On BBC Bias And Mumbai’s Victimised Muslims

MUMBAI. Whodunnit? Pretty clear, you’d think: Islamicist nutters. But the BBC is uncertain, as Rogier van Bakel notes:

Now, though, BBC News has outdone itself with an article about the Mumbai attacks entitled “The Age of ‘Celebrity Terrorism’.” The broadcaster’s respect for the esteemed prophet’s followers is so deep that every effort is made never to call a spade a spade (or a Muslim a Muslim, excepting positive mentions).

Read on:

[H]ostages and survivors reported that certain nationalities had been identified by their passports and taken away for execution.

“Certain nationalities.” That would be Americans and, oh yeah, the BBC’s own countrymen.

Perhaps we do not know enough about where the perpetrators are from, because they could have come from almost anywhere.

Really? Almost anywhere? They most assuredly didn’t come from Japan’s Shinto community, or from Mormon circles in Canada, or from atheist groups in the Netherlands. Nor were they spawned by Quaker quilting bees in Pennsylvania, or by evangelical church gatherings in the Congo, or by coteries of Romanian Rosicrucians.

Or why not blame the victims..?

“How to prevent another Mumbai”:

The crucial thing is a change of direction on America’s part. Much of the widespread Muslim sympathy for al-Qaeda is based on defensiveness, the attitude of people who feel attacked and judged against. We should be able to police the threat of terrorism without making more than a billion Muslims feel that they have an enemy.

Do you see?

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, December 2008 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

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June Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm

I see , so its not those who pull the trigger, its those innocent bystanders who stop the bullet at fault here.
Its beginning to sound like the warning to the owners of the Lusitania that it will be torpedoed, and its the passengers who were wrong for being there.

Bullshit, its PC gone mad

chenier Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Anorka,

I think you need to look up the definition of ‘anywhere’.

I do appreciate that feelings are running high, but if you are unable to grasp straightforward questions of geography, what hope is there for the dumbed down multitudes?

And, implausible as it may seem to you, the BBC employs a lot of people who are not British. Which makes the tosh about ‘their own countrymen’ even sillier…

dr murthy ln motupalli Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 pm

i wonder why p’tani govt always takes a defensive position rather then acknowledging that ther is a problem in their country. it would be respectful for the bereaved families if p’tani politicians say we are sorry & we would do what ever means to contain this type of atrocities, rather than demanding countless times for evidence, evidence! the evidence exist in their country if they care to look at.

firestar Says:
December 4th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

or why the muslim brotherhood don’t declare ‘well actually, at least 99% of us hate the west anyway, but we don’t like to say so unless they stop our housing benefit’

which is the way they really think, just as 99% of anyone who’s lived amongst them will tell you.

firestar Says:
December 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

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if that’s true, then they have no business calling it the British anything.
Islamic Broadcasting Co sounds much more integrated.

‘multicultural’ has nowadays been hijacked to mean ‘monotheistic, islam only’.