Tuesday - February 07, 2012

muslim activists seek restriction on how press reports on muslims and islam.

Not that anyone is surprised.

H/T Stonegate

British Muslims Try to Ban Negative Reporting of Islam

Hudson New York 7 February 2012
By Soeren Kern

A Muslim activist group with links to the Muslim Brotherhood has asked the British government to restrict the way the British media reports about Muslims and Islam. The effort to silence criticism of Islam comes amid an ongoing public inquiry into British press standards following a phone-hacking scandal involving the News of the World and other British newspapers.

The Leveson Inquiry, established by British Prime Minister David Cameron in July 2011, is currently considering how to increase government oversight of the British media.

But in a move that many worry will result in government regulation of the Internet, Lord Justice Leveson, a British judge who serves as Chairman of the inquiry, now says he wants to include Internet bloggers into any system of press regulation that he proposes.

Observers say the Leveson Inquiry’s effort to regulate blogging, combined with the Muslim attempt to ban negative reporting about Islam, poses a clear threat to free speech in Britain.

Appearing before the Leveson Inquiry on January 24, Muslim activist Inayat Bunglawala said the amount of negative stories about Muslims in Britain is “demonizing” Islam and fuelling a “false narrative.” He called on the government to do all it can to “ensure a fairer portrayal, a more balanced portrayal of the faith of Islam” in the British media.

In a separate written submission, Bunglawala complained about the “enormous impact of coverage that is proven to be inaccurate, inflammatory, prejudicial and detrimental” to the representation of Islam in Britain.

He continued: “British Muslims as a social group collectively suffer from poor media practices, whether this be the excessive attention granted to fringe Muslim groups, like Muslims Against Crusades, by the media or poor fact-checking prior to publication. Improving media practices and media responsibility on portraying and reporting fairly on Islam and British Muslims, without bias or discrimination or intent to incite anti-Muslim prejudice, is an urgent concern.”

STONEGATE SOURCE

British Muslims as a social group collectively suffer from poor media practices

Oh right. No bout adoubt it.

Like when some grizzly bearded scummy creeps carry signs saying, “Behead those who mock islam.” Or that by now brilliant classic, “To hell with democracy.”
Or issuing death threats to writers of books that most muzzies never even read for themselves. Death threats against cartoonists. Threats against the very culture and countries where they settle and accept benefits.  Poor media practices. Right. Like reporting on the ban on Rushdie just recently in India, which prevented him from attending a book fair due only to fear of muslim reaction. With good cause one might say because his life was threatened if he tried to attend. Yeah, all that bad press is unfair.  Why, those mean and nasty Brit newspapers reporting on the muslim gangs targeting white girls for forced prostitution.  (Eastern European mostly gypos do the same and recently have been found to be taking homeless off streets and shippling them to eastern europe and placed in forced servitude.)

Forget that what they do produces the kind of coverage given the vermin.
Anyway, it’s all Bush’s fault. Or the Jews and their Christian friends.

Meanwhile, most ppl have already given up on the hope (misplaced) that there might be a large moderate muslim protest rally against the terrorists.
There could be hope of course as it’s rumored that one moderate muzzie was found hiding under a bed.  The location is secret as death threats have already been reported and protest posters being prepared in the event this moderate is found. Alive.

OH!  And let us not forget the twisted thinking that produces ‘honor killings’ as a normal way of dealing with family issues. Or in fact, sees honor in murder.
Lets not report all that as it might create the correct impression of a stone age religion and way of life that militant islamists will force on the globe if allowed.

Posted by peiper     on 02/07/2012 at 10:38 AM   
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