Two items on the BBC radio news flagship Radio5 live caught my attention today.
The BBC has apparently given the reason for abolishing the use of AD and BC (which have been in use for 1,200 years in the UK), as that as the BBC is committed to impartiality, it is important not to alienate or offend non-Christians.
There have been Jews in the UK in reasonably large numbers for over 150 years .... the Muslims have been here just over 40 yrs in any numbers. One of these immigrant groups got on and largely assimilated, while keeping their culture and heritage, and the BBC didn't think to change its dating system. The other group has a section of its community who have done nothing but threaten the rest of us both with violence, and an insistence that we change our laws and culture to accommodate their 7th century barbarism. I'll let you guess why the BBC is changing their dating references to satisfy one of these groups.
Finally, I hate to point out a couple of things:
- Six Muslim men in the Midlands, appeared in court charged with terrorism including a suspected suicide bombing campaign .... not once did the BBC use the term "Muslim", either on the radio reports, nor on the web report. It wasn't hard to work out who and what they were, because their names were given on the web site ...Irfan Nasser, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, Rahin Ahmed, Bahader Ali and Mohammed Rizwan (all remanded in custody).
- It has been reported that the BBC has decided that the terms AD and BC (Anno Domini, or the Year of Our Lord, and Before Christ), can be replaced by the terms Common Era and Before Common Era by their programme producers.
- Political Correctness - The publicly funded BBC made a decision some time ago to stop reporting the race or religion of criminals when they are what it considers an oppressed 'minority', even when its race and religion inspired terrorism and mass murder. Its a form of 'Newspeak'
- Appeasement - Instead of standing up for the Judeo / Christian values that allows immigrants to settle here, even if they dislike us and our liberal values i.e. tolerance, no, the BBC prefers to appease the minority inside these minorities, who want to force us to bow to their values.
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The BBC has apparently given the reason for abolishing the use of AD and BC (which have been in use for 1,200 years in the UK), as that as the BBC is committed to impartiality, it is important not to alienate or offend non-Christians.
There have been Jews in the UK in reasonably large numbers for over 150 years .... the Muslims have been here just over 40 yrs in any numbers. One of these immigrant groups got on and largely assimilated, while keeping their culture and heritage, and the BBC didn't think to change its dating system. The other group has a section of its community who have done nothing but threaten the rest of us both with violence, and an insistence that we change our laws and culture to accommodate their 7th century barbarism. I'll let you guess why the BBC is changing their dating references to satisfy one of these groups.
Finally, I hate to point out a couple of things:
- 'CE' and 'BCE' could be read as Christian Era and Before Christian Era
- The year, 2011 or 2012 etc are based on Christian dates.
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