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Guestfellow
I disagree.
As you are perfectly entitled to do.
I think it is very likely that the BBC had time and knew about this case. It was even on Fox News. It reports all sorts of nonsense about the marriage of Prince Charles with a women. I'm sure it would have time to present this case...
It reported about the marriage of Prince William (who I assume you mean), yes. Whether you or I agree or not, or despair about it or not, the simple fact is that is a much MUCH bigger story in the UK than anyone (bar the President, maybe) being killed anywhere, anyhow in the US. You may be sure, I'm not. Frankly had I been the news editor on 21 March I wouldn't have included it whether the perpetrator had been muslim, Christian, Scientologist or worshipper of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Maybe on a 'quiet' news day.
Both cases are similar. It involved stoning, a punishment that comes from the Bible and Islam. I thought that Iranian women killed her husband? I will need to check that up.
They are not remotely similar. She allegedly commited adultery,
SOURCE, not murder. Oh, and throw in the 99 lashes for daring to be photographed not wearing a headscarf - and the photo turned out to be of someone else anyway.
Also, if you read the stories you will see that far from being the fundamentalist nut I think we both assumed John Joe Thomas to be, he was actually 'just' a simple thief and murderer. Rather than any Biblical/Qur'anic 'stoning to death' the victim was actually killed by being repeatedly beaten with a sock filled with rocks. Not
quite the same thing. The whole religious angle, together with claims about sexual advances from the deceased, seems a complete fabrication to construct some sort of 'defence' - sufficient to avoid the death sentence, presumably, his guilt having already been established.
Is it really that difficult to work out?
'Fraid so. I do wish people would think before attempting to patronize. It simply doesn't follow that, even if Perseveranze's claim were true, that must be reason the BBC did not report this story. That is unchanged no matter how many copies of the Sun or Daily Mail I might read.
But if you folks really believe some of conspiratorial selective news, anti-Islam is responsible for not squeezing in the story rather than trivial events like wars, tsunamis, leaking nuclear reactors, the Budget and so forth there's not much I can do. Just as likely, it seems, is that once the story effectively became 'just' another robbery and murder, it would be considered as of no interest to UK viewers at all.