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mises
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 Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:20 am Post subject: radical christian beheads moderate muslim |
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026404.php
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The BBC Trust has rejected complaints against a TV drama that showed a fanatical British Christian beheading a moderate Muslim.
The offending episode of �Bonekickers� was aired in July last year and sparked fresh claims of anti-Christian bias at the BBC.
The BBC Trust, a group of �independent trustees acting in the public interest�, rejected suggestions that the drama associated fanatical Christianity with evangelicalism and gave an offensive portrayal of evangelical Christians.
Daily Telegraph writer, Damian Thompson, said: �We are deep into the realms of BBC bias and ignorance here.
�Only a BBC drama series would, to quote the complainant, �transfer the practice of terrorist beheadings from Islamist radicals to a fantasised group of fundamentalist Christians�.�
When the show was broadcast a TV reviewer for the Observer said: �it wasn�t the absurdity of the storyline that buried Bonekickers so much as the BBC�s paint-by-numbers version of political correctness.�
He added: �A Martian watching TV drama of late would probably conclude that the country is crawling with homicidal Islamophobes�.
The BBC Trust�s decision to support the drama comes in the same week as the BBC caved in to pressure and apologised to the Muslim Council of Britain over accusations that the group supports attacks on British troops.
The accusation came in an edition of the Beeb�s topical debate show, Question Time. A �30,000 payout and an apology have been offered by the BBC, despite the fact that the Government has expressed similar sentiments about the same group.
In October last year Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, said Islam should be treated more sensitively than Christianity because it is less integrated into our society.
In 2006 executives at the BBC admitted that they would consider broadcasting a scene where the Bible was thrown away but they would never do the same with the Koran.
In the same year the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said that Christians took �more knocks� in BBC programmes than other faiths.
Dr Sentamu said: �They can do to us what they dare not do to the Muslims. We are fair game because they can get away with it.� |
It is ironic, no? The BBC won't portray UK muslims as violent because UK muslims will then become violent. It will portray UK Christians as violent because the UK Christians write letters to the editor and go on with their lives. This is very weak - pathetic - stuff.
Geert Wilders nails it down:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026378.php
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�She was raped, but she was not angry. The journalist who went looking for the Taliban in Afghanistan saw her curiosity end in a cruel ordeal of multiple rape. While this would make others angry or sad, this journalist shows understanding. She says: �They also respected me.� And she was given tea and biscuits.�
�This story� Wilders said,
�is a perfect illustration of the moral decline of our elites. They are so blinded by their own ideology that they turn a blind eye to the truth. Rape? Well, I would put this into perspective, says the leftist journalist: the Taliban are not monsters. Our elites prefer to deny reality rather than face it. One would expect: a woman is being raped and finds this unbearable. But this journalist is not angry because the Muslim involved also showed respect. Our elites, whether they are politicians, journalists, judges, subsidy gobblers or civil servants, are totally clueless. Plain common sense has been dumped in order to deny reality. It is not just this raped journalist who is suffering from Stockholm syndrome, but the entire Dutch elite. The only moral reference they have is: do not irritate the Muslims � that is the one thing they will condemn.� |
Dutch elite can be replaced with British, or French or whoever.
Do not irritate the muslims... And I'm supposed to believe this pathetic group of nations won't just roll over? |
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On the other hand
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I wouldn't want to see non-stop villification of Muslims in the UK media. Nevertheless, fanatical Christian terrorists make kind of an odd choice for satirical targets on the BBC. Does the UK even have anything remotely resembling the Religious Right of the USA? My understanding is that the lobby "group" known as Christian Voice basically consists of one perpetually outraged individual.
Then again, I don't know a lot about the British National Party. Would their ideological outlook best be described as Christian, or more just a secularistic form of hypernationalism?
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mises
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| Then again, I don't know a lot about the British National Party. Would there ideological outlook best be described as Christian, or more just a secularistic form of hypernationalism? |
They're ethnic-nationalist.
