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BBC whitewashes Islamic motivation of Westminster jihad attack

Mar 30, 2017 9:26 am By Robert Spencer

Farasat knew Masood five years ago. A lot can happen in five years. Farasat’s description of a quiet, pious family man conflicts with Masood’s history of violence. Above all, Farasat says nothing about the fact that Masood was once investigated for “violent extremism,” and of course the BBC interviewer doesn’t ask him about that. Farasat and the BBC have a common interest in making Islam look good and exonerating it of responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. If Masood had been a conservative supporter of Brexit, would the BBC have featured his old employer saying he was really quite a grand fellow and insisting that he didn’t commit the crime because he supported Brexit? To ask the question is to answer it.

“Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was ‘focused on his family,'” BBC, March 29, 2017:

A former employer of Khalid Masood has described him as a middle-class family man who was the “antithesis of a violent radical”.

Farasat, who wanted his identity to be protected, was a manager at an English language school where the Westminster attacker worked between 2010 and 2012.

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  1. Lynne says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 9:38 am

    Why are police and politicians and the left so focused on why he did it? He’s guilty and a man of violence. Everyone seems to be stepping around “feelings” and not the victims.

    • Angemon says

      Mar 30, 2017 at 10:24 am

      “Why are police and politicians and the left so focused on why he did it? ”

      They’re not focused on “why” he did it, they’re focused on “what he did had nothing to do with islam”.

    • Anne Smith says

      Mar 31, 2017 at 5:38 am

      That is the modern method of teaching in schools and colleges. Feelings are more important than facts. This has been on the way for some years now.

      The police no longer enforce the law, they have been turned into a wet soppy social service.

    • A Harris USA says

      Mar 31, 2017 at 4:05 pm

      Lynn, the fact is BBC is in a financial mess.. Saudi money is pouring into the false BBC . Of course religion if it is Islam had nothing to do with it… Same false news………. the world is full of it!! Just know that if you follow the BBC you follow false teachers…. UK is doomed…….No hope.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 10:27 am

    Not ISLAMIC?
    “Turhibunna” (terrorize them) – Koran 8.60

    Al Qaeda’s bin Laden explained JIHAD like this: “Battle, animosity, and HATRED …directed from the Muslim to the infidel…is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them.” – Osama bin Laden

    HATRED AGAINST THE DIRTY KUFAAR

    -from Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”

    -from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show animosity and hatred towards disbelievers and never support them.”

    -from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as enemies and hate them because of their kufr, just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”

    -from “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: …“[iv] to show enmity to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”
    (Note: Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their enmity or hatred towards the kufaar)

    -from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”
    (Note: not ‘if the time comes’, but ‘WHEN the time comes.)

  3. JIMJFOX says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 11:25 am

    BBC + ALJAZEERA = partners in crime. Both funded by dirty Islamic money & both anti-civilisation.
    AJ English is staffed by ex-BBC personnel I remember from my UK days; even the weathermen!
    Sickening turncoats, prostituting themselves in true BBC fashion.

  4. Ronen says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 11:26 am

    So what else is new? Just the usual lies…

  5. AleX says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 11:41 am

    Westminster attack is a clear sign of ‘global outbreak of mental illness’ (Robert Spencer).
    Scientists at BBC and other major epidemic centres work relentlessly to find an answer to that.

  6. DFD says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 11:55 am

    “BBC whitewashes Islamic motivation of Westminster jihad attack”

    My oh my, oh my? Did I get that right?
    Or is it:
    **May oh May, oh May…. Oh Theresa.”

    Why did he do it? Obviously, he was suffering from something mental. Cause? An overdose of Quran reading! That frequently sends people into an outright psychosis – or whatever the appropriate term used by shrinks.

  7. Isntlam says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 1:41 pm

    His religion doesn’t particularly discourage such attacks.

  8. Tara says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    It took the BBC forever to declare his name. Then, they harped incessantly on his being “British born”; and, after that, they went on and on about his being “a deeply religious” man! Deeply religious about what? The religion of hate? And blowing up innocent civilians?

    How far will European leaders go to sanitize Islamic terrorists and terror? Until their countries are blown up beyond all recognition?

    They don’t get it. They probably think being conciliatory with Islamic apologists will make jihad abate. Not at all. The more they cosy up to Islamic jihadists, the greater the impunity and ruthlessness of the latter to perpetrate further attacks against innocent Europeans.

