07 March 2012

Freedom of speech according to the BBC

.... Thompson said that this distinction "definitely raises the stakes." Yes, and it also separates the men from the boys. When the most powerful media organization in the U.K. is run by someone whose readiness to admit his utter lack of courage would seem, from all the evidence, to reflect the fact that the concept of courage isn’t even on his radar, it doesn’t bode well for the future of British freedom.

Another point that was important to Thompson was that, as he put it, "for a Muslim, a depiction…of the Prophet Mohammed might have the emotional force of a piece of grotesque child pornography." He added that "secularists" fail "to understand…what blasphemy feels like to someone who is a realist in their religious belief."

I would humbly submit that Thompson himself fails to understand something rather important -- namely, that when the head of an outfit like the BBC starts thinking and talking in such terms, he has become nothing more or less than a sharia puppet. [Assyrian International News Agency] Read more