[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

In a BBC Report, aired at 13:01, on belgium's security threats they just showed pictures of two of the french terrorists, then soldiers, then random arabic-looking people and hijabi women who happen to be walking around the belgium high streets (some with shopping in hands, clearly doing no harm).

The last part strikes me as especially racist and quite biased actually, why are they being filmed as if they have links to the story? Like.. I would understand if they were showing normal people minding their own business, but there were no white belgian people either, only arabic-looking men and hijabi women as I mentioned beforehand. Shocking and disgraceful for a news station in 2015 to do this.

I only hope this was poor reporting on their part, and nothing malicious, because it sure did come across as pretty racist.

Is it possible that they were just filming people going about their business as news reports often do. And that they didn't want to wait for a 'normal' person to come into the shot as that would be quite racist also?

I do feel sometimes people look a bit hard for isms. I seriously doubt the BBC were being racist, especially given how much they have been talking about how Muslims and such shouldn't be blamed for the recent atrocities

[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Is it possible that they were just filming people going about their business as news reports often do. And that they didn't want to wait for a 'normal' person to come into the shot as that would be quite racist also?

I do feel sometimes people look a bit hard for isms. I seriously doubt the BBC were being racist, especially given how much they have been talking about how Muslims and such shouldn't be blamed for the recent atrocities

I was just about to say this. It would be expected that they'd give a shot from within Belgium, so filming a street or something. It might just be that it so happens there weren't any white people there at the time they filmed. I've not seen it, but that's what I'd guess happened.

[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Is it possible that they were just filming people going about their business as news reports often do. And that they didn't want to wait for a 'normal' person to come into the shot as that would be quite racist also?

I do feel sometimes people look a bit hard for isms. I seriously doubt the BBC were being racist, especially given how much they have been talking about how Muslims and such shouldn't be blamed for the recent atrocities

I don't think they are racist as a whole, but the inclusion of random muslims and no other random people in Belgium surprised me. You could see quite a few white people in the background yet they were not filmed close-up like the others were.

I'm not sure where to find this report, but it might be clearer if you guys saw it?

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

I don't think they are racist as a whole, but the inclusion of random muslims and no other random people in Belgium surprised me. You could see quite a few white people in the background yet they were not filmed close-up like the others were.

I'm not sure where to find this report, but it might be clearer if you guys saw it?

Probably

At the moment I am thinking that maybe the Muslim women were most likely closer to the camera that was filming, and its a bit of something about nothing. As you say it may be different if I actually see the report though