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May I commend this excellent post by Daphne Anson on the BBC’s “Horrible Histories”? Do give it a read…

 “Manipulative and mind-bending, the BBC nowadays rarely makes a series on British history that is without a political agenda informing the narrative.  One series, a gripping and enjoyable one about the glories of Bronze Age Britain, depicted the Roman Invasion as a disaster for the already highly civilised and skilled native population, which for all I know was a fair enough thesis.

But at the end came the propaganda, overtly voiced: since the British had known the sorrows of military occupation it ill-behoved their descendants to militarily occupy Iraq!

Most of the time, however, the agenda is vigorously to push the line that Britain, or at least the English part of it, has always been a multicultural society.

One of the most egregious instances of manipulated history is on the BBC’s website for children, in one of the items connected with the Queen’s Jubilee…”

Interesting to read that BBC’s “Horrible Histories” is to be remade and put out in prime-time slots. As regular readers of Biased BBC know we have exposed the OUTRAGEOUS bias of this series here, and here, and here, and so on. It shows how ruthless the BBC is to ensure that history is re-written and propagandised to ensure it fist in with their liberal western hating Islam loving mindset. Another colossal waste of license-tax money.

David Vance has blogged before about the BBC’s Horrible History of the British Empire, but after seeing in the comments that it was repeated today (hat tip Peter Parker) I located the Queen Victoria song on the programme’s YouTube account.

Open your mouths, children, while we ram big spoonfuls of guilt down your throats because your country is evil and its achievements non-existent. (*)

(*) Does not apply to children of recent immigrants. See relevant handout for details.

An update for you. It starts at roughly17 minutes in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snz1m

Some jarring quotes:

“A time when the Christian people of Europe decided to go to war with theIslamic people in the Middle East just becasue they didn’t believe in the samethings…hard to imagine I know.”

“The Pope doesn’t like to share”

“Heaven hungry Christians”

“The Muslims weren’t about to take all this lying down, no, no, they FIGHTBACK”

“Christians come up with a ground-breaking new plan – anotherCrusade!”

“The Christians get the pants thrashed off of them”

And do they describe the Islamic conquerers with equal sarcasm?

“Saladin is a Muslim leader who has been building a huge empire over inthe Middle East.”

“Luckily for him (Richard the Lionheart) though, Saladin was a jolly nicechap and agreed to a peace treaty with Richard” 

Gotta love Islam.

Anyone out there caught the BBC’s “Horrible Histories”? A B-BBC reader spotted this…

“I had to gulp at the opening introduction. There was a reference to the Westerners deciding to go to war with the Muslims because ‘they happened to live there’ laced with sarcasm. The rest of the narrative was blantantly anti-west. Who wrote this script, I wonder?

Am I being paranoid or have they completely missed the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 7th century, attacks of Muslim Seljuk Turks, murder of pilgrims and the consequent aggressive expansionism that led to the Byzantine Empire issuing a desperate call for help to the Pope?

It’s like describing the reason for D-Day as a war on Germany because Germans ‘happened to live’ in France.

I am shocked and above all disturbed by the inversion of teaching to the youngabout such an important time in history.”