The Golden Trumpet of the Enemy (BARF ALERT)

[dougjefferson]

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The Golden Trumpet of the Enemy

The left seems to love the Al-Jazeera news network. In Canada they’re trying to fast track a process which will bring the channel to television screens, an exceptional move. The network is favored by liberals who claim that it (and possibly the BBC) is the only ‘Fair and Balanced’ news source coming out of the Middle East. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth: Al-Jazeera is an enemy propaganda outlet. It acts as the state network of al-Qaeda, which uses the channel to release its official statements. Its broadcasts are full of anti-American and anti-Israeli incitement. Not only shouldn’t this channel be on the air in North America: it shouldn’t be on the air at all. Its signal should be blocked, its offices bombed, and its employees treated no differently than any other terrorist operative, despite their efforts to avail themselves of the protections available to journalists.

There ought to be no distinction made between operatives of al-Qaeda (and similar groups) and those who act as their willing auxiliaries. Contrary to the prejudices of some, our enemies are not stupid. They’re clever people who know who to manipulate others and how to take advantage of our weaknesses. They know (or, at least, they think that they know) that we won’t shoot ‘journalists’ or ‘peace activists’ so they use such individuals as their proxies.

Al Jazeera’s ‘reporting’ is filled with references which can only be interpreted as anti-American and pro-terrorist. Its reports constantly refer to both American and Israeli forces in derogatory tones and promote terrorist causes. Worse, as Osama Bin Laden’s network of choice, Al Jazeera provides him a direct avenue to communicate with his supporters.

One of the reasons why Osama Bin Laden launched his war on America was that he believed that the events of the Clinton decade showed that America had grown soft, passive, decadent, and unable to respond to terror. He, or his successors, have since learned that they were at least partially wrong. But they were not, I fear, altogether wrong.

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