Jazeeragate
The Jazeeragate battle against Islamofascists
Al-Jazeera plans on launching an English language network aimed at the West, but some believe the people should take action to stop it.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has referred to Al-Jazeera’s
reporting as “vicious, inaccurate, and inexcusable,” while
Dr. Walid Phares, professor of Middle East Studies at Florida Atlantic
University refers to Al-Jazeera as “Jihad TV”. The Al-Jazeera network
has blatantly violated the Geneva Conventions time and again by
broadcasting images of dead coalition soldiers and prisoners of war,
a violation of Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention that protects
POWs against acts of intimidation, insults and public curiosity.
According to U.S. officials, Al-Jazeera is greatly putting American
forces in Iraq at risk by broadcasting intentional lies on a continual
basis, and also by broadcasting uncensored messages from terrorist
leaders. Now they want to launch a new network, in American homes and
in English called Al-Jazeera International.
Al-Jazeera International promises a full array of shows in addition
to news and commentary, including children’s shows according to the
network’s sources. Some may wish for the network to successfully
launch in America, simply out of their curiosity to see the new
station, but the fulfillment of ones curiosity will come at a grave
price. With an all too often unpublicized growing insurgency of
Islamic militancy within our very own borders, having a network
which promotes Islamist propaganda on our own soil is beyond
dangerous, it is ludicrous. Would we have given Stalin a radio network
in America during the Cold War? Or would we have allowed the National
Socialists of Germany to broadcast their messages in the U.S. during
WWII? Why then now should we the people allow this network to promote
Islamofascist propaganda in the U.S., an ideology that is a greater
threat to global security then Nazism and Communism combined ever
were?
Nazism could be contained. They wore uniforms, we shot them. They
believed that if they were to die, then there would be no more
sauerkraut and beer. But today we face an enemy who warships the
thought of death in battle against the infidels, with a reward being
many virgins in heaven. This new enemy does not wear uniforms, and
they have sleeper cells in nearly every country of the world. The
establishment of an outlet to send their message of jihad across
America in the guise of a mainstream cable network would be a victory
for the enemies of the free world, and a loss for America.
Al-Jazeera International, however, is not the first television station
to raise concern in the United States over support for terror. On
December 17th 2004, the U.S. Department of State added the Lebanese
Hezballah television network, Al-Manar, to the Terrorist Exclusion
List, ordering their Washington DC office to be shut down for reasons
of the network’s incitement of terrorist activity. In addition, in
March of this year, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated
Al-Manar as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity. The
original decision to add Al-Manar to the Terrorist Exclusion List
greatly concerned Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera even reported the reasons of
Al-Manar network’s closure in America as being the fault of the Jewish
influence in the U.S. that pushed for the shut down of the station. In
reality it was because Al-Manar constantly promoted an Islamic
extremist ideology inciting hatred and violence, which culminated in
51 Senators signing a letter to President Bush requesting that
Al-Manar be designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist
entity. Since Al-Jazeera is not directly associated with any terrorist
organization as Al-Manar was, it makes it difficult for the
United States government to take action against them. In such a case,
it is not the duty of the government, but the duty of the people to
stand up and stop the broadcast of the anti-US and pro-terrorist
Al-Jazeera’s new network, Al-Jazeera International. The United American
Committee has gone so far as to organize protests outside of Al-Jazeera
International’s recently acquired Washington DC studio, and the UAC is
currently pushing a campaign to stop the broadcast of the new network
in America through grassroots efforts. Pre-written sample letters for
Americans to send to their local cable providers expressing reasons to
deny carriage of Al-Jazeera International are available on the UAC’s
website at www.UnitedAmericanCommittee.org
This is just one battle in the war on terror.
For a change, let’s make this one for the good guys, the American
people and the troops they support in the War on Terror.
Jesse Petrilla is Founder & Chairman of the
United American Committee, a grassroots movement
of concerned citizens dedicated to confronting
Islamic extremism and other threats facing America.
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