Friday, August 30, 2013
"When Will the Media Notice that al-Jazeera America is the Muslim Brotherhood Channel?"
At Townhall.com, Diana West informs us:
"Everything, if the cheers and happy talk of the American press corps are any measure. Entranced, media critics have greeted the rollout of 'AJA' as that of just another news company, not the propaganda arm of monied Qatari despots. But no matter how many American journalists 'anchor' Al-Jazeera America's news desks, a 24/7 Muslim Brotherhood channel is now beaming into living rooms across the country. There is no changing the fact that Al-Jazeera's leading personality is the Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
In dispensing Islamic clerical wisdom, Qaradawi has called for the murder of U.S. soldiers and Jews. Earlier this year on his own popular Al-Jazeera show, Qaradawi also affirmed the Islamic penalty for 'apostasy,' or leaving Islam: death. Qaradawi, meanwhile, isn't just a big man with the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Jazeera. He is also a prized personage in Qatar. In a public ceremony in June, Qatar's new emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 'planted a kiss on Al Qaradawi's head and then his shoulder,' Gulf News reported.
But you could have fooled the U.S. press corps. The headlines this week read like Al-Jazeera press releases"
