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Compassion. "TV reporters are not showing the Taliban's humanity, says BBC presenter," from the Daily Mail, August 25 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
A BBC presenter has attacked coverage of Afghanistan's ongoing war, claiming TV reporters are not covering the 'humanity of the Taliban'.Lyse Doucet, a presenter and correspondent on BBC World News, was speaking at a discussion of TV reporting of the war in the country.
Doucet, who has been at the BBC since 1983, also spoke out against the nature of the reports on Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan.
The veteran correspondent and presenter, who played a key role in the BBC's coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, told the Edinburgh International Television Conference: 'What's lacking in the coverage of the Afghans is the sense of the humanity of the Afghans.
'In the Prince Harry coverage for example, there were all these people out there but you never really saw them.
'You knew that the bombs were dropping in that direction and the guns pointing in that direction but you never got a sense of how Afghans are as a people.'
Asked what was missing in British coverage, she added: 'It may sound odd but the humanity of the Taliban, because the Taliban are a wide, very diverse group of people.
Like the Nazis! Wonderfully diverse folks, Adolf and the gang, doncha know!
'Some of them would like to talk to the British Government. Some of them don't want to be fighting British troops. Some of them would. This is the ideological Taliban.'We never have the ability or sometimes the desire to present this in a different way, so that people would be interested... it's a regret.'...
Posted by Robert at August 28, 2008 6:44 AM
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Lyse Doucet.....Israel hater, lover of mass murdering Jew hating Arabs.......a traitor who loathes what is good and free...and now Taliban apologist.
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at August 28, 2008 7:07 AM
"Some of them don't want to be fighting British troops."
She means the ones too busy beating and stoning women - the ones who would like to go back to the good ol' days of soccer field executions and high diving meets (without water in the pool, of course).
Posted by: DJM at August 28, 2008 7:26 AM
"Oh! Oh, the humanity!"
-Gentleman commenting on the Hindenberg disaster
Posted by: S Perry at August 28, 2008 7:34 AM
The humanity of the Taliban.
It's enough to make one physically ill. Definitely the winner of the title "Oxymoron of the Year".
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at August 28, 2008 7:39 AM
Yes, we recall recents acts of humanity by the Taliban--like the cold-blooded murder of three Western women aid workers--sooo downright noble and inspiring!
Posted by: John C at August 28, 2008 8:03 AM
The Taliban, and those like them, gave up their humanity 1400 years ago. They lost it, haven't found it yet, and likely never will.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at August 28, 2008 9:00 AM
OT --Must Read!
PC Moonbat British journalism student, female, who sympathizes with the problems Mohammedan illegals have getting into Britain, gang-raped by those same Mohammedan male illegals in Calais, France.
Also read the Comments to the article as they are worthy of JW.
Posted by: darcy at August 28, 2008 9:25 AM
at August 28, 2008 9:29 AM
Hmm...The Taliban...Do they bleed when they get shot? That's human enough for me...
Posted by: Abscedere at August 28, 2008 10:24 AM
darcy,
Although that article provides this description ...
Most of the men claimed to be from Iraq, Afghanistan or the Middle East, although police believe many were from eastern Europe and the Balkans.
... I see no reference to these men as mostly/all muslim. So, to maintain the mutlicultural prism through which so many of these kinds of stories are filtered, I must assume these attacks could just as easily have been perpetrated by rogue Amish.
Posted by: Paleologus at August 28, 2008 10:25 AM
Paleologus,
Of course the stupid PC Dhimmi British newspaper isn't going to say "Muslim." It's the reference to their places of origin that lets us know they're Mohammedan.
I know you're being sarcastic about the "rogue Amish."
I betcha this PC MoonBat's sympathetic feelings about the poor downtrodden Mohammedan male illegal immigrants have changed. Do you concur?
Posted by: darcy at August 28, 2008 10:41 AM
"TV reporters are not covering the 'humanity of the Taliban'."
Even if a few Taliban did start showing signs of humanity (and I'm not holding my breath), what would reporting on it accomplish? What the BBC would like to accomplish, of course, is for us horrible Westerners to stop invading their country and waging genocide against the demonized, misunderstood Taliban.
Posted by: Bigshaker at August 28, 2008 11:22 AM
It is these kind of people that will bring the downfall of the west.
It it too bad she can't be dropped off in Waziristan alone.
at August 28, 2008 1:06 PM
Ignore reality, replace it with fantasy, the PC multicultural, diversity mythology, that has only resulted in one tragedy after another.
The people who continue to push this in spite of reality, are too impaired to be in any kind of power position, including the MSM.
Lyse Doucet, and other liberals like her, should be canned...Let them instead take up janitorial.
