BBC reporter faces calls to resign after comment at Paris rally

[Not Sure]

Exactly.

Probably this attitude comes from their hope that if the Charlie Hebdo attack is somehow justified, everything will be fine.

What they don't realize is that such justification (from the "educated" Muslims - like on PDF) will only serve to embolden 100s of prospective attackers (wannabe Mujahiddeen) to carry out some major killings in the hope of getting accepted and again justified by Muslims across continents.

This next wave of attacks in turn will put even greater pressure on Muslims in general and they will feel even more squeezed in the society. They are harming none but themselves.

 

[Gufi]

The issue is simple. No one apologizes at news channels unless they somehow go against the channel policy. SO the policy of the media allows for bashing of Muslims at will but not of asking common Jews about what other Jews are doing...

This next wave of attacks in turn will put even greater pressure on Muslims in general and they will feel even more squeezed in the society. They are harming none but themselves.

oh yea great that has been working out great for the world... some how Muslims are part of every society and are living peacefully in them... but we are the evil ones.. keep trying it is funny now

 

[Not Sure]

Are you waiting for murder before pointing out the remark hypocrisy?

Murder is too far beyond, I am waiting for just any crime to take place.


No one harmed anyone, no one broke any law, and simply because the guy commented on Israel you want to make it look like he got crucified?

Do you realize Akhelios that it sounds like, for you, Muslims gunning down journalists is a crime so trivial and easily forgivable that it can be equated with people criticizing an unknown reporter's comment.

 

[Foggy_Bottom]

What happened to free speech?

When you get yourself out of the Press TV website, you will see it was free speech to ask for his resignation. Just like it was free speech to make the statement. Nobody is going to kill him and over a dozen others over it.

 

[Gufi]

When you get yourself out of the Press TV website, you will see it was free speech to ask for his resignation. Just like it free speech to make the statement. Nobody is going to kill him and over a dozen others over it.

Him apologizing was not free speech but it is part of channel policies I wonder how people are so ignorant of why a reporter apologizes.

 

[Dubious]

Murder is too far beyond, I am waiting for just any crime to take place.

So better safe than sorry is not a good thing to advice another?

No one harmed anyone, no one broke any law, and simply because the guy commented on Israel you want to make it look like he got crucified?

He did when he was asked to resign where in today's world jobs are soo scarce!

He did when all he did was exercise HIS part of the freedom of speech as a journalist to correct the old lady that hello people think different than you!

Do you realize Akhelios that it sounds like, for you, Muslims gunning down journalists is a crime so trivial and easily forgivable that it can be equated with people criticizing an unknown reporter's comment.

Did I say that?

Just show me where I said what your mind conjured!

 

[Foggy_Bottom]

Him apologizing was not free speech but it is part of channel policies I wonder how people are so ignorant of why a reporter apologizes.

Him apologizing was his choice, he is free to quit. Nowhere does its say his company forced him to do so and did so over twitter. But again NOBODY IS GOING TO KILL HIM over it... he probably apologized for equating the Israel-Palestine war with something like the holocaust.

If you have the clout, then get every editor who publishes cartoons of mohammed fired. But don't kill him and dozens others over it. The distinction being made is very simple.

 

[JonAsad]

There is no doubt that this mental decay runs throughout PDF, as a microcosm of the Pakistani community.

Its really funny with all that supposed mental decay Pakistanis are not the ones involved in such incidents.

 

[usernameless]

freedom of speech... only if you say what we like to hear.

 

[hussain0216]

Nooooo dont offend the juuuuuiiiceeee!!

 

[TurAr]

So better safe than sorry is not a good thing to advice another?

You were pretty upset when another member made the same advice about the terrorist attacks in Pakistan: Don't go to school, better safe than sorry.

Or in your case: Don't exercise your freedom of speech, better safe than sorry.

 

[Shot-Caller]

Its basically West against the Muslims. Indians are trying hard to jump the ship. We need to peacefully unite against them.

 

[Not Sure]

So better safe than sorry is not a good thing to advice another?

You mean sorry like the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo? Are you issuing a threat here or simply supporting the acts of Charlie Hebdo killers?

He did when he was asked to resign where in today's world jobs are soo scarce!

He did when all he did was exercise HIS part of the freedom of speech as a journalist to correct the old lady that hello people think different than you!

He is in a job where he showed himself to be opinionated, and his views matter to people because he is a journalist. So people have all the rights to call for his resignation, and his company has all the rights to keep him on his job. Neither party took the law in hand. If his company is at the mercy of peoples' demands, then his company should have trained him better. If the people are wrong, then the company won't throw him out, simple. No law broken. But in Charlie Hebdo's case, people got massacred.

By comparing this incident with Charlie Hebdo, yes you are equating the massacre with this trivial comment episode. And we all know the reasons behind that as well.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Freedom of speech... Only if you tow the line.

 

[RescueRanger]

Why wonder? The Mullahs think for all of us, and MiniMes blindly follow. The results are obvious.

No mullah thinks for me, I can think for myself and so can many other Pakistanis. Learn to speak for yourself.

You bring Pakistanis here in this discussion when Pakistan and our "mini me's" we're not inclined in this latest fracas.

So quit derailing the actual issue and stick to the point, which is by demanding the poor man loose his job over a simple question is outrageous to say the least.

I want to use my freedon of speech to Sue Mountain Dew as I don't actually start to climb and do adventure sports everytime I pop opens bottle like the add suggests.

 

[Rafi]

What is not funny is Pakistan's condition given the mental decay of its residents, as is evident on PDF too.

And who are you to judge nearly 200 million people, you are clearly suffering from megalomania.