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| I wouldn't want to see non-stop villification of Muslims in the UK media. |
The muslim population in the UK is growing at 10x the infidel rate. This is either good, bad or neutral. France will be majority muslim by 2025, even if all muslim immigration stopped today. Again, good, bad or neutral. If the demographic balance of Europe is to be permanently changed from secular-liberal to right-wing muslim, I'm sorry, but some rather uncomfortable conversations must be had. And if you don't have them, and act on the desires of the majority to not become muslim states, then you will get this:
http://www.thelocal.se/19598/20090522/
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'Lynch mob' prompts refugees to flee town in northern Sweden
Nearly half of the predominantly Iraqi-refugees residing in V�nn�s in northern Sweden have decided to permanently move out of the area after being terrorized by what police called �a lynch mob� in early May. |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187165/Nine-arrested-masked-mobs-march-Muslim-extremists-turns-violent.html
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Nine people have been arrested after hundreds of anti-Islamist protesters clashed with police yesterday.
The streets of Luton descended into violence after demonstrators, many hiding their faces behind balaclavas, brandished England flags and chanted at officers.
A group called March for England was said to have organised the rally as a peaceful protest against Muslim extremists. They were joined by a local group United People of Luton. |
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/25/muslim-anger-ignites-violent-new-response/
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Muslim anger ignites violent new response
Far-right-wing vigilantes burned a makeshift mosque in Athens over the weekend after Muslim immigrants in Athens attacked police with rocks and bottles over an incident in which a policeman reportedly defaced a Koran. |
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Interested
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I wouldn't want to see non-stop villification of Muslims in the UK media. Nevertheless, fanatical Christian terrorists make kind of an odd choice for satirical targets on the BBC. Does the UK even have anything remotely resembling the Religious Right of the USA? My understanding is that the lobby "group" known as Christian Voice basically consists of one perpetually outraged individual.
Then again, I don't know a lot about the British National Party. Would their ideological outlook best be described as Christian, or more just a secularistic form of hypernationalism? |
You're right. The Christian right in the UK, if it even exists, is pretty invisible.
The BNP is a racist organisation. I've never heard them associated with Christianity before. I've always assumed them to be a secular organisation. |
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Interested
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| Then again, I don't know a lot about the British National Party. Would there ideological outlook best be described as Christian, or more just a secularistic form of hypernationalism? |
They're ethnic-nationalist.
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| I wouldn't want to see non-stop villification of Muslims in the UK media. |
The muslim population in the UK is growing at 10x the infidel rate. This is either good, bad or neutral. France will be majority muslim by 2025, even if all muslim immigration stopped today. Again, good, bad or neutral. If the demographic balance of Europe is to be permanently changed from secular-liberal to right-wing muslim, I'm sorry, but some rather uncomfortable conversations must be had. And if you don't have them, and act on the desires of the majority to not become muslim states, then you will get this:
http://www.thelocal.se/19598/20090522/
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'Lynch mob' prompts refugees to flee town in northern Sweden
Nearly half of the predominantly Iraqi-refugees residing in V�nn�s in northern Sweden have decided to permanently move out of the area after being terrorized by what police called �a lynch mob� in early May. |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187165/Nine-arrested-masked-mobs-march-Muslim-extremists-turns-violent.html
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Nine people have been arrested after hundreds of anti-Islamist protesters clashed with police yesterday.
The streets of Luton descended into violence after demonstrators, many hiding their faces behind balaclavas, brandished England flags and chanted at officers.
A group called March for England was said to have organised the rally as a peaceful protest against Muslim extremists. They were joined by a local group United People of Luton. |
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/25/muslim-anger-ignites-violent-new-response/
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Muslim anger ignites violent new response
Far-right-wing vigilantes burned a makeshift mosque in Athens over the weekend after Muslim immigrants in Athens attacked police with rocks and bottles over an incident in which a policeman reportedly defaced a Koran. |
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Be careful. Even the conservative newspapers that reported the 10 fold increase did add the caveat that a lot of these people suddenly reporting themselves as Muslims have only started doing it out of ethnic solidarity. Such people are 'ethnically Muslim' but agnostic/atheist. I know a few - never gave much thought to their 'religious inheritance' until all the nasty crap they had to endure after Muslims became the UK's latest target of villification (used to be single mothers). Now they identify themselves Muslims out of defiance, but don't really believe. |
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