Aaqil Ahmed says that to give preference to Christian programming would be "living in the past." Clearly he sees an Islamic future for Britain.
"Church of England is 'living in the past', says BBC's head of religion," by Jonathan Wynne-Jones in the Telegraph, February 6 (thanks to Anthony):
The BBC's head of religion has accused the Church of England of "living in the past" and said that the corporation should not give Christianity preferential treatment.Aaqil Ahmed, a controversial executive whose appointment last year prompted more than 100 complaints, said: "I think all the faiths should be treated in the same way. I don't believe in treating any faith differently."
He dismissed claims that the BBC was marginalising religion as overly simplistic and argued that Christianity, in particular, was already covered well on television....
There has been growing concern at top levels of the Church over the corporation's approach to religion, with warnings that it must not ignore its Christian audience....
Bishops, clergy and lay members of the General Synod will vote this week on a motion calling on the state broadcaster to explain why its television coverage of Christianity has declined so steeply in recent years.
Output has fallen from 177 hours of religious programming on BBC television in 1987/88 to 155 hours in 2007/08 - a period during which the overall volume of programming has doubled.
However, in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Ahmed, an award-winning programme-maker, said that the Church's criticisms were too simplistic.
"I don't believe that we should be basing the debate on 20-year-old figures, the conversation is far more complicated than that," he said.
"It's very easy to live in the past, but we live in the present. In a few years' time the way we're going to view television will change radically, so the conversation will become even more redundant.
"We'll listen to what they say, but we're clear that we know what we're doing and we'll stick to that."...
Mr Ahmed - the first Muslim to hold his post - revealed that BBC One will air two explicitly Christian documentaries during Holy Week....
Mr Ahmed's comment that Christianity should not receive preferential treatment comes despite nearly three-quarters of the population describing themselves as Christian in the last census....
Ahmed's influence is already very evident, with two "specials" on BBC Radio International, one of Muslim Televangelists, and another a repeat of last year's "Secret Scientists", both of which *extremely* favourable to the Islamic-apologetic view. I wrote to them about this, and encourage others to do so.
Re "all faiths should be treated in the same way", that's as trite and as wrong as saying that all political parties should be treated in the same way: clearly we don't treat a Nazi party in the same way as a Nationalist or a Socialist...
As Robert Spencer has pointed out:
Islam is unique among the religions of the world in having a developed doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers.
I wonder if anyone -- anyone? -- in the BBC will realise, understand, and act on that understanding? Ever? Before it's too late?
"Church of England is 'living in the past', says BBC's head of religion...
That's weird...The BBC has a head of religion...A strange title...I wonder what it pays...
Ahmed...I don't believe in treating any faith differently."
If Ahmed is a Mahoundian, we automatically know that statement is a lie...
Mr. Ahmed is floating a trial balloon. You can expect more aggressive statements and action if this floats by.
It's the BBC (along with a good many members of government and the media) that is "living in the past"; in this case the past of 30-40 years ago, the founding era of multi-culturalism and political correctness, which would bring the world a new era of peace and harmony. And so the Western World allowed itself to be flooded with tens of millions of 3rd-world immigrants, many of them bringing with them habits, beliefs, and attitudes antagonistic to, and incompatible with, Western values and practices. But we were told that this was a Good Thing; our culture would be enriched. Well, 30 or 40 years along, the bulk of the population has discovered that it was not a good thing, it was a disaster that is destroying our culture and civilization. But our elites, like the BBC, are still living in the past.
Of course, when it comes to living in the past, it's Islam that takes the cake. Islam is still living in the 7th century, and in a particularly primitive and barbarian part of the 7th century -- Arabia.
It may be that 75% of the population describes itself as Christian, but along with that 75%, all the other non-Muslims recognize, and many would support, a BBC that did not favor, at every turn, above all in its reporting and analysis, such consistent and by-now almost comical apologetics for Islam, and promotion of the Muslim worldview, not least in matters of politics and geopolitics. I am sure that Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, agnostics and atheists would favor the replacement, not only of this aggressive, hostile, and slyly vicious "head" of religions programming, but a wholesale cleaning up of the Augean stables at Bush House, begining with hard-voiced Lyse Doucet, Barbara Plett (who wept at Arafat's death), Frank "Help Me I'm A Muslim" Gardner, and many others who daily drop their poison in the ear of its long-suffering audience, in Great Britain and, through the World Service, abroad, through their broadcasts, until that audience, like Hamlet, make a decision, and take their longed-for and justified revenge on many who complacently ply their trade, concoct their poisons in their treasonous cocoon at Bush House.
