Over the weekend LM decided to watch a bit of TV and see how the BBC were investing my licence fee money on programming.
Sadly what I found on BBC 2 during prime time viewing on Saturday was El Cid and on Sunday The Long Duel the former a movie about Muslims sadly being forced out of Spain and the latter a film about colonial exploits of the British Raj in North West province of India which is now Pakistan. Notice how the Radio Times describes Yul Brynner's character the Sultan as a "rebel" and "ranting" when in reality all he along with other Indians were doing were correctly attempting to free their country from British colonialists and occupiers.
LM is in no doubt that the BBC under Mark Thompson who married an Israelite has taken a considerable lurch to the right not just in its pro Israel news editorial output or current affairs programmes like Panorama but also across its entertainment schedule.
Unlike in the USA where leading CBS anchor Katie Couric has called for a Muslim Cosby Show here in the UK the BBC seems to be lurching further into the abyss by championing anti Muslim hysteria with programmes that show Muslims negatively and stereotypically as violent. Last week the BBC also showed Raiders of the Lost Ark which is widely acknowledged as portraying Arabs negatively. Raiders was directed by Jewish Director Spielberg and El Cid by Jewish producer Samuel Bronston but of course when oppressed become oppressors complete silence.
While there is little doubt about current BBC agenda headed by a man who married an Israelite, LM believes the concerted and coordinated campaign by right wing neo cons and Israelites is beginning to have an impact. As a result the onus is on Muslims and others who champion anti racism to contact the BBC asking why it is currently aggressively embedding anti Muslim programmes on its channels.
LM will be writing to the BBC complaining and urges others to do the same here on this complaints form
I do agree and had the same thoughts as you when I was flipping channels this last week - ran into a similar orientalist movie on Xmas day as well.
ReplyDeleteAm following your blog now, do check out my blog on http://chowrangi.blogspot.com - I do cover a bit on media and representations there.
Thanks for your post!
Why is it correct for muslims along with other indians to attempt to free their country from British colonialists and occupiers, whereas a film about Spaniards correctly attempting to free their country from muslim colonialists and occupiers is described as "about Muslims sadly being forced out of Spain"?
ReplyDeleteDo you really imagine that the Director-General of the B.B.C. spends his time deciding exactly what will be on which channel in the interest of your delusory "Israelite" agenda? Ifso, you'd be well-placed to star as the muslim Basil Fawlty.
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The comment "about Muslims sadly being forced out of Spain"? is because in many quarters it is suggested that the majority of Muslims in Spain were descended from local converts. These local converts were labelled as Moors & foreigners by those that remained Christian. This parallels what happened in the genocide in Bosnia i.e. formerly Christian Slavs who converted to Islam being mis-labelled as "Turks".
ReplyDeleteAh. You mean people who served colonialists and occupiers against their fellow-countrymen and adopted the religion and ideology of the colonialists and occupiers. There's a term for people like that: traitors.
ReplyDeleteThat was probably the attitude of the Spaniards.
In fact, local converts and their descendants were pribably a minority among muslims in Spain. The dependence of muslim states in Spain on Moorish military aid throughout their existence and the constant fear of native christian revolt suggests that muslim rule in spain was aclassic colonial enterprise.
I would worry more about the army playstation games than films like El Cid,
ReplyDelete"Last week the BBC also showed Raiders of the Lost Ark which is widely acknowledged as portraying Arabs negatively. Raiders was directed by Jewish Director Spielberg and El Cid by Jewish producer Samuel Bronston but of course when oppressed become oppressors complete silence."
ReplyDeleteLike the silence regarding your last whoring out of Raiders?
Still pushing this vile bile?
The very first Muslim seen in Raiders is a professional family man and friend of a Westerner:Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir.
POSITIVE MUSLIM ROLE.
Which Muslims were negative?
Next Muslim we meet, (who speaks): a Scholar, Astronomer and an Imam.
You're a sad sad racist.
There was a Civil War within the ruling Visigothic aristocracy & competing claims claims for the title of rulership.
ReplyDeleteIt is amusing how the anachronistic concept of Westphalian ethnic nation-state seems to be being applied to the region. Considering even the modern federal nature of the country & relationship between Castille & other regions e.g. Basques, the antediluvian tribalism is puzzling.
I'm presuming, LM, that you entirely subscribe to the opening speech of Herbert Lom's character, Ali ibn Yusuf. islam has not changed one bit since it was founded - nothing wrong with that - and that speech could have been written yesterday by that prize arsehole,'andy' choudary, or any one of dozens of muslims with diseased minds/pre-frontal lobotamies constantly paraded in the media as "community leaders". you make me sick.
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