It is no consequence that the BBC is often lauded as the best news source on the globe. It is the BBC's organizational structure which derives so much respect for the station all over the world, portraying the BBC as a publicly funded network, independent of the government.
The BBC is funded by the tax payer through TV licensing and Foreign Office funds. According to Wikipedia, "The licence fee represents approximately 75% of the BBC's income with most of the rest coming from the sale of its programming overseas and other business allied to broadcasting such as publishing."
The BBC has to justify receiving public funding, and showing (or pretending to show) neutrality its a primary way of doing so. Failing to do so jeopardizes their justification for charging the British public a TV licensing fee. If BBC bias is brought to widespread public attention, they would face extreme difficulty in procuring continued funds from the public. This is why the BBC spent £200,000 of Tax Payers money to quash independent reports of anti-Israel bias.
This is elaborated by BBC Watch's home page statement:
...the BBC consistently fails to adhere to its legal obligations to produce impartial and accurate reporting. Our systematic, objective and rigorous research points to the firm conclusion that the BBC frequently displays marked and consistent pro-Palestinian bias...
If the BBC were to provide a pro-Hamas charity with free advertising space, it would run the risk of being too anti-Israel to justify its public funding. Furthermore, as a result of not allowing this advertisement, the BBC is enjoying being publicly lambasted by pro-Hamas activists all over the country. Such complaints act as a counterweight against reports showing its consistent anti-Israel bias, and are therefore awarding the BBC with an illusion of neutrality and help justify its continued use of public funds.
The BBC is a cesspool of anti-Israel sentiment, yet it happened to do one right thing in refusing to air a call for funding Hamas. That's about the only thing to say. This action does not mean the BBC suddenly has become a pro-Israel institution.
The reality is that the "appeal for aid" was an appeal to fund Hamas, and nothing less. The BBC, for once, decided it has principles (I know, shocking!) and does not want to air an ad requesting funds to go to a jihadist terror organization.
Anyone who thinks this is a "human rights violation" or that the BBC is being unfair should ask themselves why exactly appeals for aid to Hamas should be aired on the BBC. I will ask a follow up: should the BBC air appeals to aid for Al Queda? At what point do they have even a minimal responsibility to protect the public? Or should the BBC air every terrorist propoganda video on earth, and/or every video on earth calling for aid to terror organizations?
Given the history of the BBC's craven capitulation to jihad, I expect they will cave on this soon, and air a commercial asking for aid to be sent to Hamas. I find the whole thing pathetic, that people have the shocking gall to believe this renders the BBC somehow biased in favor of Israel. The reality is that this means is that the BBC has at least a tiny vestige of principles left, but nothing more. It should be a given that it is wrong to air an appeal to aid a jihadist terror organization.
As an aside, here is a link to an article which discusses money from a UK Islamic 'aid' society going to Hamas.
UPDATE: This is a must read article which details exactly why the BBC is right - for once - in its refusal to air the disgusting "appeal to aid" for Hamas.
Here is an excerpt:
Who adjudicates on which victims to support via such charitable aid - and according to whose political morality? Why did the BBC not launch an appeal for the victims of collateral damage during Nato's bombing of Serbia in 1999 during the Kosovo campaign? And had it done so, would it have given money to ethnic Serbs as well as to Kosovars and Bosnian Muslims, all of whom were “cleansed” during the Balkan wars of that decade? What about the victims of insurgencies and counter- insurgencies in Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Chechnya or Georgia? Or Israeli victims of the next Hamas suicide attack? Indeed, what about the Palestinian victims of Hamas's hideous human rights abuses, still so shamefully under-reported by the British media as a whole?
And who are these supposedly impartial charities who are attacking Mr Thompson's (albeit belated) attempt to uphold the Corporation's traditional standards? While groups such as the British Red Cross and Christian Aid are generally impartial in other areas of the world, that cannot be said to apply to their role in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, where they regularly view the conflict through a deeply partisan lens.
In the months prior to the decision by Hamas to end the six-month ceasefire and resume rocket attacks, these charities issued a flood of one- sided denunciations aimed at Israel. Their campaign repeated tendentious and often highly inaccurate terms such as “collective punishment” and “violation of international law”. On March 6, 2008, CARE International, Cafod, Christian Aid and Oxfam (among others) published a widely quoted report under the headline “The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion”. The authors did not bother to hide their political bias against Israel, repeating standard Palestinian political rhetoric and including claims that Israeli policy “constitutes a collective punishment against ordinary men, women and children” and is “illegal under international humanitarian law”.
I was looking for this video for quite a time in order to answer Red Tulips questions, to explain why we in Eurasia are far more concerned about Sharia law than our American and Canadian counterparts. This Video speaks in itself.
Hope you are not shocked! That is Deobandi Ideology, which is also seen in the majority of Indian Muslims. That interview was shot in the London BBC, not in Al-Jazerra Qatar!
