisations are in fact representative of the Muslim community as a whole….in other words they are not ‘extremists’ or people who pervert the religion, and far from being ‘outside’ the community they are the voice of it.

Might have thought that was worth a raised eyebrow or two.

So BBC,  what are the drivers of radicalisation?  Could it possibly be a religion that absolutely obliges its adherents to fight in the name of its God to defend Muslim lands and Muslim lives could it?

Simple really if you were being honest.  Why do Muslims think they are victims and under attack in need of defence?…because the BBC and its ilk tell them they are……Until the BBC admits to itself that it is pushing a false and dangerous narrative that Muslims are victims of British society and that Western foreign policy is anti-Muslim there is little point in any politician trying to counter that narrative…..that’s of course if the politicians actually want to stick their heads up above the parapet and tell some uncomfortable truths that they can for now comfortably ignore as long as the BBC doesn’t challenge their appeasement….which of course it doesn’t…it has its own brand of Muslim appeasement.

Here’s some advice to Muslims from one of the BBC’s favourite, ‘beyond the pale’, Islamist groups, MPACUK…

The Obligation of Jihad

“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

A high rank, forgiveness and mercy are gifted from our beloved for those who are the Mujahideen. Those that struggle and strive to protect the religion, that protect the honour of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), that protect our brothers and sisters in Islam and humanity are gifted with these amazing favours!

Are we aware of the consequences of not partaking in this strive and struggle to protect the Ummah? By forsaking ourselves of the duty of Jihad we risk the wrath of God, we expose Islam to harm and defeat at the hands of its enemies. Islam is one of the largest, if not the largest religion in the world yet simultaneously we are the most persecuted people on earth– how can this be so when it is this very religion that endorses the protection of human life as a rooted principle? The answer is simple; when Muslims abandon the obligation of Jihad, preferring a life of ease, concentrating on worldly gains and pleasure we face degradation, ridicule, enslavement, humiliation and consequently all our affairs are corrupted.

Those who do not observe Jihad are indeed committing a grave sin because there is much harm that emanates into society when it is abandoned. Those that neglect Jihad will be disobeying something God has commanded us all to partake in; they have not aided in protecting the Religion of God, they have not defended the Book of God, its messages and His law, they have not helped the Ummah against the enemy who wants to destroy them.

If any of us find our hearts at this stage; as a matter of urgency we must change for not only are we exposing ourselves to humiliation and harm in this life, but also in the Hereafter; for the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “He who dies without having fought in the way of Allah or without having felt it to be his duty, will die having a trait of hypocrisy”

We all know that any suggestion that there is a streak of bias coursing through the BBC’s corridors is ludicrous, or so says the BBC’s top newshound, James Harding.  However, should you happen to come across any vestigial bias lurking in the darkest corners of the BBC please feel free to list it here so that the BBC can immediately rectify the unfortunate lapse in standards…..a new open thread….

The BBC has launched a fevered campaign against any interference in its business and has brought out the big guns to fend off its ‘enemies’ as it calls them.

One of those is David Dimbleby who has not only been given room in the Radio Times to grace us with his views on how important the BBC is to us all but has also been sent into battle on our screens as well with this very self-serving piece of propaganda from the BBC…

The BBC at War, Presented by Jonathan Dimbleby

An enthralling series exploring how the BBC fought not only Hitler but also the British government to become the institution it is today. Hailed and derided in equal measure, the BBC in 1939 had yet to seal its reputation. With the advent of war, the corporation found itself thrust into a battle against the Nazis and the machinations of the British government.

Jonathan Dimbleby uncovers the compelling story of how the BBC went into battle – against Hitler and Whitehall’s ministers – and its part in the social revolution the war provoked.

Jonathan Dimbleby reveals how the BBC prepared for the first broadcast war and fought off government attempts to control it.

I think you get the idea…the BBC not only fought the Nazis (LOL), but fought off the British government as well.

That’ll be the BBC that banned Churchill from the airwaves in the run up to the war in case he upset Herr Hitler.

Dimbleby explains why the programme was necessary…

“For me, regardless of what the BBC becomes, [The BBC at War] was a reminder of how the BBC became a globally and nationally trusted institution. It was in the back of my mind, not the foreground. I thought it was a very good story to tell.”

The trouble is if you have read any personal history of the war, or read the Mass Observation reports, you will know that the BBC was far from trusted and respected, not by the Public and not by the troops….all too often seen to be siding with the Nazis (no change there then) and more concerned with getting a scoop or a story than in security which put the troops in danger…again no change there….Snowden/Iraq/Afghanistan.

