The latest article by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, "Jihad TV Comes to Canada," is available today at FrontPage:
Al-Jazeera executives have claimed that the network has been criticized by American officials only because it doesn’t accept the American understanding of the war on terror, and because it portrays the Muslim perspective on the burning issues of the day. No doubt these two considerations made the network’s application far more attractive than Fox’s to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The members of that august body no doubt share the visceral anti-Americanism generally held by the Canadian elite — as well as an anxiousness to accommodate and pacify Canada’s rapidly growing Muslim population.But the incidents recounted above and others like them suggest that Canada may be getting more than it bargained for. According to a recent report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, “Terrorism of foreign origin continues to be a major concern in regard to the safety of Canadians at home and abroad. … Canada is viewed by some terrorist groups as a place to try to seek refuge, raise funds, procure materials and/or conduct other support activities. ... Virtually all of the most notorious international terrorist organizations are known to maintain a network presence in Canada.” From the looks of its track record, Al-Jazeera will provide these Canadian-based terrorists with a source of news, encouragement, and instruction.
What’s more, it will serve these radical Muslims as a useful recruiting tool. For jihadist recruiters in Canada, Al-Jazeera is likely to be an electronic madrassa beaming, twenty-four hours a day, the teachings and perspective of radical Islam into the living rooms of Canadian Muslims. Nor will this be a problem for Canada alone: what is to prevent those whom Al-Jazeera radicalizes and recruits for the global jihad from slipping across the border into the Great Satan?
Whenever that happens, and whatever they succeed in doing here, you can be sure that it will be carried — and celebrated — on Al-Jazeera.
Can't wait for the parodies of the Canadian national anthem and if I had more time this morning, I'd write one myself. But this is the end result of a strain of socialist, self-hating thought in western nations which rejects the greatest, fairest society, system of government and religion in favor of debased idols like Marx and Islam. To see how an example of how the left whitewashes and supports Islam, read:
http://www.socialismtoday.org/65/Islam.html
(note: I don't necessarily endorse the views of all "conservatives" when it comes to Islam either, but it seems the left has been more willing to leave the portcullis up and drawbridge down into western nations)
No comment!!!
People are waking up to the threat of Islamo-Facism though. In Canada's case this had better be soon.Al Jazeera has one Journalist detained in Spain on charges of being linked to Al Quaeda. Think a probe into Al Jaz is long overdue : lots of nasty things lurking under those desert stones.
If, in 1939, or 1940, or 1941, or 1943, you had neighbors, members let us say of Fritz Kuhn's Bund (see, for all of this, John Roy Carlson's forgotten and enormously influential book, "Under Cover" -- about William Pelley's Silver Shirts, and Fritz Kuhn, and the pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, and Father Coughlin, and all the rest -- and then make sure everyone you know reads that book, which in the middle of the war went through dozens of editions), and you knew that they were somehow subscribing to Der Stuermer, or the Beobachter Zeitung, or other newspapers and periodicals expressing the Nazi worldview, what would you think?
Yet, one reads that in this country alone, 180,000 households already receive, via satellie, the Al-Jazeera channel, which is equivalent, in every respect, to Der Stuermer in its nonsense, lies, antisemitism, anti-Americanism (let us not forget that while Hitler toyed with the idea of making a deal with England, he regarded his greatest, most implacable and dangerous foe as America, "decadent" America -- oh, by the way, he was right). Now, to the north, the Canadians are making things even easier -- putting Al-Jazeera on cable.
Have those who are making these decisions actually watched Al-Jazeera, with subtitles or dubbed translations? Do they watch the pseudo-coverage of Iraq? Are they aware that there is a direct line between its lies and the attacks on American soldiers, and therefore American deaths and other casualties? Do they understand that Al-Jazeera has been a willing handmaid to every terrrorist group wishing to get out its black-balaclava-ed message?
The United States has not merely a right, but a duty, to interfere with Al-Jazeera's broadcasts, as it would have had every right -- had any one dared to receive it -- during World War II, to keep people from receivng Der Stuermer, Alfred Rosenberg's hymn to hate and to murder.
Why is this not being done? Let members of Congress, en masse, be exposed to just a week of Al-Jazeera. No, better -- put a week's worth on American networks, so that they can see how certain events are covered. Let it all be shown -- the decapitations, the threats, the coverage in Iraq, even the phony "debates" between absurd "Arab intellectuals" considering the "future" of "Arab culture" or some such.
