Reply to: Yet more tiresome BBC PC Crapola

[Charles Foster Kane]

sharia law is already here, didn't you know? google it up. BBC didn't tell us about that, wonder why?

We know the law is here. And don't call me Sharia.

[expat]

It occured to me that there seems to be a psychological dichotomy with the luvvies of the BBC. I listen to the World Service a fair bit, and to be honest, it is almost worth the licence fee on its own (not that I pay it myself).

World Service is not paid for by the licence fee, it is paid for by the Foreign Office.

[Cyberman]

The publicly owned Channel Four is cutting 150 staff because of the drop in advertising revenues. When will the Bloated Broadcasting Corporation do the same and cut its useless staff ? Mr Cameron, please please please privatise this anachronism and save us each 140 quid a year !!!!!

[ace00]

It occured to me that there seems to be a psychological dichotomy with the luvvies of the BBC. I listen to the World Service a fair bit, and to be honest, it is almost worth the licence fee on its own (not that I pay it myself). But I notice a lot of programs/reports on muslims/islam. They seem to fall into 2 distinct themes:

1. Isn't Islamic culture sooooo interesting and we should learn to love our diverse brothers & sisters.
2. Al-Quaeda are going to kill us all!. They are winning! Aaargh.

It is quite an interesting psychological case IMO.

[BrilloPad]

I am one of the few people who have said they could support the BNP

[The Lone Gunman]

indeed, but I pay for the Beeb and they refuse to give me news stories that matter like sharia law in the UK already

You are wrong, but do not let that stop you.
Sharia rulings can only be legally upheld as a form of arbitration. In the same way that any disputing parties can go to an arbitration service and accept the outcome of that arbitration (Look at West Ham and Sheffield at the moment).
The bias of the report makes it read like Sharia is now part of the British legal system which is utter ballcocks.





Before you start ranting at me please read some of my previous posts and note that I am one of the few people who have said they could support the BNP and often quotes on Islam being incompatible with the West and modern living.

[Spacecadet]

indeed, but I pay for the Beeb and they refuse to give me news stories that matter like sharia law in the UK already

Judging by some of your other posts, that doesn't suprise me at all

[contractor79]

Something which I learnt a few years ago... and this may come as a suprise to you... there are other news providers in this country apart from the BBC

indeed, but I pay for the Beeb and they refuse to give me news stories that matter like sharia law in the UK already

[Spacecadet]

but if Beeb don't tell anyone about it then people won't protest if they don't know about it

Something which I learnt a few years ago... and this may come as a suprise to you... there are other news providers in this country apart from the BBC

[contractor79]

There's a thread about it on here somewhere, can't be bothered to look it up though

there should be an outcry about the sharia law in our country as there was when Rowan made a gaff about it

but if Beeb don't tell anyone about it then people won't protest if they don't know about it

[OwlHoot]

Is English law related to Muslim law?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7631388.stm

I really wish they would give it a rest, they're not doing anyone any favours at all

It's a load of kook rubbish. From the article:

From the end of the 9th to the middle of the 11th Century, Sicily had Muslim rulers. Many Sicilians were Muslims and followed the Maliki school of legal thought in Sunni Islam.

What the author didn't mention, or perhaps didn't know, was that the Normans captured the whole of Sicily from the Arabs in about 1100 and held it for the next two hundred years.

Since they had also conquered England and South Wales not long before, and had their own legal system based largely on Viking law, that's the common factor. DUH!

[dude69]

Interesting article.

It is not about the laws themselves, but the system that develops and administers the law. There are certainly parallels.

It is, but its agenda is unsubtle and unwanted. It's a response to the stories last week that sharia law is accepted in the UK in many cases such as domestic violence (where clearly there's no evidence of compulsion)

that actually we shouldn't worry, British law is all based on Islamic law, nothing to worry about, they are very nice people, ignore all the stuff about women's evidence not being as valid as a man, or people being stoned to death for rape, it's all lies, etc.

The author of the article is presenter of Law in Action, and has written articles for the New Statesman and other lefty publications. The previous present of Law in Action was a Guardian journalist.

Here's an insight into the PC leftist BBC think:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflic...tales_4219.jsp

While producing a BBC Radio 4 Analysis about the subject, (called Telling Muslim Stories), I found leading British media voices have strong opinions over a dilemma they believe goes to the heart of their role in a liberal society: whether the media has a responsibility to help foster social cohesion, or instead to interrogate and take to task aspects of Muslim culture which could be seen as threatening.

Read this as

"do we either report on terrorism or just print fluffy stories about how all Muslims are wonderful, in the name of 'social cohesion'"

"The truth is you'd be hard pressed to find an editor who is against more diversity in the newsroom."

Now there's a surprise. More diversity, how nice, if you're living in a £2m house in Hampstead

Rageh Omaar, the former BBC and now al-Jazeera reporter, believes something more fundamental is afoot with British journalism. "It's not just simply about how Muslims are portrayed in the media," he says. "It's really a sense that there is a failure of public service in the media to inform non-Muslim Britons about issues relating to the community, about issues relating to the Islamic world."

Ah yes, a failure of public service. That's what it is. We need to be 'informed' about how wonderful Muslim Britons are. Right after that I'm sure they'll move on to telling us how wonderful Chinese people are etc. What's that, they won't?

Some feel the problem is in the language used about Muslims. They are "always thought of as something other, something alien, people who perhaps don't respect 'us', don't want to fit in with 'our' way of life", says Tariq Modood of Bristol University - one of the country's key thinkers on multiculturalism.

Ah, it's the language, of course it is. Political correctness summed up, it's all about 'language'. Never mind that some groups cause more social problems than others, let's just redefine the language and the law until it's illegal to mention it.

About the author: Mukul Devichand is a producer for BBC Radio 4.

There's a surprise.....

The BBC, distorting the world with our money.

[Diver]

sharia law is already here, didn't you know? google it up. BBC didn't tell us about that, wonder why?

There's a thread about it on here somewhere, can't be bothered to look it up though

[contractor79]

sharia law is already here, didn't you know? google it up. BBC didn't tell us about that, wonder why?

[The Lone Gunman]

Interesting article.

It is not about the laws themselves, but the system that develops and administers the law. There are certainly parallels.