Another example of the BBC's skewed and sometimes mind-bogglingly perverse reporting on the social crisis caused by the BNP's exploitation of the "Islamophobia" issue. The most recent story is headed BNP activists admit to race crime - yet the article is actually about anti-Islamic statements made by figures in the BNP. This way, the BNP actually gains support from the BBC, as the conflation of "race" and "religion" works to reinforce the far-right party's contention that it is not racist at all.
As Steven Rose points out in a much more useful BBC discussion on Radio 4's The Moral Maze, a clear distinction between race, ethnicity and religion needs to be made if the debate on racial and religious discrimination is to make any headway at all.
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