[Lolita Palmer]

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[gnusnich]

seems to be mostly white kuffar or english pakistanis on the english channel

[casinobonbiner]

All,

What are your honest thoughts on them? Is it me or there is an identifiable absence of FRONTLINE practising Muslims on this channel?

seems to be mostly white kuffar

No. They are clandestine Islamist

[casinobonbiner]

How so?

I can't explain you, you need some political maturity.

[Phassetus]

Salam Aleykum,

I don't like the english one.

My thought on the Arab one:

-Trustworthy
-creative
-Professional
-well researched documentaries
-Pro-Resistance, pro-revolutions
-Quickest way to get breaking news
-they have offices and correspondants in most countries and they know the place inside out.
-A pan-Arab channel, proud of their Islamic identity although they speak from an Arabism point of view not an Islamic one.
-only one Islamic TV show I think but they often host scholars on other shows.
-All muslim governments hate them... of course muslim by name.
ect...

[DoctorIrokezov]

The English competes with BBC/CNN because it's catering to a Western audience. That's why you see so many Westerners or people in Western dress. It's strength is in its less biased reporting than those other two. After the recent Egyptian situation, some satellite providers in the United States actually started offering limited runs of Al-Jazeera English... that would be a huge coup for them to gain a following in the US and compete with domestic cable networks. Americans do not have a real news channel outside of CNN and even then it is not comparable to AJE.

I've seen postings online of people talking about petitioning US satellite providers to start regularly offering AJE... by non-Muslims.

I haven't seen the Arabic language channel so I can't comment on that. I would figure that would appeal more to a Muslim demographic. They're both basically the same thing, just one is in different packaging to make it more appealing to the West. I can't say whether I agree or disagree with their model. Media, even news, is, after all a business. At the very least, it might make a dent in some of the ridiculously vitriolic Islamophobia.

I'm not sure about their political leanings. Abbas of the Palestinian Authority recently accused Al-Jazeera of trying to engineer a revolution in Palestine against him by releasing those Palestine Papers. I doubt an organization that is so secular in outlook could be supporting a hidden "Islamist" agenda. At this time, even truly secular/democratic interests would be opposed to Western influence because they are fake secularists (more like Judeo-Christian-fascists).

Other Western networks, particularly Sky News (judging from the Twitter postings of some of their people) seem to harbor a grudge against AJE for chasing them out of Muslim markets. They repeatedly seem to try and assert that AJE is reporting in Egypt with a pro-revolution agenda. I think all these conspiracy theories are a little ridiculous. A news channel trying to take over the world? Even some Muslims say that AJE might be a tool of the Dajjal to take over and secularize the Muslim world or something like that.

I've heard they are based in Qatar. Who owns them and what are their views?

[OWDavid]

All,

What are your honest thoughts on them? Is it me or there is an identifiable absence of FRONTLINE practising Muslims on this channel?

They Remind me of BBC. I dont look to them for any credible News. Ofcourse I am talking about The English Channel

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[Automobill]

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Useless post

[soipguibbom]

For what its worth, I have found AJE far less biased than SKY JEWS, SLY FOX, and various others.

[soryalomop]

I'd like to hear brother Usama2's thoughts about this...

I do not like al-Jazeerah in any shape or form. Some people confuse Arab nationalism (which is indeed a trademark of AJ) with Islam; but I'm of the opinion that it actually advocates democracy and secularism and distrust for Islam and Shari'ah.

[Itrtuawh]

I'd like to hear brother Usama2's thoughts about this...

I do not like al-Jazeerah in any shape or form. Some people confuse Arab nationalism (which is indeed a trademark of AJ) with Islam; but I'm of the opinion that it actually advocates democracy and secularism and distrust for Islam and Shari'ah.

I like what you said, brother.


