BBC Omits Facts from Sharia Murder of Woman

[Teddy Bear]

Farzana Iqbal was murdered by Muslims applying ‘sharia’. Why does the BBC not report these facts?
Rod Liddle

Farzana Iqbal, aged 25, was stoned to death by members of her family in broad daylight on the steps of a courthouse in Lahore, Pakistan, because she had married a man with whom she was in love. This was an “honour killing” and perpetrators use sharia law to justify their murders. Some 1,000 women are killed in this manner in Pakistan each year and an overwhelming majority of the population seems to be in favour of them. Some 91 per cent of honour killings worldwide are “Muslim on Muslim” crimes. In Pakistan, laws introduced in the 1970s, by Zia-ul-Haq, and based on punishments recommended in the Koran and Sunnah, mean that women have almost no recourse in law and the male members of the family can do with them as they will.

This latest horrific case was reported last night on the BBC Ten O Clock News.

The following words did not appear at any time in the report: Muslim, Islam, Koran, Sharia.

The Religion of Peace website shows that there have been over 23,000 deadly Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11.
While our dhimmi BBC reports only a fraction of these incidents, it can't even bring itself to deem them terrorists.
Another story concerns a mother and doctor, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, in Sudan who has been sentenced to be flogged and death for converting to Christianity.
On the BBC report there is no mention of her being a doctor, but they do tell us Correspondents say death sentences are rarely carried out in Sudan, so no worries there eh?
Except the website 'Death Penalty Worldwide' on Sudan tells a different story, so I doubt she's feeling like she has a future.

There is a petition with over 500,000 signatories so far for Sudan to release her. I urge people to sign it. If left up to the BBC she'll be executed before they would raise an alarm.

[Teddy Bear]

Raymond Ibrahim writes about the second woman I referred to above, as well as the continuing persecution of many Christians by Muslims that go unmentioned by the BBC and much of our mainstream media.

Sudan Mother’s Case ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ on Islamic Persecution
By Raymond Ibrahim

Evidence has again emerged indicting that if Western mainstream media actually reported more on the sufferings of Christians throughout the Islamic world, their lot would likely improve.

Meriam Ibrahim, a woman who is imprisoned in Sudan and sentenced to death on the charge that she apostatized from Islam and converted to Christianity—and who recently gave birth to a baby girl in prison—was reportedly going to “be freed in a few days,” according to a BBC report:

Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman. Khartoum has been facing international condemnation over the death sentence. In an interview with The Times newspaper, British Prime Minister David Cameron described the ruling as “barbaric” and out of step with today’s world.

Of course, soon after the BBC reported that Ibrahim would be freed, other reports appeared indicating that that is only a rumor—one that the BBC, which regularly tries to minimize the specter of Muslim persecution of Christians, jumped on—that Sudan was merely trying to save face before the international community.

According to the imprisoned Christian woman’s husband: “No Sudanese or foreign mediator contacted me. Maybe there are contacts between the Sudanese government and foreign sides that I’m not aware of.”

At any rate, why did Sudan say Ibrahim was going to be released? After all and despite what that nation’s under-secretary says—that “Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman”—Khartoum’s government upholds Islam’s apostasy law, which actually guarantees that born Muslims do not have “religious freedom.”

As just one example, back in June 2012 in Sudan, a Muslim woman divorced her husband after he converted to Christianity. The court automatically granted her custody of their two sons (according to Islamic law, children of divorced parents are to remain with the father, but if the latter is an apostate, they go to the mother). When the father tried to visit his children, his ex-wife threatened to notify authorities. “They might take the case to a prosecution court, which might lead to my sentencing to death according to Islamic apostasy law—but I am ready for this,” the Christian man had said. “I want the world to know this. What crime have I done?”

And that’s the whole difference: “the world” did not “know this,” whereas the major media did report on Ibrahim’s plight, thereby exposing Sudan to international condemnation.

Precedents of this phenomenon—international outrage prompting Islamist governments to rethink their abuse of Christians—have occurred in other Muslim countries.

