BBC offers apology to Muslim Council of Britain over guest's remarks

by Hannah Fletcher
Times Online
May 30, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1760/bbc-offers-apology-to-muslim-council-of-britain

Excerpt:

The BBC has offered £30,000 and an apology to the Muslim Council of Britain after airing accusations that it encouraged the killing of British troops.

The corporation offered the settlement after a Question Time panellist accused the council of failing to condemn attacks on British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Charles Moore, a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, made the comments on the programme in March during a debate about Islamic protests at a soldiers' homecoming parade in Luton. He claimed that the council thought it was a "good thing, even an Islamic thing" to kill troops.

The council, an umbrella organisation representing about 500 Islamic bodies in Britain, said that his claims were a "total lie" and threatened the BBC with legal action.

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