Say No To Al-Jazeera TV In Canada
From Al-Jazeera TV – This piece of work fantasizes about terror attacks on the US – to polite cheers and laughter.
Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi fantasizes about a biological attack at the White House and prays for the bombing of a nuclear plant on Lake Michigan.
He goes on to glorify terrorists and calls for terrorist acts.
Typical content from Al-Jazeera … and although some think having it available in Canada will bring good things – it’s a propaganda network for terror at best.
“Access to the live Al-Jazeera news feed will enhance Canadians’ broad picture of the international scene, will broadcast perspectives and news we can’t access now, and will increase our awareness of conflict from places North American and British outlets don’t go. And because the network likes to employ local reporters–or at least reporters well embedded in the community–there is an air of credibility that I trust. For Canadian journalists, I am optimistically (and mabye naively) imagining there will be work available for us to report from within our own borders for Al-Jazeera’s world-wide audience.
The CRTC should allow Al-Jazeera English to air in Canada, uncensored.”
I wonder how long they would be on the air before they are charged by our HRC for hate?
February 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I can’t agree with your position. You have to defend freedom of speech, even that which you find repugnant, for all. Let them have their tv channel to show Canadians what they’re really like and refute their garbage with logical, sound arguments.
If you burry hatred it festers and spreads unabated, if you show it the light of day it can be exposed for the vile nonsense it is.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
This clip is a lot of things, but I also think it’s a product of a sister station to the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera that often used to run forums and conferences on a wide variety of topics totally uncensored and unedited. This means crack-pots, anti-Semites and suicide-bomber apologists are given air time. I don’t think hate-speech should be unequivocally defended as a right to free-speech, and Tony Burman (once of CBC and now of Al-Jazeera English) said the network will not broadcast this style of unfettered open-air content. AJE also has a two-year track-record of quality reporting, intelligent debate and excellent international news coverage.
And trust, David Frost offers much, much more than Bill O’Reilly could ever be capable of.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Apparently Canadians will have 30 days to comment on this application to the CRTC. Don’t know if the 30 days are starting right now, but I will try to find out so we can all tell them what we think. Plus the station wants to open an office here. Yeah, just what we need.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
One can watch a mini-sized version of Aljazeera English and Arabic on http://www.livestation.com. The English version is quite tame. The Arabic version does contain comments from people like the person above. However, I’m sure that if any western broadcast company could interview someone like Osama bin Laden, it would air his comments entirely.