Even those of who are used to the way the BBC spin things to fit their own ideological mindset have been shocked at the BBC’s reporting failures in Gaza. The BBC has allowed itself or has volunteered to be a mouthpiece for Hamas. The BBC instinctively took the side of Hamas by reporting Hamas’s false claims about an ‘attack’ on a hospital and ran this story as if it was 100% true even though there is a strong likelihood that the missile that fell into a hospital car park in Gaza was one of Hamas’s own.
David Collier, a long standing and doughty fighter against Jew hatred has mused about what might have happened if the BBC of today was operating in the World War II period. Mr Collier said:
Sadly Mr Collier is probably very correct. The BBC was once an ally in the fight against Nazism now they take the words of Islamonazis at their word and promote, uncritically, unedited and un-commented upon the message of Islamonazis. Disgraceful conduct from the BBC and their lies are having some terrible real world effects.
Hamas are islamonazis. If they could they would unleash a second holocaust upon the Jews of Israel then against any Christian or “wrong” kinda of muslims. Their charter makes this clear as they are open about it. As for their leftist cheerleaders, look what happened to them in Iran after the 1979 revolution. These peaceniks wouldn’t last five minutes in a world controlled by islamist groups. The only common ground between leftist radicals and islamists is tneir mutual hatred of the West and their nihilist outlooks.
Well said there. There’s little difference between Hamas’s view of Jews and that of the Uni-Testicled Austrian. This genocidal hatred of Jews by Hamas is not anything hidden but is and has always been out in the open.
Fully agree with you on the parallels with the 79 Iranian situation.
If ever the jihadists under their various brandings – Hamas, Hizbollah, Al-Shiroun, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood etc etc – succeed in destroying Israel, then the full force of their energy and enmity will next be directed at Europe: “Be careful what you wish for…”.
Spot on there. There is no evidence to suggest that if the Islamic terror savages ever took out Israel then the violence would stop there.
The most scary thing is not these Islamist per se but the way many influential Westerners see them. Jeremy Corbyn who called Hamas and Hezbollah his friends has 1.6 million followers on his FaceBook page, mostly under 40 middle class types. I also believe his followers are overrepresented by the public sector workforce. This is our most dangerous enemy within because they give islamofascists more self confidence to harm us. I
I completely agree that there is a problem with the naive middle class Left. I also agree about how Corbyn’s supporters are embedded in the public sector.
Agree with the article and all comments here.
I too have been sickened by al-Beeb’s reporting.
When they cheerfully ascribed the accidental hospital disaster (I suppose we can call it that, the intercept shows that Islamic Jihad who fired the missile did not intend to hit it) to Israel I did wonder how many dead bodies of Jews (and others) would result. That Hamas then used the disaster as a tool of propaganda is also sickening, cynical, but absolutely unsurprising (Muslims almost always exonerate themselves from any blame for any atrocity, it is the old bully’s attitude of “now see what you’ve made me do!”), why waste a good opportunity to further demonise your sworn enemy?
The only thing that jars a little with me is the use of terms like “Islamofascist” and indeed “Islamist” whereby people make a point of discriminating those from Islam and thereby prove they have either not read the Islamic sources of have failed to understand them.
Yes Hamas et al are “fascist”, call them Nazis if you like, but don’t imagine for one second that that aspect of their beliefs are imports from Nazi Germany etc. and somehow bolted onto “true Islam – the religion of peace”.
Islam’s hatred of Jews (and Christians and all who aren’t Muslim) goes right back to ol’Mo and the gang and from the start Islam was as much political as it was religious.
Let me then put it this way: the political aspects of Islam are the weft to the religious warp of the fabric of Islam.
In short the “Islamofascists”, “Islamists”, “extremists” and any other comforting label you care to use are simply orthodox Muslims who believe in orthodox Islam.
Using words correctly, we can call them fundamentalists – they definitely believe in ALL the fundamental teachings of Islam and that included (to put it simply) hatred of the other. We can also call them radicals – they definitely go “to the root” of Islam, the teachings of the Koran and the example of ol’Mo as recorded in Ahadith and Sirat for their beliefs.
On the other hand orthodox Muslims are not extremists, they are not a fringe element, they are (to borrow a phase from ECAW) centrists in that they centre their beliefs on those of ol’Mo who is central to the tenets of Islam.
Call them whatever you like, but don’t forget that their beliefs, whilst not the only interpretation of Islam’s teachings, are the most grounded in the canon of Islam and thus they are orthodox Muslims practising orthodox Islam.