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Bonekickers BCC1 Tuesday 9pm

What a load of unmitigated twaddle the drama program the first of a series was a convoluted cross between Time Team, Waking the Dead and The Da Vinci Code with a little bit of Highlander thrown in for good measure with, none of the verve associated with any of the forgoing. The whole package burdened with a very large dollop of BBC anti Christian politically correct prejudice.

Most of the time was spent waiting in anticipation for Tony Robinson to rush onto the dig and breathlessly announce that the team only had half a day to finish up and discover who done it.

The story such as it was revolved around the discovery of 12th century murder scene, it was discovered that a group Knights Templars, described as the Popes SAS, were escaping from France and were attacked and murdered by apparently Saracens, of course it turned out they were not really Saracens but another group of murdering Christians who were only dressed as Muslims and dropped hints of Muslim involvement in order to make the plot more complicatedly PC some 700 hundred years later.

There was no pity allowed for the Templars as it was stated twice in the hour long program that their job for the Pope had been to murder Muslims, the clear implication that these were defenceless, peace loving individuals being reinforced when a modern day Templar with mad staring hate filled eyes, unceremoniously hacked off the head of a young Muslim lad who was pleading “it does not have to be this way we can live in peace”.

The modern Templars were orphans who were brainwashed by a right wing Christian religious fanatic, who for some unexplained reason forgo modern day weapons in favour of the 13th century broad sword were portrayed as unbalanced troubled souls who understood that murdering defenceless Muslims was wrong but just could not stop themselves, the brainwashing I suppose.

We are becoming accustomed to the PC totally re-writing the history of the Crusades with Hollywood films such as Kingdom of Heaven and the impression that the Crusades were evidence of European cultural and economic expansion, rather than a reaction against three centuries of Islamic Jihad.

This was just another wasteful un-entertaining attempt to justify present day Islamic terrorism by reference to religious wars, which took place over a thousand years ago.

It was amateurish anti-Christian pro-Islamic propaganda at it worst, with un-historical nonsense being passed off as unquestionable facts that have a real relevance in today’s world. Where we are faced not only with ongoing Islamic Jihad but one that is carried out by a real band of religious fanatics, who use modern day weapons to create as much mayhem as they possibly can. A shame on the BBC for producing and showing such unbalanced and politically biased rubbish in these days when our own freedoms are being removed by our governments in a fight to contain today’s Islamic Jihad.