And after yesterday’s BBC website’s uncritical acceptance of the branding of alleged killer Anders Behring Breivik as a “Christian fundamentalist” by deputy police chief Roger Andresen, we have a report via Quiet Man in a comment at Orphans of Liberty the interesting Jihad Watch snippet that shortly after his name was released as the killer, his English language Facebook page was amended to add “Christian” and “conservative”. Whatever prompted the policeman to add the adjective '"fundamentalist"? Could it be The Narrative workingt its undiverse ideological charm once more?
Go and look at the screenshot because the page is now off Facebook. What circumstances explain an accused terrorist adding those adjectives to his Facebook page after be became a notorious killer, I wonder?
Needless to say, the BBC does not know about this interestingly-timed edit perhaps because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the incident being both genuine and inherent in Norway’s (and by extension the Jedeo-Christian West’s) political make-up.
They even go into detail about his – quite correct – belief that someMuslims are trying to "colonise" Western Europe and that he blames multiculturalism and "cultural Marxism" for permitting this.
So everybody who believes that stuff is likely to be a killer, do you think? Perhaps you should.
They are, as predicted by moi, making Left-wing hay as the sun shines and we have to fight back confidently. Even if he is a Christian and a conservative and has been for ages or during a sudden conversion, everything he seems to have done goes against all mainstream Christianity and much of what minority Christian groups believe (look, the slaughter of the innocents was WRONG, okay?), is utterly inexcusable, and it’s hard to see what conservative thinker or modern-day politician would ever condone massacring children and teenagers.
He’s the only one. In ten years sonce 9/11, this is it. Almost all the other religiously inspired terrorism is from Islam. The resistance to the caliphate goes on.
PS.
Does anyone out there have links to other Christian, Jewish, Sikh or Hindu international terrorism? I know there is one gruesome nationwide violent Hindu group that strangely doesn’t operate in the Middle East, Europe, America, Australia or the Pacific, but is there much else do you think?
So a conservative Republican US congressman finds a photograph of his membrumvirīle via his Twitter account and causes a huge and very funny scandal in the world’s superpower and a website search of the £800,000,000 per year news and current events division of our unbiased national broadcaster the BBC produces…?
Nada.
But the BBC’s not biased, to be fair: just very, very discreet.
But thankfully only a small personal disaster: illness prevents me helping out UKIP’s CastleCity campaign in the first weekend of the General Election.
Housebound and weedy, I can only hope for a speedy recovery so I can get into the fray proper next week.
In the meantime, some cognitive dissonance from the ever-lovely and darling of the BBC Marcus Brigstocke’s Wikipedia entry.
Many of the central themes of Brigstocke's work were first addressed during his time as a student at the University of Bristol. While at Bristol he often performed in the comedy trio Club Seals, which later made the transition to TV in the series of short programmes We Are History. Very few of the conventions and institutions of the bourgeoisie have escaped his ire, be it the middle-class obsession with heritage (The Museum of Everything), the turpitude of contemporary business culture (Think the Unthinkable), or English provincial parochialism (Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off).
On 9 April 2006, Brigstocke appeared in BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial adaptation of The Code of the Woosters as Bertie Wooster with Andrew Sachs as Jeeves.
The BBC alludes to a technical hitch in the Swedish government’s attempts in 2007 to ‘promote understanding’ between Muslims and their naughty neighbours.
Seven people have been arrested in the IrishRepublic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, police say.
Nice of the BBC to clarify they weren’t planning to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting any of all those other Muhammeds that there seem to be so many of in the news these days.
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The four men and three women are all Muslim immigrants, according to media reports, though a police statement did not confirm this.
Cartoonist Lars Vilks had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog in the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper.
Islamic militants put a $100,000 (£67,000) bounty on his head.
Now, now, that’s not militancy.
It’s open-handedness perhaps, or high-rolling, or free-spending, or falling short of the ecumenical ideal, but putting up money to kill a human being for drawing a cartoon can’t fairly be called ‘militancy.’
I just wish that the BBC or I could think of a better word for it...
Ah, well.
Mr Vilks was quoted as saying he was unfazed by the arrests, which he said he thought could be linked to two death threats he had received by telephone in January.
I don’t know about you , but I’d like a little context about how a man under several death threats and whose life had been actively plotted against feels ‘unfazed,’ relaxing though the BBC makes it all sound. But with a tiny £800,000,000 per year news budget, I don’t suppose that the BBC had the resources to answer such a question. Or pose it.
Or conceive of it.
RTE said those in custody were originally refugees from Morocco and Yemen, but had gained asylum and were in the Republic of Ireland legally.
You know, one think I’d just hate would be to be slaughtered like a lamb by having my throat cut by someone who didn’t have the proper paperwork.
"I'm not shaking with fear, exactly," he told Swedish news agency TT after Tuesday's arrests.
"I have prepared in different ways and I have an axe here in case someone should manage to get in through the window."
