The Buddhist prison population has soared by over 44% in 10 years.  the question is ‘Why the surge in Buddhist prisoner.’  Nearly 1% of the UK’s Buddhist population is in prison.

The BBC investigates this pressing and puzzling issue.

Are they terrorists?  No, don’t be stupid…that’s a media myth.

Are they really criminals?  No not really…they are victims of poverty and discrimination…. disparities in how they are treated are often part of a complex mix of educational, employment, health and social inequalities that have characterised many of their lives.   Most of the prisoners said that they experienced differential treatment as a result of their race, ethnicity or faith.

Could it be that negative stereotypes and institutional discrimination, or “Buddhaphobia”, as it’s referred to, is fuelling the increase in Buddhist prisoner numbers?

Apparently the Government’s complacency on this issue is breathtaking.

Still, the Buddhists aren’t alone…Muslim prisoner numbers are also ‘surging’..up 84%…oh..and Jewish from 181 to 319…a 76% increase.

But wait…1% of Buddhists are in prison…and 0.4% of Muslims relative to their UK population.  Buddhists are either very bad or very discriminated against…but the BBC isn’t interested in that statistic for some reason.

The BBC naturally wants you to be concerned only with the Muslim prisoners…there must be some conspiracy behind the increase…alienation, neglect, disenfranchisement, poverty….but be aware, it’s nothing to do with terror...despite police making terror related arrests practically every day…only 1% of prisoners have ‘terror’ related convictions the BBC insists.

The BBC tells us that…

It’s a crime mystery.

Why has there been a surge in the number of Muslim prisoners?

Is it really a mystery that the Muslim prison population has nearly doubled in ten years when…

Muslim population in England and Wales nearly doubles in 10 years

No conspiracy, not Muslims being disenfranchised and ignored, vicitms of stereotyping and institutionalised Islamophobia…just an increase in population that correlates almost exactly with the increase in prisoner population.

One other explanation is that non-Muslim prisoners are being forced to convert to Islam for their protection..in one study 52% of Muslim prisoners questioned were those who converted whilst in prison.

This is just yet another example of the BBC pandering to Muslim activists who seek to portray Muslims as victims…in this case I suspect the ‘activist’ who has encouraged the BBC to cover this story (not much encouragement needed) is Labour Muslim MP Sadiq Khan whom the BBC tells us says…

One of Britain’s few Muslim MPs, Sadiq Khan, is determined to get to the bottom of it – asking more parliamentary questions about Muslim prisoners than any other member.

Yet more Muslim ‘Lawfare’.

Khan of course is the MP who wants Islam to dominate Parliament….

Chutzpah (/ˈhʊtspə/ or /ˈxʊtspə/) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The Yiddish word derives from the Hebrew word ḥutspâ (חֻצְפָּה), meaning “insolence”, “cheek” or “audacity”.

Curious choice of title for this BBC report…With their letter to Iran, US senators show ‘chutzpah’……‘Chutzpah’ being a Jewish word.

Is the BBC subtly hinting that this letter is all the work of the ‘Jewish Lobby’?  After all Netanyahu was recently in the US making a ‘controversial’ speech according to Jeremy Bowen about the same subject…playing the ‘Holocaust card’ according to ‘shorthand’ Jezza.

It is remarkable how negative the BBC’s report on this open letter to Iran from Republican Senators…ahhh..there’s the problem….not cuddly Democrats.

The usual suspect, the BBC’s Katty Kay, is similarly dismissive and scornful….

The White House agrees that the Republican Senators’ letter to Iran creates the perception that America is dysfunctional.

She goes on..

The White House’s Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, was clearly angered by the decision by 47 Republicans to send an open letter to the Iranian leadership…..Rhodes told me the letter is profoundly unhelpful and fits a pattern of Congress not working constructively with the President.

 

Well of course, the Senate is there to rubber stamp anything Obama comes up with…he is after all a most wonderful, wise and most of all, a Black President…he can do no wrong.

