Tuesday, June 02, 2009

The BBC Worse Than Spending Tax $ on "Piss Christ"

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In Great Britain, if you own a TV, you have to pay a license tax that supports the BBC. It is compulsory.

So what if they put something on that you find false, repulsive and offensive? Well, if you are an Anglo-Christian you get rebuffed:


The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often happens in real life, right?). The Trust has backed an earlier BBC ruling that there is "no reason why viewers would have been given the impression that the fanatics in the programme were evangelical Christians or that the programme gave an offensive portrayal of such people".
Remember when Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl were beheaded on video by fundamentalist Episcopalians? Me neither.

Note that this is immediately after the BBC apologized to Muslims for some alleged affront to them. Londonistan is here.

"Piss Christ" reference explained here.

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