BBS: Propeller Beanie Be Upon Them

If you thought you'd seen all the dhimmitude the mainstream media could serve up, the BBC lowers the bar and themselves even further  in servitude to Islam. This is not scrappleface, this is not parody. The BBC lhas completely lost it.

PEACE BE UPON HIM BBC hat tip Ralph

Throughout the BBC's section on Islam you will see peace be upon him or (pbuh) after the name Muhammad.

Muslims say peace be upon him after every mention of Muhammad's name, as a mark of respect. Muslims do the same when they write the Prophet's name, adding pbuh.

WTF?

The Arabic translation of peace be upon him is sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which is usually abbreviated as saw.

TMI, asshats.

Use of pbuh on bbc.co.uk/religion

The BBC uses pbuh in the Islam section out of courtesy, and we would do the same for any other religion if they had a similar phrase that was universally used as a sign of respect.

Shame on you. Fools.

When the site refers to the Prophet on pages that are not in the Islam section, we do not use the phrase. The phrase is only used on the first occurrence of the Prophet's name, and not throughout each article.

We chose this position after much debate over what would be a truly impartial way to write about different faiths. The problem we faced was that religions can be so different in their underlying philosophy and world view that it could be impossible to understand them properly if we approached them from a single consistent point of view.

We decided that a less biased and more consistently fair approach would be to write about each faith from the point of view of that faith - so that our explanatory pages were in essence, a particular religion explaining itself to the reader. From that position it made sense to use pbuh on pages explaining Islam.

Less biased? The BBC defines bias.

 

Comments

[jpm100]

I've always had a theory that liberals desperately want to have their lives controlled. Their conduct towards this country is out of contempt for the unwillingness of us to step up and run their lives for them. So they taunt us by accusing us of doing what they really want done to them.

The looked to the Soviet Union with its Butcher Stalin and total state control of a person's life to provide the personal dominance they sought.

Now they are looking to Jihadis to provide the total control of their lives we are unwilling to impose on them.

[photoncourier.blogspot.com]

If they are trying to write about each faith from its own point of view, then shouldn't the Judaism section refer to "G-D" or "YHWH" rather than "God" as it in fact does?

[x_dhimmi]

May the bird of paradise fly up their collective noses.