And once everyone has had a good dose of Al-Jazeera, shut it down. It was silly to allow the Arabs to buy space on some more advanced Infidel civilization's satellite, silly to believe that Al-Jazeera was, as it was bruited about, a real advance in press freedom, a daringly outspoken satellite channel that had -- ooh, brave! -- even dared to question some of the governments in the Arab world. Even if its tepid "debates" involving people all of whom are described as "Arab intellectuals" or even, at times, "reformers," were to be taken seriously, they are never about the issues that concern and worry Infidels. On that score, on the score of all that Islam teaches about Infidels, and on the score of how Muslims have always treated those non-Muslims they managed to subjugate over 1350 years of uninterrupted hostility, a hostilty mitigated only by ignorance of the Infidel world, or inattention to it, or a lack of the wherewithal to conduct Jihad, but never because Jihad itself has fallen, even for a minute, into desuetude, Al-Jazeera knows its place: with the banner of Islam waving proudly above. No hint of doubts about that, no Ali Sinas or Anwar Sheikhs or Ibn Warraqs need apply, or even need be hinted at.
That the West, or more generally the non-Muslm world, should be supplying the very instruments that are turned against it. Who, today, in
Western Europe, would if he could not undo the Muslim migration that was allowed, virtually unstopped, for the past 30 yeasrs, and which have altered, and perhaps may destroy forever, what was for two millennia the cradle and center of Western civilization? Who, knowing what he now knows, is delighted that the Americans supplied Stinger missiles to Muslims in Afghanistan? Who, knowing what he now knows, undertands all those realpolitiking reasons for not moving heaven and earth a decade ago to stop A. Q. Khan and the Pakistani nuclear program? Who, knowing what he now knows, would really wish for the former Soviet Union, even, to have lost in Afghanistan -- and not held on to it, and given power to those Afghanis who called themselves "Communists" but in fact were the truest secularists, and greaest enemies, in Afghani terms, of the Taliban? Who, knowing what he now knows, would not have wished, in 1973, to have instituted permanent taxes on gasoline, and a crash effort to develop solar and other forms of energy, so that the Muslim OPEC countries would not have acquired 5-6 trillion dollars, which has been spent and squandered in all sorts of ways that are permanently damaging to the health -- of Infidels.
And now we have before us Al-Jazeera? Are Infidels better off because, even within their own countries, Arab-speaking Muslims can receive Al-Jazeera? Is this an advance in our safety? Does this make it less likely that among those 180,000 households Islamic fervor, antisemitic fervor, anti-American and anti-Infidel fervor, will die down? Does the widespread availability of Al-Jazeera make it less, or more likely, that the "dormant virus" of Islamic teachings will be awakened in some immigrant, or son or grandson of immigrants (possibly even those who may have fled Khomeini's regime) -- the ever-present Manchurian Candidate problem?
Helping to spread Al-Jazeera, instead of moving heaven and earth to keep it from even broadcasting, goes beyond mere idiocy. It is idiocy's supreme embodiment, its apotheosis.
Would it be appropriate for the United States to boycott Canada until they pull their heads out of the trees?
It's a well known fact that Muslims have infiltrated Canada, making their way into the U.S. from there is also a problem.
Our borders need to be shut down. It's like our Government is inviting this plague. What have we done to stop it?
Drones flying over the U.S./Mexican border is not the answer. Our money should be spent on adding as many border patrol officers as necessary, and it's just not happening.
We need nothing from Mexico or Canada. They need us. Al Jazeera is a fungus. The good people of Canada need to remove their liberal Government straight away before it becomes Islamic.
Damn, this is so frustrating.
They do alot more questioning at the border, and I do notice that EVERY vehicle where the occupants even look arab are being pulled over for secondary inspection. Secondary inspection can take hours, they can pull your car apart, I mean completely apart, while they seperate your party into different interview rooms and hold you there for as long as they like...normally this process is for suspected smugglers or people that are wanted for something...but lately it has been used (and quite effectivly) to deter muslims from crossing the border, of course they wont admit this is what they are doing, but local papers are filled with editorials from muslims that were "unfairly" harassed at the US border and will never cross again (which is what they are shooting for)...and there is nothing they can do, anyone can be subjected to this inspection and interview based merely upon the suspicion of the border guard, and they do not have to let anyone in and dont have to give a reason (as we were told by a border guard)
I have to agree...I still dont understand the political system that well here...but the currant govt seems to be totally pro-islam, no questions.
DC,
Muslims have not only infiltrated Canada, they have infiltrated most parts of the world,spreading their hateful and evil doctrine and leaving a trail of death and destruction.
Boycotting Canada would not do much good. Obviously the Canadians are a bunch of liberal idiots.
