Should The Bbc Have Done Their Homework?

[agchristie]

Vetting procedures questioned...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7157497/Iman-attacked-Boris-saying-words-consequences-leaders-debate.html

[agchristie]

//He also appeared on Radio Five Live today, and after the programme host Nicky Campbell apologised.

He tweeted: 'I would like to apologise.

'We had the Imam from the BBC Tory leadership debate on our programme this morning. His social media comments have been extremely disturbing.

'We should have checked. We didn't. I'm sorry.' //

[Spicerack]

I bet they did plenty of homework.

[agchristie]

Spice, all of two minutes if anything....

[Gromit]

// headteacher of the Al-Ashraf Primary School, and the Al Ashraf Secondary School //

Gove’s Free School revolution is bearing fruit. My that manPrime Minister.

[anotheoldgit]

Why are we so frightened to verbally attack Islam? We were never frightened to attack the Nazis or even Communism.

They seem to get away with anything, and if one dares to criticise Islam they are labelled as an Islamophobic.

The definition of a phobic is a person who possesses an extreme fear of something, which when one comes to think about it, yes some do have much to fear Islam for.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes they should.

[Gromit]

The so called anti-semitic graphic (it isn’t) was created by Norman G Finkelstein, a Jewish author whose parents survived the concentration camps during the Holocaust, he published the map on his blog in 2014.

[agchristie]

//Why are we so frightened to verbally attack Islam?//

I don't think there is a shortage of criticism from the masses judging by the plethora of comment from social media outlets.

I'm sure your use of the word 'WE' concerns people in authority.

Let's face it, the BBC and MP's, for example, are not going to fall over themselves to be so outspoken as to lambast Islam.

[Gromit]

Oh, there are plenty of Conservative members ready to criticise the “muzz rats”...

// // BuzzFeed News presented Conservative HQ with a list of another 20 Facebook users who claim to be Tory members and have made Islamophobic comments on the platform.
It is understood that more than 50 Tory members have now been suspended over anti-Muslim posts, though the party refuses to say which members it has suspended, or how many.
The new evidence presented to Tory HQ reveals:
* One man, who is in a closed group of Conservative party members and called Muslims “muzz rats” and “sub human scum”, asked: “why have we got them in our country?” He also wrote: “This lot should be rounded up and put on a boat home. They don't like our flag - but they love our welfare payments.”
* A man who wrote last week that he had joined the Tories to get a Brexiteer elected as prime minister said of Sajid Javid: “Britain is not ready for a Muslim PM, that would be taking the absolute *** out of the country”. He also wrote of Sadiq Khan: “This man does not represent the United Kingdom, he is only the Mayor of Londonistan… Theresa May needs to get a grip of this Muslim Brotherhood stooge.” //

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/tory-islamophobia-facebook-stop-sajid-javid

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

You criticise others for using right wing news sources, yet you, yourself are quite prepared to use left wing news sources.

[naomi24]

An Imam is anti-Semitic.
An Imam blames women for rape.
An Imam praises Jeremy Corbyn.

And that's a surprise?

[anotheoldgit]

Now, now Naomi, all Imams are not the same.

[Canary42]

/// We were never frightened to attack the Nazis ///

Indeed, they were avidly supported by The Daily Mail in the Thirties.

[youngmafbog]

And your point is Canary?

None of this is any surprise, I see he has been suspended from his job now.

This man needs watching.

[jno]

perhaps the vetting should have been done long before he got anywhere near the BBC?

[Spicerack]

Not as avidly as the Daily Worker (Morning Star), though, canary.

[youngmafbog]

I agree jno.

[anotheoldgit]

Canary42

/// Indeed, they were avidly supported by The Daily Mail in the Thirties. ///

Maybe and look how that turned out, perhaps we all should take a lesson from that, before it is too late?