BBC tells its staff: don’t call Qatada extremist

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In order to avoid making a “value judgment”, the corporation’s managers have ruled that he can only be described as “radical”.


Journalists were also cautioned against using images suggesting the preacher is overweight.


A judge ruled this week that the Muslim preacher, once described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, should be released from a British jail, angering ministers and MPs.


Adding to the row, Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, yesterday insisted that Qatada “has not committed any crime” and said his release has nothing to do with the European Court of Human Rights.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9067754/BBC-tells-its-staff-dont-call-Qatada-extremist.html

Is it any wonder that George Orwell found so much inspiration for his books from his stint at the BBC? Talk about doublespeak.

[Drale]

1. Only thing good on the BBC

is Doctor Who

[dipsydoodle]

2. The only footage available is from when he was large.

He's yet to be released from bail so there is no "not a bit on the large side" footage.

Aside from that : Abu Qatada row: Cameron pushes for deportation deal with Jordan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/08/abu-qatada-row-cameron-jordan

He came into the UK on a forged passport and was eventually granted asylum. See here :

Abu Qatada has lived in the UK since 1993, when he entered the country with his family on a forged United Arab Emirates passport. He was granted asylum nine months later, becoming a potent figure in the extremist intellectual community in London during the 1990s. He was imam at a mosque in north London, and preached across the capital where he built a strong following. In evidence which later emerged at one of his Special Immigration Appeals Commission hearings, it was claimed that in 1995 he issued a "fatwa" which appeared to justify the killing of "apostate" women and children in Algeria.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-case-against-abu-qatada-6660996.html

[kysrsoze]

3. Hakuna Qatada! :D