The BBC should release the report about its anti-Israel and pro-Muslim bias that it has sat on for some time. This report, because it is not about the Asian service but about the BBC's world-wide service, including the execrable World Service with which Americans are horrifiedly familiar -- the horror comes whenever the Middle East is being discussed or merely mentioned -- is much more important a matter than the complaints by disgruntled employees about job prospects or of whether the music played is "too" Hindu and "too" Sikh.

In the Asian service, no doubt, the non-Muslims -- Hindus and Sikhs -- have a good idea of what Muslims are up to, and why their coverage would be so obviously biased that it would offend the very audience the  BBC Asian  Service most wishes to reach. If the BBC wants to have a separate  Muslim service, for Muslim and by Muslims, very well then, but to have them infiltrate, and dominate the coverage of news of the subcontinent, as they have been allowed, along with non-Muslims most willing -- see Orla Guerin (married to a "Palestinian" Arab and showing it in every word), see Barbara Plett (weeping for Arafat), see the hard-voiced Lyse Doucet (with her vicious coverage of Israel), see Robin Lustig, see this one and that one, with their "occupied" this and that, and their consultations with Azzam Tamimi, the hysterical Hamas supporter in London, and all the rest of it, including John Simpson, great admirer of that anti-Israel (I'd call it antisemitic) conspiracy theory book by Simpson's friend Peter Hounam (who was himself once jailed by the Israelis), the grotesque "Cyanide Conspiracy" -- a book presented as non-fiction.

The BBC as a whole has a great deal that needs to be investigated for its pro-Muslim bias in its coverage, top to bottom, in what is broadcast to its home audience and everywhere else -- with the possible exception of the one part of the BBC that is now being complained so noisily about, complaints that no doubt will be treated with much greater solicitousness than have any of the complaints made along the lines of those I have offered. Trevor Asserson and others for years have steadily toted up examples of extraordinary bias; they got, they have gotten, nowhere. The BBC is a scandal, and at a time when the British public has decided to begin to inform itself about Islam, having been betrayed by its own media and political elites for so long, the BBC can't continue in this vein much longer, without someone coming along and harnessing public unease and fury and causing bodies to be dropped out of Bush House, as they should have been long ago. A defenestration devoutly to be wished.