 .Azzam Tamimi
BBC Adds Barefaced Lies To Lack Of Balance, Bias BBC Deliberately Withheld Information To Deflect Media BBC Admits It Lied To Sunday Telegraph About Complaints. The BBC has added another negative to the string of shameful defects which everybody knows about, but which this untouchable lefty fiefdom gets away with in our name. It is not only incapable of fulfilling its charter obligations of fairness and balance, it is now lying to cover up the fact that its license payers are up in arms about it. The Sunday Telegraph reported on July 17 that a couple of Labour MPs – Andrew Dismore from Hendon, and Louise Ellman from Liverpool Riverside, had complained about an outrageous act of bias on Newsnight. Newsnight had sponsored Azzam Tamimi, a member of the Muslim Association of Britain, and head of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought to make a film about the London bombing. If you think Tamimi’s CV makes him sound suitably important and academic, forget it. He is an apologist for Palestinian suicide bombers who kill and main the innocent. Despite that, or maybe knowing Newsnight because of that, Tamimi was given license to produce a despicable diatribe against Israel, an island of freedom loving democracy in a sea of dictatorships and enslavers. Tamimi said the London bombings happened because of Britain’s policy towards Iraq and Israel. That’s right, a foreign policy disagreement justifies maiming and killing of the innocent. After the film, Newsnight invited two other prominent Muslims to discuss the film. No surprise here, the other two Muslims agreed with just about everything Tamimi said. There was still some hope that balance and truth could be restored. Surely the interviewer, Gavin Esler would do his duty by the BBC’s charter? This how the Wall Street Journal Europe, in an editorial headed “Glorifying the Radicals”, described Esler’s performance. “The BBC presenter, Gevin (sic) Esler, only feebly challenged Mr Tamimi’s support for murdering Jews in Israel. Instead, he gave the last word on this matter to Asghar Bukhari, chief executive of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee who promptly backed Mr Tamimi without reservation. “I couldn’t agree more,” he said.” But here’s the factoid that makes the BBC’s role so despicable. At the end of the article in the Sunday Telegraph, the reporter Chris Hastings, says the BBC told him there had been no complaints about the broadcast. I know for a fact that statement is a lie, because I complained personally about the Newsnight programme. I telephoned the Information Officer to complain. I e mailed Newsnight through its website, and I emailed a general complaints website with a missive addressed to the Director General. Here’s what my e mail said -
I spoke to a BBC spokesman today about this and she recalled speaking to the Sunday Telegraph’s Hastings. She had been asked if there had been any complaints about inviting Tamimi to contribute to Newsnight. Even though she was aware of many complaints about the programme, including mine, she chose to only answer the direct question she had been asked. There had been no objection or complaint about Tamimi’s presence. The fact that there had been a huge protest about the content wasn’t revealed to Hastings because he hadn’t asked about it. Hastings was perfectly at liberty to look at the BBC’s website to track down if there had been complaints, this spokeswoman said, even though she was well aware that her narrow reply would give an erroneous impression.
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