This programme is blatantly a piece of pro-BBC propaganda not unlike those war time propaganda films that showed plucky little Britain battling against the Nazi horde…only this time its the plucky little BBC against those nasty Tories and the ‘powerful vested interests’ that want to turn Britain into a cultural desert….or rather that’s what we’re supposed to infer from the BBC’s not so subtle nudge…..a ‘warning from history’ the BBC might like to call it.

With this programme Dimbleby ironically shows why the BBC can’t be trusted and should be reined in.

The Luvvies are all out in force as they see the end is nigh for their easy life troughing aboard the BBC gravy train.

We’ve had BBC top brass manning the barricades with Hall and Harding telling us what a brilliant job they do, now we’ve got the Grunts coming out to join the frontline in the battle against the dark forces of evil that are arrayed against the BBC, that New Hope for the world.

Hall must be calling in a few favours and dusting off the address book in order to get the troops to answer the call to arms to save the BBC from the terrible Tories and their allies in the right wing Press.

Everyman and his dog are making some noise, including David Dimbleby.  Apparently the whole news and entertainment industry will collapse without the BBC propping it up…not only that but the nation, nay, the world, will be a poorer place without it and its preaching.

The Writer’s Union, WGGB,  has signed up for the cause, as has the NUJ and BECTU amongst other Media unions…..all lobbying hard to keep the licence fee going and their share of it coming their way.  Even Hollywood has taken Aunties’ shilling.

I particularly liked this from a template protest letter that union members were instructed to bombard Parliament with….

BECTU is campaigning for a strong, independent and properly-funded BBC so it can carry out its duties as a public service broadcaster; protect quality journalism and programming, the World Service and the important cultural role it plays.

A functioning democracy depends upon its citizens hearing a range of arguments and having equal access to information and opinions in order to participate. The BBC plays a major role in presenting balanced, impartial news coverage which does not depend on the personal prejudices and foibles of media moguls or commercial pressure to appease shareholders.

 

A functioning democracy does indeed depend upon its citizens being properly informed and able to hear a range of arguments…unfortunately they don’t get that from the BBC….what they get is a very left wing slant on the news and deliberate attempts to downplay or hide relevant facts that would, if broadcast or published, completely alter the narrative that the BBC is actually feeding the Public.

And it is amusing that the creative types need a template letter, shouldn’t they be just the people to come up with something unique, inspiring and gamechanging?

The Guardian reports that ‘Jonathan Dimbleby warns of ‘powerful vested interests’ attacking BBC licence fee’

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has hit out at the BBC’s “enemies” and warned against cuts to the licence fee….“the nation would lose massively if the BBC were to face any kind of demise”.

“I believe that while there are powerful vested interests who would like to see the BBC denied a licence fee, without a licence fee the BBC could not do what it does.”

“The BBC has enemies, it has powerful enemies. It has powerful enemies in the press and powerful enemies in Westminster – some for ideological reasons, some for straight commercial reasons.”

Curious how anyone who criticises the BBC or thinks it may need reforming in any way is classed as an ‘enemy’ of the BBC.

Does Dimbleby think that the BBC is sacred, too sacred to mention at all….perhaps like Charlie Hebdo he’d like to see Murdoch and his ilk machine gunned for having the temerity to challenge the might and majesty of the BBC.

The licence fee is totally iniquitous….why should you have to pay for a service that you may not use at all?  OK, you could make a case for a ‘national broadcaster’ but why should anyone have to pay for the BBC if they only want to watch Sky?

BBC funding should come out of general taxation with the added benefit that the less well off will pay less and the rich more.  The other benefit is that the BBC will stop hounding people, mostly the poorest in society, for their money….often with menaces.

Will that mean that the BBC is dependent on the largesse of politicians?  They already are….hence the mobilisation of the ‘Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ brigade to defend the licence against the predations of the Conservative Party and Fox News.

 

The National Union of Miner’s own website says:
Throughout the 1960s, with a Labour Government in office from 1964, the pit closure programme accelerated; it decimated the industry. During this period, nearly 300 more pits were closed, and the total workforce slumped from over 750,000 in the late 1950s down to 320,000 by 1968. In many parts of Britain, miners now became known as industrial gypsies as pit closures forced them to move from coalfield to coalfield in search of secure jobs.

They were victims of madhouse economics.

