BBC: THE MUMBAI MASSACRE…GUNMEN AND MILITANTS DID IT…AIRBRUSHING JIHAD

Posted By on November 26th, 2009

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/bbc-anniversary-report-on-mumbai-massacre-censors-out-islamist-responsibility-for-terror-attacks/#more-1710
BBC anniversary report on Mumbai massacre censors out Islamist responsibility for terror attacks
I have written many times on the subject of how the BBC airbrushes the anti-Semitism of Hamas out of its profile of the organisation on its website. But don’t be fooled into thinking this is just about Israel. Another favourite trick in the armoury of the politically correct ideology which holds sway in the Western world’s most powerful media organisation is to play down or ignore the Islamist roots of much of the world’s terrorism generally.

Today, the BBC website carries a story entitled “Mumbai Attacks: One year on”. The attackers are variously referred to as “militants” and “gunmen”. To wit:

“On Wednesday, a court in Pakistan charged seven people in connection with the attacks, including alleged mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi – head of the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.”

Well, yes indeed. That is one way of putting it. Lashkar-e-Taiba is certainly a militant group. But perhaps that is just a little less information than we need to form a rounded view of what motivated those “militants” to slaughter 165 people in cold blood.

It only takes a Wikipedia search to get that little bit extra that changes the complexion rather significantly. From Wikipedia we learn that Lashkar-e-Taiba is in fact “one of the largest and most active Islamist militant organizations in South Asia.” (My italics)

A few lines later we learn that the group’s “objective is to introduce an Islamic state in South Asia and to “liberate” Muslims residing in Indian-administered Kashmir.” (My italics) Hmm.

Now, there are those who turn their noses up at Wikipedia, but it certainly seems a more reliable and truthful guide, on this occasion at least, than the BBC which does not mention Islam or Islamism once in its article.

This is political censorship plain and simple: a clearly coordinated effort to airbrush the Islamist ideology which lay behind the attacks from public view. It is an insult to the victims and a disgraceful deception foisted upon the BBC’s readers and viewers. For shame…

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