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Tariq al Suwaidan: Freedom Comes Before Shariah?
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03-27-2012, 12:55 PM
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kertUtire
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A quick study of media and private enterprise reveals some interesting points.
Al Arabiya.net is the internet website of al Arabiya channel which is part of the MBC Corporation.
MBC is a private Saudi corporation founded in 1991 in London in the same pattern/strategy of two private Saudi/Arab newspapers, al Hayat and Ashrq al Awsat. As these two ventures proved an effective model of using Britain as a launching pad of nongovernment controlled, private, secular enterprises, MBC followed suit. MBC was set up by two relatives of king Fahd,
shaykhs Walid al Ibrahim and Abdul Aziz. Shaykh Saleh Kamel
later became a secondary investor in MBC. Kamel is famous for being a billionaire banker and investor along with claiming "Islamic" standards.
Al Arabiya was founded in 2004 and supposed to be a rival to Al Jazeera which is a Qatari family enterprise started after the American backed son ousted the father to gain power.
Al Arabiya english was founded in 2007 and has a distinct mission separate from its arabic sister:
English.alarabiya.net is the new Website of the Al Arabiya family. It seeks to reach a non-Arab international audience, as well as expatriates living in the Middle East and North Africa, in order to deepen understanding of Arab societies, cultures and economies. The Website has five distinctive elements: analytical text; strong visuals; a forum for Arab opinion; expanded social-media outreach, and a Web-TV platform.
The website offers a range of distinctive content, from news stories and exclusives to multimedia content like videos and slideshows Thus, it omits any Islamic identity from its content to cater to kafir Westerner expats in Arabia. The english speaking Muslim audience has no weight to this enterprise, apparently. And for many Arab Muslim businesses of billionaire ownership, profit at the cost of Islam is acceptable.
If spewing malevolent propaganda against Muslims gets more 'clicks'- ie. marketting revenue , from hatefilled bigoted ignorant kafirs, then their quarterly goals are met and profit continues. On the flip side, they can imagine themselves doing some good by donating a tiny percentage of their earnings to some charity. Or in some instances, a charity to kufar themselves, like a new school for a Christian university.
There might be a slim chance that the Arab Muslim owners don't actually know what their editors and reporters at Arabiya.net english. Many "journalists" in the Arab world are nothing but mulhid/kafir propagandists with a complete ideological agenda. The entire industry of journalism is utterly disgusting here- it is full of people who practice reporting filth against Muslims and Islam, especially in english. In arabic, Arab Muslims actually have some weight as they will flood emails and calls to complain about a wrong article, they will actually get people fired, even threaten people. There are many stories about this, such as some anchor woman wears a too sexy blouse and there are floods of complaints following. But in english, there appear to be NO Muslim audience response.
As well, the enemies who actually run the day to day reporting remain in place.
It might be of some value to make formal complaints against these english anti Islamic propaganda. Shaykh Saleh Kamel may have no idea what his own company is doing on a daily basis.
And Allah knows best.
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