tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post3218581865998797383..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Who to believe again?Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-54615828235974042552017-09-02T09:19:28.734+01:002017-09-02T09:19:28.734+01:00Andrew Norfolk has just been interviewed on Today ...Andrew Norfolk has just been interviewed on Today by Nick Robinson. Norfolk stuck by his guns. This story is fascinating. The BBC have the editorial skill to link disparate events to other events when it suits their narrative, and it has the skill to place certain events outside of any links to social history and view them uniquely. <br /><br />Robinson's first question to Norfolk was what would Norfolk's stance be if the cultural identities of the foster family and foster child had been reversed, forgetting that he (Robinson) still lives in the UK perhaps. Progressive thought has skipped nationality entirely - it's not even a discussion any more.<br /><br />Also perhaps forgetting that the attention and concerns may arise from culturally linked events in recent history that provably and implicitly link Islamic ideology to corruption, voter fraud, trafficking, and the social undermining of UK law with a view to gaining political power. Enoughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-70379932913098426082017-09-01T09:32:03.233+01:002017-09-01T09:32:03.233+01:00Gaby Hinsliff writing in the Guardian has summed u...Gaby Hinsliff writing in the Guardian has summed up the new narrative in a master-class of progressive journalism.<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/31/victims-culture-wars-muslim-fostering-row<br /><br />Concerns have been dismissed, the water muddied. Progressives can safely dismiss the original story as racist and creating "culture wars". BTL, half of the comments are satisfied that the original story is in tatters. The other half are responding in an eminently<br />sensible way. Guess which half are more inquiring.<br /><br />The problem with the new narrative is that it doesn't ask the simplest of questions.<br />Are ANY of the accusations in this case true ?<br />Did ANY of those things happen ?<br />The rest of the arguments are superfluous in light of the potential religious / political / social indoctrination of a child. Islamic indoctrination.<br />It doesn't matter that the mother was a lush or a coke head and the foster mother isn't. That's not the story.<br /><br />The other thing that seems to be unimportant to progressives is that Tower Hamlets<br />is now essentially a country within a country. Progressives are determined that this is an irrelevance.<br />It's not. Enoughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-42422509445840119052017-09-01T04:24:07.887+01:002017-09-01T04:24:07.887+01:00Well, social services staff in Muslim areas have a...Well, social services staff in Muslim areas have a long and sordid history of deliberately suppressing concerns of young white girls in care. The guardian may have reported no concerns, but who believes them any more? That's the person who needs to be interviewed.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-80167246408938952922017-09-01T01:05:03.050+01:002017-09-01T01:05:03.050+01:00Yep. "If you can't bury it, strangle it b...Yep. "If you can't bury it, strangle it before it gets any bigger" seems to be the BBC approach to this sort of story. <br /><br />Reasding between the lines it seems to me the child was placed with a Muslim family because of that faintest of family connections with Islam. Social workers like the BBC, and like it seems the whole of the UK political, business, Anglican, legal and media elite are desperate not offend against the principles of Islam and its followers. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com