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UK: BBC made comedian re-record joke about ISIS to avoid offending Muslims

Jan 28, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“And then, at the end of the show, the BBC lost their mind, [saying] ‘You need to re-record it! You need to say Isis aren’t devout Muslims.’ I was like, ‘Are you worried we are going to offend Isis?’ Are they going to write in?'”

No, it’s clear that the BBC was not worried about offending the Islamic State (ISIS). Calling ISIS devout Muslims wouldn’t offend them. They are devout Muslims. The BBC was worried about offending the Muslims who hold to the fiction, or want British non-Muslims to hold to the fiction, that ISIS isn’t Islamic and doesn’t operate according to Islamic teachings.

What cringing cowardice. Cowardice and kowtowing before Islamic intimidation are pandemic these days, but that doesn’t make them any more excusable. I’m with Charb, the editor of Charlie Hebdo who was murdered by jihadis: “I’d rather die standing up than live on my knees.” And he did. And I may. But there really isn’t any other alternative. How can these BBC jellyfish live with themselves?

“Comedian Russell Howard reveals BBC made him re-record a joke about ISIS in case it offended the murderous terror group,” by Rory Tingle, Mailonline, January 28, 2019:

Russell Howard has claimed BBC executives once made him re-record a joke about ISIS in case it offended the genocidal terrorist group.

The comedian, speaking about freedom of speech on Sky One’s The Russell Howard Hour, said a routine in which he attacked the terror cult for ‘not being Muslims’ after the 2015 Paris attacks sparked concerns among the corporation’s management.

Howard, 38, claimed he was told to change the skit to instead say Isis ‘weren’t ‘devout’ Muslims’, prompting the Bristol-born comic to question, ‘are we worried about offending ISIS?’

The 38-year-old said: ‘A while back I worked for the BBC and I did a piece about the Paris attacks when I said Isis weren’t Muslims, they were terrorists – and the crowd cheered.

‘And then, at the end of the show, the BBC lost their mind, [saying] ‘You need to re-record it! You need to say Isis aren’t devout Muslims.’

‘I was like, “Are you worried we are going to offend Isis?'” Are they going to write in?’

Howard then imagined an ISIS terrorist writing a letter of complaint to the BBC’s feedback programme about his former show, Russell Howard’s Good News.

‘Dear Points Of View, imagine my horror when I was misrepresented on a late-night satire show. Farouk and I will be cancelling our TV licence. Please excuse my handwriting, I have a hook for a hand.’

He added: ‘F*** those traitors to their faith! If they are killing people, the least I can do as a comedian is call them names. And if Isis gets upset, then f*** them.’

In the broadcast version of Russell Howard’s Good News, the wording ‘devout Muslims’ was used….

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, Featured, free speech, Islamic supremacism, journalistic bias, United Kingdom, Useful idiots Tagged With: bbc, Russell Howard


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  1. Bevky says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 12:16 pm

    Freedom of speech is gone, except for MUSLIMS!

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    Why are Muslims ‘offended’ about mockery of ISIS? You would think that Muslims are DEFENDERS of ISIS.

    Muslim leaders have told us they don’t support ISIS … so why would they be ‘offended’ if someone criticizes WHAT THEY DON’T SUPPORT.

    The answer of Muslims seems to be nothing but TAQIYYA … they denounce ISIS in public, but support it in private.

    – “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon

  3. Gene says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    I’m offended! Are you implying that BBC executives are idiots? I’ll have you know that less than half of BBC executives are actual idiots. Most of the rest are just insane, which is not their fault as it is a legitimate medical condition. The BBC demands an immediate apology!

  4. somehistory says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    “Devout” or not, they are still moslims and they go by what’s written in their filthy, evil book and worship a filthy, evil, mass murderer, raper of children. Let the moslims themselves determine who is “devout” and who is not.
    Saying isis members are not “devout”..just might offend them even more. There is no logic in islam, but they most likely believe themselves extra devout.

    The BBC has moslims on the payroll, so this decision is no surprise.

    • PRCS says

      Jan 28, 2019 at 4:54 pm

      “and worship a filthy, evil, mass murderer, raper of children”

      No.

      They WORSHIP their guy in the sky, ‘Allah’.

      They REVERE the scam artist, Muhammad.