    Succinctly: Europe’s leaders have not the faintest clue about how jihad works; or about how a significant part of the Islamic population is in sympathy with jihadist terror.

    • Michael Miller says

      Mar 31, 2017 at 5:02 am

      I actually believe that some of these politicians do know how Islam works ans they want a population cull. they want these attacks to happen so they can surpress the population with fear.

      • Lilythewise says

        Apr 2, 2017 at 9:57 pm

        That doesn’t sound too far fetched anymore.
        I don’t know who is more dangerous the Muslim Migrants or their leftist allies.

  9. jayell says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    I recall that Pesident Trump lumped the BBC and CNN together. I have been watching CNN’s coverage of the Westminster business and I’ve found myself checking which channel I’m.watching. CNN have been focussing on the commemoration demo on Westminster bridge and two Muslims in particular who appear to be trying to push this ‘Islam is love and sweetness and light’ rubbish (one of them.is linked with the Canadian ‘Ask a Muslim’ joke). Quite how they’ve got the nerve to push this deliberately twisted and misleading propaganda down peoples’ throats defeats me, when they must (a) be aware that they are lying and (b) be aware that there are many around the globe that know they’re lying.

    • Tara says

      Mar 30, 2017 at 4:23 pm

      I watched Christian Amanpour interview the “I’m a Muslim – Ask Me” pair. I can’t believe people are falling for this stuff. They lied through their teeth about Islam being for peace. Thus, jihad is avowedly about jihad with oneself, to attain some more exalted state of realization about Allah, if you please – the world knows that jihad is a call to completely destroy the kafirs. In the most swift and most barbaric manner possible.

  10. Benedict says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    Once again it is proved – except to the willfully blind – that Islam is conducive to terror, madness and hypocrisy, and that it has a special appeal to petty criminals, who like to believe that their sins can be expunged by committing atrocities in its name and according to its teachings.

  11. Baucent says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 8:27 pm

    “I don’t think…..”

    As Robert points out five years is a long time in terms of the path of “radicalization” and his opinion based on knowing the attacker years ago is of little value. I have more faith in the comments of the mother, who was in no doubt it was his “beliefs” that made him do it.

  12. Peter says

    Mar 30, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    No, he was motivated and inspired by the ostensible “true faith:” Islam. Muhammed was a self-declared terrorist, who also used terror to advance “his” faith: Islam.

  13. Michael Miller says

    Mar 31, 2017 at 5:21 am

    The BBC have been telling lies and spreading its propoganda for years now. Millions of people all over the world now know Fascist Islam has nothig to do with peace, but everything to do with war and killing none Muslims. The press, after the attack seem like they are more concerned about Islam and the killer then the victims. Getting together lighting candles and holding hands is just want islam wants. Islam is laughing at the west as you’re giving them permission to attack again and they will.

  14. Crusades Were Right! says

    Mar 31, 2017 at 8:06 am

    The fact that the Chummy was born in the UK has been used by Islamo-apologists to suggest that immigration isn’t part of the Mohammedan terror problem.

    Seems to me though, that since Chummy is clearly of immigrant ancestry, Britons today are suffering for the immigration policies of the past.

    I wonder if there’s a lesson there for the FUTURE, perhaps?

    • Crusades Were Right! says

      Mar 31, 2017 at 8:08 am

      Superfluous “the” in first sentence. Sorry!

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 31, 2017 at 2:54 pm

        No problem – I’m always making mistakes when “typing on the fly”!

        I often rewrite a sentence, and forget to change something in the original sentence to work with the new one.

        It’s not that I don’t know the English grammar or punctuation; it’s that I’m too often pressed for time.

  15. Bsrat says

    Mar 31, 2017 at 10:54 am

    BBC and the rest of western media along with politicians are not willing to call Islamic terrorism motivated by Islamic doctrine what it’s. Muslims will always lie day and night to defend their evil and hopeless religion.

  16. Doug P says

    Mar 31, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    I wonder the same thing but the left thinks they’re So clever that maybe islam will see them as allies? Or pardon them for the “assistance”? No,islam will cut their throats & be done. It confounds me how the globalists are doing So much damage being as Stupid as they are ! They are cunning & persistent though,must know something we don’t….

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