The BBC has a dilemma. Their beloved Obama has made a difficult speech.“There is no Shortcut to Peace” It's never a good morning on the BBC Today programme if there is not a little further demonising of Rupert Murdoch so cue this little knockaboutbetween Humphyrs and Harold Evans. As you can guess, Humphyrs just teed up the lines and Evans let rip into the evils of the corrupt Murdoch empire. The BBC has gone way beyond satire on this issue and in truth it has revealed ITSELF to be the monster it sees in Murdoch. It is using its OWN power and dominance to smash what Murdoch as built up as an opposition to the BBC empire, and the only result will be an even more powerful BBC. There is a side to modern Britain that the BBC is very careful NOT to explore. Every now and again we get a glimpse of what lurks in the post-modern shadows, as the mobs rampaging through several of our major cities last month vividly demonstrated. Even then, the BBC would not countenance the suggestion that something was very wrong with the people concerned. No, blame it on the police, blame it on the banks, blame it on the boogie even - just do not blame the feral thugs, and the gangs, and the criminal instincts involved So, I thought this description of modern Britain over at the Police Inspector blog worth sharing quite simply because you will never see it or read about on the £3bn + a year BBC; One of the many benefits of the BBC is that it helps educate us lesser mortals. For example, did you know that many Muslims do not understand Sharia? Here is the helpful BBC article concerned and a little excerpt for your morning edification; 
No Shortcut
"Let’s be honest: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them,"
Obama said. "Israel, a small country of less than 8 million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile, persecution, and the fresh memory of knowing that 6 million people were killed simply because of who they were." These facts cannot be denied. The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland. Israel deserves recognition," Obama said. "It deserves normal relations with its neighbors. And friends of the Palestinians do them no favors by ignoring this truth, just as friends of Israel must recognize the need to pursue a two-state solution, with a secure Israel next to an independent Palestine."
The Guardian has decided that Obama is electioneering, and his only reason for sounding pro Israel is our old friend the Jewish Lobby. Jeremy Bowen agrees: The president's speech was as much about the politics of his own re-election bid next year as it was about the politics of making peace.
Read his analysis, and despair.THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A DAME
Biased BBC contributor Alan makes the following points. "The BBC reports that the chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, has been killed with several other people in a bomb attack in Kabul, officials say.' Strange how the real world catchs up with us. Eliza Manningham Buller has been lecturing us on the need to engage with the Taliban, to negotiate and presumably compromise (as soon as we leave Afghanistan you can be sure the Taliban won't be compromising or working in 'coalition') in the BBC's ReithLectures. Only today did she restate that position....'In this lecture I want to argue that states should, wherever possible, seek political solutions and reconciliation.'....how negotiation brought peace to Northern Ireland....'Look at Northern Ireland, where former terrorists are in government. We should welcome this, not damn it.'....only of course there is no peace in Northern Ireland...the war continues, it just isn't reported as much and as with militant Islam, government ministers prefer to sweep uncomfortable, inconvenient facts under the carpet rather than have to deal with them....have Adams and MacGuinness left the IRA? I imagine it is quite hard to negotiate with someone whose only intention is to kill you and to re-take power. Why would the Taliban negotiate? If we are offering negotiations it can only be because we are 'losing'...therefore if the Taliban are winning why compromise? Yet again she takes up the cudgel against our foreign policy (another BBC bete noir) saying it incites Muslims to radicalise....Muslims who are under the cosh of dictators in their own countries attack the West because we support those dictators. Except that when we depose Saddam Hussein it is those very radical Muslims who fight to keep Saddam and his regime in power. You must despair when you listen to Manningham Buller....a woman at the heart of the Establishment who is quite clearly so out of touch with reality....but unfortunately is so representative of much of the mentality within that Establishment....no less at the BBC with which her views chime and resonate exactly."EVANS ABOVE!
AN ARRESTING INSIGHT!
"In Ruraltown, the elderly are like dirty, damaged vultures. They converge at awful jumble sales. They rummage and fight for socks and underpants that have been torn from the stiff corpses of their previous ancient occupiers.
In Ruraltown, I saw a dead woman in the doctor’s surgery waiting room. No one noticed until closing time.
It is always cold and dark. Unemployment in Ruraltown is, of course, staggeringly high. This part of Ruralshire is so divided along class and racial lines that it is hardly the old shire at all but a collection of tribal groupings.
Some of its outlying towns are concrete wastelands too terrible to describe. People travel miles to jump from our multi-storey carpark. They truly do.
Ruraltown is where the people of Ruralshire go to die. Ruraltown is twinned with Auschwitz, I know who got the better deal. If you have a dozen screaming kids, tattoos on your face and neck, a slot machine addiction and you love frozen chips and microwaved pizza, come to Ruraltown.
I defy you to find one person smiling, or even anyone who isn’t thinking “Why am I here? Why am I here? Why am I here? Please someone kill me,” over and over again, then holding their breath until they pass out. The crowning glory of Ruraltown, though, is its people. They will happily kill you with an axe while you wait outside the local chippy for a deep-fried Mars bar.
Black Lace refused to play here. Burger King actually closed down their High Street store because they had more trouble than any other town in England. Pre-pubescent skiprats and abusive old women in Kappa track suit bottoms hurl insults and beg for shrapnel from passers-by. In Ruraltown, English is a second language.
Welcome to my patch."
MY SHARIA
"Sharia is a now a familiar term to Muslims and non-Muslims. It can often be heard in news stories about politics, crime, feminism, terrorism and civilisation. All aspects of a Muslim's life are governed by Sharia. Sharia law comes from a combination of sources including theQur'an (the Muslim holy book), theHadith (sayings and conduct of the prophet Muhammad) and fatwas (the rulings of Islamic scholars).
Many people, including Muslims, misunderstand Sharia. It's often associated with the amputation of limbs, death by stoning, lashes and other medieval punishments. Because of this, it is sometimes thought of as draconian. Some people in the West view Sharia as archaic and unfair social ideas that are imposed upon people who live in Sharia-controlled countries.
Many Muslims, however, hold a different view. In the Islamic tradition Sharia is seen as something that nurtures humanity. They see the Sharia not in the light of something primitive but as something divinely revealed. In a society where social problems are endemic, Sharia frees humanity to realise its individual potential."
RIYADH — A Sudanese man was beheaded Monday in Madina after he was convicted of practicing sorcery, the Interior Ministry announced. Abdul Hamid Al-Fakki “practiced witchcraft and sorcery,” which are illegal under the Shariah law, said a ministry statement. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the Shariah law enforced strictly in the Kingdom
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Got that. Meanwhile back on Planet Islam;
It all makes so much sense.
Hat-tip to Alan!
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