For example, back in September 2012, two other Christians under arrest and awaiting execution in the Islamic world—one, like Sudan’s Ibrahim, charged with apostasy in Iran, the other with blasphemy in Pakistan—were also released, but only after much widespread international condemnation, that is, only after the mainstream media exposed their plight.

As CNN had reported:

A Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy was reunited with his family Saturday after a trial court acquitted him… Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, born to Muslim parents and a convert to Christianity by age 19, was released after being held in prison for almost three years under a death sentence…. His case drew international attention after his October 2009 arrest, and the 34-year-old pastor refused to recant his Christian beliefs (emphasis added).

Right around the same time, Pakistani authorities released a teenage Christian girl accused of blasphemy and facing the death penalty. Up till then, local Muslims had insisted that 14-year-old Rimsha Masih be put to death, warning that, if released, they would “take the law into their own hands.” Her case also reached the international community, sparking widespread outrage and condemnation of Pakistan.

Earlier, in 2006, one Abdul Rahman was exposed as an apostate to Christianity and subsequently arrested, incarcerated, and sentenced to death. Because his story also received widespread media attention and international condemnation—and even a phone call from U.S. Secretary of State Rice to Afghanistan’s president—Rahman was released under the pretext that he was mentally retarded, though most sources indicated he was quite sane. (Muslim governments regularly portray apostates and blasphemers whom they wish to release as mentally handicapped, since, according to Islamic law, the insane are not responsible for their actions. Even Pakistan’s Rimsha Masih, prior to her release, was portrayed as mentally retarded.)

The point here is that such prisoners of conscience are not released because their respective governments suddenly decided to act according to universal standards of human rights. If so, they would not have arrested the accused in the first place. Nor should such releases suggest that Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, or Sudan are rethinking Islam’s apostasy and blasphemy laws, which prescribe the death penalty.

After all, there are countless more Christian “blasphemers” and “apostates” rotting on death row in all three countries, not to mention all around the Islamic world.

As with Sudan, Christians in the aforementioned countries are habitually persecuted, imprisoned, and or killed. In Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, Iran’s persecution of apostates to Christianity is so widespread that it warrants a special “spotlight” section; Pakistan also gets a special spotlight section for its frequent arrests and imprisonments of Christian “blasphemers.”

Indeed, just days ago a Christian couple in Pakistan, one illiterate the other disabled, received the death sentence for allegedly sending “blasphemous” text messages.

However, unlike Sudan’s Ibrahim, Iran’s Nadarkhani, Pakistan’s Masih, and Afghanistan’s Rahman, the Western mainstream rarely if ever hears about these many unfortunates.

And that’s the whole difference.

Unlike the many faceless Christians persecuted all around the Islamic world, the Western mainstream media actually reported on these three, prompting public outrage, international condemnations, and in some instances the threat of diplomatic actions and/or sanctions.

For Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan such “infidels” are often too much of a liability to punish as Sharia demands—the same Sharia, incidentally, that teaches Muslims to be lax and tolerant when in their interest, such as when the international community puts them in the spotlight.

Thus such freed Christians are a reminder of the important role the Western mainstream media can play in alleviating the sufferings of minorities throughout the Islamic world. For if they were not reported on—as the overwhelming majority of persecuted Christians are not reported on—they would surely still be in prison on death row, where so many other nameless and faceless Christians remain.

So consider the impact the mainstream media could have if they were to report the full truth and extent of Muslim persecution of Christians; if they stopped portraying the few they do report on as anomalies but rather as the tips of a very big and ugly iceberg.

For the fact remains: the overwhelming majority of people in the West remain woefully ignorant of the sufferings of non-Muslims under Islam, thanks to the mainstream media’s general indifference or worse.

However, as precedent suggests, when enough people in the West do hear about them, they do act, prompting their governments and human rights groups also to act, prompting Islamist governments to realize that persecuting this or that Christian is simply not worth it.

In the case of Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim, time will only tell if the major media will forget about or try to dismiss her story—as the BBC may be doing—or whether they will continue exposing the truth of her plight, which, at this point, is likely the only way this wife and mother who refuses to renounce Christianity for Islam can ever hope to escape execution.

