tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post7242631346991134612..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Why was the BBC's Frank Gardner burbling about Anders Breivik while discussing the Canadian terrorist attacks? Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-68655661340426567002014-10-26T22:05:55.189+00:002014-10-26T22:05:55.189+00:00I don't know about your neck of the woods, but...I don't know about your neck of the woods, but here there now seems to be a ban on ever referring to the colour of criminals - unless they're harmed in police custody, when, if they're black or Asian, it suddenly becomes the most important fact about them. I'm not quite sure when it became bad manners to mention this sort of detail. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-52772154037815002352014-10-26T21:52:38.981+00:002014-10-26T21:52:38.981+00:00Ah, but who turned them into murderers, eh?
Like ...Ah, but who turned them into murderers, eh?<br /><br />Like you, what get my goat is the way Western governments and left-liberal broadcasters get all gloaty and self-righteous in those very rare instances when the terrorist(s) turns out not to be Muslim. I don’t notice a similar sense of relief when, once in a blue moon, some fundamentalist Christian nutter says something untoward, or posts a slightly unpleasant video. Why are there different rules for Muslims? For instance, why, following last week’s outrage, did the Canadian authorities feel it necessary to email mullahs asking them to let them know if they or their followers felt threatened (presumably by that notoriously violent group, white indigenous non-Muslim Canadians)? The self-restraint shown by non-Muslims in Western countries is extraordinary – some Scandinavian paper prints a cartoon or some moronic American pastor burns a Koran and embassies are burned to the ground and people are killed in islamic countries by howling mobs: indigenous Christians are routinely butchered and ethnically cleansed by Muslims in Islamic countries and it barely gets mentioned here in the West. <br /><br />Remember, we are all guilty in a very real sense - especially in the eyes of broadcasters.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-32352123460519936042014-10-23T13:02:51.366+01:002014-10-23T13:02:51.366+01:00I got all this on the radio yesterday as I was out...I got all this on the radio yesterday as I was out...and there wasn't a word about the suspect being a mohamedian. All they said was he had long hair...sadly I don't think this is the beginning of, a long hoped for, anti-hippie agenda from the media.<br /><br />I can't remember the last time I sat down to watch the news...they are worthless.Erik Bartlamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05401279267556576137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-21390538234820683752014-10-23T12:47:10.639+01:002014-10-23T12:47:10.639+01:00Gardner's got form for this kind of thing. On...Gardner's got form for this kind of thing. On BBC News 24, a couple of hours after the murder of Lee Rigby, Gardner implied (on the evidence of, according to him, a "hitherto reliable" tweeter) that the perps were recruits of the secret services. Remember, to the BBC in general and Gardner in particular, Moslems are always the innocents - even when they're murderers.Umbongonoreply@blogger.com