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Scott Burgess outs Guardian staff reporter
on July 15, and The Independent wrote about it. (Frequent visitors to TBHB will also remember that Scott’s honored us as guess blogger.)

This morning Scott’s Daily Ablution examines the Guardian’s deafening silence:

Here are the points that the editors should be considering:

  • In 2003, the BBC reported that the radical Islamist group Hizb Ut Tahrir “promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs, and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people.”
  • The same report quoted an (understandably) “anonymous Muslim leader” as saying that, if HT was allowed to continue “polluting the youngsters’ minds,” there would be suicide attacks in London.
  • In an attempt to mitigate the overly “pale and male” character of the newsroom, the Guardian hired a young Muslim reporter, unaware of his affiliation with HT – one which went beyond mere membership, including as it did his writing several articles for their mouthpiece magazine.
  • The Muslim leader’s prediction was brutally realised on 7/7. A Guardian employee was among the dead.
  • The young Muslim reporter is then given the opportunity to write a highly visible piece for the opinion page, in which he expresses anger at moderate Muslims who don’t “rock the boat,” and explains the bombings as a “sassy” expression of opinion.
  • The Guardian editors are made aware of the reporter’s (continuing) affiliation with HT, which their own publication has called “Britain’s most radical Islamic group.”
  • When pressed by another newspaper, they keep their statement on the subject to the barest minimum, not mentioning the situation at all in their own publication. The reporter continues working on terrorism articles.

Daily Ablution commenter Jonathan Boyd Hunt points out,

It seems that you might well have exposed another guardian subversive. Currently the guardian publishes copy from a former paid KGB “agent of influence” (South America specialist Richard Gott); a former Soviet Spy (political profiler Andrew Roth); a former money-launderer for the Libyans (Victoria Brittan); a forger of a ministerial fax (Peter Preston); and several other political staff guilty of criminal activities, including conspiracy to pervert the course of a parliamentary inquiry (see my website Guardianlies.com)

What media bias?

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Comments

  1. You get on a New York Metro North train to the Hudson River and you just have to lay back and enjoy the landscape in silence and tranquility.

    You get on a stupid NJ Transit to Denville and you have to deal with a third-world-like train full of rude people with no class, no manners, no education. Yelling, talking loud on cellphones, being obnoxious, babies crying, people fighting.

    Wanna experience and undeveloped, redneck life? Just go to New Jersey! Jerseyans lack all manners, behave like primitive monkeys and have the worst clothes and hairs in the known world.

    They are known for being hick and stupid, and being proud of it all!

    Not only that. They also have to bring all their human garbage and fat bodies to mighty New York City. They clog our roads and sidewalks, aesthetically and physically pollute our great city, and then leave again for their stupid suburbs and miserable lives.

    Don’t you love Jersey? You love it? Then stay in Zoo Jersey and don’t get out of there. You people are an embarrassment for humanity.

    I’m so sick of you all.

  2. “Stupid New Jerseyans” – Your comment has reached a level of boneheadedness heretofore unexperienced by man or beast. It exists at a sublevel beyond ordinary comprehension, a dark yet massive turd of illogic, an event horizon of gibberish from which no light or matter may escape..

    I assume you came here via the New York Times?

  3. Back to a more intelligent issue – I think the Guardian decided many years ago, to welcome their new Islamist overlords. To them, anything is better than the Yanks (or Blair?). Besides, the Islamists are about equivalent to the Stalinists that the Guardian seems to favor. The Guardian is the new pro-totalitarian propaganda outlet, the new Pravda. (I’d call them the new al Jazeera, but AJ is more critical of Muslim leaders than the Guardian)

    Scott is doing some excellent work, calling this to everyone’s attention. Getting other members of the MSM to publicize it is a brilliant idea. I doubt that the Guardian will fire one of their Islamists or their Stalinists, but revealing the blatant bias behind their reporting is even more important.