BBC Omits Facts to Highlight Islamophobic Attacks in Britain

[Teddy Bear]

An article in the Daily Mail tells of an attack on a Muslim woman wearing a Hijab in November 2012 by a Nigerian man in Plaistow, London. It states that this is an example of the Islamophobic attacks that have risen in this country and the BBC will be using this assault as one for their programme this evening:
Miss Kabir's assault is an example of the Islamaphobic attacks being investigated in Inside Out London Special, which will be aired on BBC London tonight.

It comes as police revealed there has been a sharp rise in the number of hate crimes against Muslims in the capital, with women who wear a headscarf or hijab accounting for some 60 per cent of victims.

While the article does tell us Ayoade, who is originally from Nigeria, was jailed for four years in February 2013 after pleading guilty to two 'vicious' attacks on Tasneem and another young woman, it doesn't tell us that the other woman was not a Muslim, and I’m willing to bet that the BBC won’t even bother to tell us about the other attack.

In point of fact, a quick Google search reveals this man had attacked 2 other woman prior to the Muslim one, neither of whom were Muslim, but one he wasn't charged for. He clearly has serious psychological problems, and if the BBC, and for that matter the Daily Mail journalist, were trying to be accurate, they would not be using this incident as proof of their assertion.

[Teddy Bear]

This article highlights the statistics that the BBC seem not to bothered to report as they cover the supposed 'Islamophobic' attacks that have increased over the last year. There has been one anti-Semitic attack in London for every 601 Jewish people in the United Kingdom. There has been one Islamophobic attack in London for every 3,676 Muslims in the United Kingdom.

MEDIA, POLICE PUMP UP “ISLAMOPHOBIA” NUMBERS, IGNORE HIGHER ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS

by RAHEEM KASSAM

The mainstream media howled with outrage this morning, republishing the Metropolitan Police’s press release talking up the “rise” in “Islamophobic” attacks in Britain’s capital over the last year. The problems however, are that the police won’t release the details of the Islamophobic incidents, and for some reason, they buried the greater rise in anti-Semitic attacks in London over the past year.

“Islamophobic crime in London ‘up by 70%’” screamed the BBC.

“Hate crimes against Muslims soar in London,” roared the Guardian.

“Islamophobic Britain: Where Muslim women are spat on, punched and covered in faeces,” exclaimed the Telegraph.

And worse still, the Metropolitan Police themselves headlined their press release: “Met’s response to rise in Islamophobic hate crime in London”.

Odd, isn’t it? Given that while Islamophobia apparently rose by 70.7 per cent (478 reported offences in 2014, compared with 816 offences this year), the number of racist attacks against Jewish people was actually up by 93.4 per cent (from 258 attacks to 499).

So while the numbers are lower, that sounds to me like the increase in anti-Semitic attacks is steeper than the increase in Islamophobia. Both, however, are a minute percentage of the total 13,007 hate crimes reported in the last year.

So why would the Metropolitan Police be so keen to promote the anti-Islamic attacks, and squash the anti-Jewish figures? And why are mainstream journalists following the police in tow?

No, I don’t actually know either.

But it is worth noting that there are only around 300,000 Jewish people in the United Kingdom, and about 3 million Muslims here.

This means that there has been one anti-Semitic attack in London for every 601 Jewish people in the United Kingdom. There has been one Islamophobic attack in London for every 3,676 Muslims in the United Kingdom.

This shouldn’t be a case of “my co-religionists are more under threat than yours”, but it should put this stuff in perspective a little bit. And our media, and our police, should be ashamed of this counterfactual scaremongering.

[Teddy Bear]

Notice despite the facts showing the complete disregard by the BBC for truth and accuracy, as described above and below, they still respond with:
A BBC spokesman told Breitbart London: “This half an hour special explored in a thorough and balanced way the concern women living behind the veil experience from rising hate crime and we stand by our journalism.”

HOW THE BBC USED A 3-YEAR-OLD VIDEO OF AN UNMOTIVATED ATTACK TO SPREAD ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA’ FEARS

by LIAM DEACON

Last Monday the BBC ran a sensationalist report about an apparently dangerous rising tide of Islamophobia in London over the past 12 months. The “balanced” take took all of its cues from far left groups with vested interests in inflating hate crime figures, and was built around a dramatic case from three years ago, which was found by a court not to be motivated by anti-Muslim hate of any form.

The episode of Inside Out London was touted as “exploring the brutal reality of daily life for some Muslim women.” All across London, however, every form of hate crime was up in past year; homophobia up a third; Islamophobia up 70 per cent; Anti-semitism up 94 per cent. Yet, only one got this type of attention from the Beeb.

Near the beginning of the program the BBC briefly spoke to the man who runs the Metropolitan Police’s hate crime department. The Met provided the data, which the entire program was based around, and officer Mak Chishty was very clear in explaining that it would be a misrepresentation to describe the new figures as representing a spike in attacks.

“Over the past 12 months there has been a rise in the number of Islamophobic incidents which have been reported to us… that does not mean that there is more offending,” he said. In fact, “That means there are better ways of recording it, and I’m really please about that.”

However, the BBC then preceded to do precisely the opposite: scaremonger.

The vast majority of the program there out was made up of what the BBC claims is “legitimately reported challenges [to] this view with voices from various stakeholders including Tell Mama, Jan Trust and Faith Matters” – all far left and/or Muslim interest groups with a vested interest in reporting high levels of anti-Muslim hate crime.

Tell Mama, for example, is an organisation which encourages the reporting of perceived hate crime, who lost their government backing in 2013 for “exaggerating” what they called a “wave of attacks,” “Islamophobic incidents” and a “cycle of violence” following the murder of Lee Rigby – over half of the “attacks” turned out to be comments left online.

Most of the examples cited in the film are anecdotal; women goaded by the BBC and Tell Mama into giving a grievance story. The prominently featured, stand out example was perpetrated by a Nigerian male on an Asian female, in what a judge previously called a “vicious” but “unprovoked” random attack.

But the BBC told Breitbart London that the footage was used as a generic example of violence and not directly linked as an example of the Islamophobic rise in the last twelve months and that they never claimed Islamophobia.

Yet, across multiple BBC sources – here, here, and here for example, and earlier in their statement to us, the BBC portrayed the episode as a look at Islamophobia. Why then, would this one clip in a whole programme, be about something different?

“The point we are making by using this CCTV is that Muslim women who wear the veil become a target and they fear attacks – whatever the motivation,” say the BBC in their background. The spokesman added that the “attack is the kind of incident women increasingly fear.”

The BBC further justified the move by claiming that other media outlets had reported the case as being motivated by her “appearance”. This implies something to do with her hijab. But the court argued against Michael Ayoade in 2012 that he reacted because he thought she “didn’t have a friendly face.”

That’s not the same as being motivated by her Muslim appearance, in particular, as is implied, because of her headscarf. The BBC is clearly playing fast and loose with the facts.

Furthermore, the BBC could not explain to us why they featured a three-year old case, in film about crimes in the past 12 months, without informing viewers when it was committed – therefore implying it was recent.

Taking cues from the BBC, the story began to spread across the Internet. The Daily Mail ran the clip as an “example of the Islamophobic attacks” of the past year; the Independent said it “demonstrates rise in hate crime in London;” and the Evening Standard said it “reveal(s) the reality of an increase in hate crime in London.”

A BBC spokesman told Breitbart London: “This half an hour special explored in a thorough and balanced way the concern women living behind the veil experience from rising hate crime and we stand by our journalism.”