The BBC has been putting its weight behind Labour’s campaign to initiate an inquiry into the events at Orgreave in 1984…..I did hear a BBC reporter claiming that the whole thing, that campaign, was actually started by the BBC itself.  That whole thing of course is highly political with Labour’s real target being Maggie Thatcher in an attempt to keep up the myth that Thatcher destroyed the mines….a myth that is easily discredited should anyone be interested in the truth….not the BBC unfortunately.

On Friday Humphrys did a report on Orgreave (08:50) and the demand for an inquiry.  One guest was Alan Billings…introduced merely as a Police and Crime Commissioner.  Billings was shocked that the IPCC had decided not to investigate what happened in 1984 and demanded an inquiry.

What Humphrys failed to inform us was that Billings is a Labour Party man and was pushing a party line on this….something you might think was of significance in the debate.

Even in the web report the BBC fails to mention his true colours…

South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings described the decision as a missed opportunity that did “disservice” to former miners, police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

The BBC’s whole approach to Orgreave is one that leans towards sympathy for the miners and a rewriting of history to favour their narrative of ‘police brutality’.

Here the BBC puts the boot into the police…..

‘There was violence from both sides.

The debate goes on about who acted first, but police horses were sent to charge the crowd up the field and officers followed to make arrests. Many miners and police officers were injured.

The pictures of miners and police officers fighting shocked TV viewers.

The number of officers was unprecedented. The use of dogs, horses and riot gear in an industrial dispute was almost unheard of. Some of the tactics were learned from the police in Northern Ireland and Hong Kong who had experience dealing with violent disorder.

During the subsequent court case a police manual was uncovered which set out the latest plans to deal with pickets and protests.

… the moment the police strategy switched from defensive – protecting collieries, coking plants and working miners – to offensive, actively breaking up crowds and making large numbers of arrests. In many mining communities faith in the police was destroyed, a legacy that lasts to this day. 

The thrust of that is to paint the police as the real instigators of the violence….note the lack of a similarly extensive list of what the miners did that may have caused the police reaction….we are led to believe that the police actions were unprovoked and brutal.

The BBC goes on…

The miners felt they had been set up.

They believed the intention that day was to beat them and make arrests, a show of force that would convince them they were not going to win.

That left a bitter legacy of hatred and distrust of the police in many mining communities.

The police said they were just doing their job in the face of violence from striking miners. The strike lasted until March 1985.

You see quite clearly where the BBC’s sympathies lie.

Such sympathies are on display again in this travesty of a ‘news report’…

There was violence on both sides, but when police horses charged the crowd the violence escalated and many officers and miners were injured.

Once again that message that it was the police who are to really blame.

There’s more…

Dave Smith, a former miner and former president of Dinnington NUM was at Orgreave on 18 June 1984.

He said it was a hot day and they had been playing football, but the police arrived and all “hell let loose.”

“Horses came out, short shields came out; we tried to defend ourselves as best we could.

“Most of us were running like hell. We finished up down embankments, on to railway lines with dogs chasing us.

“People were seriously injured and I mean seriously injured, and left by the police.

“That’s not helping, that’s attacking, and we were attacked.”

Innocents out playing soccer.  Yeah, right.  Not a bunch of thugs trying to intimidate and bully other workers who needed police protection just to go to work and whose homes were often attacked by those peaceable soccer loving fellas.

Why not look back at the news reports from the time to see that the miners were the ones instigating the violence….throwing rocks at police and beating up working miners….600 police injured and 200 miners since the strike began at one point….which tells a tale that the BBC isn’t telling…..

Let’s have some salient facts…

The NUM was funded by their ‘Soviet comrades’.

The strike was illegal and the miners had voted not to strike…Scargill ignored the ballot and forced miners out on strike….either in ‘solidarity’ or because they knew what happened to ‘scabs’.

Labour closed more pits than the Tories and the redundancy terms on offer to the miners were far higher than to any other industry.

And how about the words of an ex-miner, and then a Tory minister, Patrick McLoughlin, commenting on the myths being propagated and buttressed by the likes of the BBC.…and yet the BBC ignored him.

‘“As a cabinet minister now and a miner in the 1980s, I have been listening to the debate about Baroness Thatcher with particular interest.

The reality is that the violence was always initiated by the miners and that Scargill used them as cannon fodder for his own political games not caring one jot about them, their jobs and their families.

Seems that the BBC has conveniently forgotten all that as it pillories the police and romanticises and glorifies the miners.

‘Almost one in three of England’s primary school children is from an ethnic minority – the highest level yet.  One pupil in five speaks English as a second language.’

‘The UK’s population has increased by around 5 million since 2001.’

There is an enormous and growing pressure on schools as they struggle to cope with the influx of new pupils who turn up on their doorsteps expecting a free British education.

