One of the stories of yesterday was that a poor British girl Mia Ayliffe-Chung had been murdered at a backpackers hostel in Australia. Another Brit is critically ill as a result of the knife attack by a French national.
As it happens the French national is called Smail Ayad and so one would assume is of North African origin and without doubt Moslem. He shouted out the words Allahu akbar" - God is Great in arabic as he carried out the attack..
But here is how the BBC News at 10 reported it last night. The Presenter is Sophie Raworth who stated: " Police say the suspect is from France and shouted in arabic and are not treating it as a terror attack"
Well up to a point Sophie sweetest. "Shouting in arabic" is one thing "shouting Allahu Akbar, as Islamofascist killers tend to do when killing innocent folks" is a very different matter. Why did the BBC not report what the chap said. And why, when the name of the killer was widely availlable did they not mention that name? Had the killer been called Pierre LeBlanc do you think the BBC would have omitted such detail?
As to this being a terror attack? Well the Allahu Akbar catchphrase indicates to me that it is just a possibility that might be considered and if one watches the Ozzie Rozzers giving a press conference HERE you can see that they acknowledge that it may be terror linked but are not ruling out any line of enquiry which is quite right since it is only on 25 August Oz time ( ie today) that the interviewing of the killer by the rozzers was set to start.
In short what the BBC reported was untrue as to the motivation and misleading on all other counts. Clearly the facts do not fit with the liberal media agenda and in 2016 Britain it is probably a hate crime to point that out and suggest that this episode once again shows the BBC to be not fit for purpose