Posted on 10/13/2006 6:00:42 AM PDT by Eurotwit
The BBC is launching two new channels. One, in Arabic, will compete with al-Jazeera. The other, in Farsi, will be beamed into Iran. A spokesman said of the Persian-language venture: 'The new television service will be editorially independent of the UK government.'
So why is Gordon Brown subsidising it to the tune of £15 million?
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to put out the BBC's domestic service on satellite? No one would notice the difference.
In recent days, Radio 4 has given over a substantial chunk of the flagship Today programme to a party political broadcast by an Islamist maniac.
Those of us who live in the London area might just as well be watching the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation when it comes to 'local' news.
One night last week, the first five items on the World's Worst News Bulletin were all about Muslims.
Coverage of the debate over the veil was conducted exclusively from an Islamic viewpoint, from what I could gather.
First, there was a live vox-pop from a curry house opposite a mosque in Southall, where all those asked to comment had just turned out of Friday prayers. Back in the studio, the two invited guests were a 'moderate' Muslim and a bird in a burqa. This is what the BBC calls 'balance'.
We've even had the weatherman standing in the Edgware Road - the famous 'Arab Street' - giving us the forecast for Ramadan.
Why don't they just cut out the middle man and install a studio in Captain Hook's cell at Belmarsh?
'Something to look forward to on BBC1 this weekend, a brand new series of Fasting With Frost. Songs Of Praise comes from Regent's Park Mosque and this week's What Not To Wear features Jack Straw being given a complete makeover by the fashion editor of al-Mujaharoun. Over on BBC2, in Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson tests the latest range of people-carriers available free of charge to unemployed Muslim clerics. And don't forget to stay tuned for live beheading from Trafalgar Square, coming up after the latest national and international news, read by Abu Hamza.
(Roll titles)
Good evening, infidel dogs. I spit on you. The mujahideen are coming to murder you in your beds and the blood of your kafur children and your drunken whores will run through the streets of your decadent, godless cities. That's our top story tonight - and, of course, every other night.
Some breaking news this evening - a plane has crashed into a skyscraper in New York. Unfortunately, only two people were killed.
We also celebrate the fourth anniversary of the glorious Bali martyrdom operation, a shining day in history for all true believers.
In an exclusive interview from Lebanon, the president of Iran tells our diplomatic editor, Sheikh Omar Bakri, of his plans to wipe the pariah, pigs-and-monkeys state of Izza-ray-el off the map in a nuclear holocaust, just as soon as he receives the plutonium from North Korea.
Our crime correspondent, Abu Izzadeen, reports on the progress in the fatwa against the Danish cartoonists who insulted Islam.
Later in the programme, in our consumer affairs slot, I'll be presenting a special report from West London on how you can become a property tycoon while living on benefits - and, indeed, while in prison.
Our legal aid correspondent, Anjem Choudary, will be bringing you an update on the imposition of Sharia law in East Ham.
There'll be the latest news on the campaign to have London Underground stations renamed after the four members of the July 7 martyrdom brigade.
We've got exclusive footage from our brothers in Iraq showing a Western aid worker slut having her head sawn off. If you can't wait for that, it is available right now on our website, where you'll also find easyto-follow instructions on making Ricin in your own kitchen.
Sir Ian Blair apologises to all Muslims for something which hasn't actually happened yet.
In sport, we ask if England goalkeeper Paul Robinson should have his right leg amputated to punish him for letting in that soft own goal in Croatia.
And coming up after the break, a shocking report from the Great Satan on how, in their latest outrage against Islam, the rapacious, infidel running dogs of the illegitimate and immoral Bush regime have, er, banned online gambling.
LoL! Isn't that the truth.
What? They let a woman on? BBC is getting too liberal.
The BBC are evil shills for the undermining of everything Western, European, or Christian.
We need a few more rabble rousing columnists like this.
Sadly, I suspect that a number of people will overlook the pointedly ironic tone of this piece.
I have to admit: I almost see his point on this one item:
"In sport, we ask if England goalkeeper Paul Robinson should have his right leg amputated to punish him for letting in that soft own goal in Croatia." :-)
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Euro.
Thank you.
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