That ‘free’ British education of course costs money…a lot of money….the government having to pump in at least £12 billion extra to try and cope….the Unions saying that amount will only cover 40-60% of the funding actually needed.

Immigrants of course, the BBC tells us, are highly beneficial for the economy, EU immigrants, the BBC insists, paying more in tax then they take out of the system….never mind that the majority of jobs they take are low pay ones that in no way pay for child care, housing and education and health.

On Saturday Mishal Husain did a piece on the crisis in schools (08:40)…remarkably she managed to do the whole report without once mentioning immigration herself despite the two guests both saying that immigration was the main cause of the crisis.

How is it possible to completely avoid the cause of overcrowding in schools, the ‘blackhole’, the’ breaking point’, when talking about this subject, especially as the BBC were so keen to pillory the Tories for having failed to reach their target in limiting immigration in the run up to the election?

Husain was though, eager to suggest that the government was failing in its approach telling us that ‘the situation is far from ideal……it doesn’t sound as if it is enough [funding]….it’s not the way you’d want the education system to work’.

Husain, an immigrant herself, and one having history on this subject, does the usual BBC thing and dodges the real story, the uncomfortable truth that immigration is causing enormous problems throughout the UK.  The BBC is only interested in telling us the ‘good news’, even if it has to make that up (ie how much tax they pay), the BBC is extremely reluctant to highlight the negative sides to mass immigration.  The BBC is once again more concerned with attempting to ‘social engineer’ our perceptions and subsequent actions than actually delivering the News.

You may have heard that Mo Farah’s coach and training mate were outed by the BBC in an alleged ‘doping scandal’...

‘One of the world’s best known athletics coaches is at the centre of doping allegations, according to a BBC investigation.

Alberto Salazar has been accused of violating anti-doping rules, including claims he was involved in doping US record holder Galen Rupp, in 2002.

Rupp and GB Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah are part of Salazar’s US stable, the Nike Oregon Project.

However we can be reassured that despite his coach and stable mate being accused no suspicion falls on Mo……as the BBC repeatedly, endlessly, tells us…..

There is no suggestion Farah has broken any rules.

There is no suggestion that Farah himself has been involved in doping.

Undoubtedly Mo is entirely free of drug use but just how hard did the BBC look?  Mo is the Left’s Muslim immigrant poster boy after all.  Are the BBC avoiding asking awkward questions  due to Mo’s special status?  Not as if the BBC hasn’t turned a blind eye before….Rochdale and other towns spring to mind, never mind the ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal, and Lutfur Rahman whose activities the BBC did its best to downplay for years, and when he was booted out as Mayor of Tower Hamlets for fraud and electoral corruption the BBC hid the story on the England page….a major news story….nary a mention of the role racial and religious intimidation played in the fraud either.

Looks like a new open thread is well behind time……so here’s a fresh one….

The Daily Mail has an indepth look at the case of a white woman who pretended that she was black in America and has numerous photographs to show just how white the woman really is…….blond, blue eyed and whiter than white….

The BBC, which reduced the story to a BBC Trending ‘man bites dog’ story, comes up with this…

I met Rachel Dolezal – and never doubted her black roots

When I met Rachel Dolezal, I found it easy to accept her description of her ethnicity. Along with BBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, I talked to Dolezal in 2011 in a coffee shop in Spokane, Washington, while producing a BBC World Service documentary on a surge in extremist militia activity in America. She told us that she was of mixed racial heritage but that she primarily identified with her black ancestors. She matter-of-factly listed the abuse she says she received at the hands of racists, including threats, break-ins, and nooses being left at her workplace.

At no time during our hour-long interview, or during a number of phone and email conversations before and after, did Dolezal give any cause to doubt her heritage.

Note how the Beeboid gets in the ‘extremist militias’ and tales of racism before anything else.  Distinct lack any real attempt to ‘out’ the woman as a fraud…..tending towards excusing her actions is the impression I get….perhaps because the BBC man is somewhat professionally embarrassed at being fooled by her…..quick to tell us that Jonny Dymond was there with him.

Whilst reporting that ‘Many African-American activists were outraged’  we then get this ‘Others compared Dolezal’s story with the discussion around transgender issues, especially the example of Caitlyn – formerly Bruce – Jenner. Soon the hashtag #transracial was trending. Some were using it for jokes and satire, but others were making serious points.’

Everything is relative in BBC World…no black and white you might say….when it suits of course.

Just have to wonder how many Beeboids think they are ‘Black’ and would love to ‘identify’ as such.