Funny how Democracy, what the BBC called ‘sacred’ when the Black majority took power in South Africa, is an inconvenience when people (white Republicans) don’t play by the BBC rules.

The BBC supports Iran (and anyone who stands up to ‘Bush’s’ America) and has always produced programmes that look favourably on Iran when the sabres are rattling and is of course a fan of Obama….and definitely not a fan of the Republicans….so all in all this ‘letter from America’ was never going to get a fair hearing on the biased BBC.

It turns out that despite being paid £500,000 a year by HSBC and having been the Chair of HSBC’s audit committee Rona Fairhead has been unfairly accused of incompetence or a neglectful failure to oversee HSBC’s operations.

The BBC’s Today programme (around 06:55) for some reason found reason to doubt Rona Fairhead’s, the Chair of the BBC Trust, complicity and guilt in HSBC’s financial irregularities…despite being Chair of the audit committee…it’s all a bit unfair to blame poor old Rona.

Funny old world.  Imagine if it had been an ex-chair of HSBC who had become a Tory Peer and minister?  Can’t imagine the BBC whitewashing that one.

The BBC has done everything possible to portray the three London teenage girls who have legged it to Syria to be with the decapitators in Islamic State as “victims” – rather than enemies of the State. In a similar way, their families have been afforded every opportunity to play the victim card and play everyone but themselves for their offspring seeking to be Jihadi Brides,

This is when the BBC becomes a menace because what we then see are  other public sector organisations – such as The Met – instinctively pick up on this BBC fuelled “mood music”  and declare that these girl could come home tomorrow – without any charges. I’m sorry but this is so wrong and sends such a dreadful message. It IS ok to be an enemy of this State and yet we will welcome you back.  The BBC subverts concepts like loyalty to the British State at every turn.

Here you go, a Top Gear approved Mid Week Open thread for you to provide some knock out instances of BBC bias 🙂

Today we hear from the BBC that ‘Terror ‘apologists’ must share blame – Hammond’ and that ‘

“Apologists” for those who commit acts of terrorism are partly responsible for the violence, Philip Hammond will say.

Security services have been criticised over their handling of Mohammed Emwazi – known as “Jihadi John”.

With a total brassnecked arrogance and disregard for Hammond’s words and the damning truth about the Islamist group Cage the BBC goes on to say this…

BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said critics of the security services said they “could have done more” to prevent Emwazi travelling to the Middle East.

Cage, an advocacy group for those “impacted by the War on Terror”, has said MI5 played a role in the radicalisation of Emwazi.

Its research director Asim Qureshi told the BBC “harassment” by intelligence officers did not make Emwazi into a killer, but he said it was a factor in making him feel he “didn’t belong in the UK anymore”.

 

The BBC doesn’t even have the decency to call Cage ‘controversial’.

The BBC must be sailing close to the wind and many people will believe that its reporting does exactly what Philip Hammond wants to stop….acting as an apologist for both terror and its accompanying extremist rhetoric that brings in the terror recruits….the BBC of course thinks that ‘terrorism’ is too loaded a word…..unless it is British ‘terror’..

The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse talking to one of the, as he calls them, Mau Mau veterans:

‘I must say sir you sound very magnaminous considering what you went through.’

…the ferocity and barbarity of what went on at that time has left deep scars…on the victims of torture.’

Not the ferocity and barbarity of the Mau Mau but of the Brits.

 

The Terrorism Act 2006 surely suggests that the BBC’s pro-Islamist narrative could be construed as encouraging, indirectly or recklessly, the recruitment of Muslims to the Islamist cause:

Encouragement of terrorism

(1)This section applies to a statement that is likely to be understood by some or all of the members of the public to whom it is published as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to them to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism or Convention offences.