Here in the States, the disease of liberalism is also prevalent,although there is a strong conservative movement,growing daily.
As I stated before take out Al Jazeera's offices and transmission tower!
Radical problems,sometimes call for, (what the lib's would call a radical solution.What I call, the only appropriate solution.
If the maligant cancerous tumor of Islam, that has infected the body of the world,is not eradicated, the patient will die.
Send the Bastards to"Allah"
O Sharia!
Our home and native land!
True jihadist hate in all thy sons command.
With hateful hearts we see thee rise,
The True North is Islamified!
From far and wide,
O Sharia, we stand on guard for thee.
May Allah keep our land enslaved!
O Sharia, we stand on guard for thee.
O Sharia, we stand on guard for thee
Son of Infidel: Amen......You've hit the nail on the head. For every poison, there is an antidote. Conservatives are the cure for what ails the world (Islamic lunacy).
I hope that the conservative faction does continue to grow, it will need to.
DC,
It's time for people in the United States and throught the world, to wake up and be fully aware of the clear and present danger of Islam.
Islam is not the religion of peace that it "alleges" to be ,it is a intolerant, hateful and violent doctrine that is spreading like a maligant cancerous tumor on the body of the world.
The conservatives are well aware of this. As for the left wing liberals here and abroad,they only help facilitate the Islamo-facists agenda.
Lets pray that our political leaders have the good sense to take the appropriate action and not be influnced by the so called "World Opinion", the UN and the rest of the islamo- terrorist apologists and sympathizeors.
We must stay the course, if mankind is to survive.
This post is full of ignorance. I'm all for cracking down on Islamist terrorists... but Al-Jazeera? Has anyone here even watched Al-Jazeera? Contrary to what you might think, it is not a mouthpiece for the Islamists. Have you ever watched any of their talk shows? They always have an Islamist pitted against a liberal Arab, and let them fight it out freely. It is the first time that Arabs have been able to criticize Islamists freely in the public sphere. It is bringing about a very positive change in the Arab world. Having Arabs in Canada watch Al-Jazeera to get their information about world affairs, rather than from their Wahhabi mosque will be a good step.
But then again, most of the people here don't believe there can be such a thing as liberal Muslim, or a Muslim who doesn't support terrorism... so it's all pointless.
Chan'ad: Al Jazeera has created plenty of problems for us in Iraq with their blatant distortion of the truth, and the severity of their reporting. They've exaggerated the stories as long as they've benefitted the idiot Muslim insurgencies.
I'm not telling you what to do, but we're very much current on the events that generate our commentary. Muslims have abused three words in the English language when describing Westerners:
Intolerant, Phobic, (as in Islamophobic), and Ignorant. Abused, misused, and spewed out like the rest of the puke lies they insult our intelligence with every time they open their mouths.
Their forked tongues force them to talk out of both sides of those lying mouthes, we're onto their "Trojan Horse" strategy, and we're onto their game. Muslims would do well to realize that they are not of higher intelligence than Westerners. Good liars, yes. But more intelligent? No.
DC,
Well said,you speak the truth!
Chan'ad sell that liberal garbarge to the Islamo-facists at Al Jazzera.
Inaddition, please explain what you meen by the term "liberal Muslim",possibly you mean an Islamo-fascist who won't perform the decapitation of an Infidel,but will be more than glad to air the video taped footage,ie your pal's at Al Jazzera.
Incidentally,if you oppose the policy for air strikes against Al Jazzera,possibly you could find employment as a "Human Shield" near their offices and transmission tower.
I think it was pointed out on a previous post. It is not very likely that any cable company will carry this outfit. CRTC has attached so many conditions to broadcasting Al-Jazeera that it would not be a profitable venture. One of the conditions is taping and translating all their programs. This would require several Arabic translators for every cable company. Not exactly a common commodity in Canada. Another problem in my mind would be the liability of possibly finding your self up on hate crime charges. Unlike Arabic speakers, hate crime charges are not uncommon in Canada, and Jewish rights groups are willing to go this route.
And as far as closing the border and boycotting Canada and what not.. Ouch… try to remember who the enemy is. Canada and the US have the largest two-way trade in the world, more than 1 Billion dollars a day goes across that border. We are your largest supplier of natural gas, I believe we are the largest or second largest supplier of oil to the US. We buy more American cars than anyone else does in the world outside of the US. I could go on….
The fact that we have a bunch of leftist socialists and a few wacko islamo terrorists in Canada puts us in about the same position as the US.
Sheik Canuck,
The (swt), what does this represent?
