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Friday arrives and the weekend beckons! Here is a new OPEN thread for your completion. Detail the BIAS here.

Sack Jeremy Clarkson…..Change.org working for truth and justice, a fairer society and a BBC that consists entirely of left wingy mush…

Jeremy Clarkson has proved himself to be a deplorable man. His employment with the BBC is funded through licence fees paid by the general public.

We the undersigned do not believe that a warning is sufficient recourse given Mr Clarkson’s previous discriminatory comments and given the public profile that he has.

The only acceptable way in which the BBC can demonstrate it’s top-level commitment to diversity and equality (on and off/screen) is to relieve Mr Clarkson of his position with immediate effect. We trust that the BBC will act with integrity and take the necessary action.

Kind regards,

Reece Williams and Jayne Linney

 

Like that ‘kind regards”’as they seek to put a man on the dole and his family on the breadline.

Way to go yet….

Top Gear: 300,000 sign petition supporting Jeremy Clarkson

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’.