Should this be the rôle of public-service broadcasting? Or this?

The BBC has been doing its thing again! It's been whitewashing Islam! Par for the course, you might say. Yes, but isn't it nauseating to observe its use of taxpayers' money for the propagation of Islam?

It certainly doesn't use tax pounds to propagate Christianity, or, for that matter, any other religion. But it finds it absolutely necessary to use tax pounds to whitewash the fastest-growing religion in the West today: Islam. It also finds it necessary not only to whitewash it, but to help it to grow here in the West.

Were the BBC to be fair and balanced about it, were it to point out the positive and negative aspects of Islam, then it might be more palatable. But it doesn't: It always casts Islam in a positive light. The negative aspects of the religion are ignored. This is why this exercise comes over to me, and probably many other people, as an exercise in propaganda!

I understand that there is probably a noble objective underlying their strategy: Presumably, they wish to inform the public of the positive aspects of a religion which has taken a bashing since 9/11 in order to foster social harmony. A lofty ideal to be sure. In doing this, though, they have become its defender; further, they are actually numbing the public of the dangers which are inherent in this religion, particularly the danger of world domination, which, after all, is a stated goal of all good Muslims.

They also ignore history in propagating this faith. Each and every country in which Islam has been allowed to put down roots, it has eventually come to dominate and take over. We ignore the lessons of history at our peril!

The BBC is essentially a very liberal organization: It fosters equality of opportunity for women, gays, and other minority groups. But were Islam to become dominant in the United Kingdom, there would be no such equal opportunities. Islam abhors the gay lifestyle, and can hardly be thought of as a religion which fosters equality of opportunity for women. Indeed, were Islam ever to become that strong in the UK, then women would be forced back into the home!

So surely there's an irreconcilable conflict here. This is one circle which cannot be squared!

If the BBC thinks that, in the long-run, it is going to be strong enough to stand up to the might of Islam and maintain equal opportunities for these groups, then it is making a grave error of judgment. Do they really think that such appeasement will dumb down the aspirations of Muslims to turn the West into an extension of the Middle East, with all its backwardness, all its pro-Arab supremacy, pro-male domination, anti-Semitism, and anti-infidel stance.

Where does the BBC really stand on honour killings, on the beheadings of criminals in public squares, on amputations for theft, on the lapidation of women for adultery, on the prohibition of the Bible and all other sacred texts in countries such as Saudi Arabia, and on the ethnic cleansing of the Arabian Peninsula?

Given the BBC's reticence to cast aspersions on these barbaric practises, are we to assume that they give their consent to them?

©Mark Alexander