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It isn't just in Saudi Arabia and Egypt that Muslims project the jihadist quest for world domination onto the Jews. It's also on French television, at least for awhile longer. From Reuters, with thanks to Teri:
Lebanese television station al-Manar has escaped an immediate ban in France for showing allegedly anti-Semitic programs, winning several weeks to seek broadcasting rights.A French court said European satellite operator Eutelsat would have to stop al-Manar's broadcasts if the channel, run by Lebanon's Hezbollah, failed to apply to French broadcasting authority CSA for rights by October 1....
CSA took al-Manar to court after its drama The Diaspora, which depicts a Zionist plot to dominate the world, provoked uproar. The CSA called the program "intolerable".
The Syrian-produced series was first broadcast on al-Manar's satellite channel during the high-viewing Islamic holy month of Ramadan in October last year, drawing Washington's ire.
Jewish groups complained the series was a false rehash of Jewish history that could provoke anti-Jewish hate.
Officials feared French Muslim youths were taking such programs from the Middle East as encouragement to attack Jews in revenge for an Israeli crackdown on a Palestinian uprising.
Satellite television is widely watched in the poor suburbs around French cities where anti-Semitic attacks have occurred of late. Some 600,000 Jews and 5 million Muslims live in France - western Europe's biggest Jewish and Muslim communities.
Al-Manar's lawyer, Denis Garreau, told the court on Thursday the television station was "criticising the policies of Israel, not the Jewish religion. Its management agrees that the program broadcast was unacceptable"....
It opens with an actor playing an early promoter of Zionism telling his children to spread their ideas in Europe.
"Our lord has promised us retribution against those who sent us into exile," he says.
"For this reason ... we must control the world, all of it, through loyal agents in foreign governments."
In one scene, set on a boat taking Jews to what would become Israel, a Jewish rabbi is portrayed raping a young woman.
Posted by Robert at August 21, 2004 9:59 AM
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I understand now. So showing a Rabbi raping a young woman, on their way to settle Israel is purely legitimate criticism of Israel. See I was worried because I thought it was anti-Semitism. Silly me. Thank god Al-Manar's lawyer, Denis Garreau for the explanation, I feel much better now knowing that no Anti-Semitic propaganda is coming from Middle-Eastern satellite stations.
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at August 21, 2004 11:53 AM
You can almost smell the dispair of the French being able to control their rapidly growing Muslim
population. The government should have acted promptly and banned this blatantly anti-Semitic channel. Muslims will take immediate advantage of
any weakness. France looks doomed already...
at August 21, 2004 2:39 PM
Ah, the hypocrisy. And they prosecutedand fined Bardot whose crime was tiny in comparison to this enormous barbarity. The French ARE lost.
Posted by: epg at August 21, 2004 3:32 PM
CSA took al-Manar to court after its drama The Diaspora, which depicts a Zionist plot to dominate the world
Projection Muslim ambitions to Jews.
Posted by: DP111 at August 21, 2004 5:49 PM
Sharon was right: French Jews need to leave France ASAP.
Posted by: 3812Michelle at August 21, 2004 6:22 PM
I think that when muslims become a majority in France, and when the French no longer can drink wine and champagne, or live the good life then they will start to worry.
Also, how many medals will many countries win, when Islam becomes a majority in their countries? You don't see muslim women swimming, let alone play beach volleyball. If countries no longer win olympic medals, do you think that THEN some countries might start to wake up to what Islam is doing to it's culture?
Posted by: Voltaire at August 21, 2004 6:51 PM
Say I`ve been hearing that Chirac has converted to Islam. Is it true?
Posted by: hutchrun at August 22, 2004 12:33 AM
Not ctricizing the Jewish religion? I have never heard any anti-semite criticize the Jewish religion. It's the living breathing Jew they have a problem with.
Posted by: George R at August 22, 2004 7:34 PM
One of these days France is going to be the victim of a very serious terror attack at the hands of the jihadists. Maaybe then they will start taking these things seriously.
Posted by: gerard150 at August 23, 2004 12:15 AM
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