I have got to get some of that Swedish stuff, whatever it is, and start taking it now.
He sounds so relaxed, you know? He doesn’t seem fazed at all by the thought of what the other six would have done whilst he was trying to dislodge the axe from the flopping body of Assailant Number One.
In 2007 a group linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a $100,000 reward for killing Mr Vilks, and a 50% bonus if he was "slaughtered like a lamb" by having his throat cut.
It offered another $50,000 for the murder of Ulf Johansson, editor-in-chief of the regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda.
At this point, one might expect the BBC to invite comments, and open a Have your Say page with a title like;
Have you ever been threatened with death by exsanguination or beheading by Muslims for producing a cartoon or any other item of edgy popular culture? We’d like to hear your story.
Of course, one would only expect that in a world where humans had directly evolved from dinosaurs or in which Michael Foot’s slanders of the anti-Appeasement Tories never became part of official history, but not in this, fallen world of ours.
Oh, and the BBC helpfully explains what might have inspired seven human being to plan to murder someone who drew a cartoon, and also provides some much-needed context at last:
In January, one of the cartoonists whose drawing appeared in Jyllands-Posten, the Dane Kurt Westergaard, was targeted in his own home, allegedly by a Somali radical Muslim with an axe.
Mr Westergaard, who escaped unharmed, had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.
Mr Vilks told The Associated Press news agency that the telephone threats in January had come from "a Swedish-speaking Somali. He reminded me about what had happened to Westergaard and threatened with a follow-up and that 'now it's your turn'."
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So far, so dhimmi.
But the BBC droid then mentions this:
At the time, Swedish officials expressed regret at any hurt caused to Muslims' feelings, but said the government could not prevent the publication of such drawings because of media freedom rules.
To clarify this, you can follow a side link to this piece from 2007.
Sweden's Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, has met ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries in an effort to defuse a row about a Prophet Muhammad cartoon…
Mr Reinfeldt said he told the ambassadors that under the Swedish constitution, politicians were not allowed to "interfere with how the media [works] and what it chooses to publish".
Hear that sound?
That’s the sound of the liberal world government (eastern Scandinavian Branch) admitting that a minor technicality alone prevented them from allowing the head-lopping, bomb-planting, child-murdering, Jew-hating Religion of Peace from silencing another mild (and possibly ironic) allusion to something Islamic.
I was born in a country and to a civilisation that had beaten fascism and Nazism and whose leadership were at least prepared to pay lip service to the idea that freedom of expression is a valuable human right: not one in which a head of government apologizes that religio-political tyranny in Sweden has been delayed by some trivial technical detail such as the national constitution.
Finnish police have confirmed they have found the body of a gunman responsible for killing five people in a shooting rampage in the southern city of Espoo.
Investigators said 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli shot dead three men and a woman with a 9mm pistol at a grocery shop inside the Sello shopping centre.
The body of Shkupolli's ex-girlfriend, who also worked at the shop, was later found at a flat in the city.
Oh, that’s why. It’s a domestic.
The incident is Finland's third major shooting in the past two years.
Police were first notified about the shooting inside the Prisma grocery store at 1008 local time (0808 GMT) on Thursday.
A witness told Finland's state broadcaster, YLE, that the gunman was dressed in black and appeared to have opened fire at random, hitting one man in the head and a woman in the stomach.
The victims were Prisma employees aged 27, 40, 42 and 45. Two were shot on the shop's first floor, the other two on its second floor, police said.
Another witness said chaos had ensued after the first shots were heard.
"There were loads of people who were crying, and many salespeople who were completely panicked," the witness told Finnish radio.
The gunman was later seen walking towards another shop. He then disappeared, sparking a major manhunt. The shopping centre was evacuated and cordoned off by armed police, and trains were not allowed to stop at the nearby Leppavaara railway station.
'Domestic' motive
It’s a domestic.
At a later news conference, police announced a Prisma employee had also been found dead at her flat in the outskirts of the city. It later emerged that the victim was Shkupolli's ex-girlfriend.
Investigators said they believed her killing had a "domestic"
It’s a domestic.
motive, and that there had been a restraining order in place.
"The four victims in the shopping centre were, in a way, outsiders. It looks like the incident is linked to the fifth victim," Chief Inspector Jukka Kaski told a news conference.
It’s a domestic.
"She seems to have been the gunman's main target and the whole shooting is tied up with the relationship between her and the gunman," he added.
It’s a domestic.
Shkupolli then returned to his own home and turned the gun on himself, police said.
Shkupolli was an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo who moved to Finland in 1990, shortly after which he began a relationship with the woman found dead on Thursday, according to Finnish media reports.
Their relationship broke down for the final time last year, when she told police he had threatened to kill her. A restraining order against him was later granted by a local court.
Shkupolli, who worked for a warehousing company organising deliveries to the Prisma shop, was reportedly also married to a woman of Albanian descent, with whom he had a family.
How do they know so fast?
