Tuesday, April 29, 2008

BBC Says Don't Call Muslims "Moderate"

Gradually, we are being wedged in to an intellectual ghetto.

We are being told we can make no distinctions about Muslims. We are told we can not use the term Islamofascist. We are not to use the term "Islamic terrorism." And now, we are not allowed to make a distinction between

those Islamofascists

who would commit acts of Islamic terrorism

and those Moderate Muslims

who would not.

Think about how friggin' stupid that is. It is enforced stupidity.

The ability to make distinctions is the first step in critical analysis.

They are telling us they don't want us to analyze. They don't want us to think.

From the London Times:


The BBC is facing a High Court challenge over its decision to censor a party political broadcast in the run-up to Thursday’s local elections.

A Christian party has begun legal action after the corporation insisted on changes to a short film in which the party voiced opposition to the building of Europe’s biggest mosque next to the site of the 2012 Olympics.

Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamic missionary group behind the £75 million Abbey Mills mosque, opposes inter-faith dialogue and preaches that non-Muslims are an evil and corrupting influence. One of its British advocates has said that it aims to rescue Muslims from the culture and civilisation of Jews and Christians by creating “such hatred for their ways as human beings have for urine and excreta”.

The Christian Choice election broadcast would have described Tablighi Jamaat as “a separatist Islamic group” before welcoming that some “moderate Muslims” were opposed to the mosque complex.

Alan Craig, the party’s candidate in the London mayoral election, also on Thursday, said that he was forced to change the wording at the insistence of lawyers at the BBC and ITV, which will also feature in the court action.

The BBC refused to accept “separatist” — the corporation asked for “controversial” instead — and barred the use of “moderate Muslims” because the phrase implied that Tablighi Jamaat was less than moderate.

5 comments:

Damien said...

Political correctness run a muck.

Pastorius said...

It's absolutely suicidal and homicidal.

How are we supposed to fight an ideological enemy when we aren't allowed to think?

The result of this will be that the ideological enemy will become emboldened, and they will become more and more violent, and then this will not be an ideological war any longer. Instead, it will have become a real all-out war, and many, many people will die.

And, the fault of that is all on the lefties who want us to shut up.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

Its already an all out war, our solders are dieing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the people killing our troops are being funded by Iran. So technically Iran is already at war with us. So we're at war with Ba'athists, Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Iran. But this will make things even worse.

Watcher said...

The BBC refused to accept “separatist” — the corporation asked for “controversial” instead — and barred the use of “moderate Muslims” because the phrase implied that Tablighi Jamaat was less than moderate.

The British Lion is being declawed and defanged.

Pastorius said...

Watcher,
Sadly, that is true.