Yesterday, a TV investigation looked into how extremist views were being promoted at some charity events.
But Twitter users to quick to point out during the programme, the wider media seemed to only have picked-up on the actions of the Muslim charity.
The apparent extremist comments coming from those in the Anglo-Saxon group and the Hindu group were not mentioned in any stories.
Firstly, ITV's Exposure: Charities Behaving Badly documentary investigated elements of the Steadfast Trust.
A reporter posing as a volunteer speaks to supporters and a Trust member and joins up with some members of the group as they partake in activities.
Here, among other comments an apparent supporter clearly made comments about using an axe on a mixed race child.
A woman who attends a local march is also referred to a N******.
The investigation looked at how the charity seemed to be attracting many extreme right wing views and individuals who were formerly members of groups such as the National Front.
The Steadfast Trust is removed from the Register of charities #charitiesbehavingbadly
— Charity Commission (@ChtyCommission) February 18, 2015
A Hindu charity which proposes to help spread the message of peace was also featured in the programme.
In it, a teacher tells students that Islam is ‘the world’s worst religion’ and how there had been a Christian Conspiracy to destroy the Hindu Religion.
An attendee of the charity’s openly admit hatreds for ‘Pakis’.
Seriously nasty hate speech in #charitiesbehavingbadly right now the Hindu youth society on and vile views projected by the youth
— Sajda Mughal (@SajdaMughal) February 18, 2015
"I live in #bradford I have to hate #Muslims" #exposure #charitiesbehavingbadly @ITV
— Yasmin Khatun (@Yasm1nK) February 18, 2015
Lastly, in the programme the undercover reporter, posing as a volunteer, is introduced to a Global Aid Trust (GAT) worker who tells him of his admiration for the late hate preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was believed to have inspired a string of terror attacks.
Mr Shabbar tells the reporter: "They spread loads of lies about him...He's a scholar and basically he was imprisoned and after he came out of prison he started to incite hatred and telling the Western Muslims to bomb.
"He incited bombings basically. Bruv, he was a brilliant guy though."
Nobody who aligns themself with Hitler speaks for me as an Englishman. #Charitiesbehavingbadly
— Shop Steward (@UpTheWorkers) February 18, 2015
Quite damning evidence of racism and white supremacy against the steadfast trust #charitiesbehavingbadly
— Roshan M Salih (@RmSalih) February 18, 2015
The documentary then shows preacher Dawah Man speaking at an event in which he makes a series of anti-Semitic comments, telling those gathered: "America, European countries, whatever you call it, these countries are controlled by Zionists.
"If you look at the biggest bankers in the world, that fund these countries, they are Zionists, and Zionists run Israel. So we can safely say that at any time there was an American, or English or whatever, invasion of the Muslim lands, it is all a problem coming back to the Children of Israel."
When confronted later by reporter Mark Austen, Dawah Man as him to watch his latest videos where he urges people not to join ISIS and that Zionism should not be equated Judaism.
How can they attempt to link Dawah man to ISIS after his 90min vid speaking against them? http://t.co/rTFoo6l6mf #charitiesbehavingbadly
— Omar (@TheOmaRamo) February 18, 2015
What is this?! This is crazy.. Do you see the people that they're putting on our screens? #charitiesbehavingbadly
— ইয়াছমিন আমা৩ুল্লা (@YasminBSikdar) February 18, 2015
sensationalist programme takes few out of context clips patches them together to produce narrative that becomes fact #charitiesbehavingbadly
— RAFALI (@RAFALI_BB1) February 18, 2015
purpose of this programme let's mention a few charities which are non muslim but then do a hatchet job on #Muslims #charitiesbehavingbadly
— RAFALI (@RAFALI_BB1) February 18, 2015
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