This story can be looked at in two ways. First, one can see it as an example of the dhimmified PC, BBC attacking Christians for something they did 500 years ago which Muslims actually do today.
And second, one can look at this as the story of the BBC pissing off Muslims for showing a Muslim getting killed by a Christian.
Is the glass half-full, or half-empty?
You decide:
BBC defends Muslim beheading
Exclusive by Derek Robins - BBC bosses have defended the grisly beheading of a Muslim by a Christian zealot in new drama Bonekickers.
In the bloody scene, ex-EastEnder Paul Nicholls plays a fundamentalist who decapitates a Muslim with a sword.Producer Rhonda Smith said: "It's not meant to be shocking or to cause offence and it comes very much from the storyline."
BBC chiefs are planning to warn viewers about the gruesome beheading scene.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "It is in a 9pm slot in early July and viewers will be advised of the content immediately before broadcast."
The beheading scene comes in an episode dealing with the excavation of medieval soldiers from the time of the Crusades.
It leads to the hunt for the cross on which Jesus was crucified which the Crusaders may have brought back from the Holy Land.
Also keen to find the cross are right-wing Christian fanatics who also want to use violence to drive Muslims out of Britain.
Bonekickers could also come under fire from traditional archaeologists, warns Professor Mark Horton, a consultant on the series.
Maybe, next episode ought to be about how a group of archaologists go nuts and start beheading TV producers.
7 comments:
Pastorius,
The glass is half empty
Yep. Because it doesn't matter what Muslims think. What matters is what we think, and we aren't really thinking.
The BBC is caught in mythic thinking, having lost the clarity once part and parcel of Christendom; in short, they are weenies and stooges.
Anthropologically, myth is one of three crucial elements of the primitive Sacred. Author and friend, Gil Bailie, reminds us that "myth doesn’t answer questions. It extinguishes the mental vitality to ask them. To mythologize is to leave out or obscure the things that would lead to contrition."
Welcome to the new Dark Ages.
Athos,
That a very interesting perspective. Have you written any essays on that? If so, may I post them here?
Pastorius, a new and fine little article has come out of Stanford on Girard's opus that bears reading here.
I'll send you a nice excerpt from a tape series by Gil Bailie. I have not written anything so well stated.
Thank you very much, Athos. I will read that today.
:)
And, thanks for the emails.
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