Dr Robert Coulter #fundie

Dr Robert Coulter #fundie news.bbc.co.uk

The BBC's appointment of a Muslim as head of religion and ethics is insulting to Christians, an Ulster Unionist assembly member has said.

Retired Presbyterian minister Dr Robert Coulter said the appointment of Aaqil Ahmed was "a juvenile gimmick".

"According to the Church of England 70% of the UK are Christian, 3% are Muslim yet the BBC for its head of religious broadcast appoints a Muslim," he said.

Dr Coulter said he believed many Muslims would agree with his criticism.

"I am sure moderate Muslim leaders will be deeply concerned about this as well, because it will make many UK citizens feel that they are gaining too much influence - for a faith that represents such a small percentage of the whole community.

"It could well lead to many people developing a more hostile attitude to Muslims."

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old comment by Pule Thamex

Oh yeah! Come to Wales. The few remaining chapels are visited by a few old-age pensioners, when they can make it, and naturally, that source of worshipers is dwindling every day that passes. Hardly anyone round here is religious. And I bet there are many other parts of the UK that are similar. The Muslim immigrants to Britain might find that their are influenced by the rest of us ungodly heathens over time.

On the other hand, I do believe that the BBC tries to be, and wants to be seen as, politically correct, even overtly left-wing. The vast majority of the programming they produce these days is of no interest to me. But I still have to pay them a license fee every year; just so I can have the privilege of watching a few rugby internationals every March.

old comment by Horsefeathers

"The BBC's appointment of a Muslim as head of religion and ethics is insulting to Christians, an Ulster Unionist assembly member has said."

Well they had to do something. See, not having the Christians be insulted was insulting the Muslims.

Seriously, one of you two groups is always "insulted" about some stupid shit or other. Guess what. Nobody gives a fuck. Nobody has any right to not be offended/insulted/etc. Neither of you are as special as you seem to think you are.

"Retired Presbyterian minister Dr Robert Coulter said the appointment of Aaqil Ahmed was "a juvenile gimmick"."

So is whining about it you self aggrandizing twit.

""According to the Church of England 70% of the UK are Christian, 3% are Muslim yet the BBC for its head of religious broadcast appoints a Muslim," he said."

Oh, goodness. One of them damned minorities is getting all uppity again, are they? Pity you can't just "put'em in their place" like the old days, eh?

"Dr Coulter said he believed many Muslims would agree with his criticism."

And how many Muslims did you ask to come to this conclusion? I'm going to say the number is somewhat less than 1.

I'm pretty sure that not everyone shares your delusions.

"It could well lead to many people developing a more hostile attitude to Muslims."

Yeah, sure.

old comment by Orion

"The BBC's appointment of a Muslim as head of religion and ethics is insulting to Christians"

Seriously? You pussy. Atheists don't think that it's insulting that a religious person gets to be the head of a department on ethics, even if many feel that religious ethics are flawed, you know why? We have testicles (or really tough ovaries)!

I can see how you're making a pointless argument that it should be a Christian because it's more representative of the population, but that's like saying the minister for discrimination (we have that in Aus, the current government gets to choose minister titles) has to be black so that he represents the group most discriminated against. It sounds okay in your head, but then you realise it's stupid to evaluate anyone's suitability for a job on anything other than actual ability to perform said job.

Douche.

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