The only difference between a MSM journalist and a janitor is a trip down the hallway to the mop closet...I bet Lyse can swing a mop with the best of them...
at August 28, 2008 1:29 PM
Lyse Doucet?
Well, she's appeared at this site many times before. Google her name, and "Jihad Watch" and either "Posted by Hugh" or "Hugh Fitzgerald" and see what comes up, about the nasty-voiced lady who used to report so viciously on Israel, until she, and Orla Guerin, and Barbara "Weepy" Plett, were moved about a bit, when their incredible bias became not too much -- oh, it's never too much for the BBC World Service -- but simply too noticeable, and had aroused too much comment, too much fury.
In the spirit of Hurricane Gustav(e) that is heading our way, perhaps it's a good time to seek, and find, the mot juste to describe Lyse Doucet. Yes, I've just found it. Shit. That's it. That's the mot juste.
Posted by: Hugh at August 28, 2008 1:30 PM
"TV reporters are not showing the Taliban's humanity, says BBC presenter."
There are only two possible solutions for this: (1) get the Taliban to use smaller charges, or (2) use a wider angle lens.
'It may sound odd but the humanity of the Taliban, because the Taliban are a wide, very diverse group of people.
Uh, O-K. How many religions are represented in this "wide, very diverse group"?
From Robert: Like the Nazis! Wonderfully diverse folks, Adolf and the gang, doncha know!
Yep, old Adolf was big on "folksiness". He must have been surrounded by a bunch of misunderstanders of Naziism. Yeah, that's the ticket.
at August 28, 2008 4:02 PM
Darcy and Paleologus, was the young lady wearing a burkha? If not, she was just uncovered meat, as the Moslems say.
Posted by: ebonystone at August 28, 2008 4:15 PM
Disgusting. This sort of thing feeds on the fallacy that there are two sides to every issue.
Posted by: Family Values at August 28, 2008 4:37 PM
It crossed my mind that Lyse Doucet would be an Acadian name so I googled her, and indeed she is from Bathurst, New Brunswick. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize for inflicting this woman on the world. French Canadians in general are very pro-Arab and anti-Israel, unfortunately---they have a rich tradition of antisemitism inculcated by the very backward, fascist-leaning Catholic clergy of French Canada.
Posted by: Family Values at August 28, 2008 4:42 PM
Darcy and Paleologus, was the young lady wearing a burkha? If not, she was just uncovered meat, as the Moslems say.
Posted by: ebonystone
ebonystone, I get your point, but we both know how Islam treats women, uncovered or not. ... which leads me to the question repeated by Robert and others out here ... Why is the feminist movement so notoriously silent on how Islam treats women?
I betcha this PC MoonBat's sympathetic feelings about the poor downtrodden Mohammedan male illegal immigrants have changed. Do you concur?
Posted by: darcy
darcy, unfortunately, I don't think the abandonment of these mindless sympathetic feelings about the "poor downtrodden Mohammedan male illegal immigrants" is a slam dunk for this woman, EVEN after her horrible experience. Of course you know, the term MoonBat, as used out here, requires complete blindness to the threat posed by Islam. ... maybe she sees the light now, but don't count on it. More importantly, the totality of the MoonBat mainstream media is too stupid, blind, complicitous (pick any combination) to connect the dots. Islam is every bit as lethal an ideological threat to western culture as was nazism and communism. The big difference is that there were enough in the West who realized the inherent evil contained in nazism and communism. Today, however, there are far too many MoonBats and others who fail to recognize the inherent evil contained within the ideology of Islam.
at August 28, 2008 5:21 PM
Yvonne Ridley must have had a fit of envy when she heard that...
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at August 28, 2008 11:50 PM
"Like the Nazis! Wonderfully diverse folks, Adolf and the gang..."
The ideal SS man, it was said, was as German as Hitler, as blond as Himmler, as tall as Goebbels and as lean as Goering.
Wonder what the ideal Taliban is like?
The "humanity" of Mo, the cunning of Mo, the unscrupulousness of Mo, the economy with the truth of Mo, the malevolence of Mo... hmm the list gets longer and longer.
Heck, these guys are stamped from the same mold - the Sharia and the imams see to that. They are followers of the Compleat Totalitarian cult. It licks nazi and commie totalitarianism hollow.
Posted by: Hedgehog at August 29, 2008 10:16 AM
Here's some Taliban humanity for you:
http://www.rawa.org/fa-kab.htm
http://www.rawa.org/handcut3.htm
http://www.rawa.org/handcut2.htm
http://www.rawa.org/mazar-p.htm
http://www.rawa.org/poisoned.htm
http://www.rawa.org/hindu-e.htm
http://www.rawa.org/statues2.htm
And the master list:
http://www.rawa.org/gallery.html
at August 29, 2008 12:06 PM
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