Posted on 10/28/2006 10:45:25 PM PDT by attiladhun2
Joyzelle Davis of the Rocky Mountain News, in its April 22, 2006, edition, reports that, “EchoStar’s Dish Network is the only cable or satellite operator in the U.S. publicly willing to consider carrying controversial Arab news channel Al Jazeera’s planned English-language spinoff.”
I have emailed EchoStar at press@echostar.com to see if this is true. Perhaps you may want to find out as well. Their press spokesperson is Kathie Gonzalez, 720-514-5351.
You may wish to remind her that:
The Qatar-funded Al-Jazeera acts in support of global terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah. Al-Jazeera International, the English-language version of Al-Jazeera, is currently negotiating carriage on cable and satellite systems controlled by Western media organizations. AIM has produced the DVD, "Terror Television: The Rise of Al-Jazeera and the Hate America Media," noting evidence that: · Al-Jazeera's first managing director, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, was shown in a videotape captured after the liberation of Iraq taking orders from Uday Hussein. · Al-Jazeera's Kabul, Afghanistan, bureau chief, Tyseer Alouni, was charged, convicted and sentenced to prison in Spain for being an agent of al Qaeda, and was alleged to have links to members of a terror cell that planned the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. · Al-Jazeera continues to pay Alouni's legal bills and defend him. · Al-Jazeera employee Sami al-Haj was captured in Afghanistan and is now in prison at Guantanamo Bay on terrorism charges. · Al-Jazeera was expelled from Iraq by its new democratic government.
I get CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc. now. What's one more?
I predicted they would find a US market in time for the '06 elections. I was wrong, thank God. The last thing I read is that those who work for AJI are finding that people do not want to be quoted by them or be in any way associated with them.
Go to "accuracy in media" website and find out why we cannot allow this network to work its insidious poison. The rest of the alphabet networks are bad enough. AJ Int'l is blatantly pro-Palestinian, pro-Jihadist, anti-Israel, and anti-USA. We cannot allow them to openly disseminate pro-Arab propaganda here in our country.
I wouldn't be surprised. Dish has carried the arabic Al Jazeera for years.
I agree that we don't want networks like Al Jazeera or LINK spewing there garbage here. On the other hand I'm not a fan of censorship, so that make's it a tough call. I think we can (and do to some extent) impose rules on how the airwaves are used. Perhaps those rules should be enforced and perhaps augmented to prevent things like terrorist recruitement, encitement, etc.
Not providing the Jihadists a soapbox to spew their genocidal hatred is no more censorship than telling a fowl-mouth to quit using 4-ltr words in your house.
The English version is slicker than that, and isn't all that different than what's already being carried on our networks. You won't hear the stuff they broadcast in other parts of the world. They'll wind up sounding like CNN pretty much.
So you want another CNN, only this one funded by Muslims? No thanx. If you think CNN slants the news toward Hizbollah, Hamas, et al, how far do you think this outfit will slant it?
Know what Al Jazeera means?
It means the same as jazz.
Island
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