Meet the ISIS Bride Who Is the BBC’s New Hero and Martyr

The glamorization of Shamima Begum reveals the rotten culture of the far-Left establishment. 

February 13, 2023 by Robert Spencer 23 Comments

The BBC has rolled out a prime-time documentary as well as a superabundantly detailed ten-part podcast series on the story of Shamima Begum, whose path to celebrity has been unconventional. She has become the object of the BBC’s lavish affections by fleeing Britain to join the Islamic State (ISIS) at age fifteen, becoming a jihadi bride, showing no remorse for the atrocities of her jihadi friends and colleagues, and being consequently denied the right to return to Britain. 

As Rolling Stone magazine did with Boston Marathon jihad bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Times’ Saturday magazine has published a glamor shot of Begum on its cover to help publicize the BBC series. In the twisted culture of the far Left of which the BBC and Rolling Stone are foremost exponents, an Islamic jihadi who hates his or her home country is a hero, and any action law enforcement authorities take against the jihadi only enhances the warrior of Allah’s victimhood status, and thus in turn only magnifies the jihadi’s celebrity status in the West. Sick? Oh, that’s an understatement............

Back in 2013, when Pamela Geller and I were banned from entering Britain for the unforgivable crime, as far as the British elites are concerned, of opposing jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, I happened to be working very early one morning. I saw the BBC announce on Twitter that it was going to have a show in an hour, about 3AM Pacific time, discussing whether or not Geller and I should indeed be banned from the country.

The “impartial” broadcaster had not, of course, invited either Pamela Geller or me to participate in the discussion, or made any attempt at all to contact either of us. When I tweaked them for this on Twitter that night, however, they were embarrassed, and ended up (no doubt reluctantly) inviting me on after all.......Pamela Geller never got any chance to respond at all..........To Read More...

My Take - Remarkable!   These young and foolish nitwits join these radical and murderous religious fanatics and then cry they want to go back to the very nations they were trying to destroy.  On January 12th I posted this piece, Stupid Decisions Have Consequences, about an American Muslim girl who did exactly the same thing this girl did and now wants to "come home". 

She chose this for herself, encouraging all Muslims to murder innocent people, well, we all make stupid decisions in our lives, and most of them aren't all that consequential, with small consequences.   But stupid decisions involving murder are consequential, and the consequences should be severe.  They all made their choices and now should be required to enjoy their hijab, niqab, burqa, misogynistic subhuman Islamic paradise, for the rest of their lives, however long it may be. 

This article doesn't say if she has children, which she probably does, as does the former American girl.  Well, then they chose for themselves and for their little ones, and their problems aren't our fault, nor our responsibility.  Save your compassion for those they murdered along with their families and friends. 

 

 

 

Greta Thunberg TV Show Massive Ratings Flop

James Delingpole

Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg’s first big TV show has proved to be a massive turn off for viewers. The BBC was so confident of the Doom Goblin’s pulling power that it commissioned three one-hour-long episodes of its documentary series Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change The World.  The series follows the pigtailed climate puppet from her native Sweden to the US, Chile, Spain, the UK and Switzerland as she spends a year bunking off school while  ‘exploring the science of global warming and challenging world leaders on the growing crisis.’

But even though the BBC gave it its best shot — the primetime 9pm slot, a guest appearance from Sir David Attenborough, villainous cameos by former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, dramatic footage of calving glaciers and allegedly endangered coral reefs, plus endless shots of Thunberg looking anguished and impassioned — the show has tanked.

According to the ratings figures from Overnights.TV the show on the BBC’s flagship channel BBC1 lost 55 percent of its audience from the previous slot. It averaged 1.08 m viewers with a 6.30 percent share of the total audience. This compares most unfavourably with the show in the same slot the week before, Masterchef, which averaged 3.56 million viewers with an 18.9 percent audience share.

One possibility for its failure is that audiences are suffering from a severe case of Greta fatigue. Another is that viewers aren’t nearly as interested in climate doom as politicians, green activists or the BBC think they ought to be.  At the beginning, in one of several awkward, stilted pieces to camera, Thunberg says:

I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to the science.

But the science, as Thunberg presents it, is very one-sided. When Thunberg brandishes ‘the science’ as some kind of immutable truth which we should revere like Biblical scripture, she is falling into exactly the same trap as pop-science showman Neil DeGrasse Tyson .  DeGrasse Tyson tweeted out self-importantly that ‘The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.’

