BBC Reporter Tells Truth, Muslims Seethe
The hair trigger offense sponges of the Muslim Council of Britain are pressuring the BBC to punish a reporter who wrote a column for the Sunday Express, in which he stated a few simple truths about the Arab world: Kilroy-Silk investigated for anti-Arab comments. (Hat tip: Morgan.)
And, to no one’s great surprise, it looks like the BBC will probably get on their knees and beg forgiveness.
The chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk came under fire yesterday for attacking Arabs in a newspaper article at a time when the BBC’s other employees are being forbidden to express controversial views in the press.In a column for the Sunday Express last weekend, headed We owe Arabs nothing, Kilroy-Silk said: “Apart from oil - which was discovered, is produced and is paid for by the west - what do they contribute? Can you think of anything? Anything really useful? Anything really valuable? Something we really need, could not do without? No, nor can I.
“What do they think we feel about them? That we adore them for the way they murdered more than 3,000 civilians on September 11 and then danced in the hot, dusty streets to celebrate the murders? That we admire them for being suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors?”
A BBC spokeswoman said last night: “We are looking into how the Sunday Express column which Robert Kilroy-Silk writes in his capacity as a freelance fits with his on-screen work for the BBC.”
BBC guidelines introduced in the wake of the Hutton inquiry say that freelance writing by staff “should not bring the BBC into disrepute or undermine the integrity or impartiality of BBC programmes or presenters”. …
Several organisations complained yesterday that the content of Kilroy-Silk’s column was incompatible with his work for the BBC.
Describing him as “a man who positively revels in airing his anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views,” the Muslim Council of Britain urged the BBC to “take the necessary disciplinary action”.
UPDATE: Here’s the seething letter from the Muslim Council of Britain to the BBC: MCB Press Release. They have thoughtfully included the entire text of Kilroy-Silk’s column, although they apparently formatted it with a cheese grater.