Failed London car bombs, which were planned to be using "Propane & Petrol" as Explosive with a deadly cocktail of nails to rapture and tear nearby peoples, is well known by now. Police estimated that if the bomb found near tiger-tiger (not the second one) might have exploded, then injured/death toll might be up to 1600. yet something is gone unheard. This post is dedicated to the unheard corner of the news... CBS news has something special in its article, it adds
Hours before London explosives technicians dismantled a large car bomb in the heart of the British capital's tourist-rich theatre district, a message appeared on one of the most widely used jihadist Internet forums, saying: "Today I say: Rejoice, by Allah, London shall be bombed."
CBS News found the posting, which went on for nearly 300 words, on the "al Hesbah" chat room. It was left by a person who goes by the name abu Osama al-Hazeen, who appears regularly on the forum. The comment was posted on the forum, according to time stamp, at 08:09 a.m. British time on June 28 -- about 17 hours before the bomb was found early on June 29.
Al Hesbah is frequently used by international Sunni militant groups, including al Qaeda and the Taliban, to post propaganda videos and messages in their fight against the West.
My Surprise was, that Hamas propaganda channel in West was missing from list, Perhaps because Hamas is more Shia/Iran based, instead of Chatting in Sunni insurgents Chat rooms...
thus You will miss this Channel in above list.
One more question struck to my mind was, for whom are our media really working. Propaganda videos and messages are posted on such sites, funded out by our Tax money, and later used against us. Is our media really capable to work on its own, or are they just broadcasting the same propaganda videos over the news network, which is believed to be to inform the nationals, and to protect them from any coming disaster.
CBS news further added
Al-Hazeen's message begins: "In the name of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful. Is Britain Longing for al Qaeda's bombings?"
Al-Hazeen decries the recent knighthood of controversial author Salman Rushdie as a blow felt by all British Muslims. "This 'honouring' came at a crucial time, a time when the whole nation is reeling from the crusaders attacks on all Muslim lands," he said, in an apparent reference to the British role in Iraq.
"We say to Britain: The Emir of al Qaeda, Sheikh Osama, has once threatened you, and he carried out his threats. Today I say: Rejoice, by Allah, London shall be bombed," the message reads.
Speaking at a news conference Friday after the bomb scare in central London, the Metropolitan Police force's Counter-Terrorism Commander Peter Clarke said that officials had "no indication that we were going to be attacked this way".
Prior to the Thursday night posting by al-Hazeen, there had been no specific allusions to threats against London or Britain seen on al Hesbah, or any other major jihadist forums in recent weeks.
Several responses to the posting by other forum members expressed hope that an attack against London would be realized in the near future.
In response, al-Hazeen urges patience, saying, "Victory is very close, but you are just rushing it."
Shock For intelligence agencies,
Intelligence sources who spoke to CBS News Friday morning seemed to express surprise at the discovery of the device, suggesting there had been "no warning, no intel, no smell" as a prelude to the plot — a vacuum of information which reportedly had Britain's domestic intelligence agency "very, very worried".
Yet if intelligence agencies can't recognize the real enemy inside democracies, the corrupted media groups, then what we can do. For sure, Media agencies are far more concentrated in collecting information about the movements of our troops, even by providing and sponsoring chat channels to Mujahadeen, then what you can suppose to happen?
BBC Hindi was running a Headlines for more then 12 hours,
"London Police diffused 'Suspected' Bomb.", My Question of BBC is, I read from years about "Suspected Militants", but don't you think 'Suspected' Bomb is a bit more to digest.
Media disservice continues...
Media agencies had gone on one more level low, and they decided this time to undermine the threat the Car Bomb might have caused. MSNBC, a channel supporting Sunni insurgent chat room in above list, has a special coverage to undermine the effect, which can be located on hotair.
Please note, MSNBC even had decresed the Quantity of Petrol used. MSNBC says, it was 50 gallons. CNN told us, its was 60 Gallons.
Yet the deadliness of 25 litres of kerosene can be realized by recent samjhauta express blast in India. one can easily Imagine how deadly a "far more explosive" Petrol can be, especially when packed with Nails as projectiles with Propane.
The most strange part of the whole situation is synchronized Propaganda shift. Suddenly Muslim world had shifted its attention from largest Satan of the world, towards the Western Presence in Iraq. Whole global Media agencies have also shifted from "Salaman Rashdie" row to "War in Iraq" to justify the action.
Death to Terrorist
On the eve of Failed Car Bomb, MPACUK (terrorist organization supporting Jihad in Kashmir and Israel) had received a death threat Note. MPACUK spoke person seems to be worried about the death threat, but had not contacted or complained the Police regarding Death threat.
The contents of Death Threat are not made public, I wonder what was inside the Death threat note?
Death to Terrorist...
Under such conditions, i will rather say... it was a stunt from MPACUK to minimize the pressure, what might have occurred if they succeed in the bombing. what ever, if someone come across the some post in Media referring "UK Muslims feels the heat", then please forward it to this blog.......
