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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 02:46 PM Sep 2012

Should Salafist TV stations be taken off the air?

The catalyst for the recent spate of US embassy protests is Egyptian religious satellite broadcast television, and in particular the Salafist networks such as al Nas.

Under Mubarak these stations were strictly limited in what they could say, and were not permitted to incite religious protests. After the fall of Mubarak new religious stations sprang up and existing religious stations became bolder.

During Egypt's Arab Spring were there a lot of calls on the American left to retain state censorship of religious broadcasting in Egypt? (I imagine there was some of that on the American neocon and religious right.)

Have recent events demonstrated a need to reintroduce censorship in Egyptian broadcasting?

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