[steevo]

I don't want to press an old point, but there is no need to ask why they don't report on this. Just state the only possible two conclusions. They are afraid, or they don't care. I believe it's largely the latter where they sit pretty in an elite authoritarian West where all thoughts of liberty are a delusion, void of traditional right and wrong based on Judeo-Christian influence.

[Teddy Bear]

There is no doubt that they don't really care about anything outside of their agenda, and this is really the key point. When Palestinians are killed or injured the BBC will always run the story because it suits their agenda. Christians or Jews killed, injured, or persecuted by radical Islam does not suit their agenda and the story will be buried as much as possible. It's fair to say that fear of Islam is a factor, but also their hegemonic desire to be the world's media, so they don't want to antagonize the Muslims.

[Teddy Bear]

Well for a small time there was some rejoice as Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian sentenced to death for apostasy, was released from prison. Unfortunately the joy didn't last long as she was rearrested at the airport.

You can imagine her emotions preparing to fly out of the country and leave that madness, only to be re-immersed in it.

We can only hope that the Sudanese government will go through with their assurance that she will really be freed, unlike the Iranians who finally executed Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

[Teddy Bear]

I am glad to report that Dr. Meriam Ibrahim is now finally free and safe in Italy.

It shows in this instance that because of the exposure it received in the media, unlike the millions who suffer without a mention, that the subsequent political and social pressure was enough to force the Islamic government, in this case the Sudanese, to show some humanity.

The failure by the BBC and mainstream media to report more of these abuses, in an attempt to sanitise or appease these foul regimes or mindset, makes them complicit in all those who have and will continue to suffer as a result.

Meriam is free!

Jul 24, 2014 — Today pictures have been released of Meriam and her family arriving safely in Italy. The news comes after weeks of limbo. Meriam who was sentenced to death for her refusal to renounce her Christian faith had been released from prison in Sudan but was detained before she left the country.

Now we can finally say, Meriam is free.

Over a million people from around the world -- including you! -- signed my petition on change.org and joined the chorus of international voices demanding freedom and justice for Meriam.

Over the past few months world leaders like UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US Secretary of State John Kerry have spoken out against Meriam’s imprisonment, and media coverage of her story has raised an important conversation about religious freedom and women’s rights around the world.

Now, thanks to our voices, a young mother and her children have been freed from prison and we have stood together to protect the right to religious freedom.

This campaign sends an important message that we will not stand by and let injustice happen. We’ve proven that coming together online can make a real difference toward the goal of human rights for everyone.

Sudanese woman spared death sentence for apostasy arrives in Italy


Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian Sudanese woman spared a death sentence for apostasy after an international outcry, has arrived in Italy. Italian television showed the 27-year-old leaving the aircraft at Rome's Ciampino airport accompanied by her husband, two children and Italy's vice minister for...

[charmbrights]

It is interesting that the big news is that she then met the titular head of the world's largest paedophile ring! See www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28460383 for the full details.

This bears out my long held view that all religions are bad, and that the world would be a better place if humans stopped paying lip service to an invisible friend in the sky, and that deity's acolytes here. The priesthood was invented to exercise power over other people and to be fed by others without contributing anything to the general good.

[Teddy Bear]

The priesthood was invented to exercise power over other people and to be fed by others without contributing anything to the general good.

And what do you see is different in regard to BBC output?
There's no doubt that whether it is religion, atheism, climate greenies, politics, etc, they can all be used to brainwash and distort human beings.
At least there's more awareness by the public to religious brainwashing, except mostly by the one that is the subject of this thread and category. I don;t think most people have cottoned on to how they are being brainwashed by our media, which is why sites such as ours exist.

[steevo]

A lot of people today feel that way Charm but like Teddy says it really doesn't matter who or what you bow to. The definition of religion itself really depends on who's making the judgment.

Christianity has given and taken away human rights throughout the millenia, but I believe more recent (post-Reformation) significance at least in North America shows its fundamental influence for sovereign justification of absolute rights helping to establish and sustain liberties we largely take for granted today.

I believe without any influence of traditional Western religion society by and large becomes increasingly manipulated from the secular elite. So it's a balancing act where you don't want too much or too little to counter the 'religion' of statist authoritarian rule.