A Perfect Illustration of Dr. Pipes' point on the BBC

Submitted by Andrew B. (United States), Jan 3, 2007 at 15:40

I Listened to the BBC World Service this morning, and it underlined Dr. Pipes article in my mind quite well.

The reporter, Owen Bennet-Jones, was interviewing some Ugandan diplomat about Ugandan possibly sending some troops to Somalia. The raw, upfront support that this BBC reporter showed for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) would have embarrassed even Al-Jazeerah. He pontificated numerous times about how foreign intervention in Somalia has never worked, and could not ever work.

He was obviously very sore that Ethiopian intervention actually defeated his pet Islamofascists- which also serves to undermine the BBCs lefty-line that US intervention against Islamofascism is counterproductive.

What cognitive dissonance for the Euro-left-secular mind! A third-world army actually coming in and decisively trouncing a radical Islamic regime! Outrage! Sour grapes!

His piece-de-resistance was a claim ( that he pulled right out the air ) that the people of Somalia supported the ICU, and they ought to have their right to self-determination.

Funny how such a "popular" group like the ICU didn't get any fighting support from the "people", and instead scurried out of town when they heard the Ethiopians were coming.

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