DIVERSIFY OR DIE!
>> TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009
Wonder what you make of the comments by one of the BBC's top black executives who reckons that senior TV bosses should be sacked if they fail to meet diversity targets? Pat Younge, set to take over as head of the BBC's in-house programme-making, claimed there was not enough 'internal pressure' for change. He has said that diversity targets should be treated like financial aims, suggesting that if people fail to hit them they should pay the consequences.
NO ISLAM...
I was interested in this report on what a group of Islamic thugs known as Nigeria's "Taliban". The bit that caught my eye was the assertion by BBC correspodent Caroline Duffy that "The idea of radical Islamist militantsgaining a serious foothold in Nigeria is usually dismissed, because of the strength of local identities and traditions." Oh really? Dismissed by whom, exactly?
"More importantly, religious uprising occurs because Northern Nigeria has a
tradition of jihadist Islam – that is a kind of Islam that is practiced or
promoted through fighting and violence. Islam came to Northern Nigeria around
11th century But the 1804 Jihad of Sheikh Uttman dan Fodio radicalized Islam. It
foisted on Northern Nigeria a militant form of Islamic faith. It enthroned a
kind of Islam that is promoted and defended with bows and arrows, swords and
cudgels. Jihadist Islam sanctifies violence as an act of faith, as a
demonstration of piety and as a virtuous way of living and of relating with
infidels and with non Islamic faiths or institutions. Jihadist Isalm regard non
believers as 'enemies' who should be conquered, converted or subdued by force.
As long as the jihadist Islamic mentality persists in Northern Nigeria,
religious conflict will not cease.Related to the above point is the imposition
of Sharia law. Sharia is the weapon of political and radical Islam. The
imposition of Sharia on most states in Northern Nigeria was marked by widespread
violence, riots and clashes. "
A QUESTION OF BBC PRIORITIES
My colleague over on A Tangled Web, Mike Cunningham, posted thisearlier and I thought I might share it with you.
This is the BBC at six o'clock.
News item Number Three,
The return journey of four dead British soldiers, all killed in Afghanistan, with the town of Wooton Basset at standstill showing homage to the fallen. Total time on air some forty-five / fifty seconds.
News item number Seven,
The search for, and election of, a new resident Witch for the tourist spot of Wookey Hole from three hundred cackling prospective witch candidates. Total time on air.... Four minutes.
As ever, the BBC follows the lead of our Government in both priorities, taste and political neutrality!
An inconvenient vote
Graham Dines of East Anglia Times weighs in on on the BBC's (lack of) coverage of UKIP in the Norwich North by-election.
Out of fairness to the BBC, I can see how they are straining to accommodate the unpalatable rise of the Conservative opposition. They need some solace and we can't expect them to reflect the full range of sentiment opposed to theirs, can we? Can we?
"Just why the BBC decided that the Greens were more meritworthy than UKIP is not difficult to discern. It's all down to the unpalatable policy of quitting the EU. UKIP goes against the authorised version of Britain's relationship with Europe and therefore should be ridiculed."
UKIP are still pressing the BBC over their denial of UKIP's evident electoral appeal (which many commenters here noted independently, as well). It seems to me utterly unsurprising that the Beeb would violate due impartiality during an election- the very time when they ought to be able to hold themselves together. They fail in every other so-called ideal which farcically underpins their public remit.
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