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Top 10 Reasons Islam Might Not Be a Religion of Peace Written by Don Feder Thursday, August 31, 2006 A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight.  Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men.  This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights. A spokesman for Britain’s opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into “behaving irrationally.”  Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up.  Oh, how irrational! Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student...

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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's information minister on Saturday criticized the arrest of a businessman in New York on charges of providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah's Al-Manar television to New York-area customers. Javed Iqbal, a 24-year-old businessman originally from Pakistan, was arrested Wednesday in New York on conspiracy charges of enabling broadcasts of Al-Manar — designated by the U.S. government as a global terrorist entity. "As a Lebanese citizen first, and as an official in the Lebanese government and information minister of Lebanon, I find this to be unacceptable," Ghazi Aridi told reporters in Beirut. U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said Iqbal...

A US businessman has been charged with offering broadcasts of Hezbollah's al-Manar satellite television station to customers in the New York-area. Javed Iqbal, originally from Pakistan, is accused by prosecutors of doing business with a terrorist entity. The Hezbollah Shia militia has been involved in a month-long conflict with Israeli forces in Lebanon and is seen as a terrorist group by the US. Mr Iqbal's lawyers say his arrest violates his right to free speech. "It's like the government of Iran saying we are going to ban the New York Times because we think of it as a terrorist outfit,...

The fight between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, so visible with bombs and rockets, has moved in less obvious ways into cyberspace, where it has cast a shadow over an unlikely locale this week: Austin. One of the war's hottest targets popped up in the state's capital and then disappeared under cyber-fire Monday. It was the Web site of Hezbollah's much-hunted propaganda arm, the satellite television operation known as Al-Manar, which is outlawed in the U.S. With Israeli planes striking at its transmission facilities in Lebanon, Al-Manar set up its Web site on the servers of Austin-based Broadwing Communications as...

IDF's Mad Skillz A small victory on the electronic front lines: IDF hacks Nasrallah’s TV channel. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) After repeated Israeli efforts to destroy Hizbullah’s al-Manar television station have failed, an IDF intelligence unit succeeded this week in hacking the station’s live broadcasts, planting Israeli PR messages in the transmissions.   The al-Manar channel regularly airs juicy propaganda against Israel, including reports of “heroic” and “successful” operations by Hizbullah fighters against IDF special forces.   However, this weekend the IDF prepared a surprise for the Lebanese and Arab viewers of the channel: The broadcast was interrupted and caricatures...

BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television may have gone underground, broadcasting from a secret location since Israeli air strikes pulverised its headquarters, but its journalists are still out in the field and refuse to be silenced. The Shia militant group says its emergency plans had already swung into action after the station was banned on a satellite carrier in Europe in 2004, with Washington and Brussels branding Hezbollah a terrorist organisation. “We considered that ban a warning. If in times of peace they wanted to silence us, what would they do in a time of war?” said Ibrahim Farhat of Al-Manar, which...

IDF intelligence unit manages to hack al-Manar broadcast, plant caricature of Hizbullah's leader with caption: 'Your days are numbered' After repeated Israeli efforts to destroy Hizbullah's al-Manar television station have failed, an IDF intelligence unit succeeded this week in hacking the station's live broadcasts, planting Israeli PR messages in the transmissions.. The al-Manar channel regularly airs juicy propaganda against Israel, including reports of "heroic" and "successful" operations by Hizbullah fighters against IDF special forces. However, this weekend the IDF prepared a surprise for the Lebanese and Arab viewers of the channel: The broadcast was interrupted and caricatures of Nasrallah appeared...

How is Hizbullah TV station being managed? London-based newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat tries to locate center of operations. This week in Arab press: Criticism of Hizbullah, accusations against Syria and purported Israeli spy ring exposed in Lebanon Roee Nahmias The mystery behind al-Manar: According to a report in the London-based newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, no one knows where Hizbullah television station al-Manar is being broadcast from since it went underground after Israeli attacks. Apparently not even guests interviewed on al-Manar programs know where the headquarters are, “in keeping with complicated regulations which prevent them from knowing the precise location,” the pan-Arab newspaper...

The chain of television of Hezbollah entirely destroyed BEIRUT - the building sheltering the chain of television of the party Hezbollah Shiite, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, was completely destroyed Sunday by Israeli raids, noted a photographer of AFP. The building of several stages of chain Al-Manar collapsed on the ground, according to the correspondent. All around the perimeter, the Israeli raids with repetition including during the night were very destroying, but it was not possible to obtain assessment of the victims. The chain of television Shiite continued nevertheless to emit Sunday morning.

