tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post3551139440482286795..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: RetrospectiveCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-80294941452408654492017-05-27T20:22:01.259+01:002017-05-27T20:22:01.259+01:00I've found it very hard too. The man who raise...I've found it very hard too. The man who raised the dodgy leaflet at the dodgy mosque on Question Time did very well, holding his ground both against a female attendee of that very mosque and David Dimbleby. At least the BBC has put the exchange on their news website:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40053376/manchester-attack-question-time-debates-didsbury-mosque-leafletCraighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-88200411731096966682017-05-27T20:03:51.417+01:002017-05-27T20:03:51.417+01:00I have found it pretty much impossible to watch or...I have found it pretty much impossible to watch or listen to much of the BBC's news coverage of the massacre. The only good thing to emerge is that the link between the atrocity and the religion of Islam is just so obvious in this case (via the dodgy Mosque) that even the BBC has had to adjust its coverage a bit in the face of this obvious reality. Even they, though remain 110% committed to PC multiculturalism, had to ensure they didn't alienate their audience entirely. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-28003547467529936482017-05-27T19:54:44.128+01:002017-05-27T19:54:44.128+01:00I mentioned the "false dichotomy" approa...I mentioned the "false dichotomy" approach of the BBC on a previous thread. Basically they tell us we have a choice between sentimental indulgence and the politics of hate. Any sensible person knows this isn't the real choice. There is a third way at least...sane, rational analysis of what lies behind the terrorism followed by the making of sane and sensible policy decisions to counteract the threat. These may be tough and uncomfortable decisions not to the liking of the BBC or Guardian since they start with the recognition that the religion of Sharia is a particular problem. But they are a choice and they don't involve "hate" or "divisiveness" (unless asking everyone to live by the same rules is "divisive").Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-63178278662120256832017-05-27T19:16:05.262+01:002017-05-27T19:16:05.262+01:00I agree, though I think your last point might also...I agree, though I think your last point might also have a lot to do with groupthink and the fear of being accused of one specific '-ism' and one specific '-ophobia.<br /><br />The French used to accuse our politicians of allowing London to become 'Londonistan' because of the number of Islamic radicals they allowed in. They've allowed a lot more places than London to become '-istans' too. <br /><br />That Times report today saying that there are 23,000 jihadis in the UK (3,000 posing a threat, 20,000 posing a 'residual risk') should be an absolute news priority. <br /><br />https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/huge-scale-of-terror-threat-revealed-uk-home-to-23-000-jihadists-3zvn58mhq<br /><br />The two most recent terrorists (the Westminster one and the Manchester one) were "in pool of 'former subjects of interest' and no longer subject to any surveillance". <br /><br />And that's before we even get to the numerous opinion polls of Muslim opinion over the past decade and more showing a frightening large minority of UK Muslims having a degree of sympathy with the intentions of Muslim terrorists. It is NOT a 'tiny minority', unfortunately.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-47726858695957374872017-05-27T18:50:06.871+01:002017-05-27T18:50:06.871+01:00I don't understand why our politicians have cr...I don't understand why our politicians have created the problem, and they surely have. When I was perhaps nine I was given a book that devoted a page or two to a 'general knowledge' topic;e.g. flowers, animals, mechanisms, government and the law even. A couple of drawings in the book told me that some Muslims lived in India and that some Muslim women wore veils. That bit of knowledge probably put me in the top 20% of the UK population in the UK.<br />Now Islam, spoken or (mostly) unspoken is a subject of most days news programmes and it isn't good. Onw would have thought that government and the Foreign and Colonial Office would have been better informed that a nine-year old but we went ahead and imported the problem until what was alien and foreign is now embedded and part of 'British values'. Thanks a lot politicians.<br />And so it continues. Not all matches are dangerous, most stay unlit in the box. Lets ignore the ones that burn, they aren't real matches! Real matches are white with red ends, burning matches are white with a black end! Let's bring in more matches! The real problem are those that suggest that burning matches are matches too or that real matches can become burning matches!<br />Why are our politicians so determined to clamp down on the backlash that hasn't happened? Is it because they think they will be next?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com