Thursday 23 May 2013
BBC News Glamorizes Terrorism
Yesterday's attack on an off duty soldier in the
London suburb of Woolwich is a truly shocking event. The two deranged men hacked the man to death
in broad daylight and then stood around proclaiming "god is great"
and other medieval nonsense until the police arrived to deal with them. The
press have been quick to tell us that this murder has all the hallmarks if an
al-Qaida inspired attack, the terror organisation has apparently migrated to
low tech "lone wolf" operations to reduce the chances of being caught
by the security services. The two
assailants remained on the scene until armed police eventually arrived up to 20
minutes later, how long does it take to respond to a terrorist incident in
central London? Surely not 20
minutes!! Scotland Yard's police
commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said officers from the counter-terrorist
unit were leading the investigation into the "shocking and horrific"
incident. "We have launched a
murder investigation, being led by the counter-terrorism command. Two men have
been arrested in connection with that murder." There is a simple and
chilling message that this sick crime is trying to communicate to other
terror-curious Muslims - "anyone can be a terrorist now". Given the scale of latent anger that exists
within our Muslim communities and the lack of an alternative positive narrative
for disaffected young Muslim men we should be concerned. We should be concerned that inside our
boarders we now have a pan-religion anger management problem that will
certainly spill more innocent blood.
Solving the global problem of coexistence between our modern society and
unreconstructed fundamentalist with Dark Age belief systems is going to be a
long term project and the UK is on the front line. Clearly the worst aspect of this incident is
the violent death of an innocent man and the loss inflicted on his family and
friends. Insults has been added to this
tragedy through the appalling coverage of this horror event by all the news
media and particularly the BBC. To have
to watch the BBC news and Newsnight last night, where they gave these loony
religious zealots airtime was one of the worst editorial decision in the BBC's
recent history and that is saying something.
To broadcast the murderer, with blood all over his hands and the body
lying in full view, was a gift to terrorism and a gross affront to the victim
and all right minded viewers.
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