Thisislondon reports that the first show of the hospital drama's new series was to have featured a storyline about an explosion caused by Islamic extremists.

The script for the opening scene was changed and now the bomb will be set off by an animal rights group instead.

A BBC spokesman said: "With any storyline there are lots of ideas that get put forward but don't make the series."

Well that is true, it doesn't really address the issue. This story seems to reinforce what critics have been saying about the BBC. In another story that I wrote the other day here, people were offended as it seemed to them that the BBC was censoring anti-Muslim sentiment.

Does the BBC walk on eggshells where Muslims are concerned?

Here, I found out that the decision to yank the original plot came from corporation's editorial guidelines department. They ordered that the episode be changed so that the Muslim characters were replaced by animal rights extremists. So the decision did in fact come from high up.

In a Fox report from 2001 it is reported that Muslim activists in Great Britain demanded that the BBC stop referring to Osama bin Laden's faith in its reports, saying that the term "Islamic Fundamentalist" is provoking a racial backlash. It came at a time when a there was a debate within the BBC's news department and its Diversity Unit as to whether the corporation was offending Muslims by referring to bin Laden as an Islamic extremist, fundamentalist or Islamic terrorist.

Even the Pope seemed sorry that he had offended Muslims in Sept. 2006 in a story carried by the BBC itself. Granted, the quote said the Prophet Muhammad brought the world only evil and inhuman things. But still, you cant help but see a pattern the deeper you look.

People have become fearful about offending this faith.

Even London's Tate Gallery censored work out of fear of offending Muslims. They withdrew the work God Is Great from an exhibition dedicated to the conceptual artist John Latham. The Tate explained that in the “sensitive climate, post-July 7” the work might offend some Muslims. The artist wasn't even talked with about it.

It seems that no one is safe from overreacting and being apologetic to this group. The common denominator seems to be fear. And what have we been shown by these people to fear? Oh yeah, bombings and terror. It seems to be working.