tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post8539322387129291224..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Unfunny jokesCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-26500480228474789322015-01-16T23:12:42.226+00:002015-01-16T23:12:42.226+00:00We certainly do inhabit a strange world now - a ve...We certainly do inhabit a strange world now - a veritable hall of mirrors. What do you call a society that loses all contact with reality? <br /><br />Pat Condell laces the bitter pill with some humour, but it is bitter nonetheless to think that we have to live under this official ideology that the terrorist attacks, the 1000 lashes in Mecca, the kidnappings in Nigeria, the murders of schoolchildren in Pakistan all have nothing to do with Islam, and Mo was a smiling sage who thought nought of the abuse heaped upon him by lesser souls. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-43196165559583905632015-01-16T21:07:21.553+00:002015-01-16T21:07:21.553+00:00I eagerly await Neil snarking at how MSNBC, the ne...I eagerly await Neil snarking at how MSNBC, the network as a whole, is a joke because one of Al Sharpton's guests said something stupid.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78654338312249665092015-01-16T19:43:34.809+00:002015-01-16T19:43:34.809+00:00I get so easily distracted by incidental matters w...I get so easily distracted by incidental matters while watching programmes like this. <br /><br />Andrew Neil's quip about that FOX expert thinking that Birmingham has more mosques that Mecca (PBUI) had me reaching for Google to find out how many mosques Mecca has and how many mosques Birmingham has. <br /><br />Curiously, I can't find a figure anywhere for the total number of mosques in Mecca. There are at least 200 though, according to newspaper reports from some four years ago saying that 200 of them could be facing the wrong way. A precise figure for Birmingham, however, seems very easy to come by. There are, apparently, 159.<br />http://mosques-map.muslimsinbritain.org/maps.php#/town/Birmingham<br /><br />I'd have guessed about 30.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-19478572212982067412015-01-16T19:35:28.813+00:002015-01-16T19:35:28.813+00:00I have to say, David, I did think of deploying the...I have to say, David, I did think of deploying the nickname 'Universal Nabila' but thought better of it. <br /><br />I, too, haven't watched it for years, but am starting to do so now.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-69259822012025878022015-01-16T18:56:45.603+00:002015-01-16T18:56:45.603+00:00Watching This Week right now. I think there must b...Watching This Week right now. I think there must be a directive that the BBC narrative now must be that Mohammed didn't respond to criticism with violence. He was both, all over the map, and it's going to be difficult to argue because both sides can present evidence.<br /><br />Nabila is a raving lunatic. I wonder if the BBC isn't parading her all over the landscape in order to shine enough sunlight on her poison. Maybe. Maybe I'm giving either the Beeboids or the audience too much credit.<br /><br />Well done, Brillo and Portillo for agreeing with me about how to interpret the cover. The only other thing I will say is that the BBC (and Theresa May and Cameron and the rest of them) need to take this message to the Muslims already or shut the hell up.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-19305180061425842482015-01-16T18:18:12.105+00:002015-01-16T18:18:12.105+00:00Sticking to the new cover and focusing on how it, ...Sticking to the new cover and focusing on how it, unlike previous CH output, is not only not an insult to Mohammed but in fact refutes those who say he would justify the murders, is the best way forward, I think. I haven't watched it yet, but I will.<br /><br />Judaism in its most black-hat form certainly has numerous and trivial observances (ever done <i>Shabbos</i> in a Lubavitch neighborhood? I've never seen anyone work so hard or be so stressed on the day of rest), probably more than Islam. But there is no imperative for violence because they don't come from a violent culture of third-world cavemen.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-18914388739858848252015-01-16T18:11:42.687+00:002015-01-16T18:11:42.687+00:00Haven't seen her on Bargain Hunt yet. Of cours...Haven't seen her on Bargain Hunt yet. Of course, those are filmed months before airing, so check back in about May or June. If she turns up on The One Show or Blue Peter, all bets are off.<br /><br />We've often joked about certain people being on speed dial at the BBC, and refer to some as 'Universal' this or that. Life may imitate art sometimes, but this is the BBC imitating satire.This is just the latest of several of our years-long accusations of bias being proven recently.<br /><br />Good for Portillo for daring to say that on air. I hardly ever watch This Week any more since B-BBC ended the Question Time live chat thing, but I'll check it out today or tomorrow just to see that.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-25655788867836975592015-01-16T16:55:40.604+00:002015-01-16T16:55:40.604+00:00So Nabila Ramdani was on 'This Week' too? ...So Nabila Ramdani was on 'This Week' too? Is there any current affairs programme she's NOT been invited onto in the past week?Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-3834322748028840712015-01-16T15:59:29.305+00:002015-01-16T15:59:29.305+00:00Yes, it probably is the ‘mocking mo’ aspect of the...Yes, it probably is the ‘mocking mo’ aspect of the cartoons that enrages. However, since that cartoon, albeit an actual cartoon rather than a reverential but representational religious icon, was not, allegedly, intended as mockery, but rather a gesture of reconciliation, they haven’t got such a good case. It still boils down to the actual insult of depicting the prophet in the form of a crude a line-drawing. <br /><br />The reason all at This Week appeared to concentrate on the message within the Charlie Hebdo cover rather than the fact that the depiction of the prophet as a cartoon is in <i>itself</i> offensive enough to ‘most Muslims’ if not to justify, then to explain the violent reaction, is that it touches on the ludicrousness of most religious dogma. <br /><br />There are ridiculous aspects to many religious observances, but none so numerous or so trivial as those attached to Islam. <br />Heaven forfend that the people who worship a Teapot become radicalised. Or the people who treat Prince Phillip as their God. Imagine teapot Jihad.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693686958796849316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-23991612598054925412015-01-16T13:41:21.195+00:002015-01-16T13:41:21.195+00:00I agree with much of what you say.
It was a sham...I agree with much of what you say. <br /><br />It was a shame Starkey mis-timed his (accurate) point about Mehdi Hasan's likening us kaffir to unreflective cattle (so allowing him to wheedle out of it). Starkey should have opened with that. And he should have linked it to offence as in - do we kaffirs have a right to be offended by your remarks Mehdi? <br /><br />I agree Starkey's lost some of his fight. And he's not quite as clever as he makes out. Also the "Glorious Early Period of Islam" that he deployed is a pretty overdone. Early Islam's role as a protector and promoter of knowledge was distinctly patchy. <br /><br />"None of these outraged Muslims care one iota about the content of the cartoon save for the fact that it depicts an image said to be that of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. "<br /><br />I am not entirely sure about that. It is the "mocking Mo" element that really incites. There is in fact a representation of Mohammed in the Supreme Court building in the USA of all places which - in line with the 18th century rationalists' misplaced lauding of Mo and Islam (as a useful stick with which to beat Christianity) - depicts him as a wise judge. You rarely hear Muslims getting upset about that, although from a Sharia point of view it is inadmissible. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com