Just a little indication. On the search engine for BBC News and Sport:Click here for your 23 pages of search results for "ramadan"
Click here for your 7 pages of search results for "lent" (actually quite a few of those are for "lent" as in "lent money")
H/T to Laban at UK Commentators
6 comments:
It's no different here in America. As a matter of fact, it might possibly be worse. Yesterday I learned of kidnaped Catholic priests in Iraq that were being held for ransom. Number #1: NONE of the news agencies had mentioned a word about this incident and, Number #2: incidents like these appear to be happening quite often. Yet NO mention - not a word - of one such occurrence. Can someone please explain?
Tom
Fr. Tim,
Here in Canada similar forces are at work. Yesterday morning, everyone at my company was cordially invited by e-mail to join with the senior management at a reception to celebrate Eid-al-fitr with our Muslim colleagues. And in the afternoon, guess what? An e-mail message went out to all staff inviting them to the company "Winterfest."
I deleted both e-mails without responding.
On last night's (very entertaining) spy show, "Spooks", the "other side" were the Iranians. You know, the country ruled by intolerant mullahs, who promote an extreme and blood-thirsty form of "Shariah" Law.
Hmm! Didn't get that impression from the two episodes last night. In fact, Iran came across as just another secular state, that just happened to have an Islamic heritage, such as Syria.
BTW, Father. Being without a telly, you probably have not the slightest idea about the show - sorry - but you get the drift, I'm sure.
Tom - for solid up-to-the-minute Catholic news go to EWTN, CNA or LifeSite News. And of course the Catholic blogosphere which is so up-to-the-minute that stories 'break' even before they've happened!!!!
The BBC is a waste of time - and costs a whole shed load of UK licence fee-payers ££££'s to keep it going. Auntie Beeb would sink like a stone were it not for this artificial financial prop. Sickening.
Philip - yes, I have heard of Spooks: watched it even! I heard about it because of the episode about the terrorist pro-lifers. It reinforced the prejudice that typical pro-lifers in Britain and elsewhere are ready to blow things up etc. (That prejudice is also reinforced, btw, by official statements from Bishops' Conferences saying that they don't endorse violence in the pro-life movement. They might as well say that they don't endorse violence in the Union of Catholic Mothers.)
But I digress. A parishioner lent me the DVDs of one series of Spooks. Quite entertaining. Fr Z insisted that they were derivative from an American spy series whose name I forget. But I had the very strong impression that these were government propaganda, casting MI5 in a good light against all the baddies - especially the baddies HMG want you to hate.
Also - without wanting to be too dramatic, I think it is important to remember what we would be up against if we ever thought of going underground a la recusant days. In the UK, we haven't got a chance.
In all fairness, many of the references to "ramadan" will be references to "eid" as "the end of ramadan"; to get a fair picture search for "easter" too: 80-odd items on that (yes, including eggs and cards and other irrelevancies)
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