The BBC and Home-Grown Terrorists

American Thinker ^ | 8.11.06 | James Lewis

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

More than twenty people have been arrested in Britain in a plot to kill thousands of innocent air passengers. The British press is undoubtedly looking frantically for somebody to blame. But they won’t see the most obvious one: the tax-funded BBC.

If you were a young Muslim teenager growing up in Leeds, you too might be fertile soil for Islamofascism. The reason is simple: In a culture pervaded by the BBC, the message of the Labour Left would be drummed home to you over and over again: Britain is evil, America is evil, Israel is evil, capitalism is evil, democracy is a fraud. The education system would teach you a damning picture of the British Empire, which had its immoral side, but was also the greatest civilizing agent in the world for centuries.

Americans were the first to rebel successfully against the Empire, but we are very much aware of how much we owe it; we consider ourselves part of the larger English speaking tradition. India’s rising prosperity and modernization owes much to the English language, the unification of the subcontinent under the Raj, and much more. Many Indians are Anglophiles, like many Americans. All that is damned and slandered in the official education given to young people in Britain, pervaded by BBC Labour Leftism...

[TaxachusettsMan]

Yes, the BBC continually referred to those involved in the proposed attack as "plotters" -

which must be BBC-speak for Islamo-fascist-Muslim-Jihad-terrorist thugs.

[Thombo2]

Good article.Our "left" and the "left" in GB have much in common.For starters,an intense hatred of western civilization and freedom.

[inottawa]

The article is good and describes a population that can't see it's enemy.

But the BBC is not the cause of Islamic facism. Islam is.

[ladyinred]

Like the American Left, the Brit Left is the most destructive political force in the country, castrating the police and enabling criminals.

So true, and God help us all.

[eleni121]

Please sign this petition to rein in the BBC - a propaganda taxpayer funded org that supports Islamic terrorists

http://www.petitiononline.com/bbbc/petition.html

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

But the BBC is not the cause of Islamic facism..

It certainly is fueling it, like the msm here.

[Battleofbritain]

"In a culture pervaded by the BBC, the message of the Labour Left would be drummed home to you over and over again: Britain is evil, America is evil, Israel is evil, capitalism is evil, democracy is a fraud."

Absolutely right. The media culture, particularly in Europe, radicalizes otherwise traditional muslims.
If you look at the letter sent by muslim british politicians rationalizing this terrorist plot and citing UK foreign policy, you must ask yourself "why do they have such a one-sided perspective on these things?" The answer, to a large extent, is probably the BBC. I don't think I've ever seen the Israeli side put in context in any of the mid-east conflicts that have arisen.

[jordan8]

If you were a young Muslim teenager growing up in Leeds, you too might be fertile soil for Islamofascism. The reason is simple: In a culture pervaded by the BBC, the message of the Labour Left would be drummed home to you over and over again: Britain is evil, America is evil, Israel is evil

Why single out the BBC? That's the message of all the elite in the West, indeed that's why there is "a young Muslim teenager growing up in Leeds" in the first place.

[Killborn]

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

General Sir Charles Napier