When I think of Al Jazeera, I place it in its context of the Western plan for the Muslim world.
After the PGWI, America had 100,000s troops, 1000s of companies and major plans to change the Arabian Pennisula's Gulf region to its liking. The Gulf was originally set up by the British empire and the regimes of the maintained their loyalty to the British. But America's massive presence forced the regimes to cater to American global interests or suffer the consequences. (Kuwait's reconstruction revealed the bulk of Kuwaiti wealth once channelled towards the UK was redirected towards America to the tune of 100s of billions).
In the early 1990s, American Neo Cons wanted to expand and spread American power since the Cold War was over.
In 1995, America supported the overthrow of the emire of Qatar to be replaced by his liberal son.
In 1996, the new emir, Shaykh Hamad, established Al Jazeera with over 130 million dollars. Its no surprise that the channel shares British satellites with the BBC and the majority of its staff are British, British educated, etc. The key to AJ is its part of Shaykh Hamad’s mechanisms to play the Game of Nations. As long as he plays along, its okay that AJ broadcasts may oppose American interests.
And the American plan for the Gulf has been application of global liberal capitalism: deregulation and uniformity to comply with globalization. And as the economic transition has occurred, AJ has served as an ideological bridge that transcends the state controlled media AND the foreign media, offering a conceptualization of Arab secular ideology which transcends. America has sought political and cultural changes in the Gulf and Arab countries in order to bring forth greater secularization and compliance with Western concepts: civil society, etc.

Umar is right: AJ is Not about Islam. Its about secularization. And Qatar is playing the game accordingly.

AJ has served to support the idea of Arab secularization and democratization without the government and nationalist regimes.

As well, journalism is a byproduct of Western social sciences which emerged from Western secular enlightenment. Thus, it defines Islam as a “religion” in the social science, Western idea. Thus, it is distinct from “politics”.

AJEnglish is more geared towards secularization according to Western standards as its audience is english speaking and presumedly Western oriented. Its common for AJE to have NO correlation with Islam whatsoever, despite the FACT that AJ and AJE are funded by the revenue of natural resources that belong to the Muslim Ummah.

And Allah knows best.

[truck]

I like what you said, brother.


When I think of Al Jazeera, I place it in its context of the Western plan for the Muslim world.
After the PGWI, America had 100,000s troops, 1000s of companies and major plans to change the Arabian Pennisula's Gulf region to its liking. The Gulf was originally set up by the British empire and the regimes of the maintained their loyalty to the British. But America's massive presence forced the regimes to cater to American global interests or suffer the consequences. (Kuwait's reconstruction revealed the bulk of Kuwaiti wealth once channelled towards the UK was redirected towards America to the tune of 100s of billions).
In the early 1990s, American Neo Cons wanted to expand and spread American power since the Cold War was over.
In 1995, America supported the overthrow of the emire of Qatar to be replaced by his liberal son.
In 1996, the new emir, Shaykh Hamad, established Al Jazeera with over 130 million dollars. Its no surprise that the channel shares British satellites with the BBC and the majority of its staff are British, British educated, etc. The key to AJ is its part of Shaykh Hamad’s mechanisms to play the Game of Nations. As long as he plays along, its okay that AJ broadcasts may oppose American interests.
And the American plan for the Gulf has been application of global liberal capitalism: deregulation and uniformity to comply with globalization. And as the economic transition has occurred, AJ has served as an ideological bridge that transcends the state controlled media AND the foreign media, offering a conceptualization of Arab secular ideology which transcends. America has sought political and cultural changes in the Gulf and Arab countries in order to bring forth greater secularization and compliance with Western concepts: civil society, etc.

Umar is right: AJ is Not about Islam. Its about secularization. And Qatar is playing the game accordingly.

AJ has served to support the idea of Arab secularization and democratization without the government and nationalist regimes.

As well, journalism is a byproduct of Western social sciences which emerged from Western secular enlightenment. Thus, it defines Islam as a “religion” in the social science, Western idea. Thus, it is distinct from “politics”.

AJEnglish is more geared towards secularization according to Western standards as its audience is english speaking and presumedly Western oriented. Its common for AJE to have NO correlation with Islam whatsoever, despite the FACT that AJ and AJE are funded by the revenue of natural resources that belong to the Muslim Ummah.

And Allah knows best.

Salam alikum,
thanks for post,

w salam