We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - BBC Censoring Material About Islam (Plus: Surreal Legal And Cultural Surrender Across Britain)
Yeah - not exactly a shocker:
BBC director general Mark Thompson has admitted that the broadcaster has to tackle Islam differently to Christianity and is reluctant to broadcast jokes about it. He suggested that coverage needed to consider the feelings of Muslims because they are a religious minority... Mr Thompson was responding to comments made by comedian Ben Elton... [Thompson said] ... 'I don't want to say that all religions are the same. To be a minority I think puts a slightly different outlook on it.'... [Elton said] 'And I believe that part of it is due to the genuine fear that the authorities and the community have about provoking the radical elements of Islam," he said. '...It's because they're scared. I know these people.'
I'm not sure why this is so controversial. So the director of the BBC believes that Islam should be accorded special status, above and beyond what British society accords to Christianity. That's nothing that hasn't already been advocated by the Archbishop of Canterbury. And it's nothing that hasn't already been codified into British law:
The far left have had the UK firmly in their control for years - and they have been busy turning out legislation to make their leftist philosophy of multiculturalism the law of the land. So, to ask a Muslim woman simply to remove her veil is considered an act of religious harassment. And for such an act of religious harassment, a native of Britain, the father of a child, was ordered to jail today for a nine month sentence.
Whole swaths of the Britain are no-go zones for non-Muslims. After the jump, - a laundry list of failures, double standards, and surrenders that combine into an impression that Britain has more or less given up.
This is a society where bigamy is ostensibly illegal, yet Muslim men with multiple wives are legally entitled to multiple welfare benefits. It's a culture where fair play is intensely valued, unless you're a Down's syndrome boy who runs afoul of a Muslim girl. It's a country where universities have existed for a thousand years, but teachers are being banned for life for criticizing Islam. It's a polity built on the give and take of democracy, except British cops treat leafletting in Muslim areas as a hate crime.
The country is awash with hundreds of domestic terrorists. They can't even track many of the most dangerous ones. The ones that they do catch they're often unable to convict. Some of their captured terrorists are smuggling messages back and forth from jail. Others are escaping during outings to mosques. British officials actually released one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world from prison. So naturally the solution is to do exactly what the House Of Lords just did - kill the government's counter-terror legislation.
Multiculturalism is some of it: considerations of sensitivity are used both to justify double standards and to create loopholes that terrorists jump through. But multiculturalism is a fig leaf - and it's not like Christianity will be the majority religion much longer anyway. Underneath all the babbling there's this sense of exhausted surrender - of political, economic, and cultural obsequiousness that seems, yes, a lot like literal dhimmitude.
References:
* The BBC will tackle Islam differently to Christianity, admits its Director General [Mail Online]
* British Treasury: Hey, Let's Issue Sharia Bonds So Radical Muslims Can Grab Ownership Of Government Buildings [MR]
* Multiculturalism & the Crime of Religious Harassment [Town Commons]
* Multiple wives will mean multiple benefits [Telegraph]
* UK: Down's syndrome boy charged with racism and assault after playground incident with "Asian" girl [Spencer]
* UK: former soldier and teacher to be banned from ever teaching again for criticizing Islam [Spencer]
* British cop warns Christians: Leafletting in Muslim areas is a “hate crime” [Hot Air]
* Bishop of Rochester reasserts 'no-go' claim [Telegraph]
* Al-Qaeda's white army of terror [Scotland On Sunday]
* Airline bomb trial: Five potential suicide bombers 'still at large' [Telegraph]
* British Jury Renders Split Verdict in Airliner Bomb Plot [WaPo]
* America's fury as Hamza smuggles hate messages to Bin Laden's No 2... From UK jail cell [Mail Online]
* UK: Terror Suspect Arrested for "Major Suicide Plot" Jumps Bail, Escaped While Visiting a Mosque..... [Zippers]
* UK to Release Second al-Qaeda Leader, Considered one of the "Most Important Operatives in Europe"..... [Zippers]
* Gordon Brown warned to drop 42-day detention by top Labour peer [Telegraph]
* Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali: Radical Islam is filling void left by collapse of Christianity in UK [Telegraph]
* British Treasury: Hey, Let's Issue Sharia Bonds So Radical Muslims Can Grab Ownership Of Government Buildings [MR]
Previously:
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - No Really, We're Going To Miss It
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Sharia Courts Established In Britain
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Britain More Or Less Gives Up
