BBC News? Is there any point?

Scenes of violence outside mosque

Police have launched an investigation after violent clashes involving up to 200 people outside a mosque.

The clashes, which lasted five hours, followed tensions among people who use the mosque and is the second such incident in two years, police said.

Reading the story, it is very difficult to understand quite what is going on. Is it reporting that a group of Mosque - goers were attacked and the police are calling on the local community for calm OR is it that disparate groups of muslims engaged in fighting outside the Mosque for the second time in two years and the police are asking the muslim community for calm and good sense?

The answer would be easy if the BBC actually carried out it's role as a news service rather than a propaganda ministry.

Time will tell.