(2)A person commits an offence if—

(a)he publishes a statement to which this section applies or causes another to publish such a statement; and

(b)at the time he publishes it or causes it to be published, he—

(i)intends members of the public to be directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare or instigate acts of terrorism or Convention offences; or

(ii)is reckless as to whether members of the public will be directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare or instigate such acts or offences.

The BBC’s continued support for groups like Cage, giving them the credibility and authority that comes with BBC sanction, and its repeated portrayal of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as illegal or immoral, its regular condemnation of Israel whilst turning a blind eye to Muslim terror, as well as its campaign to close down Guantanamo Bay all point to an organisation that has lost its moral compass and finds itself unable to see the difference between terrorism and justified military or police action…as evidenced by its naive reporting of the comments of ex-Chief Superintendent Dal Babu about the Prevent Programme.  All of which is the staple diet fed to the Muslim community by people who wish them to see themselves as besieged and demonised by the ‘West’ and thereby be more open to recruitment for the Jihadi cause.

The BBC knows this and yet recklessly continues to peddle that narrative, a narrative which is demonstrably false but we hear day in day out on the BBC.

Maybe about time someone from the police started taking more interest in Lord Hall’s organisation and its ‘encouragement of terror’.

After all, as Philip Hammond says...’Apologists for terror must take some blame’.

H/T  Pounce……

HSBC hearing – Summary

• Margaret Hodge told Rona Fairhead that her peformance as an HSBC director meant she was no longer fit to lead the BBC Trust. She told her:

I don’t think that the record that you have shown in your performance here as a guardian of HSBC gives me the confidence that you should be the guardian of the BBC licence fee payers’ money. I reallly do think that you should consider your position and you should think about resigning and if not, I think the government should sack you.

 

Can’t see how Rona Fairhead can survive this…especially after all the flak the BBC sent towards the Tories for giving HSBC boss, Stephen Green, a peerage and a job…..the whole intent of the BBC’s ‘HSBC tax evasion’ story wasn’t to tackle HSBC itself but to take down the Tories….and yet they are ‘guilty’ of exactly the same sin…more so in fact as Fairhead is still employed by HSBC earning megabucks.

As David has noted the BBC has leapt upon the words of ex-chief Superintendent Dal Babu as he tries to discredit the ‘Prevent’ programme….and there is remarkably little comment on the BBC from people who would say otherwise.

Discrediting the ‘Prevent’programme is the Holy Grail for Islamic extremists, amongst others, and Babu’s words align neatly with their own rhetoric about the programme and do great damage as they give authority and credibility to those extremists.

Here is an example of how such reckless statements can be exploited by those who wish to stir up conflict to ‘divide and rule’….from the Iranian ‘Press TV’….

British state spies on Muslims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOOWPFfyyiU

I’m uncertain why the thoughts of a copper who retired 2 years ago are so significant.  The fact he is a Muslim should raise a few sceptical eyebrows about his motives, ala Baroness Warsi, but the BBC has swallowed his line completely.

Babu’s personnel file stated that..

“This officer is over-racially sensitive”.

And indeed he has almost made a career out of complaining about the alleged lack of diversity in the Police service including the founding of the National Association of Muslim Police.

A classic example of his thinking as to why we need more diversity…

“It’s about having that cultural understanding when you’re planning the firearms operation – do you understand the cultural aspects that might be misinterpreted as being aggression within a particular community?”

“Do you understand when communities are praying on a particular day?”

Who cares?  Blow someone up and you’re nicked son!  Allah might forgive you but the Met. won’t…however much you pray.

Babu claims that ‘Prevent’ hasn’t prevented Muslims from being radicalised…but how does he know that?  It’s difficult to prove a negative and very easy to see the Muslims who do go to the Dark Side, especially when the BBC gives them blanket coverage.

How many people who go to AA or drug rehabilitation come out cured?  I’m betting a good many fail to clean up their act whilst many others succeed…would those programmes be judged to have failed because of the few backsliders?

