simo:
Andrew. Could the pass card handed to Pakistani/Banglideshi muslim men by BBC/Guardian media elites actually encourage these acts?

Heartening to read a journo in The Australian sum up the situation in language that would get him fired at the BBC.

"In an article on this page nearly two years ago ("Don't turn a blind eye to terror in our midst," January 12, 2004), I argued that the increasing frequency of racially motivated attacks on young Australian men and women - including murders, gang rapes and serious assaults by young men of Lebanese Muslim descent - would rise dramatically throughout Australia. These problems remain widespread and have been documented in the ensuing two years."

http:// www.theaustralian.news.co...255E601,00.html
simo | 13.12.05 - 10:04 am | #

Ian Barnes:
OT

I'm forever concerned that the british govt doesnt actually know what its doing. (If i may say, good report by the BBC web team).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/ 4521318.stm


The speed at which the govt changes its tune is somewhat unprofessional and to all intents and purposes lets down our friends.

Perhaps it were time, No.10 stopped headline grabbing ( lol )
Ian Barnes | 13.12.05 - 10:14 am | #

APL:
Andrew: "The so-called 'honour' killers are......"

Greek Orthodox?
APL | 13.12.05 - 11:12 am | #

Clive:
O/T

As predicted, the headline on this morning's BBC-America World News was "Ex Gang Leader Killed".
Clive | 13.12.05 - 11:29 am | #

simo:
Perhaps an award could be handed out to the news organisation that most distorts the Riots of Oz story.

Incredibly, the BBC might have been outdone in deliberate obfuscation by the Independent.

"Violence on the streets of Sydney spilled into a second night as scores of people drove through beachside suburbs smashing windows of shops, homes and flats.

"Any hopes that Sunday's race riot was an isolated incident were shattered when car-loads of people rampaged through southeast Sydney, chased by police vehicles."

These naughty "people" are at it again. Of course, when those people aren't young males of Middle-Eastern origin, the Indy shows no such coyness about calling a spade a shovel, nailing first "5,000 white men, many of them drunk" before raising the spectre of the swastika by condemning the unnamed "neo-Nazi groups" who were allegedly fanning the flames.

Actually quite worrying.

http://news.independent.co.uk/ wo...ticle332765.ece
simo | 13.12.05 - 11:59 am | #

Socialism is Necrotizing:
o/t
0835 Former Director General of the BBC Greg Dyke, Piers Morgan, owner of the Press Gazette and former Mirror Editor, and Amanda Platell, former Sunday Express Editor and Press Secretary to William Hague, discuss whether it is the media who really run Britain

This discussion can be heard at this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/toda...ain/ index.shtml

the trouble being of course, that any discussion about the power of the media should include at least one token non media luvvie. Anyway, listen to this self congratulatory garbage and you will have some idea what thier dinner parties sound like. To me it sounds like a gaggle of self regulating, self regarding overpaid television addicted media hookers getting high on someone elses expense account.
Socialism is Necrotizing | 13.12.05 - 12:17 pm | #

GCooper:
simo writes:

""5,000 white men, many of them drunk" before raising the spectre of the swastika by condemning the unnamed "neo-Nazi groups" who were allegedly fanning the flames."

Yes, the BBC were using the same line on the ten o'clock BBC 1 news last night.

I'm not saying that neo-Nazi groups aren't involved, only that the BBC has so lost my trust that I now demand proof before I will give any credence to what, so often, are just knee-jerk assumptions by it's more-liberal-than-thou "reporters".

Either way, the corporation's reporting of these events has been typically mendacious.
GCooper | 13.12.05 - 12:18 pm | #

PJF:
Off Topic

Many BBC supporters mocked those of us here claiming left/liberal biased propaganda in the last series of Doctor Who - countering by saying it's just a kiddie show and we were imagining things.

It's interesting then that the BBC has chosen to announce that left/liberal biased propaganda does indeed exist in Doctor Who - by way of an item on its online news pages, with a featured headline link on the front page.

Doctor Who takes anti-war stance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter...ent/ 4523852.stm

The anti-war propaganda is deliberate and unashamed.

Interestingly, the news article does not seek to explore whether such propaganda is appropriate for such a programme, nor is there anything to "balance" the piece.
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PJF | 13.12.05 - 12:53 pm | #

mrdgriff:
What is the legal definition of "Honour Killing", I can't find it on the Statue books. Perhaps it is used in mitigation by certain ethnic groups. This would set a precedent, for example it would justify racially motivated attacks.i.e. He called Welshmen "Sheep shearers" Your Honour so I lamped him. Or He caused me loss of face so I cut his off your Honour Sir.
mrdgriff | 13.12.05 - 1:15 pm | #

mrdgriff:
Apparently its classed as social killing, see the Palestinian Human Rights Monitor


http://www.phrmg.org/monitor2002...002/ Aug2002.htm
mrdgriff | 13.12.05 - 1:25 pm | #

Ritter:
PJF - good find.

