The BBC and the murderous sheik
Melanie Phillips quotes from Michael Gove whose Times piece is not directly available:
" 'Yesterday, the BBC correspondent, Zubeida Malik, described Sheikh Yassin on The World At One as ?polite, charming and witty, a deeply religious man?. On the same programme the Arab journalist Abdul Bari-Atwan, editor of the influential newspaper Al-Quds, memorialised him as ?a moderate man in his way?. Some people in the BBC may consider it witty to call for the elimination of the Jewish people from their homeland. Others might consider it the charming hallmark of a deeply religious man to recruit, incite and inspire young men to kill civilians. And clearly it is no bar to success in Arab journalism to define as ?moderate? someone who thought the Jews started both world wars and continue to run the globe through their manipulation of the media and the all-powerful Rotary International. I may therefore risk putting myself out on a limb in the media community saying this, but I?m afraid I find the ambition to wipe Israel off the map repellent, the worship of death indefensible and efforts made to halt Hamas?s uncompromising campaign of terror completely understandable.'
"It is the mark of how deeply our society has sunk into a moral morass that Gove's fine polemic is not only necessary but throws into such dismaying relief the corrupted response of so many in the media and political life."
Melanie Phillips quotes from Michael Gove whose Times piece is not directly available:
" 'Yesterday, the BBC correspondent, Zubeida Malik, described Sheikh Yassin on The World At One as ?polite, charming and witty, a deeply religious man?. On the same programme the Arab journalist Abdul Bari-Atwan, editor of the influential newspaper Al-Quds, memorialised him as ?a moderate man in his way?. Some people in the BBC may consider it witty to call for the elimination of the Jewish people from their homeland. Others might consider it the charming hallmark of a deeply religious man to recruit, incite and inspire young men to kill civilians. And clearly it is no bar to success in Arab journalism to define as ?moderate? someone who thought the Jews started both world wars and continue to run the globe through their manipulation of the media and the all-powerful Rotary International. I may therefore risk putting myself out on a limb in the media community saying this, but I?m afraid I find the ambition to wipe Israel off the map repellent, the worship of death indefensible and efforts made to halt Hamas?s uncompromising campaign of terror completely understandable.'
"It is the mark of how deeply our society has sunk into a moral morass that Gove's fine polemic is not only necessary but throws into such dismaying relief the corrupted response of so many in the media and political life."
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