BBC Rejects Complaints from Muslims
The BBC has defended a Panorama Special on the MCB), Britain’s most powerful Islamic body, after receiving 250 complaints about the TV programme.
Sunday night’s Panorama accused the MCB of being “in denial” about sectarianism within the religion’s communities.
It suggested that the MCB should provide a stronger lead and that groups affiliated to it were peddling hard-line views.
The MCB is writing to the corporation calling for a public apology about Sunday’s programme, which they have branded a “witch hunt” against Muslims in the UK.
It is sending a letter to BBC director general Mark Thompson, the programme’s editor Mike Robinson, director of BBC News Helen Boaden, and reporter John Ware.
The MCB spokesman said: “John Ware had a preconceived goal, which was trying to portray the MCB as being in denial, and so the programme didn’t present the true facts to the viewers.”
The MCB is an umbrella organisation with more than 400 affiliated groups.
Source: Free Republic.
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