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UAE slams Al-Jazeera for anti-Semitism over imam’s sermons
[IsraelTimes] After UN freedom of speech claim, Abu Dhabi says Qatari broadcaster promotes violence against Jews, denies Holocaust.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i broadcast giant al-Jazeera of anti-Semitism, discrimination and inciting religious hate, in a rebuttal to UN accusations of attacking freedom of expression. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... has warned that demands that Qatar close al-Jazeera by a rival Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n-led alliance, which includes the UAE, violate basic freedoms. The United Arab Emirates’ state minister for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, hit back in a letter to UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. In it, Gargash wrote that al-Jazeera had "promoted anti-Semitic violence by broadcasting sermons by the spiritual leader of the Moslem Brüderbund, Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Lifeon Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization.Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... Qaradawi, he added, had "praised Hitler, described the Holocaust as ’divine punishment,’ and called on Allah to ’take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people... and kill them, down to the very last one.'" The letter was published in a statement from the UAE National Media Council. Saudi Arabia and its allies cut all ties with Qatar last month over accusations the country funded Islamist Lions of Islam and was too close to Shiite-ruled Iran, sealing the emirate’s only land border and ordering its citizen to return home. The closure of al-Jazeera is one of 13 wide-ranging demands the alliance placed on Doha as conditions to lift the "blockade," now in its second month. On June 30, Al Hussein said the demand that al-Jazeera be shut down represented "an unacceptable attack on the right to freedom of expression and opinion." Gargash’s letter, dated July 9 but released Wednesday, also accuses al-Jazeera of having "repeatedly crossed the threshold of incitement to hostility, violence and discrimination" and lists multiple examples, among them broadcasting the speeches of slain al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-13 |
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