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Does the BBC cover this? gspot.com/http://tinyurl.com/6beoqn

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[nq:1]Does the BBC cover this?[/nq]
What is there to cover? Some nut with a megaphone is hardly news - London has hundreds of them.
Bert

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[nq:2]Does the BBC cover this?[/nq]
[nq:1]What is there to cover? Some nut with a megaphone is hardly news - London has hundreds of them.[/nq]
They're on TV here. One of them is Haggee. But his kind are legion.

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

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[nq:1]Does the BBC cover this?

gspot.com/ http://tinyurl.com/6beoqn[/nq]
Yes it does. You can hear the BBC World Service on many NPR stations. You can download its news programs as podcasts and you can visit the BBC site. I entered the search terms Radical Islam London - and got 26 pages of hits not all of the entries on topic but I think your question is answered.

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[nq:2]Does the BBC cover this?

gspot.com/ http://tinyurl.com/6beoqn[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes it does. You can hear the BBC World Service on many NPR stations. You can download its news programs ... got 26 pages of hits not all of the entries on topic but I think your question is answered.[/nq]
Fair play to the cops for 1: initially being so polite, 2: keeping their cool. Who was the beard with the mike? Did I detect a slight Jamaican accent occasionally?

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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]Does the BBC cover this?

gspot.com/ http://tinyurl.com/6beoqn[/nq]
Those deluded religious fanatics were shouting slogans totally hostile to the values held by most Londoners (including the vast majority of Muslims, who do vote), yet they were basically free to do so. The police were concerned with public order and safety, not the hateful, stupid content of what the man was saying. I would be happy to live in a city where free speech is allowed and protected.
On the other hand, you can't just say anything. During the Danish Cartoons row, police filmed and prosecuted a man who wore a pretend suicide belt, and another who carried a sign, 'Behead those who insult Islam,' to name a couple.
As to whether the BBC covered it, probably not. Might have made the local newspapers.
You seriously overstate pro-muslim bias by the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4298356.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/jun/11/broadcasting.bbc2

http://mpacuk.org/content/view/4310/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/news/2008/05/07/54773.shtml

And by the way, getting back to your other BBC thread, a change of government should NOT mean a change in BBC editorial content, which must be independent. It is precisely because of the way it is funded and run that the BBC can be independent.
I have to wonder, a bit, if your percieved anti-Isreali bias on the part of the BBC is at least in part a contrast to the discernable pro Isreali bias in the US mass media. This is not to say that it's not there certainly the BBC should release any relevant documents requested under FOI. It's just that, again, you overstate the case. It would be interesting, for interest, to compare and contrast the editorial neutrality of BBC/Fox, or BBC/Al-Jazeera or BBC/ABC. My guess is the BBC would come out pretty good by comparison.

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