Whoa there, guy.
Posted on 11/26/2005 2:45:51 PM PST by mojito
Did President Bush tell Prime Minister Blair that he would like to bomb Al Jazeera? According to leaked document, allegedly a secret minute of a conversation between the president and the prime minister in April 2004, Mr. Bush seriously considered taking out the Al Jazeera studios in Qatar....
The wider issues raised by the Bush-Blair Al Jazeera exchange are two. First, how far can the West tolerate the dissemination of Islamist propaganda intended to poison the minds of Muslims against Jews and "Crusaders"? Second, how much information are Western governments obliged to give about their internal decision-making process, and are they justified in suppressing sensitive information, even if this means penalizing the press, to protect Western interests?...
Wartime? Aye, there's the rub. Most Americans believe they are fighting a war against terror. Most Europeans don't. Most Americans are determined to win this war. Most Europeans have already given up.
Do you want proof? It was reported yesterday that a successful production of Christopher Marlowe's "Tamburlaine the Great" at the Barbican Theater in London deliberately censored the play in order not to offend Muslims. Passages in which Shakespeare's rival depicts his hero burning the Koran and insulting the Prophet Mohammed were cut because "it would have unnecessarily raised the hackles of a significant proportion of one of the world's great religions."
So it is okay to bowdlerise our literature to protect putative Islamic sensibilities but scandalous to suggest, even frivolously, that broadcasts inciting Muslims in our midst to become suicide bombers should be silenced. Marlowe made his Tamburlaine declare that Nature "doth teach us all to have aspiring minds." It seems his countrymen of today prefer appeasing minds.
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If we'd known where Tokyo Rose was, we'd have taken her out.
What's the difference with the al-Jazeera (all terrorist, all the time) news network?
AJ should've been put off the air 6 years ago.
Rather than a smart bomb, I like the idea of pulling a large fuel truck full of AMSOL up in front of the building and setting it off.
We could have a guy with a turban get out of the truck, praise Allah and run like hell.
We should just follow their reporters around. They seem to always be "just in the neighborhood" when the terrorists attack.
I'll second or third or where ever down the thread
I happen to arrive onto this thread.
Who would miss 'em......
Maybe the terrorists?
If we'd known where Tokyo Rose was, we'd have taken her out.
Are you suggesting that we blow up the Democratic side of Congress?!?? (/sarc)
I see letters to the editor in our local paper that Tokyo Rose would have blushed while reading.
No, just Iran and Syria !
No doubt the same paragons of tolerance for whom art is a crucifix in a jar of piss. They didn't seem too worried about "unnecessarily raising the hackles of a significant proportion of one of the world's great religions" in that case, most likely because they knew Christians wouldn't saw their infidel heads off with a rusty knife.
Should've been done at the very start of the War on Terror. The "politically correct" bunch are the ones that have been preventing it.
As far as the rest of the world would know, it would be just another terrorist attack.
But those in charge of AJ would know it was an outside job.
After all, AJ co-ordinates and directs these bombings so they can film them.
They would be pulling their beards off in frustration for not being able prove it without exposing themselves for being the terrorists with camera's they are.
I wonder why the question even has to be asked.
I nominate Dick Durbin to drive .
But alas...it seems that we are going to do what we do...give the enemy time so he won't feel bad or be offended. This will allow him to get some really dangerous weapons, possibally to try out on us here in America.
Damn, its disguisting waiting for the bomb to drop....I hope its not in my neighborhood.
"Are you suggesting that we blow up the Democratic side of Congress?!?? (/sarc)"
No, but how about the NY Slimes? (I think that's sarcasm too, but they are closer to being on the side of AJ than the USA)
Al Jazeera's not the only one that needs silencing.
"InformationClearingHouse" run by a guy named Tom, living in Imperial Beach CA, has all the same lying propaganda on his site as Al Jezeera. What he doesn't have, he links to it at AJ.
He's been shut down several times but keeps popping back up again using servers overseas.
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