The Israel Air Force bombed Hizbullah's television station al-Manar, which is located in Beirut. This is the third time in the past few days that the building is struck by the IDF.

CNN reporting - Lebanon - Hezbollah TV says two Israeli soldiers taken captive

Al-Manar television station has become the latest independent Arab broadcasting corporation to be hounded by the West, reports Cilina Nasser from Beirut -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hizbullah-affiliated Al-Manar satellite television channel is considering taking legal action against the US State Department for designating the Lebanese channel as a "terrorist organisation", according to a senior official at the Beirut- based channel. "We are studying the possibility of filing a suit in the US against the US State Department," Ibrahim Mussawi, the head of political programmes at Al-Manar, said in an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly on Monday. "We are still in the process of...

While the West is basking in the tunes of Christmas carols, a different tune is being played by the two leading jihadi TV channels, al-Jazeera and al-Manar. The radical Sunni al-Jazeera, broadcasting from Qatar, the flagship of anti-Western Islamist propaganda, is funded and tolerated by the Qatari royal family, reportedly to the tune of $30 million a year. It has become the main conduit of al Qaeda tapes to the Arab and Muslim world, suggesting an exclusive arrangement with the elusive jihadi leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. Al-Manar, a Shi'ite satellite and cable operation out of Lebanon,...

Shawn Macomber talks about the State Department's designation of the al-Manar TV network as a terrorist organization. He describes some of the typical fare on al-Manar, worthy of Borat no doubt: The popular game show, "The Mission," allows the home viewing audience to cheer on contestants as they "recapture" land stolen by the Jews. For every correct answer a contestant answers about the American-Zionist conspiracy, he or she (Oh, who are we kidding here? He!) moves that much closer on a giant map to Jerusalem. In between singing the praises of suicide bombers and denunciations of Jews, the show's host...

Hezbollah slams Paris for decision to take “al-Manar” off the air Movement's deputy general secretary, Sheik Naim Kassam, says, “The case has proven that France is still an imperialist nation”. NRG Maariv Hezbollah's flag. In response to France’s decision to take the Hezbollah affiliated television station “al-Manar” off the air in the republic, the Lebanese terror organization’s deputy general secretary, Sheik Naim Kassam, slammed Paris and said, “The case has proven that France is still an imperialist nation”. According to Kassam, “If France thinks that it can block “al-Manar”, it is deeply mistaken. It is no more than a tool...

Last Update: 13/12/2004 21:18 France bans Hezbollah satellite TV as anti-Jewish By Reuters PARIS - A French court ordered a prompt end to satellite television broadcasts to Europe by Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group on Monday on grounds they were clearly anti-Semitic and a potential threat to public order. The Council of State, France's highest administrative court, gave the French-based company Eutelsat 48 hours to end the broadcasts beamed from its satellites after finding them in violation of a French legal ban on hate speech. The court said Al-Manar could return to the airwaves if it modified its programs to satisfy...

In June of 1991 the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah aired the first broadcast on its own satellite channel, al-Manar or "The Beacon." The Iranian/Syrian funded channel quickly took off and became a regional hit with its combination of relentlessly anti-Semitic/American programming and conspiratorial "news" that wouldn't even clear the lax fact-checkers over at al-Jazeera. Sadly, the station's success in the poisoned, regressive culture that reigns throughout much of the Middle East is no surprise. But it was somewhat of a shock when two weeks ago France gave al-Manar a license to broadcast throughout the European Union over the protests of...

Raffarin calls for ban on Al-Manar TV PARIS, Dec 2 (AFP) - French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Thursday called for a television channel close to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to be taken off air after accusing Israel of exporting AIDS to the Middle East. Al-Manar was authorised to broadcast by satellite inside the European Union only two weeks ago after it signed an agreement with France's Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA) not to incite hatred or violence. But Raffarin told the French Senate "Al-Manar's programmes are incompatible with our values. It is clear they will lead to the termination...

Beacon of Hatred By Avi Jorisch October 29, 2004 Until the al-Qaeda attacks of 9/11, Hizballah had killed more Americans than any other radical Islamist group. Today, the self-described Party of God is one of the most feared terrorist organizations in the world, and its power is growing thanks to its global television broadcast that preaches hatred and violence to ten million viewers daily around the globe, including in the Middle East, Europe, South America, and the United States. If Americans want to know why and how they are being targeted by terrorists, they need look no further than Hizballah's...