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BBC Trust backs drama in which Christian terrorist beheads Muslim
Telegraph ^ | 02 June 2009 | Damian Thompson

Posted on 06/02/2009 6:46:37 AM PDT by BGHater

The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often happens in real life, right?). The Trust has backed an earlier BBC ruling that there is "no reason why viewers would have been given the impression that the fanatics in the programme were evangelical Christians or that the programme gave an offensive portrayal of such people".

We are deep into the realms of BBC bias and ignorance here. Only a BBC drama series would, to quote the complainant, "transfer the practice of terrorist beheadings from Islamist radicals to a fantasised group of fundamentalist Christians". And only the staff of the Beeb, or perhaps the Guardian, would be so ignorant of Christianity as not to realise that nearly all fundamentalists are evangelicals of one sort or another (though most evangelicals are not fundamentalists).

This ruling (relating to an episode shown on July 8) was made public in the week that the BBC offered to apologise to the Muslim Council of Britain after Charles Moore made the perfectly true statement on Question Time that the MCB had been slow to condemn the killing and kidnapping of British soldiers in Iraq. I can't pretend to be surprised by such double standards. But this is publicly funded hypocrisy - that's what rankles.

If Ken Loach or someone wants to make a fantasy drama about gangs of homicidal Christians beheading Christians, then fine. Using the licence fee? Not fine.

Oh, and just in case you missed it, Bonekickers ("Time Team meets CSI") was crap.

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: agitprop; antichristian; bbc; bbcbias; christian; goebbelswouldbeproud; islam; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacists; muslim; religiousintolerance; staterunmedia

1 posted on 06/02/2009 6:46:38 AM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater

Simply unbelievable!

Words fail.


2 posted on 06/02/2009 6:48:07 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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To: Red in Blue PA

2,000 years backwards


3 posted on 06/02/2009 6:53:27 AM PDT by television is just wrong (one bad ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: BGHater

And....Europe called Americans dumb.....


4 posted on 06/02/2009 6:56:25 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: BGHater

Brilliant. Attribute your behaviors to your enemy. I woke up this morning and the world is still upside down.


5 posted on 06/02/2009 7:01:21 AM PDT by uncommonsense (liberals see what they believe and conservatives believe what they see)
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To: uncommonsense; All

In the past 100 years, I would love to hear how many documented cases there were of Christians beheading muslims.


6 posted on 06/02/2009 7:02:24 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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To: BGHater
Related thread:
Muslim appointed head of religion at BBC
7 posted on 06/02/2009 7:08:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: BGHater

The MSM hates us - they’ll use whatever lies they can find to trash us. Fight the Machine - Quit supporting the MSM...


8 posted on 06/02/2009 7:10:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (Fight the Machine - Quit supporting the MSM.)
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To: BGHater

I’ve said it before: Britain is lost...


9 posted on 06/02/2009 7:10:35 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: BGHater

Formerly Great Britain exists solely as a warning to the rest of us.


10 posted on 06/02/2009 7:17:53 AM PDT by Julia H. (Remember when dissent was patriotic?)
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To: BGHater

I wonder if “Christ” would call anyone a “Christian” that commits murder in His name?


11 posted on 06/02/2009 7:19:35 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: BGHater

These same anti-Western communists ran British media in the age of George Orwell as well.


12 posted on 06/02/2009 7:33:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: Alex Murphy

From the Church of England to being another outpost for the Islamic empire. Political correctness is killing the West.

When muslims speak out against the abuses against non-muslims in the nation of Saudi Arabia and the city they bow to five times a day every day, Mecca, then maybe I’ll see that they are tolerant towards those of other faiths.


13 posted on 06/02/2009 7:35:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: BGHater
Typical media slant - "dog bites man" - yawn, "man bites dog" - Wow! These people have an active fantasy life and want to make the world like their fantasies (so long as it does not afflict them).

The Beeb is an epic lesson in why you don't want a government broadcast network. For the Yanks who do not know, every TV in Britain must pay a licensing fee EVERY YEAR and there are inspectors with equipment to detect operating TVs against payment records. Current rate is £142.50 for a color TV / £48 for B&W. A significant portion of that fee goes to the BBC and thus pays for dreck like this.

14 posted on 06/02/2009 7:40:52 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: SES1066
Yes, but:

The BBC’s Charter and the BBC Producers Guidelines state that the BBC shall…

“…contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world…”

“…treat controversial subjects with due accuracy and impartiality… and…not contain any material expressing the opinion of the corporation…”

“…Due impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC. All programs and services should be open minded, fair and show a respect for truth…The BBC applies due impartiality to all its broadcasting and services, both to domestic and international audiences…”

15 posted on 06/02/2009 7:44:41 AM PDT by BGHater (It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
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To: BGHater

We will have Gov’t run media here in the USA soon as well.


16 posted on 06/02/2009 7:45:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BGHater
The BBC’s Charter and the BBC Producers Guidelines state that the BBC shall…

Reminds me of the Soviet Union's Constitution - reads great but something seems to be lacking in the execution.

Typical of quasi-independent governmental institutions, they rapidly become sinecures for bureaucrats and since there are no financial / shareholder constraints, 'activism' and 'for the public good' become the mantras to live by.

In the US, there has been the great debacle of 'Fannie Mae' etc. where upper echelon bureaucrats were political creatures taking a 'breather' at 6 digit salaries before returning to the next Democrat Administration (or so it appears). Tax dollars at work for the 'public good'!

17 posted on 06/02/2009 8:45:59 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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