P.C. at the BBC, part 999
Let’s see. The BBC has employed a Hamas jihadist, refused to honor a war hero for fear of alienating British moonbats, openly admitted its dhimmitude, and committed so many p.c. follies that bloggers have devoted entire websites to tracking their bias.
The latest news that the Beeb took terrorist trainers paintballing fits right in:
The BBC funded a paintballing trip for men later accused of Islamic terrorism and failed to pass on information about the 21/7 bombers to police, a court was told yesterday.
Mohammed Hamid, who is charged with overseeing a two-year radicalisation programme to prepare London-based Muslim youths for jihad, was described as a “cockney comic” by a BBC producer.
The BBC paid for Mr Hamid and fellow defendants Muhammad al-Figari and Mousa Brown to go on a paintballing trip at the Delta Force centre in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2005. The men, accused of terrorism training, were filmed for a BBC programme called Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic, screened in June 2005.
The BBC paid Mr Hamid, an Islamic preacher who denies recruiting and grooming the men behind the failed July 2005 attack, a £300 fee to take part in the programme, Woolwich Crown Court was told.
It was alleged that Mr Hamid told a BBC reporter that he would use the corporation’s money to pay a fine imposed by magistrates for a public order offence.
Nasreen Suleaman, a researcher on the programme, told the court that Mr Hamid, 50, contacted her after the July 2005 attack and told her of his association with the bombers. But she said that she felt no obligation to contact the police with this information. Ms Suleaman said that she informed senior BBC managers but was not told to contact the police.
Ms Suleaman told the court that Mr Hamid was keen to appear in the programme. She said: “He was so up for it. We took the decision that paintballing would be a fun way of introducing him.
“There are many, many British Muslims that I know who for the past 15 or 20 years have been going paintballing. It’s a harmless enough activity. I don’t think there is any suggestion, or ever has been, that it’s a terrorist training activity.”
Riiiight. No suggestion at all.
The court was told previously that Mr Hamid taunted police on his return from an alleged terror training camp in the New Forest where exercises included somersaults, pole-vaulting and paintballing. Ms Suleaman said she was not aware that Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman, two of the July bombers, had joined Mr Hamid at the Tonbridge paintball centre on July 3, 2005.
The producer of the show, Phil Rees, praised Hamid’s “comic touch.”
Rees now works for…Al Jazeera.
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How evilly clever-get your sworn enemy to pay for your training-training that you will use to destroy him.
How do I get the liberals to pay for my trip to Denmark? To pay for the bronze for my scuptures? HUMMMMM
And to think; the British taxpayers support this bunch of loons to the tune of millions of pounds a year. Money well spent? NOT!!!!
The threat of islamic terrorism: If we only ignore it hard enough, for long enough, it’ll eventually just go away by itself.
Yeah, that’s the ticket…
I think it was Nikita Kruschev who said the west would sell the Soviets the rope they would use to hang us. Nope, Niki old boy, we’ll pay for the jihadist rope ourselves, don’t cha know!!!
She must be from Portland Oregon.
sigh
“Don’t panic, I’m Muslim…this will only hurt for a second, you’ll feel a slight sliceing sensation on the back of your neck…”
I love London, the UK and many Brits. But the fact remains that they’re out in the forefront of what I call the Unhappy Dramatic Fiction Syndrome: when a subject gets too uncomfortable, treat it like a fiction story and invent facts and create an end-game sceario that suits you.
Nice people, but getting into dangerously clueless territory. I’m afraid to say it, but I fear that they’ll need their own true 9/11 before they get the wake-up call, and even then so many will irrationally blame the US that even that might not be enough.
Maybe I’m just the most naive person on Earth, but how do they get away with this stuff?!?
Nobody fights back hard enough.
I don’t C.A.I.R. anymore. If questioning the religion of peace is a hate crime, then funding their militancy is a caliphate crime.
It is the BBC. It sports a high number of workers from the middle east, many of whom are terrorist sympathizers. Notice how favorable the coverage is of groups like Hamas while slapping Israel in the face and calling them ‘terrorists’.
I’m not renewing my TV license when it expires next year. Why? I guess the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back was the BBC panorama program that focused on the Gaza strip and the West Bank in the aftermath of the Hamas uprising in the summer. Unsurprisingly, the video was very pro-Hamas and very anti-Israeli. Israel was faulted for not allowing more refugees to flee across the border while nothing is mentioned about Eqypt who should have been glad to take in their fellow Muslim brothers but instead they shut their borders too. Nevermind, it’s the evil Jews who are at fault. Next up, they showed this huge conveyor belt that was built on the Israeli side of the border and this belt stretched all the way across no-mans land into the Gaza strip. The purpose of this conveyor belt? To carry grain and food over into the warzone. Why was it necessary? Due to suicide bombers attacking Israelis at the border while they delivered food, it became unsafe for the Israelis. So the conveyor belt was built.
Next, instead of fuming at the stupidity of the Palestinians for biting the hand that feeds them, we get an interview with some UN bigshot who says that the conditions in Gaza are deteriorating and how Israel needs to lift it’s blockade …. At that point, I felt like throwing a brick at the TV. This carried on until the end of the program, and the message you were left with was “Israel is bad, Hamas is good. Israel is stifling the growth of the Palestinians and is being a meanie by not helping them”.
But what the hell, right? Freedom of speech and all that allows the BBC to broadcast these nonsense and get away with it.
France last year. Germany yesterday. Great Britain today and tomorrow? Coming soon to a town near you.
The American people have shown their tolerance far too long to be taken seriously as a threat to these people. They can still come into our country at will. They finance questionable causes, create chaos and still we lie down and take it.
