Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

The BBC's perfectly sealed thought system

Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 02, 2022
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After Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York last month by a Muslim intent upon fulfilling the murderous 1989 Iranian fatwa against him, the BBC’s Dateline London programme ran an interview with the Palestinian commentator Abdel Bari Atwan.

Atwan said on the show that The Satanic Verses, Rushdie’s satirical novel fo…

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