Chan'ad
You say you are a 'liberal' Muslim.I have only one question. Do you agree with Sharia Law?
Greetings
Morgane,
"liberal" Muslim?
Sounds like a contradiction.
Hopefully Chan'ad has decided to become a "Human Shield", somewhere in Iraq, lets say Fallujah.
Possibly Chan'ad could be related to Reza,the "liberal" side of the Islamo -fascist
family.
Those darn "Muzzies", they just keep me up all night,can't sleep.
Son of Infidel
That's why I'm asking the question. Don't hold your breath though : our Muslim friends don't give answers to straight questions...
SWT is an abreviation of Arabic words that mean 'Glory Be To Him.'
Muslims use it after they say "Allah(swt)" I use it to ridicule reza, and the rest of the islamos that show up here by attaching it to myself.
Morgane: if the Sharia tells me to stone women to death, or to kill apostates, or to view non-Muslims as inferior, then NO, I don't believe in it. (Okay, now everyone can accuse me of not being a believer of "Pure Islam", or of being a hypocrite).
But that is besides my point. My question to you: Have any of you ever watched Al-Jazeera? (Asides from the short clips they show on CNN)
Chan'ad
Visit Al Jazeera regularly,have correspondence in
E Mails from a couple of their Journalists.Very pleased to hear you are indeed a 'Liberal ' Muslim. To get back to Al Jaz : I don't know what your circumstances are but if you have been living in the West,one is immediately struck by the lack of WOMEN in their news.Indeed women might
well NOT exist.Then there is the strange silence
from this channel and others about 10,000 people
in Darfur, who have been killed,raped,tortured and forced to flee for their lives from Janjaweed.
No doubt you think Al Jaz is a step forward
[it probably is in Middle East] but its NOT a free
speech station and drives it's own anti American,anti West agenda.Bit like raging clerics
really. However, meeting at least one Liberal Muslim who doesn't want to do stonings is a bonus.
Greetings
Yes, Al-Jazeera should have been doing a better job of raising awareness about the situation in Darfur. But they haven't been silent on the issue as you claim. There was the June 21 Minbar al Jazeera program hosted by Jumana Damour called "Massive Suffering in Darfour", and the May 31, 2004 Minbar Al Jazeera program on "The Sudan agreement", and the April 27, 2004 episode of Faisal Al Qassem's The Opposite Direction on "Conditions in the Sudan" - during each of which the Darfour issue did come up.
With regards to women, I'm not sure where you base your claim that they are not in the news. Actually Al-Jazeera has been one of the pioneers of discussing women's issues on TV. They have talk shows all the time where the role of women in society, politics, religion, etc. is discussed by men and women alike. They also have several female anchors and reporters around the world.
Yes it is obviously not a perfectly "free speech station". As always in the real world politics and money have a great deal of influence. But in my opinion Al-Jazeera is as at least as unbiased as FOX news, but probably more. It obviously has a certain viewpoint, but that does not mean that it is supporting terrorism or the sort.
It sounds as though I am an Al-Jazeera spokesperson or something, but I really don't like them that much. I just get worried when folks get caught up in trying to find the enemy where it isn't. The enemy is not Al-Jazeera, so let's not waste any of our time on them when we should be going after the real terrorists.
Chan'ad
There simply isn't time to watch Al Jaz 24hrs a day : it's just one of several news sources so can't comment about these programmes on Darfur except to say Darfur doesn't appear on their news headlines. Nor did I see anything about July 11th International Day Against Stoning, very relevant one might have thought in Middle East.News items
such as horrifying mutilation of 14yr girl - her nose,tongue etc cut off by Muslim Militants in Kashmir never rate a mention even though the
victims are often Muslim themselves. By the way, Taysir
Allouni is an Al Jazeera Journalist being held by
Spanish police on alleged charges of links to Al Quaeda.It is interesting to chat with a Muslim who doesn't hold the extremist views of our Resident Rant,Reza, so please feel free to express
your opinions in this forum.
Morgane,
Okay, so there are alot of issues that Al-Jazeera has not given the attention it is due. I agree. But there are also many Western news channels that don't give due coverage to everything... that does not make them all evil. As a Muslim who does not hold extremist views, let me repeat my opinion that letting Al-Jazeera broadcast in Canada is a very good step as it means they have an alternative to the vile lies coming from the imam of their local mosque.
Also, let me assure you that I am not alone as an openminded tolerant Muslim. You can find others at MuslimWakeup and FMCAT and Islamica.
You can also check out my blog: chanadbahraini.blogspot.com.