The Dr Who story is quite bizarre. Is the BBC seriously allowing a programme such as Dr Who to promote a specific political point of view? If yes, that is childish, pathetic and in breach of editorial guidelines for programme makers. If not, the BBC News team need to be spoken to for protraying the programme in this biased way.

I'm sure there are many scenes on 'Star Trek' where they let an alien ship escape or promote 'peace', but you have to push the boat out to make a tenuous link with Thatcher and the Belgrano!

I take it the BBC will be reporting soon that the Queen is to give an 'anti-war' message at Christmas, and that a 'scene' in her Christmas Message where she wishes 'peace on everyone' and laments the various wars and unstable areas in the world echoes Prime Minister Blairs decision to 'invade' Iraq and remove a murderous tyrant?
Ritter | 13.12.05 - 1:30 pm | #

Verity:
Andrew - "The so-called honour killers are ...". Recent immigrants of unknown ethnicity?
Verity | 13.12.05 - 2:13 pm | #

Verity:
"The sons were second generation immigrants in a close-knit, traditional family"?
Verity | 13.12.05 - 2:20 pm | #

daniel:
nigel lawson on bbc hard talk was just about allowed to have his say by the silly zainab badawi.
the subject was climate change which is the obsession of the decade for the british broadcasters of carbon dioxide corporation.
she constantly interrupted him to the extent that she was able to stop him from speaking through large sections of the programme.her words were pure froth and included "caring" and "millenium development goals".
zainab badawi specialises in exaggerated head movement which she takes to be great television.
daniel | 13.12.05 - 2:27 pm | #

Michael Gill:
Re: Honour Killings, the BBC and its favoured constituency (Islam)...

When Orla bin Goering reported on this topic for "From our own Adolescent" she managed to somehow find a non-Muslim case in Ramallah and make sure that everyone knew that the victim was a "Palestinian Christian" who had fallen in love with a Muslim:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/progr...ent/ 4522465.stm

So, why can't BBC Online follow Ms Goering's sterling example and name the victims'/perpetrators' religious affiliation in other cases that it reports especially when they are a bit closer to home?

Beeb lurkers - this question is entirely rhetorical.
Michael Gill | 13.12.05 - 2:31 pm | #

Anonymous:
O/T

Another pretext for the Beeboid to dream about the man whose poster adorned so many of their bedroom walls:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ica/ 4522526.stm
Anonymous | 13.12.05 - 3:35 pm | #

Neil:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_po...ics/ 4526154.stm

Complete the following:
Stephen Twigg is a _______ MP.
Neil | 13.12.05 - 6:00 pm | #

TomL:
Neil,

LOL

'Ex-Minister.' If it was a Conservative it would have been,

'Former Leading Tory Minister.'
TomL | 13.12.05 - 6:05 pm | #

paulc:
PJF

I wish the BBC would get its story straight (oh, the irony!).
R5's fearless journalists (see above) have ferreted out (or should that be weaseled?) that the Dr Who story is a polemic about the decision to go to war in Iraq.

How long before a corporate line emerges?

The Public demand to know!
paulc | 13.12.05 - 6:35 pm | #

James Hellyer:
I doubt Russell T Davies will make his points in "Doctor Who" with anything approaching subtlety. After all, the alien used to satirise the PM taking us to war, in the first season, made oh-so-subtle references to "massive weapons of destruction capable of being deployed in 45 seconds..."

And that was just before the general election.

After that I wouldn't be surprised if he did slip more polemics into future scripts.
James Hellyer | Homepage | 13.12.05 - 8:58 pm | #

Gary Powell:
Good thing The doctors previous incarnations "resisted appropiately" the Darleks or we would not be being blessed with his patronising crap now. As we all now know "Political INcorrectness" is everywhere at the BBC it perminates everything from the weather forcast to the sports reporting. The only thing that exceads the illegal bias reporting in its danger, is what it fails to report at all. Sunrise radio broadcasts all over the sub- continent. Half its news coverage seems to concentrate on racial attacks in Britain. It reports all asian murders but does its best never to give the racial identity of the murderer. Always leaving the message that Britain is in a perpetual state of racial warfair. White against the rest. YOU PAY FOR THIS or go to jail. This breach of your human rights the BBC will never never never report.
Gary Powell | 13.12.05 - 10:25 pm | #

Iain:
The so-called 'honour' killers are guilty of murder.
Iain | 13.12.05 - 11:16 pm | #

Rob Read:
Putting "honour killing" through the bablefish BBC to English conversion reveals "Muslim murder"
Rob Read | 13.12.05 - 11:44 pm | #

Natalie Solent:
Simo, I quoted your comment about the Independent made at 11.59 on the 13th in this post on my own blog.
Natalie Solent | Homepage | 14.12.05 - 3:21 am | #

Susan:
Natalie,

Great post.
Susan | 14.12.05 - 8:41 pm | #