But we would never let this happen in America right?
MTNEER, good point.
Our paying for the rope, I mean, that Lenin (I think) talked about, although I’m sure that Khrushchev repeated it when he talked of the Soviets burying us. I think about the rope comment often when I see our trade patterns.
Re the BBC bias towards Israel: You get the feeling that even if Israel were located at the South Pole the bias would still be there (”illegal occupation of penguin land”). By the way…this may be a bit off subject (?) but with all the talk of Iran wanting to nuke Israel, has anyone questioned what would happen to all the Palestinians in the region? Where are all the so-called sympathizers who should be worried if a nuclear attack were to take place? Or are they considered expendable if it meant wiping out Israel?
…sorry, meant to say BBC bias AGAINST Israel…but you knew that…
Yes, the BBC is very PC. But, the quality of it’s content is generally excellent and pretty much fair and balanced.
True, the BBC doesn’t fawn over Israel like the American media does… but then the UK isn’t run by far right evangelicals trying to send Jewish people back to their homeland for the second coming of Christ
Tango Foxtrot
too easy…
sausage- go get a life!
tango foxtrot
GSP
Sausage,
Israel is our Ally. We should support them.
Why?
Israel has the highest school life expectancy in the Greater Middle East and Southwest Asia.
Israel has the highest literacy rate in the Middle East, according to the United Nations.
Israel is considered one of the most advanced countries in the Middle East in economic and industrial development.
The list could go on and on. However, I’m sure you’d rather support Hamas and Palastine, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, the United States, Jordan, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
BTW, Hamas is also funded by Iran. I wonder why?
As for the BBC, read this story to get the REAL facts.
http://www.moriel.org/articles/israel/anti-israel_bias_at_bbc.htm
You probably won’t though, since it’s published by a Jewish organization, and since you support the BBC’s view of Israel, you must be a Jew-hater.
I really feel for the poor citizens of the UK. Bad enough they have to pay a tax/fee to own a television or radio, which goes into the coffers of the BBC, but the money they fork over is now being used to train their sworn enemies to kill them. I remember seeing vans with tracking antenna’s on their roofs going around trying to spot those people who had a contraband TV or radio, which had not paid the tax. It was a pretty serious crime with a heavy fine if I remember correctly. Talk about fascists.
Sheer idiocy.
#17
Taradiddle Flapdoodle
Re #17:
“Yes, the BBC is very PC. But, the quality of it’s(sic) content is generally excellent and pretty much fair and balanced.”
???Incredible.
I’m waiting for this individual to tell us how beautiful the knives are that the beheaders use; or how high-quality the nuts, bolts, nails, and screws are that the homicide bombers pack for shrapnel into their bombs.
“True, the BBC doesn’t fawn over Israel like the American media does… but then the UK isn’t run by far right evangelicals trying to send Jewish people back to their homeland for the second coming of Christ(sic)”
?????Speechless.
Straw man?
.01% of .01% of .01% of the media, or of individuals, or of organizations???
What’s next, a unicorn alert?
Folks are right:
JUST
IGNORE
HIM
…Although, I have to say, comments like #17 are terrific as buffoon (a few miles past simply comic) relief.
One just could not make stuff like that up! Oh, wait, it seems that #17 WAS made up.
*Sigh….
The BBC’s antisemitism and pro-jihad bias has long been documented at http://www.honestreporting.com.
the BBC, Babbling Baffoonery Countdown, that is what it appears to be to me, yet this BBC is considered Europe’s Journalist Frontrunner. wow..
I think this would make them martyrs and allow them to be greeted by 72 VirginIANs.
Never mind the fact that the actual Palestinian state never existed. One was created for them by Jimmy Carter and they walked away from the table. Never mind that ALL of the land there was desert and the Israelis were the only ones who successfully farmed it and turned it into what it has become today. Never mind that the Israeli “Occupation” covers less than 5% (I think, though it could have been less) of the entire Middle Eastern Region. Never mind the fact that the “high ground” they now possess is theirs because it was taken in a battle which was started by other nations against them. Dang those facts sure as pesky critters aren’t they?
Never mind.
If it’s PC, then it’s content cannot be fair and balanced. By the very nature of Political Correctness.
You can’t be both. You are either fair & balanced or have your news dictated by pc concerns. The two don’t mesh.
Remember when the BBC kept the nation’s hopes up and their morale strong when the country was being bombed night after endless night by unseen Nazi bombers and V1 weapons of death? Remember when it was the “Voice of Freedom” to the soldiers held captive or just shot down behind enemy lines and needed to xero in on it’s friendly signal to find their way home? Remember when they were the people who brought us such fabulous comedians like Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
Just exactly what happened to that company, and when are they going to come back? I think someone needs to tell them that we are, again, in the middle of a World War and they need to, once again, rally the troops and the country to come in for the big win, especially since the thing that was feared the most during the last World War…enemy infiltration into the Home Country….has not only already occurred, but is ongoing and welcomed even into this late date.
I’ll ask again…why did you come to the US?
I’ll be honest here. So long as the jihadi’s training includes this kind of John Woo BS, I’m all for it. It makes it that much easier to send them on a magic carpet ride.
And people, learn to ignore sausage. I’ve managed to learn this lesson in my short time here, and my stay is much better for it.
…in other news the BBC today confirmed it is giving cutlery away to Muslim who participate in their “Name the Teddy” contest. “We wanted to show them that we trust them with sharp objects - even when they are enraged over some perceived slight” said the spokeswoman who could not be identified through her veil.