This is most welcome and long overdue. This jihad propaganda outfit has masqueraded for years as an actual news organization, with willing help and cooperation from the Left. Having Al Jazeera operate in the U.S. is like having Goebbel’s Propaganda Ministry opening a U.S. branch in 1942. As Pamela Geller has written about Al Jazeera:
The fact is that the U.S. government should designate Al Jazeera a terrorist organization, in the same way that it designated Al Manar (Hezb’Allah TV) a terror organization. What’s the difference between the two?
Al Jazeera is the leading terrorist propaganda organization in the world. Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable,” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it.
Jihad murder mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has praised Al Jazeera, and several years ago one of its most prominent reporters was arrested on terror charges. Al Jazeera also has for years been the recipient of numerous al-Qaida videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and American traitor Adam Gadahn.
Al Jazeera members have also provided material support for jihad terrorism. Tayseer Allouni, their correspondent in Afghanistan who interviewed Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was sent to prison for being an agent of al-Qaida. Al Jazeera’s first managing director, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, was exposed as an agent of the Saddam Hussein regime, and the channel promoted the bloody jihad against American forces in Iraq.
“U.S. Department Of Justice Orders AJ+ To Register As Foreign Agent For Its ‘Political Activities’ On Behalf Of Qatar’s Government; On August 12, MEMRI Released In-Depth Study By Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez, ‘Al-Jazeera Unmasked: Political Islam As A Media Arm Of The Qatari State,’ Based On Over 700 Al-Jazeera Clips On MEMRI TV,” MEMRI, September 17, 2020:
MEMRI’s extensive study Al-Jazeera Unmasked: Political Islam As A Media Arm Of The Qatari State, by Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez, published August 12, 2020, revealed that the channel serves the Qatari government and the Muslim Brotherhood.
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered AJ+ – the digital media outlet owned by Al-Jazeera and based in the U.S. – to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The September 14 letter from the Department of Justice, which was obtained by The New York Times and other news organizations, said that AJ+ “engages in ‘political activities’ on behalf of Qatar’s government” and added: “Journalism designed to influence American perceptions of a domestic policy issue or a foreign nation’s activities or its leadership qualifies as ‘political activities’ under the statutory definition.”
According to The New York Times, a spokesman for the Department of Justice had “declined to confirm the letter’s existence but said, referring to the group responsible for enforcing the foreign agents law, ‘FARA Unit’s enforcement activities are based on following the facts where they lead and the applicable law.'”
The full MEMRI study by Amb. Fernandez, published August 12, is below….
For the full study, click here.
mortimer says
Facebook, twitter and the New York Times should also register as political agents of globalist, statist fascism.
Most universities should also register as agents of foreign governments like communist China and Saudi Arabia.
Keith O says
HUH, my thoughts exactly Mortimer. I think Rupert Murdoch should also be on that list.
ELI says
“Having Al Jazeera operate in the U.S. is like having Goebbel’s Propaganda Ministry opening a U.S. branch in 1942.”
Fine, just don’t scream freedom of speech when other countries do it for reasons which are just as valid to them. You can’t have it both ways.
Let me guess, it’s only OK when you do it because your reasons are always valid?
Seth says
Conflating Goebbel’s Propaganda Ministry with freedom of speech…WTF?
ELI says
Yeah but to other people your foxnews (or some other TV network) is their “goebbel propaganda ministry ” . Just because you put labels on people does not mean they can’t do the same. Forget other countries, there are leftists who think jihadwatch is fascistic propaganda, do you want to give them this power? of course not, you just can’t see past your own biases.
I find it amazing that the defenders of freedom of speech are the first ones to applaud when the speech they don;t like is curtailed. by the way isn’t national socialist rhetoric protected by freedom of speech?
SAFI says
How is it curtailed? They are still allowed to broadcast their bs, we’re just alerting people to the fact that they work for the Al Thani regime of Gutter and the MB.
Giacomo Latta says
Well, I suppose those of us who are drawn to this website could be called fascists if we insisted that muslims be just like us. I for one don’t give a rat’s ass what muslims do as long as they don’t do it here, in the West. That is not fascism. Fascism is where one religion insists that there is only one religion and that everyone must be a follower of that religion or they must suffer the consequences of being a slave or dead as a doornail. You seem to prefer the latter so if you do not like fascism on some level you need to clean up your own act.
gravenimage says
Al Jazeera *is* a foreign agent. Acknowledging this does not mean they cannot speak.
ME Infidel says
Back in July of 2011, members of Act for America-Maine initiated a protest of the Knox Museum which invited AJ’s DC Bureau Chief, Abderrahim Foukara, as its featured speaker for its annual fundraiser. We knew back then that AJ was a mouth-piece for the Muslim Brotherhood. Leftists supported the invitation; conservatives did not. I had a bunch of Act flyers which I handed out to the attendees as though it were a program. Fun stuff. Glad to see that almost a decade later AJ+ is finally forced to register as a foreign agent.
peter says
This is one of the most welcome news and music to my ears. Some of the correspondents on Aljazeera are vicious and make completely unfounded allegations against Trump and the politicians it does not like . It is blatantly anti Trump , anti India , Pro Islamic news organization and some of it’s correspondents are nothing but political activists. As Mortimer says we should also include BBC ,Face book and Twitter in this category.
Phil Copson says
“….As Mortimer says we should also include BBC ,Face book and Twitter in this category….”
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Except that he didn’t – mention the BBC, that is. Not a bad idea, though.
(Turned on BBC Radio 4 a few days ago for the first time in weeks and – true to form – was instantly greeted with more Woke garbage; according to the BBC, the most important thing about space exploration is that “When you look back at Earth – you can’t see any borders between countries….”
They truly are beyond saving.)
SAFI says
That’s excellent news but we need a petition to do the same with “TRTworld” which is the english language turkish equivalent of AJ+ (among other things pushing the same kind of subversive “anti-islamophobia” propaganda)
gravenimage says
Agreed.