Posted on 10/31/2006 11:39:25 PM PST by Mrs Ivan
Hmm... so basically they portrayed Christians as muzzies? Seriously, it sounds like that's what they did. I mean grenades, blowing up places of worship, the rhetoric, who does that sound like?
All too often, when liberals make movies, it is the world as they would like it to be. In the real world, Christians (whom they don't like) don't engage in frequent, widespread violence, while Muslims (whom liberals do like) do. So they make a fictional world, where the nasty Christians are in the wrong and their darling Muslims are in the right.
What if it had been Muslim extremists murdering Christians?
I guess it wouldn't be drama then; it would be news. How would the BBC portray that?
BBC fantasy is rather odd. Also, it seems the BBC television you get is far more liberal than the BBC news website (it's liberal, but has some balanced news sometimes).
what, no riots? No christians threatening to chop off everyone's heads? no burning buses, overturned cars, innocent casualities?
The website is quite reasonable, although I do find that certain stories that ought to be included are not.<
The best bet is BBC radion - I think the medium is rather more difficult to spin than one that has visual content.
your tagline is interesting. obviously you mean, "on your knees" in subservience to a tyrant. But what about before God?
Sinister
This is why His name is God and our names are not. Those are two totally different things. Being on your knees for Jesus is the only way to go. Thanks for knowing the difference. Amen.
I'm not a bigoted and marauding evangelical Christian, but I play one on BBC TV.
What surprises me is that this kind of thing surprises anybody. The BBC's attitude to religion, (in fact the whole of the British media actually, lets be fair) is an unholy mix of contempt and cowardice. Like good secularists they treat anyone with faith, any kind of faith, as some kind of demented, neanderthalic anti-intellectual oddball. Oh you can complain, and they will nod and say they didnt really intend to offend, and you are overeacting, the point of the drama was something completely different...but really, they don't really believe you are offended. That would be irrational wouldnt it? And of course in their mindset it is.
On the other hand, they don't mix it with Muslims or anyone from Ulster, because they send death threats and set bombs off when they get offended. The message is quite clear. If you want respect from the British media threaten them with violence. Its the only way they will take you seriously - and what kind of message is that to be sending?
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What annoyed me about this Spooks episode (which I didn't watch after seeing the trailer) was the BBC's inability to face up to real, actual issues.
Running stories where the bad guys are British nationalists, American abortion-bombers or fanatic Christians - well I suppose these shows have to get stories from somewhere. But the only times Spooks addresses Muslim or Left wing terrorism, it does so in a distinctly reverential way (e.g. I remember the episodes with the doctor from Deep Space Nine, playing a sympathetic muslim - or the episode with Giles from Buffy, playing a lefty trying to destroy Air Force One)
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A bit of realism would be nice though - the idea that a group of Christians would do the things suggested is ludicrous - they are peculiarly Islamist tendancies.
I guess a bit of variety in storylines is nice but keep it real and address some actual issues instead of playing out a propagandist's fantasy.
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