Muslims urged to buy influence in world media

Reuters ^ | Sept. 13, 2006

[Alouette]

RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, said Islam faced vilification after the September 11 attacks, when 19 Arabs killed nearly 3,000 people in U.S. cities in 2001.

"Muslim investors must invest in the large media institutions of the world, which generally make considerable profits, so that they have the ability to affect their policies via their administrative boards," OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the gathering in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

"This would benefit in terms of correcting the image of Islam worldwide," he said, calling on Muslim countries to set up more channels in widely-spoken foreign languages.

Muslim stakes in Western media are minimal. Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns 5.46 percent of media conglomerate News Corp., the Rupert Murdoch-run group behind the Fox News Channel. The U.S. channel is generally seen as right-wing and no friend of Arab or Muslim interests.

[.cnI redruM]

You have a point there. I was quite unfair to OBL on my prior comment. If you can reach him in Hades, please forward my regrets.

[VOA]

Muslims urged to buy influence in world media

Huh? Why spend the money? Most of the MSM "journalists" are
already agents of Jihad!

BUT...if we can get them to spend all their revenues on a dying
MSM instead of nuclear weapons...

[dfwgator]

Once again, life imitates the movie "Network." Paddy Chayefsky was ahead of his time.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"Muslim stakes in Western media are minimal."

Memo to al-Reuters: Horse hockey!

[weegee]

Many countries have "state owned" media, even in the West.

Canada and England among them.

Maybe not exclusively state run but still...

[weegee]

The muslims need greater ownership of American media. Dozens of prisoners decapitated and still Americans don't get to see the footage.

How can we bow to our new masters if we don't see what they do to scare us into submission?

[pointsal]

Maybe the Muzzies can buy a bigger share in ERROR AMERIKA.

[tobyhill]

I just heard on Rush that Air-America is about to file bankruptcy.

[Obie Wan]

"Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets". I say save your money,global media outlets are spinning for you already !!!

[Shermy]

They own a chunk of Fox too.

It's a successful strategy.

[Unam Sanctam]

Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

Here's a better idea to change attitudes: Stop practicing and promoting violence!

[SJackson]

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[Paved Paradise]

Exactly - just look at the garbage foisted upon us by PBS and NPR.

[apro]

"Fox News is to the right of CNN but CNN US is to the right of CNN Europe/World. Doesn't mean a thing."

Agree, weegee, in the end they are all just one big pile of "bleep".

[apro]

"Their reporting against the islamofascist and other terrorists and aljazeera dropped dramatically when they saudis bought that 40% chunk"

Remember how long it took them to tell us those youths burning down Europe were actually MUSLIM YOUTHS.

[ClaireSolt]

So?

[rickmichaels]

As Ann Coulter once said: "I'll believe Islam is a religion of peace when Muslims stop killing people."

[dervish]

"Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns 5.46 percent of media conglomerate News Corp"

He already owns American universities including Harvard and Georgetown.

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