Wednesday, 10 March 2010

BBC and Libertarianism...

So it seems that you can get Libertarian ideas on the BBC. But only if you're a Muslim.

Who knew?

Allah Ackar!
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7 comments:

Suboptimal Planet said...

The Quilliam Foundation 'libertarian'? Even The Guardian has expressed concerns about them:

"QF is currently cosying up to the Conservative party to ensure its role under the next government. It would not be a bad thing if that party's first cost-cutting exercise was to stop funding an organisation that has come to represent the toxic juncture at which intense personal ambition and government propaganda meet."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/23/quilliam-islamic-fundamentalists-terrorism

11 March 2010 09:34
AndrewWS said...

I wish whoever posted that comment at the Grauniad would follow through and realise that a future government has to stop funding or subsidising a lot of think-tanks and organisations other than the QF.

11 March 2010 12:43
sconzey said...

Does it matter whether or not the Quilliam foundation is "Libertarian"? Does it matter if Nawaz self-identifies as "Libertarian"?

The guy speaks for ten minutes about how the state shouldn't legislate on morality; it's a Libertarian idea, and an anathema to the Left, and it was on the BBC :D

11 March 2010 14:29
sound money man said...

@sconzey: according to the phony left-right paradigm the social liberals (like Nawaz) have to believe in the welfare state and the economic liberals have to be corporate warmongers dictating personal morality. No room for true Libertarians on the false paradigm!

11 March 2010 17:31
Jon said...

"So it seems that you can get Libertarian ideas on the BBC. But only if you're a Muslim."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2010/03/armed_and_ready_to_shop.html

oh god why are you all so whiny?

11 March 2010 20:29
sound money man said...

@Jon: who are you talking to?

This blog post was written by sconzey. He speaks for himself.

Instead of directing remarks to "you all" why not talk to the poster directly?

11 March 2010 23:39
Suboptimal Planet said...

sconzey,

Sadly, the link you gave now redirects to some rubbish by the "Rev Prof Alister McGrath on the relationship between natural science, faith and religion."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006xp1x

I did listen to Mr Nawaz's piece the whole way through, but I don't remember any impressively Libertarian ideas. Secularism is a fairly mainstream perspective, and he came across as a typical 'moderate' Muslim.

IMO, a better example of Libertarian ideas appeared in a Paxman interview highlighted by the Oxford Libertarian Society:

'taxation is theft; donations are donations'

FWIW, if you're interested in Libertarian ideas, expressed on the BBC by a politically incorrect heterosexual white male, I think Top Gear is your best bet :-)

29 March 2010 22:28

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