Tyson was promptly schooled by the Steak-Umm Twitter account.  Steak-umm is right and Thunberg and deGrasse Tyson are wrong: science is indeed an ‘ever refining process to find truth’ — a method of discovery, not a fixed dogma.  Obviously, Greta Thunberg wouldn’t know this having spent so much time out of school. Which makes it all the more irresponsible of the BBC to have given this semi-educated pig-tailed propagandist so much airtime.

In the second episode she travels to Davos, Switzerland to speak at the World Economic Forum’s annual summit. When it was filmed in early 2020 this may have seemed innocuous enough. But in light of what we have learned since about the globalist ambitions of the WEF and its plans for a ‘Great Reset’ in which we’ll no longer own property but, apparently, be happy, it looks a lot more sinister.

When at the beginning of the first episode Vladimir Putin is shown criticising Thunberg, the documentary makers are presumably hoping to enlist sympathy for the Doom Goblin.  But on this occasion, Putin happens to be absolutely spot on. He says:

No one has explained to Greta that the world is complex and diverse.

No indeed — which may be another reason why audiences find this documentary such a turn-off. Nobody likes being banged over the head for an hour with sledgehammer green movement talking points. They’d prefer a bit of nuance and humour — neither of which, unfortunately, are part of the Greta the Doom Goblin’s skill set.........To Read More....

My Take - The reason the show tanked is the world knows this child is a clueless prop for her parents, the green movement and the media.  Her misbegotten 15 minutes of fame is running out.  Get over it!

BBC Trains Staff How to Drink WATER in One-Hour ‘Wellness’ Course

Kurt Zindulka 26 Jan 2021 

Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC, has been branded a “complete joke” after it was revealed it has offered staff a one-hour course on how to drink water.

During the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC has produced a series of so-called ‘wellness’ webinars aimed at helping staff maintain mental and physical health.  One such course, entitled ‘Hydration’, provided staff with a one-hour course on the benefits of drinking water and how to stay properly hydrated, The Sun reported.

In an email sent out to BBC staff, the broadcaster explained: “Attending this webinar will help you to identify the importance of being fully hydrated and find practical ways to achieve this state every day and to understand how being fully hydrated will improve health, overall wellbeing and performance.”

In response to the course, an insider at the BBC said: “We’ve all had a good laugh about it, so I guess it has boosted our mental health.”.......To Read More.....

My Take -  This was sent to me from someone of Our Group, my internet e-mail group, who snarkily said (paraphrasing): Yes, but did it focus on how to drink water in an inclusive manner sensitive to the needs and concerns of people of color, women, non-cis-heteronormative non-gender conforming individuals, the disabled, and others nearby whose personal identities and pronouns have not been made explicitly clear before the potentially micro-aggressive water intake is initiated.   They need to get with the program!

BBC and Attenborough Accused of Fake News Misinformation on "Change: The Facts"

James Delingpole 27 Apr 2019

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has made a formal complaint to the BBC about the series of gross inaccuracies in its recent documentary "Climate Change: The Facts." Now the GWPF has written to the BBC Complaints department listing just a few of them. The letter can be read here.

According to the GPWF, the programme “went far beyond its remit to present the facts about climate change, instead broadcasting a highly politicised manifesto in favour of renewable energy and unjustified alarm.”  The GWPF says:..........To Read More.......

My Take - This is long overdue.  It's time the put a spotlight on these junk scientists and scare mongers.  Hopefull this will end up in court.  I'm inclined to think the Mann lawsuits may have been inspirational for those who believe all this was nothing more than green fraud by corrupt activists, politicians and scientists. 

When Michael Mann of the Hockey Stick fame sued both Dr. Tim Ball in Canada and Mark Steyn in America with what's called a SLAPP suit.  SLAPP stands for Strategic lawsuit against public participation, which forces someone to back away from things they believe because of the cost of defending themselves in court.  In Canada Tim Ball didn't defend himself based on the idea this was a public domain issue, he defended himself under what Canada calls the Truth Defence, aka, the Scorched Earth Defense.   Mann lost!  And he lost because he refused to turn over the data that would support his views, which were challenged by Ball.  In Canada that's considered an admission of guilt. 

In America the SLAPP suit has been going on for over four years.  This has backfired on Mann and at some point it will go to trial and he will lose.  I'm still not sure why Ball hasn't counter sued Mann and David Suzuki, who was behind Mann on this, but Steyn is definitely counter suing Mann for - if I remember this correctly - 30 million dollars.  Mann is now doing everything in his power to prevent this from going to court, even claiming Steyn's counter suit is a SLAPP suit and should be dismissed.

It appears Mann and Suzuki know as little about law as they do about climate.  Apparently they didn't grasp that once you sue someone it's like riding a tiger.  You can't just get off and say your sorry without getting eaten alive.