To the BBC is the Islamic side of any argument automatically the one to be supported?

Over the past few days the BBC's submission to Islam (pun intended) has been even more apparent than usual. First there was the Wikileaks story in the reporting of which the BBC concentrated on the charges being made against NATO forces but only reported the equally valid claims that elements in the Pakistan regime were supporting the Taliban alongside Pakistani denials.

Then there was the reporting of David Cameron's trip to Pakistan and India. The BBC seemed angry that David Cameron felt able to criticise Pakistani government action (or lack of) on terrorism whilst be complimentary about India's democratic credentials; the BBC want the two nations to be treated equally but they are not equal - one is, by government design or not, a haven for Islamic terrorists, the other a vibrant democracy and frequent victim of Islamic terrorism.

Finally there was the way the BBC reported the claims and counter-claims regarding Islamophobia on the buses. The initial report reported as fact the claims of the two Muslim young women whilst the latter report on the Bus Company's findings from their CCTV coverage reported both the Bus Company's findings as of no more worth than that of the unsubstantiated claims of the young women. Please compare the two reports here and here and read my original report here to see how tardy the BBC were in reporting the Bus Company's side of the story.


The BBC - submission to Islam is what we like to do