[GJM] FWD: STRAW'S VEIL OF DECEIT

[Yaseen]

STRAW'S VEIL OF DECEIT



It wasn't only Jack Straw who was stirring-up communal strife yesterday.

On the 7 o'clock Channel Four News, while covering the event, the 
reporter Alex Thomson mentioned a Muslim-run dairy in Windsor which has 
been subject to racial attacks.

He concluded his report by saying, "The fact that a small industrial 
plant in a largely prosperous town in the Home Counties can ignite such 
tension tells us much about Islam in Britain today."

Can you imagine the furore there would have been if he had said that the 
attacks on the factory "tell us much about Judaism in Britain today"?

(You can see a video replay of the newscast on the C4 News page 
entitled, 'Troubled Veils', 
http://www.channel4.com/news/index....=globalnav:NEWS )

I emailed him to complain about the manner in which an Islamophobic 
attack had been projected as a problem about Islam. Why didn't he make 
the rather more obvious connection between the attack and the growing 
wave of racism, xenophobia and cultural intolerance affecting whites in 
Britain today?

He replied, denying what he had said, trying to suggest that it was I 
who was prejudiced.

Fortunately, I have his statement word-for-word from the video replay 
and clearly Thomson is lying. This is not the first time that I have 
picked him up for making seriously misleading comments about Islam and I 
have now sent a copy of my complaint to various media-monitoring 
organisations. I also intend to report him to the European Union for a 
breach of human rights.

The effects of 'dumbing-down' has led to not-very-intelligent reporters 
like Thomson being given major newscasting roles. He may be dumb but 
he's sly as hell and a liability to race relations in this country.

*ISLAMOPHOBIA WATCH* has now published my complaint saying, "Reporting 
for Channel 4 News, Alex Thomson stated: /"The fact that a small 
industrial plant in a largely prosperous town in the Home Counties can 
ignite such tension tells us much about Islam in Britain today."/ A more 
appropriate comment, surely, would be that it tells us much about 
anti-Muslim bigotry in Britain today." ('Petrol bomb attack on Muslim 
dairy,' http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/i...slim-dairy.html )

I urge everyone who reads this to listen to the newscast and make their 
own complaints to Jim Gray, C4 News Editor at jim.gray at itn.co.uk 
<mailto:jim.gray at itn.co.uk>


 




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