BBC forced to removed 'bastard' slur about Jesus from its website

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The Dailymail reports that the remarks remained on site for weeks, even with complaints from religious groups.

This has led to accusations that the BBC is allowing its output to be hijacked by extremists while they are censoring anti-Muslim sentiment. The remarks were part of a discussion about the death of the Archbishop of Paris. It turned into a debate about the merits of Christians, Jews and Muslims when writer 'colonelartist', posted:

"Are you a christian? You do know that jesus had to hide all his short life he lived in those promised land because his tribesmen used to call him fatherless, ridiculed him for being a B-A-S-T-A-R-D...'

He added: "Jesus...was also persecuted because the jews would never accept as their Messiah a person whose father was missing...'

The comments remained but when The Mail contacted senior BBC officials on Sunday, they were deleted.

Colonelartist is a regularly contributes to the BBC site.

One website was eager to find out if BBC editors were allowing these offensive remarks to remain while blocking others. So they wrote:

"No one can surpass the Muslims for denial of their role in Terrorism and Suicide bombing."

Those comments were deleted very quickly.

The BBC has also been criticized for allowing posts from a contributor called "Iron Naz', whose comments are allegedly anti-Semitic.

Here is a message that was left alone for over a month. Iron Naz says:

"Zionism is a racist ideology where jews are given supremacy over all other races and faiths. This is found in the Talmud...which allows jews to lie as long as its to non-jews."

That one got complaints from the Board of Deputies, the organisation that represents Britain's Jews and its Community Security Trust. In their view, the post draws on a discredited 19th century text, "The Talmud Unmasked.", a book carried by neo-nazi book sellers.

In the BBC's view, the remarks did not warrant removal.

According to a spokesman, messages are removed when they "disrupt, provoke attack or offend others or are considered racist, homophobic, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable."


They are drawing alot of heat from many sources. The Church of England also criticised the management of the BBC sites noting that "voices of reason, compassion and charity seem to get little look-in".


One can only imagine that in order to solve this dilemma, things on all sides will be deleted more often as they try to cover their bases and please everyone. Or perhaps they will simply continue the way they are and draw criticism.