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Jordanian Muslim Brothers to start a TV or radio station
The Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) group in Jordan said it is considering the foundation of a TV station, or an independent radio, after the call made by the Jordanian commission for audio-visual media for the private sector and the parties to form broadcasting stations.
| "That's enterta-a-a-a-i-i-i-nment!" |
The official spokesman for the group, Yahya Shaqra, said that the group has the ambition and the desire to found such stations, due to the importance of the media as "a means of contacts to disseminate the Islamic call."
| "All fatwas, all the time!" |
Shaqra explained that the group will prepare a comprehensive and updated study on establishing a TV or radio station, noting that technical personnel are available for such a work among its members." He said that the Muslim brothers in Jordan have two papers, as mouthpieces for the group. They are "al-Kifah al-Islami" in the 1950s, and "al-Rabat" which started by the end of the 1980s and continued until the beginning of the 1990s.
| The end of the 80s to the beginning of the 90s? Like a year? Six months? |
The audio-visual media law was issued in 2002 to make it available for the national private sector, and the local sector to invest in the media.
| So they're trying to get away from state-run media, and the Ikhwanis are going to start a Koranic station, which will maybe draw a slightly larger audience than gospel stations draw here. And be just about as interesting. |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2004-01-01 |
