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Al Jazeera Arabic slammed for ‘normalizing terrorism’ over Burkina Faso attack coverage
[ARABNEWS] Al Jazeera Arabic has come under fire for "normalizing terrorism" in its coverage of an attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... Two attacks in the capital Ouagadougou, one of them targeting the French embassy, left 16 dead and at least 80 maimed last week. An affiliate of al-Qaeda grabbed credit. Ghanem Nuseibeh, founder of Cornerstone Global, a management consultancy focused on the Middle East, claims Al Jazeera reporting on the Burkina Faso terrorist attack was skewed. "Al Jazeera Arabic . . . refuses to call al-Qaeda "terrorists," instead says "whom authorities describe as terrorists," he tweeted. "Common with Al Jazeera normalizing terrorism in eyes of its readers." 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... , Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt cut ties with Qatar  ...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...last June claiming the country supported international terror networks and that the Doha-based Al Jazeera broadcaster was a propaganda tool of that support. Qatar and Al Jazeera deny the claims. Abdellatif El-Menawy, an Egyptian media analyst, said the coverage of the attack served as a reminder that "Aljazeera has always been a platform for al-Qaeda." After the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US, Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language channel was accused of being a "mouthpiece" for the late Osama bin Laden  ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest..., because of its willingness to air al-Qaeda video messages and what was perceived by some as an anti-American bias. Posted by: Fred 2018-03-08 |
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