COMMENT SENT TO CBC RADIO
CBC Radio’s Sunday
Edition has become so degraded in quality that it is not often worth
listening to.
Today, the show’s host, Michael Enright, was blubbering
about whether Islam is a religion of peace.
I'm sorry but no matter what Enright’s conclusions - I had
to turn him off, I’m so sick of hearing such stuff - that topic is simply a
dumb one in today's world. Pure News of
the World stuff.
Just in asking the question about Islam, you are planting, yet
once again, the suggestion of Islamophobia.
As with newspaper headlines, many people only take in the
pithy bit.
The ignorance of history involved in the question is
breathtaking.
We had hundreds of years of religious wars and massacres in
Europe - all involving two branches of Christianity.
We had witch burnings and the Holy Inquisition.
We had priests coming to the New World with Cortez and
others to convert-or-kill the indigenous people by the thousands.
We had the long and bloody and pointless crusades sponsored
by popes, hundreds of years of rape and murder.
We had two world wars with every leader in Europe and
America having had a Christian upbringing.
In the Old Testament we have many tales of savage brutality
by the Jewish people. And contemporary Israel is a place of non-stop violence
and oppression.
So why the question about Islam, unless it is to plant and
promote bias?
By the way, Mr. Enright lets his personal views now often
get in the way of good sense.
A while back, he called Mr. Putin, the leader of a major
country, "a thug."
Why does he get to say such uninformed stuff on air, just
dripping with personal bias?
Besides, it is just a fact that Putin is one of most capable
and rational leaders on the world scene right now. Canada actually had its own
genuine thug, Stephen Harper, but Mr. Enright never called him that.
CBC News shows should inform, not preach.