Apart from that Babu’s very own NAMP set up their own mentoring programme for young Muslims, the NAMP Youth Mentoring Scheme….

The project was initially launched in 2007 in Brick Lane and, following its success in this predominantly Bangladeshi community, it was extended in 2008 to the London boroughs of Harrow and Tower Hamlets. The scheme is specifically aimed at engaging with groups of Muslim youths who have been identified for specific reasons such as truancy or behavioural issues.

Has that scheme prevented any Muslim youths from being radicalised?  Obviously not judging by his own criteria for ‘Prevent’…..

Mr Babu, who retired from the Metropolitan Police two years ago, said cases like those of the three London schoolgirls who have gone to Syria had caught the authorities unaware.

Why did his own mentoring scheme not prevent those three girls from joining the Jihad?  After all he is a Muslim, the NAMP is Muslim and therefore, by his own criteria, with their indepth cultural knowledge and sensitivities, have been able to stop those girls.  But they didn’t.  The NAMP mentoring scheme failed…is it a ‘Toxic Brand’?

As for Police officers not understanding Islam….you must be kidding…with all the diversity training they get…and fair do’s, they get their training about radicalisation from the very people that would know…..

U.K. Police Trained at Islamic School at Center of Terror Probe

Then there’s stuff like this…

Working with faith communities

A guide for neighbourhood policing teams and partners

 

Shame the BBC doesn’t look a bit deeper…but then Babu’s narrative is one that fits neatly with their own….Muslims under siege and radicalised because of it.

But then again the BBC has always told us that Islam has no part to play in the radicalisation and motivation for the various jihadis….

Why then is it relevant for police officers to need to know anything about Islam?  Surely it is a straight forward matter of good old fashioned police work to find the bad guys.

Muslims have long been in denial about any link between their religion and what is going on…not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslim these days.

We are told that we shouldn’t be asking Muslims to explain, apologise or otherwise intervene in radicalisation because Islam has nothing to do with events but now we are told that non-Muslims shouldn’t intervene because they don’t know anything about Islam…which kind of leaves no one in charge of tackling the issues if Muslims themselves refuse to accept responsibility and non-Muslims aren’t allowed to.

All of which suits the radicals.

Why isn’t the BBC delving deeper into the issues?  Its Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford all over again….this time though its the much cherished liberal democracy that’s getting shafted as the BBC looks away due to ‘race sensitivities’…not that Islam is a race…it’s an ideology the same as Fascism, Communism or whatever we get shoved through our doors from the Political Parties in the next month or so.

Outrage at the BBC this morning. Guess what? Yes, SOME senior police officers do NOT know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims! OMG. So says a former senior Muslim police officer

Dal Babu said some officers involved in the programme lacked basic knowledge of race and faith issues. Most Muslims did not trust the programme and many saw it as a form of spying, he said.  He said because police counter-terrorism units were mainly white, with few Muslim officers, they did not fully understand issues of race, Islam and gender. Mr Babu said one senior police officer he had spoken to did not know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Now, let’s leave Babu’s allegations to one side for a moment. The salient point here is how the BBC chooses to report these views and than provide balance. An uncredited Home office spokesman gets two sentences worth of response. Mr Babu gets ten times this. Fair?

I’m not sure if our senior Policing ranks need to also have a deep understanding of the Koran to be able to deal with Islamic terrorism. As for the theological distinction between Sunni and Shia that so concerns Babu one could suggest that this is measured in corpses wherever they come into conflict. One could also suggest to Mr Babu that it for Sunni and Shia muslims to adhere to the laws of the UK first and foremost and trying to divert attention from this and place it on imagined failings in the Police is rather shameful. However, since the BBC won’t allow this alternative view to be posited we shall never know, I guess.

A fresh week and election fever is in the air. Can we rely on the BBC to provide the Nation with a balanced coverage of this most important of campaigns? Or might their left wing bias shine through? The floor is yours!