AnOldMan

Worth knowing that the Centre for Media Monitoring is funded by the Muslim Council of Britain. That doesn't automatically invalidate the findings, but it does mean the definition of "very biased" is their definition, not an independent one. Who set the criteria? How were they applied? Were the same standards used for outlets critical of other faiths? Then look at who's on the list. The Spectator, GB News, the Telegraph, the Jewish Chronicle. These are outlets that have reported on Islamist extremism, grooming gangs, sectarian bloc voting and Iranian terror plots on British soil. If that kind of reporting is what gets you classified as "very biased against Islam and Muslims" then this chart isn't really measuring Islamophobia. It's measuring which outlets won't stay quiet. The Jewish Chronicle's inclusion says it all. A newspaper that covers antisemitic attacks and Iranian agents surveilling British Jews is apparently one of Britain's most Islamophobic outlets. Make of that what you will. And this is exactly why the new anti-Muslim hostility definition matters so much. Once you let an advocacy group define what counts as bias, accurate and uncomfortable reporting becomes prejudice by definition. That's not protection from hatred. It's protection from scrutiny.

A close friend here in Tehran fought through a thousand layers of this digital blackout just to get a message to me. I am putting it here so the diaspora and the Western pundits can look it in the eye. They said: 'When I finally break through the blackout, I am greeted by people sitting safely outside, preaching their 'anti-war' worries. They cannot fathom that the mullahs slaughtered 40,000 of us in two days. We are being psychologically tortured by their moral grandstanding. Those of us inside this cage know that cutting out a cancer is going to hurt. We are willing to take that pain, because it is better to die once than to be tortured every single day. If this war stops and the regime survives, we are all dead anyway our execution dates just get moved up. From the Massacre of January until the first bombs fell, I cried every single day. When the strikes started, I was finally happy. But reading these 'anti-war' takes physically crushes me. It feels like a 100-kilo weight on my chest. It feels like these safe, comfortable people are grabbing me by the arms and handing me directly to the Islamic Republic to be raped. We are embracing the fire and the fear because this is our last chance to end the nightmare. And yet, your 'peace' posts multiply our terror a hundred thousand times over.' Hear us clearly. Silence the cowards who speak against this rescue mission. Every time you preach 'peace' while we are locked in with our butchers, you are pouring water directly into the regime’s mill.

I post this without comment. “Schools have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law. Guidance issued to teachers by Labourcouncils in northern England warns that images made by pupils in art lessons may be seen as “idolatrous” under sharia” This is a direct quote from the Telegraph. Full article below.

With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary. And if it does endure the economic consequences may prove ruinous, something he would have had to own if he had backed the effort.