I will label this a Free Speech Death Watch Update and shed a tear for Hizballah's loss of its CNN mouthpiece when CNN actually stops reflecting the terror group's political line, and when Hizballah begins carrying my columns on its websites. An update on this story: "Hezbollah denounces CNN's firing of Mideast editor," from AP, July 9, 4:14 am ET
BEIRUT - The Lebanese militant Hezbollah has denounced CNN's decision to fire a Middle East editor for posting a note on Twitter expressing admiration for the country's late top Shiite cleric.Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet in which she described Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah as "one of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot." But CNN officials said her credibility had been compromised.
Hezbollah's spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi says CNN's decision amounts to "intellectual terrorism" and reflects the West's "double standards" in dealing with the Mideast.
He said in a statement issued on Friday that the decision to fire Nasr -- a Lebanese who worked for CNN for two decades -- exposes America's false claims regarding freedom of expression.
The Lebanese militant Hezbollah has denounced CNN's decision to fire a Middle East editor...
I feel their pain...it's very intense...Maybe Hezbollah can get Octavia a job in Lebanon...
Watch CNN hire an even more "unbiased" Hizballah cheerleader to replace Nasr.
Look who is talking about free speech.
muslims are the biggest violators of free speech.
Next they will consider themselves qualified to talk about gender equality.
And thereafter about respect for religious minorities.
And then about...............oh what's the point.
"...who worked for CNN for two decades..."
That's right. The islamophobes at CNN have been waiting for 20 years for a good excuse to fire this 'moderate' voice of 'peaceful' islam.
"Hizballah whines about free speech"
Free speech in unislamic. Didn't you read what Muhammad did to this old lady Um Kerfa? and to Bint Marwan, this young mother breasfeeding her baby?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/04/um-kerfa-oum-kerfa.html
By the way, if that ayatollah was any kind of "giant", it was just a giant pile of (you fill in the blank)...
I do not understand why any of these "organizations" believe that anyone cares what they denounce or whine about. I will take this opportunity to denounce Hezbollah for denouncing CNN for letting this moderate voice of (not so) peaceful mohammedanism resign.
Well, Hezbollah's approach to free speech is well known: they threaten cowardly European and American "journalists" in Beirut causing those to slavishly "report" Hezbollah propaganda dictated to them by the thugs.
As CNN's Nic Robertson had honestly admitted in 2006 after the horrible Goebbels campaign by the Western media against Israel who fought Hezbollah that summer: "All my "reporting" on the war was stage-managed by Hezbollah". And Robertson is the only honest one of the Western media. Others just lied but did not admit to the reason for it.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Yes talk about free speech. CNN fired her. That's all. If she worked for Hezbollah and said the same thing about an american then she would vanish and be executed.
Free speech?, more like free pro-genocidal isalmic propaganda.
Intellectual terrorism?! So, how about a trade? CNN will re-hire her when al-Jazeera hires a Jewish commentator who respects the giants of the Zionist movement! Do we have a deal?? Thought not, ...cause your culture practices intellectual genocide.
Hizb'allah cares very, very deeply about freedom of speech. Here they are, protesting another egregious and utterly unfair targeting of a courageous journalist in the United States, where they must battle against the terrible strictures placed on open expression.
Thank God for the Muslim world, where you can freely say whatever you think! sarc/off.
"Hezbollah lauds 'brave' US reporter"
Thursday, 10 June 2010 PressTV
Hezbollah has praised veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas for her "courageous" comments in support of Palestinian people, which cost her a forced retirement.
"Respected American journalist Helen Thomas's answer shows ... a courageous, bold, honest and free opinion which expresses what people across the globe believe: that Israel is a racist state of murderers and thugs," AFP quoted Hezbollah MP Hussein Moussawi as saying in a statement released Wednesday.
When asked at a May 27 "Jewish Heritage Celebration" whether she had any comments on Israel, Thomas — who is of Lebanese descent — replied: "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine."
Remember these people are occupied and it's their land, not German and not Poland," Thomas said. "They can go home, Poland, Germany, and America and everywhere else."
The 89-year-old Thomas, the longest-serving reporter in the White House press corps, had to retire on Monday under mounting pressure from US officials over her pro-Palestinian remarks.