Democracy for the Middle East
September 26, 2004The Edge Of Reason
You've heard of the Arab-Israeli "conflict"? True to form, the BBC is reporting the latest Arab crime against humanity as a - you guessed it - political conflict. Here's Robert Spencer's very different report in Frontpage:
This happened in Darfur, from which Sudanese military personnel actually airlifted women to Khartoum to serve as sex slaves.
Meanwhile, Indira Dzetskelova, the mother of one of the child hostages in Beslan, Russia, reports that “several 15-year-old girls were raped by terrorists.” Her daughter “heard their terrible cries and screams when those monsters took them away.”
This indicates that there are two things the massacre in Beslan have in common with the ongoing massacres in Darfur: both, no less than the 9/11 attacks, are examples of Islamic jihad terrorism, and both are characterized by rape.
One would think that the women of the BBC, if not the men, would have an interest in seeing to it that this form of political expression is exposed to Western scrutiny and quickly brought to a halt. The journalettes who fancy themselves a cross between Kate Adie and Rene Zellweger surely don't believe that Muhammad has a soft spot for professional women. How then to explain why this lot is epitomized by Jenny Tonge, a woman who actually identifies with Islamic barbarism? Ms. Tonge is, of course, the disgraced Labour MP that the BBC, in a fit of neo-occidentalism, recruited and dispatched to Israel after she said that she too might be a terrorist. Presumably, Ms. Tonge is now in Russia reporting on the humanity of the school hijackers.
So how do the women of the BBC square their feminism with the BBC's embrace of all things third world. Apparently some of Auntie's daughters subscribe to a very different and disturbing kind of feminism; something Andrew Sullivan calls "nutty left-wing relativism." Others don't even bother to square feminism with leftist anti-Westernism. They recognize that at the end of the day they are on the government dole, and that the propaganda priorities of the British Foreign Office do not include supporting Islamic feminists.
How tragic that after all of the effort invested in "liberating" British women, the moral backwardness of the women of the BBC should make it impossible to take them seriously.
Update: The Guardian reports that the rape and starvation of black-Africans by Sudanese Arabs has been exagerated.
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