Mind you, communications in Finland are famously easy and efficient (it must be all those Nokias), whereas in the States information is much more restricted and scarce: ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post and the New York Times all found it very difficult to access much background on Major Hasan, as it had all been taken out of the Libraryof Congress by Fox, Mark Steyn, the National review, FrontPage Magazine, Ann Coulter, and others – none of whom had taken the book back yet, the scoundrels.
Well, it does appear to have been a domestic murder that somehow the late Ibrahim Shkupolli decided to share with the general public. But I’m sure we’re all satisfied that there was nothing, um, ideological about it all.
The BBC is very keen to demonstrate its utter certainly that this is just love gone bad (with a free shopping mall massacre thrown in for local colour) and nothing else.
It’s that instant reflex that tells the keen observer that the BBC has a line on random shootings by Muslims: that they have nothing at all to do with Islam.
Ever.
Because even when they might just conceivably have something to do with the Religion of Peace here:
The BBC's North America correspondent Matthew Price says Maj Hasan's Islamic background has provoked a discussion in the US about whether the attack is a one-off tragedy or if it is illustrative of a more serious threat.
An army major accused of firing on and killing fellow soldiers in Texas is a US-born Muslim.
The reasons for the shooting are not clear, but Major Nidal Malik Hasan was reported to be unhappy at the alleged abuse he had received.
The BBC's Penny Spiller considers how it may affect the thousands of Muslims in the US military.
He is also reported to be a devout Muslim, who attended daily prayers at a mosque and was seen on the morning of the shooting wearing traditional Arabic dress as he shopped for groceries.
His relatives said he had become disillusioned with US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and strongly opposed his own imminent deployment to Afghanistan.
He had also long wanted to leave the army after suffering harassment because of his religion, they said.
Whatever the motivation, the tragedy at FortHood army base highlights the sensitivities surrounding the issue of American Muslims serving in the US armed forces.
…the evidence is questionable, to say the least.
So, (to paraphrase a friend), for those who are keeping score, whereas it takes days and indeed weeks for the BBC to still be puzzled whether Islam motivated a particular mass murder by a self-proclaimed Soldier of Allah and known Islamist, they are immediately and absolutely slap bang certain that they know the late Ibrahim S was purely and solely involved in a unilateral suicide pact which derived 100% from an affair of the heart.
I’m looking forward to the explanations - if the BBC and their pals bother to follow it up - as to why this typical everyday Romeo and Juliet story involved all those other random deaths.
Seán Lester: German reconstruction not being addressed Germans have not been able to obtain building supplies to repair damage.
League of Nations Secretary General Seán Lester has said more must be done to repair damage done in Alsace-Lorraine by British military action one year ago. Mr Lester said Germans were being denied "basic human rights" and urged Britain to end its "Uncceptable and counterproductive blockade". He said British well-being depended on conditions improving in the Continent. Rallies are being held across Germany to mark a year since the conflict, in which 14,000 Europeans were killed.
In comments printed on the League's news magazine, Mr Lester said he was "deeply concerned that neither the issues that led to this conflict nor its worrying aftermath are being addressed". He said that while levels of violence had been low in the past year, there was still no durable ceasefire after The Norwegian Campaign and Germans were "denied basic human rights". "The quality and quantity of humanitarian supplies entering Greater Germany is insufficient, broader economic and reconstruction activity is paralysed," said Mr Lester. Under Britain's blockade of Europe, only basic humanitarian supplies are allowed in, meaning Germans have not been able to obtain materials to repair damaged homes, buildings and infrastructure.
The League Commission for Refugees (LCR) in Germany told the BBC that public health was suffering as a result of inadequate and unsanitary water supplies, and there had been a rise in infant mortality. LCR spokesman Cristoforo Martini said thousands of tons of sewage were being pumped into the North Sea every day, because material for rebuilding treatment plants and other facilities was so scarce. An international humanitarian aid convoy of some 200 vehicles is hoping to mark the anniversary by delivering supplies to Germany. The convoy is currently in Sweden, awaiting permission to cross the Baltic Sea and proceed to Denmark.
The National Socialist Party, which controls Germany, is holding 22 days of rallies to mark the anniversary. Senior leader Joseph Goebbels said Germans remained "steadfast" after the conflict "The resistance, which defended its land with honour, was not broken," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.
Mr Lester called on Britain to end its blockade, uphold international law and make it possible for economic activity and civilian reconstruction to take place. He also urged The National Socialist Party to respect the law and bring an end to violence, and for all Europeans to "work for unity". He said there was "a sense of hopelessness in Germany today for 70 million Germans, half of whom are under 18" and that "a fundamentally different approach to Germany is urgently required". "Their fate and the well-being of Britain are intimately connected."
The BBC's Diana Mitford in Berlin said the mood on the anniversary of the Poland Campaign was relatively quiet, but uneasy. Both Britain and Germans in Europe believe 1941 is bound to bring further violence, our correspondent adds.
