Racist Children? WTF?

These newspapers are churning out stories about how PC loonies or Muslims are taking over the UK. Usually the Sun, the Daily Mail or the Telegraph. Below are some examples from a report found here.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/it+shouldnt+happen+to+a+muslim/2314592

I suspect this story is something similar.


Get off my bus I need to pray –
The Sun, 28 March 2008
This was the story of a Muslim bus driver ordering his passengers off his bus so that he could pray. The Sun story, along with footage of the bus driver praying, was widely circulated around right-wing blogs. Dhimmi Watch, the right-wing blog on the site Jihad Watch that catalogues perceived outrages committed by Muslims, even included the Sun story in their “ever-expanding You Can’t Make This Stuff Up file”. Well, actually you can. For the Sun it was apparently a perfect example of a Muslim putting his faith before the interests of the public and demanding special treatment. The newspaper ran the story after giving London United Bus Company very little time to investigate, obliging them to issue a holding statement saying they would look into the matter. Once they had done so it was clear that the story was rather different. The bus had been delayed, so in order to maintain frequency the bus company had ordered the driver to stop his bus and allow passengers to board the bus behind. Tickets and CCTV evidence show that all the passengers were on that bus within a minute. The driver was under strict instructions not to allow any passengers onto his bus. He was on a ten-minute break so could do what he wanted. 5 28 October 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/ mediawatch/img/2005/ep35/natwest.pdf The so-called witness, a 21 year old plumber, who recorded the bus driver praying, had not in fact been on the bus, and had arrived after the incident to find a small crowd waiting outside a bus. Jumping to a false conclusion, he sold his story to the Sun. The bus driver is currently taking legal action against the Sun for defamation and gross invasion of privacy. The article has been removed from the Sun’s website.

Nurses Told to Turn Muslims’ Beds to Mecca –
Daily Express, 4 December 2007
This story claimed that “NURSES have been told to stop treating patients while they move Muslims’ beds FIVE TIMES a day to face Mecca.” We discovered that in reality nurses would only move terminally-ill Muslim patients’ beds at their family’s request. The concession did not apply to all Muslim patients, and certainly not five times a day. Julia Squire, chief executive of The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Dewsbury and District Hospital, said. “The press reporting on this matter is simply incorrect. Let me be absolutely clear: no employee of The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been or will be ordered to turn hospital beds to face Mecca five times a day.”6 The story originated from an anonymous quote from a nurse at the Dewsbury hospital used in the Daily Express (and also in a similar account which appeared and in the same day’s Daily Star, which is under the same ownership). According to the anonymous source, “If we are having to turn dozens of beds to face Mecca five times a day, plus provide running water for them to wash before and after prayers, it is bound to impact on the essential medical service 6 “Papers criticised over Mecca beds,” Spenborough Today, 7 December 2007 we are supposed to be providing.” 7 Other news papers had run the story correctly, reporting that it would only happen to “very ill” patients and even then not five times a day.8 Fascinatingly, even newspapers which had got the story right, like the Daily Mirror, then inserted the five times a day claim,9 giving it a much more prominent billing. The Daily Telegraph even went to the lengths of borrowing the anonymous quote in the following day’s paper (6 December 2007). 10 The story then gained momentum as angry letters poured in and MPs voiced their outrage, prompting the Daily Star to glory in its investigative journalism, boasting “OUR revelation that nurses are having to turn Muslim patients’ beds to face Mecca has prompted a furious response from Brits. In the biggest response the Daily Star has ever had to a story, thousands of angry readers swamped our offices with texts, phone calls and e-mails”.11 The incident has now since entered folklore, becoming a central piece of evidence for those who make the case that Muslims are invading the British way of life. When the Daily Star finally quoted the NHS denials, they were presented as a U-turn rather than a mistake on the part of the newspapers.12


HOGWASH: Now the PC brigade bans piggy banks in case they offend Muslims –
Daily Express, 24 October 2005
The story claimed that NatWest and Halifax had removed images of piggy banks from their promotional material in an effort to avoid offending Muslim customers, since pork is forbidden in Islam. The paper quoted observers calling such action “barmy” and “bonkers”, thereby stirring up a huge response from the public. One letter to the paper was entitled “Piggy bank climb-down is victory for the terrorists”. NatWest was originally called by journalists from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph who were told in no uncertain terms that the end of one promotion had nothing to do with fear of causing offence. The Express then ran the story without making reasonable checks with the banks.3 The article manages to cite no evidence that piggy banks had been removed for the reason cited in the inflammatory headline, confining itself to expressing outrage from MPs and church leaders. The banks themselves soon cleared up the matter. The Halifax drily noted that it “has not withdrawn any piggy banks from branches” and noted that in fact it had not used piggy banks in its branches for a number of years.4 The NatWest press statement noted that: “There is absolutely no fact in the story. We simply had a UK wide savings marketing campaign, which included pictures of piggy banks, running until the end of September. Piggy banks have been and will continue to be used as a promotional item by NatWest.” 5 That is indeed the case, as NatWest’s piggy banks feature prominently in their promotions to this day.

The person who hates foreigners in a lot of cases will also hate his next door neighbour .Some people are born haters .The most obious one to spring to mind would be Hitler or more recently Osama bin ladin