More Hate Speech at BBC Message Boards

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Sun Aug 19, 2007 at 8:27 am PDT • Views: 749

The BBC is in trouble today for once again allowing ugly antisemitic and anti-Christian slurs to remain posted at the BBC 5 message boards, while instantly deleting any criticism of Islam: BBC forced to removed ‘bastard’ slur about Jesus from its website.

The BBC has been forced to remove statements from its website referring to Jesus as a ‘bastard’.

It is the latest in a string of offensive comments that BBC editors have allowed members of the public to post. The remarks have been allowed to remain for weeks, despite complaints from religious groups.

It has led to claims that the BBC is allowing its output to be hijacked by extremists while censoring anti-Muslim sentiment.

The remarks about Jesus were left as part of a discussion of the death of the Archbishop of Paris. The debate had descended into an argument about the merits of Christians, Jews and Muslims when a writer, known as ‘colonelartist’, posted: “Are you a christian? You do know that jesus had to hide all his short life he lived in those promised land because his tribesmen used to call him fatherless, ridiculed him for being a B-A-S-T-A-R-D…’

He added: ”Jesus…was also persecuted because the jews would never accept as their Messiah a person whose father was missing…’

The comments were allowed to remain for a week despite complaints. But after The Mail on Sunday contacted senior BBC officials, they were deleted.

Colonelartist is a regular contributor to the BBC site. He has also written: “The jews in much remembered concentration camps had even better qualitity of freedom that these palestinians have…”

One website user wanted to see if BBC editors were allowing these offensive remarks to remain while blocking others. He wrote: “No one can surpass the Muslims for denial of their role in Terrorism and Suicide bombing.” The remarks were almost immediately deleted.

For more on this and many other examples of the outrageously open bias and tacit support for hate speech at the BBC 5 board, see TheyMadeItUp.

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