This portion of not so distant French history is not taught to school children.
Posted on 11/20/2004 10:48:22 AM PST by zyaakov
French Jews blast government decision to air Hezbollah TV
By Reuters
PARIS - Jewish groups have objected to a French government decision to allow the television arm of Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas to continue broadcasting to Europe using a French satellite operator.
The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organisations accused the government of failing to protect citizens from broadcasts by Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, which CRIF says includes anti-Semitic films that incite Muslims to attack Jews.
"We French citizens are under attack as Jews by this television," CRIF president Roger Cuikerman said on Friday.
Arabic-language satellite television is popular with France's five million Muslims, mostly of North African descent.
Al-Manar angered groups representing France's 600,000 Jews last year when it broadcast a series about a Zionist plot to dominate the world during the high-viewing month-long Islamic festival of Ramadan.
CRIF had sought to ban al-Manar and condemned this latest decision by France's Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA) to allow it to keep broadcasting over French satellite operator Eutelsat.
"The Republic should protect all its citizens and not give in to external pressures," Cuikerman said in a statement.
The CSA announced the agreement with al-Manar on Friday in a document containing a long list of commitments to unbiased journalism that al-Manar must accept to continue broadcasting.
In its statement, the CSA declared that some broadcasts it had viewed broke French law because they could incite hate or violence against people for religious or national reasons and stoke tensions between different groups living in Europe.
"Your signature on this agreement implies that you formally renounce broadcasting such programmes on a signal using a satellite subject to French law," the CSA statement said in an address to al-Manar's management.
Al-Manar said in a statement that it had "no problem with French laws and that it was prepared to comply with the legal requirements to broadcast in French territory."
The CSA took al-Manar to court last August after its drama "The Diaspora", which depicts a Zionist plot to dominate the world, provoked uproar. It called the programme "intolerable".
The court ruled the CSA could only ban the station if it refused to apply for authorisation, but Manar applied for it.
Manar's Head of News Hassan Fadlallah in Beirut said he did not foresee any change following the agreement. The "Diaspora" series was "a special case and it does not follow that all of Manar's programmes are similar to this type of series," he said.
France contains western Europe's biggest Jewish and Muslim communities and tense relations between them have increased over the life of a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation which began in 2000.
The United States and Britain classify Hezbollah, supported by Syria and Iran, as a terrorist group but France does not. Hezbollah was instrumental in helping to force Israeli troops to withdraw from south Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation.
Here we go again. And the world wonders why Jewish cemeteries in France are covered with swastikas.
We Americans have been under attack by the French. Ask me if I care....
The french have offered to install broadcast filters made from goose liver.
france (lower case f in france intentional)...A shi**y little country !!!
"We cut off heads. You decide."
The Lashing Channel, The Stoning Channel, The Decapitation Channel ....
Western Europe will be Islamic in a few decades. France in a decade or so.
Hitler would be proud of France.
Where does the EU stand on this? Seems to me some of "new Europe" would be very opposed to this. The EU sounds like another UN. France, in both, does whatever it pleases.
Well, not to rain on anyone's parade, but Sharon did ask the French Jews to 'come home' not too long ago due to Jewish persecution. Perhaps he knew more than we (they) did! Prescient? Hmmm.......... If I were Jewish and living in France (or Europe), I would leave ASAP. Of course, I wouldn't be living there in the first place.
This portion of not so distant French history is not taught to school children.
Ask Marie Antoinette.
Leni
Write here:
M. Dominique BAUDIS
Président du Conseil supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA)
Tour Mirabeau - 39-43 quai André Citroën 75739 Paris Cedex 15 - 01.40.58.36.46 - Fax : 01.45.79.00.06
dominique.baudis@csa.fr
Also dopn't forget the battle for Vienna in 1683. The Austrians and Germans werfe losing and Islam was about to win. They would have grabbed all of Europe. The Pope had set up a defense pact with the King of Poland, Jan Sobieski. The Polish calvary or Hussars were a formidable foe. The poor but incredibly brave Polish cavalry would be slaughtered a few centuries later by the mechanized Nazis.
Anyway, Vienna was with a day or so of falling. The Poles came crashing through the Muslims lines on 9-12-1683 (note one day after 9-11). The Germans and Austrians also counter attacked against the Jihadists.
The Muslims were smashed that day and would not make another attempt to take over Europe for a while.
How the Europeans have forgotten 1400 years of Islamic terror, conquest and murder is beyond me. The Dutch are at a fork in the road - submit or fight.
It is all over for the Jews in France but it is also all over for France thanks to Chirac's Vichy Islamic govt and past French govts.
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