Steven Stalinsky writes in the NY Sun, "Making Arab TV 'Jihad-Proof'"
Memri's TV Monitor Project, which has now spent a year tracking Arab and Iranian satellite TV, has shown that as these channels are beamed into the West - and America in particular - they have the potential to incite viewers to jihad. France has recognized this danger and within the last year banned two channels: Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV and Iran's Sahar TV. The European Union as a whole is also looking to ban certain channels.Arabic and Farsi speakers living in the West who depend on Middle Eastern satellite TV for news are inundated with daily messages of hate. In North America, the following are just some of the many satellite channels available: Al Jazeera, Al-Majd, Iqraa, ART, LBC, Nile, Future, MBC, NBN, Ajaman, Al Alam (Iran), Al Manar, and Orbit. State TV channels are available from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, Dubai, Tunisia, and Libya...
If you're susbscibed to the NY Sun, you can read it all, or better yet, visit Memri TV directly.
Of course, don't forget that MEMRI apparently chooses it's stories to fit their political agenda.
I manage to watch "selections" of Mid East news on Mosaic, with faithful English Translations, Mosaic includes Israeli Broadcast Authority.
The Arab news is self pitying, whining, and self righteous. Count the number of times you hear the word suffer or suffering, it's funny. Suicide bombers are martyrdom operations and any Muslim killed, even an Arab suicide bomber, is a "martyr".
Their language is pure hyperbole and overstatement is du jour, Iranian TV is worse, pure propaganda and obfuscation the Mid East Version of Fox.
However in fairness to al Jazeera, it gets accused by Arabs of being a Mossad Operation.
I've seen Al Jazeera on TV, I read their website and I can't agree with the assessment of Memri, although I can with the assessment of Al Manar.
Al Manar was shown on Mosaic, until it was banned as terrorist, one of the women was attractive even in her Hijab,but I couldn't help notice one segment when she was reporting the suicide bombing of a Humvee, the footage was from the support staff of the suicide bombers. She showed it twice and then turned to the camera grinning from ear to ear. Then went on to whine about the "suffering" of Palestinians who had to go through checkpoints that the IDF had the audacity to erectto protect the Israelis from the Allah command to kill the infidel wherever they find them.
Shukri,
A political agenda implies a political opponent.
Are you suggesting the Koranic sanctioned Jihad is a political movement?
A little bit of pot kettle black there shukri, eh what?
The question is the accuracy of MEMRI's translations, now address that issue not their political agenda, and of course the Muslims don't have a political agenda of their own
Of course, don't forget that MEMRI apparently chooses it's stories to fit their political agenda.
Posted by: Shukri
I believe that there has been enough news to expose the acts of a huge portion of the Islamic world.
It is now time to report on WHY!
The only American news channel that is impartial is FOX. All other networks market a product that they mistakenly call news but in fact all it is, is left wing propaganda designed and packaged by rich liberal elite producers and owners of the stations then sold through their mouthpieces who if they don’t say what they are told to say by these owners will be fired.
PS: FOX News is the only station that condemns al-Jazerra and others.
Shukri~ As soon as CNN gives the FreeMasons carte-blanche to advocate genocide of (insert minority group here) on a daily basis, your comment will begin to have validity.
Damn right we have a political agenda. We want every last one of you tools out of our countries.
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That's going to work great until they start surfing the net going to al-jazeera.com etc. Especially seeing that it is young, computer literate people who are likely jihadists anyway.
"Especially seeing that it is young, computer literate people who are likely jihadists anyway."
The young, enthusiastic muslim is such an enigma for the rest of the majority non-muslim world.
In his hands, he utilizes the tools of modernity in order to drive home the single, unrelenting thought of instilling a mediaeval caliphate.
But, he fails to recognize (or care) that his actions negate the means to which he has, up to that fatal point, to freely express himself.
There is no compromise when one dedicates his life to the service of the minions of Allah.
Thanks for the Guardian link, Shukri; despite all of our disagreements I cannot help but admire your bravery in coming back time and again to a forum that is completely hostile to your world view.
Anyway, the article just reminded me of why "The Guardian" is such an embarassment- basically "Pravda" on the Thames with a nihilistic, multi-cultural twist. Go to their webstie and search for "Faisal Bodi" to get an idea of what other types of pro-Islamist garbage they publish.
Whoa, tax deductible! Government subsidized!! It's probably run by the CIA!
Yes, because Israelis proudly smear the blood of their Arab victims all over their faces, and teach their children Muslims are descended from apes and pigs, and proclaim they will destroy Islam.
Oh, boy, now he's quoting Hoop...
Thanks. Why not tell us this before subjecting us to a couple dozen paragraphs of ad-hominem aspersions?
Yes, enough boring reportage, let's get to the advocacy.
Brian Whitaker looks like a nice enough fellow, someone you could enjoy having a few drinks with while you discussed the latest novels from DeLillo and Zadie Smith; yet despite all the learning and the probably expesnive Oxbridge education- mentally his mind is just a jumble of contradictory emotions, prejudices, and platitudes. Just like barren Oakland, "there is no there there".
Why bother trying to shape the airwaves?
Except to jam (or take down) pure incitements to terror or blatant cheerleading of international crimes, the rest is just a barometer of the id, and always needs to be watched.
Let's see it all.
It bares the heart- or lack of- in the foe you face.
Lets shut down all those terrorist and Islamic stations and beam a continuous stream of old episodes of the "Love Boat", to the entire Mid East...once they get a good look at the "Lido" deck, they will apostate in droves....
duh_swami, LOL!
Modesty??
Can any one tell me why it is that the women on Muslim TV - who are dressed in a similar way to Catholic nuns - look so scary?
Where nuns can dress in a similar way - but yet are never threatening. Hmmmmmm
It makes you think that if Muhammad and the Kaaba (the most holy place for the Muslims) were in the North Pole 1400 yrs ago - than modest dress might have been a thick over coat and furry boots.
Memri TV is really an excellent service.