Archive for October 10, 2011
Goons of the UAE dynasties
“The UAE Federal Supreme Court on Sunday adjourned the hearing of a case against five Emirati bloggers to October 23. The presiding judge adjourned the case after hearing the testimonies from witnesses, defence lawyers and the Public Prosecution….
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi-Qatari alliance
Qatar transferred some $400 million to the Military Council this week. I guess the performance by the Egyptian Military yesterday was the first consequence.
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
HRW
So Human Rights Watch does not dissociate itself from a racist Zionist advocate. It says that he speaks on his own behalf. Can you imagine HRW allowing a Hamas or Hizbullah advcoate (and an anti-Semite) to sit on its board of advisers? &nbs…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Hitchens
In my first decade in the US, in the 1980s, Christopher Hitchens was a leftist anti-Zionist writer. The mainstream press strictly ignored him the way they ignored his then friend, Alexander Cockburn. As soon as Htichens turned to the …
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Tantawi propaganda
The Tantawi propaganda in state media yesterday kept referring to a plot by the “enemies of the revolution” (always implying Israel) to destabilize Egypt. They were consequently implying that Copts were tools in the hand of Israel. Let me s…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Egypt’s Military Council: against Copts
Ines sent me this: ”This is how the “Egyptian” army responds to a peaceful civilian protest against the burning and destruction of Egyptian churches (which the military did nothing to stop despite the fact that these attacks took hours, before ma…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera on Egypt
Yesterday, Aljazeera’s coverage on Egypt was nothing short of disgusting with its hostility to Copts. The anchor would yell at a guest: are not Copts calling for international intervention in Egypt? Are not some Copts armed? You wante…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
NATO intervention
There are many reasons to oppose NATO intervention in the Middle East, but there is also a practical military reason. NATO has proved to be very ineffective: it has not been able to dislodge the rag-tag army of Qadhdhafi’s supporters for months n…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
US media ignore such "disturbing" news from Israel
Can you imagine if Muslims did that? Can you imagine the coverage? NATO bombers would have been on the way by now. ”In a town on the outskirts of Jerusalem school runs have become the focal point for an ugly struggle over land and power. &n…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Ash-Shuruq Newspaper
This newspaper is inching close to the Military Council. It of course is owned by the family that owns that Shuruq publishing house in Egypt. It publishes the writings of Islamist, Muhammad `Imarah, who engages in agitation against Copts (I…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
pro-regime propagandists in Syria
Why do pro-regime propagandists on Syrian TV all come across like actors more than analysts.
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Assassination of Syria’s Mufti’s son
Did you notice that Western media and Arab (read Saudi and Qatari oil) media all but ignored the assassination of the Mufti’s son? Why? Because the assassination conflicts with their narrative of the situation.
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera’s coverage of Syria
Aljazeera’s coverage of Syria is so unprofessional and propagandistic that its daily barrage of Qatari foreign policy propaganda toward Syria wants us to believe that protests in Syria are at the same high level, day after day and that every day some 2…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Victory of NATO rebels
Yesterday, Western and Arab (read Saudi and Qatari oil) media reported on the arrest of the nephew of Qadhdhafi as if it was the biggest military victory since the fall of Berlin in WWII.
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli Mossad officials in Cairo
Al-Ahram reported on the visit by Israeli (most likely Mossad) officials to Cairo.
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
"Pro-Western" March 14 demonstrators raise the portrait of Bin Laden
Arabic and Western press ignored the raising of Bin Laden’s portrait in a Hariri demonstration last week in Tripoli, Lebanon. The portrait says: “We all are Bin Laden.” There is no news that the active US ambassador in Lebanon complained ab…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Azhar and the Wahhabi clerics of House of Saud
There is a meeting and an agreement between the chief of Al-Azhar University and the Wahhabi clerics of House of Saud. I guess the bigoted attacks on Copts in Egypt yesterday were parts of the fruits of the Faustian bargain. The agreem…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad
Anti-Coptic Bigotry in Egyptian regime media
Egyptian regime media, and Aljazeera and Al-Arabiya, all were part of the clear blatant sectarian agitation against Copts in Egypt. The media coverage was just terrible. The Aljazeera bureau chief is terrible reporter and a mere propagandis…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by As'ad