There should be, outside Bush House, a permanent picket line, in which various members of the British public take turns standing there -- a few hours at a time. Let that line be there, with signs protesting how the BBC covers Islam, acts as a Defender of the Faith -- that faith being islam, and how it covers, so meretriciously and viciously, all that is not-Islam and is in the sights of those conducting Jihad through propaganda or other means -- America, Israel, Geert Wilders, anyone and anything that needs, in Muslim eyes, to have its name blackened, its cause belittled, its legitimacy denied.
A permanent picket line outside Bush House. With Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, black African Christians from Nigeria and the southern Sudan, people as firmly atheist as Pat Condell or the late Francis Crick, and of course, yes, let's not forget, those indigenous Christians of the British isles who, despite everything, still constitute at least three-quarters of the population.
One should not be too surprised by this sort of thing from the BBC. In addition to having a muslim dictate the religious broadcasting policy in what is still nominally a Christian country we have regular programmes on the wonderful world of Islam. I would say at least weekly, we are treated to lectures on radio and TV programmes about islamic thought, islamic art and islamic society, all very positive stuff.
Last weeks treat was a discussion about some obscure Arab scholar from North Africa. Naturally his aristocratic family had lost all when they'd been driven out of Andalusia by the aggressive Christians. We were told the greatest influence on him had been the three years he spent wandering around the desert with the Bedouin and I found myself wishing the entire BBC would do the same except for rather longer than three years. Strangely enough one of this Arab fellows observations struck a chord with me. He believed a ruling class did not last longer than five generations because it lost touch with the people it governed. Pretty much like the BBC and our present political establishment.
The appointment of this man is just part of the intelligentsias policy of nailing Christianity for once-and-for-all. Christians of every denomination including the once powerful and respected Catholic Church are regularly subjected to every kind of ridicule but discussion of islam is "sacred".
"The BBC's head of religion ... Aaqil Ahmed"
Well, what the hell did one expect? Ahmed is completely incapable of being impartial about religion, as the fools who appointed him undoubtedly knew. His job is to help break the hold of traditional Christianity in Britain.
The BBC is in many respects similar to the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S., so bound and gagged by political correctness and multiculturalism as to be practically worthless when it comes to reporting anything that might in any way appear to be disrespectful or critical about any aspect of any culture anywhere, past or present - unless it's Judeo-Christian and Western, of course.
Both are reminiscent of the old Soviet Life magazines that used to be distributed here, and which painted a rosy view of how wonderful life was in the old Soviet paradise. There were pictures of the beautiful chandeliers in the Moscow subway, and of colorfully costumed Estonian girls performing ethnic dances, and of the Soviet Army Men's Chorus belting out the Internationale, and descriptions of the wonderful ethnic food to be found in Dushanbe and Almaty, and smiling peasants harvesting the wheat in the Ukraine, and detailed accounts of fraternal meetings between Brezhnev and Dubcek or Ho Chi Minh or Castro, and on and on and on. Nice pictures, but reading it was rather like reading a comic book that you knew was based on make believe.
Watching BBC and PBS induces a similar kind of feeling today as reading Soviet Life used to induce in its waning days. Both need revamping and the old socialists running them replaced with a new cadre willing to produce programming that respects their audiences. Otherwise, they deserve to suffer the same fate of Soviet Life (and more recently Air America, a liberal talk radio channel that folded because no one thought it interesting enough to listen to).
BBC = Barbarians Broadcasting Corporation .. anti-Christian, anti-British and anti-democratic determined to lower standards and encourage foulness in language and behavior.
I just can't tell you how sad it makes me about what's happened to Great Britain. I used to live in Nurnberg in the eighties and had always hoped to go back there and show it to my wife, but now I'm not even going to renew my passport because Europe has fallen, and I just can't bear to see it firsthand. I have my memories, though.
Wake up Europe
Fight this cancer before it is too late!
Taqiya to a Beeboid means a meal purchased with the intention of not consuming it on the premises.
This is yet more deliberate provocation of the masses.
Push until it breaks seems to be the methodology. When it does break wait for the howls of protest of islamophobia.
Our patience and tolerance is wearing very thin. The mood has changed.
Read the blog comment across the media strata and the once unsaid has burst from the genie bottle.
This isn't racism. It's our very survival as a white nominaly Judeo Christian nation and at last the people have awoken.
Playing with fire especially when the tinder is bone dry results in conflagration.
Is this what al-Beeb wants?