Aleem maqbool biography books
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Stop Aleem Maqbool’s appointment as Head of religion for the BBC – SIGN THE PETITION
Petition Closed 15th June 2022
Number of signatures: 8,907
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Stop Aleem Maqbool’s appointment as Head of religion for the BBC
Petition to: Nadine Dorries MP – Secretary of State for Digital – Culture – Media and Sport
The BBC has, after what they say was a competitive recruitment process, appointed a new Religion editor, Aleem Maqbool. Mr Maqbool, a Muslim and journalist of some note, previously acted as the BBC’s Pakistan Correspondent and Gaza/West Bank Correspondent (https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/bbc-news-aleem-maqbool-religion-editor/). He is due to take up his new position this Spring.
Maqbool succeeds Martin Bashir and, before that, Aaqil Ahmed. Two of these men are overtly Muslim, and one is of Muslim heritage. In Ahmed’s promotion of multicultural programming, there were numerous complaints of anti-Christian bias and calls for his removal.
The BBC was established by Royal Charter in 1927, ‘to inform, educate and entertain’, with committed Christian, Lord Reith, appointed as Director-General. Inscribed over the foyer of Broadcasting House, in Latin, are the words:
“This temple of the arts and muses is dedicated to Al
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Odd local lore in the West Bank
Spiegel Online
December 2008
Israel’s security barrier in the West Bank has started to resemble the western side of the Berlin Wall. The Israeli side is bleak and clean, but on the Palestinian side graffiti flourishes. I knew the British painter Banksy had tagged the wall a few years ago, but I had no idea where his stencils were. At first I didn’t care — I was just here to see Bethlehem — but my taxi passed a stencil I’d seen in news reports, a dove wearing a bulletproof vest. So I snapped a picture.
My driver got excited. “You like Banksy?” he said. “You want a tour? I can show you all the pictures.”
I’d stumbled on one of Bethlehem’s new tourist attractions: the unofficial Banksy tour. In the year since he tagged buildings around Bethlehem — and the three years or so since he painted famous trompe l’oeil stencils of holes in the massive wall around the West Bank — Banksy’s images have become part of the landscape. They even help bring a little money into Bethlehem’s tourist economy, which was crushed when Israel built the security wall in 2002. Israel argues that the wall has stopped suicide bombings, which have largely been replaced by regular missiles from Gaza. But Palestinians say their livelihood has been squeezed, and now “Bank
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The Atheist Experience
American live, televised webcast
| The Atheist Experience | |
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| Genre | Live call-in talk show |
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| Theme penalization composer | Shelley Segal |
| Opening theme | "Saved"[1] |
| Country manage origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. point toward episodes | 1000[2] |
| Producer | |
| Production locations | Austin, Texas |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Release | October 19, 1997 (1997-10-19) – present |
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