  5. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 1:40 pm

    99.99% of 1.7 billion BBC executives are not actual idiots. Stop stereotyping. You’re crowding me and I don’t feel ok right now.

  6. DogOnPorch says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    Of course ISIS is Islamic…and devout. Islam also encourages the faithful to LIE to the dirty kafir….that is…non-Muslims.

  7. No Muzzies Here says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 1:52 pm

    This shows who really is in charge of the country, and it’s not the Brits.

  8. thebigW says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    I got confused by the article and it took me a while to see that this comedian never said ISIS Muslims were “devout” in the first place. He just IMPLIED it and that was too much for the BBC.

    In fact, it don’t like like he implied it to ME. In fact, he said practically the frikkin’ OPPOSITE:

    “The comedian, speaking about freedom of speech on Sky One’s The Russell Howard Hour, said a routine in which he attacked the terror cult for ‘not being Muslims’ after the 2015 Paris attacks sparked concerns among the corporation’s management. “

    • PRCS says

      Jan 28, 2019 at 6:27 pm

      I noted that, too.

      He said (wrongly) that ISIS members are not Muslims, and also wrongly (if I heard him correctly) that they’re traitors to their faith.

      Either he misunderstood what BBC suits wanted/told him to say, or he’s not telling the truth about that.

      Why ever would the BBC be upset with him repeating the lie so many Muslims and their useful idiots also say: that ISIS members are not Muslims.

      Something’s not quite right with this story.

      • thebigW says

        Jan 28, 2019 at 8:50 pm

        if this article is accurate, it just goes to show two things, far as I can tell: 1–the BBC is stupider than we think (because they can’t see that Russell Howard was obviously already protecting Muslims) and 2–in the West you get people criticizing each other for not defending Muslims enough even though BOTH of them are defending Muslims.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    UK: BBC made comedian re-record joke about ISIS to avoid offending Muslims
    ………………..

    Can’t have comedians offending ISIS…good Lord…

  10. Mirren10 says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    Exactly, I noticed it too. The usual pathetic ostrich head in the sand – IS aren’t real muslims.There was a story on here a few years ago, (can’t find it) about a mohammedan who had attacked someone on the tube with a knife I think, and one of the witnesses shouted at him, ”you ain’t no muslim bruv” (or something like that)

    Point is, all the tabloids took it up as providing evdence these jihad attacks/murders were *not islamic**. . A When of course, that is *exactly* what they are. Oh, yes, and evidence that decent Brits weren’t ‘racist’ because, you know, ‘tiny minority of extremists.’

    The BBC are however, as usual unconscionable.

    Mr Spencer wonders ” How can these BBC jellyfish live with themselves?” I used to wonder that, too. Then I realised that to creatures of that ilk, *nothing* is worth telling the truth about, or defending, if it threatens their comfortable little status quo. Faugh.

  11. Raja says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    By re-recording BBC has inadvertently admitted that ISIS is mainstream Islam. This is in line with the sharia- wanting Muslims who are generally more than 80 percent across globe.

    The media is always trying to look the other way, trying to distinguish the non existent true Islam and false Islam. They are so stupid… God help them.

  12. TruthHonestReality says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 3:09 am

    It’s important to note that the bbc exclusively uses tax dollars to make their content. Using their logic and the rhetoric leftists use today this would be like a network saying that you can’t make jokes against white supremacists because it mite offend white people <—— obviously this would never happen!
    I thought that islam and mu slimes were a religion of peace but they’ll get offended if you joke about a group of mass murdering violent scum!?!
    People didn’t ask for this type of world yet our elected and non elected officials chose to flood the countries we built with people who want to murder us and destroy us and we in return give them preferential treatment, the west have lost their collective minds and bravery because we’ve shown nothing but cowardice in the face of our extinction.

    Each & every day we see, read and hear extreme racism and racial intolerance of and for white people/Caucasians and no one even calls it racism and no one has a problem with it especially the media. The future doesn’t look good considering that their will not even be a place for caucasians to live free like how every other race on earth is allowed to do……….

  13. Rufolino says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 5:06 am

    The above story left me very confused. The issues are mixed up and far from clear.

  14. Laura says

    Jan 29, 2019 at 5:32 am

    “Traitors to their faith?’ Not at all, they are carrying out Allah’s orders, to the letter.

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