Monthly Archives: August 2008

JIHAD PUDSEY.

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Truly remarkable. Some of the cash from the BBC’s Children in Need charity may have been used to fund the propaganda activities of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people in July 2005. Who say so? The BBC!

According to BBC 2’s Newsnight £20,000 from Children in Need was handed over to the Leeds Community School, in Beeston, Yorkshire between 1999 and 2002. The school, which also received large sums from other public bodies, was run from premises behind the Iqra Islamic bookshop which the gang used as a meeting place and an opportunity to radicalise others. One former worker described those that attended the bookshop as a kind of “brotherhood.” Both Mohammed Sidique Khan, the leader of the bombers, and Shehzad Tanweer, the Aldgate bomber, were trustees of the bookshop and Sidique Khan also worked for a Saturday club at the associated Leeds Community School. Sidique Khan ran outward bound adventure courses in north Wales which were used to recruit and radicalise young Muslim men. Both the bookshop and the school were registered charities – the bookshop claimed, on Charity Commission submissions, that its aim was “the advancement of the Islamic faith”, while the school’s aim was said to be to “advance the education…of Pakistani and Bangladeshi” pupils. They handed out DVDs and books about Bosnia and Chechnya and held Arabic classes in a back room, attended by Jermaine Lindsay, who went on to become the Kings Cross bomber. They also produced a leaflet in the wake of September 11 blaming the attacks on a Jewish conspiracy.

The reaction by the Chief Executive of the BBC Charity to these serious charges is hardly inspiring when he says that the BBC exercises the utmost care in handing over these “small” sums of money. What do you feel about this? I know the BBC is bad but I never thought it may have actually FUNDED Jihad!!!

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IN THE BROWN STUFF.

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Despite the best efforts of Hamas to reduce the number of attacks on Israel (Surreal, I know but those are the BBC’s wordss) it seems the inhabitants in Gaza are still mired in their own excrement because…YES…. those pesky Jews refuse to allow spare sewage parts into Hamastan. I read this story DRIPPING in pro-Pali bias and wondered if al-Beeb has ever managed to file one report which is critical of the Hamas Jihadists without also suggesting that their barbarism is merely a response to the bad Jews?

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HIBERNIANISATION.

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I know I have commented on this before it but it does irritate me and so I draw your attention to the bizarre agenda pursued by BBC Northern Ireland, the arm of the BBC which thinks it is Irish, not British. The LEAD story this evening concerns the accidental death of a lady in the Irish Republic. Tragic certainly but in what way does this have ANY relevance to Northern Ireland. Meanwhile the Olympic coverage on this station concerns itself with the Irish connection to Usain Bolt. This is not accidental, it is part of a sustained and politically driven agenda on behalf of the BBC to broadcast the news of a foreign country as if it were domestic news. The term I use is hibernianisation – the greening of Northern Ireland by the lousy BBC.

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General BBC-related comment thread!

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Please use this thread for comments about the BBC’s current programming and activities. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog – scroll down for new topic-specific posts. N.B. This is not an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Thoughtful comments are encouraged. Comments may also be moderated. Any suggestions for stories that you might like covered would be appreciated! It’s your space, use it wisely.

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Joshing with the Beeb

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It seems that’s what Russia is doing- taking delight in the cluelessness of our “national” broadcaster.

The BBC’s Helen Fawkes reports, apparently sans body armour, of a prisoner swap in Georgia. 15 Georgians are handed over in exchange for five Russians. She notes that there is a small Georgian protest and says:


“One of the banners said: “Stop Russian aggression.” This surprised one of the soldiers. “They say we are aggressors,” he told us. “We are not aggressors, we are just standing here,” he said.”

This seems to me the classic bully pose, saying, “who, me? I didn’t do nuffink”, with a little of the “yes, we can” Russian imperial spirit thrown in.

But actually the above is just an aside :-). The main problem here is that although Fawkes reports this Russian handover, the BBC fail to report the Russian prisoner taking. While 15 are handed over, 20 prisoners were taken in the Georgian port of Poti. In addition the Russians confiscated US-made Humvees.

Since Paul Reynolds has been so concerned for the BBC to examine the propaganda war, let’s look at this for a moment. The West hears about prisoner releases, the Russian army and populace hears about net Russian gains (the Russian army needs propagandising too). The Russians benefit from media exposure of conciliatory gestures, and get no penalty for additional intimidatory aggression on the ground. I bet those Humvees have made for some good glancing shots too — as Uncle Joe’s nephews take on the “world’s biggest polluter”

Actually this is no joking matter- if one day (gd forbid) we need to take on Russia in a serious conflict, we can be sure the “peace” brigade will have been banking away every “good deed” of [bad, mad] Vlad as a way of painting us the unreasonable parties.

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AND THE GOLD MEDAL FOR CLASS WAR GOES TO

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….Radio 5 live! I happened to catch this snivelling cabal of lefties led by Peter Allen on “Olympic Drive Time” debate whether we should be funding “elitist” rowing, sailing equestrianism since this disenfranchises third world nations. There were further sarcastic comments about “Eton” winning more gold medals than third world nations. Gosh, it’s SO unfair that British sport succeeds in all the wrong areas!

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ISRAEL ATTACKS ISRAELIS – ALL WELL WITH WORLD

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I see the BBC delights in telling us that Israel is concerned about the number of violent attacks happening in Judea/Samaria (or “West Bank” in BBC talk). The attacks flagged up are being carried out by Jewish settlers. The BBC helpfully shows an accompanying still from the alleged video taken by a pro-Palestinian group Yesh Din to demonstrate just how vicious the Jews living in this area can be. One could be forgiven for thinking that the Palestinians are innocent little lambs. There is never any mention of the barbarity that Palestinians show towards these “settlers. Then again, presenting these people as the aggressors is all part of the ongoing Palestinian propaganda campaign- lapped up and regurgitated by the BBC.

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PITY THE CHILD KILLER.

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I was interested in the BBC headline “Brady attacks prison conditions.” The article articulates the concerns of child-killer Ian Brady who his complained of his treatment at Ashworth High Security Hospital, where he has been held since 1985. Only the views of the killer – including those on civil liberties of all things – are carried. What’s new?

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General BBC-related comment thread!

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