“Man, you’re just proving my point. You *don’t know* what Arabs think or see - all you know is what MEMRI shows you, which is clearly a narrow selection of kooks.”
Right, like the time I watched Al Jazeera and they broadcasted a biography/documentary on Adolph Hitler... followed by one on Ariel Sharon.
You’re acting like these shows are outliers - they aren’t - they are among the most popular shows on Arab state-owned (it all is) TV. This is what the Arab governments propagandize their citizens with. In other cases they show the occasional Arab dissident.
Here is a list of the recent MEMRI translations. Can you point out which are ‘cherry picked’ to make Arabs look loony? It’s a broad range of material.
May 09 SD# 1577 - Hamas Al-Aqsa TV: A Mickey Mouse Character Teaches Children About the Islamic Rule of the World And to ‘Annihilate the Jews’
May 08 SD# 1575 - Al-Qaeda Deputy Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Interview Produced By Al-Sahab Media
May 04 SD# 1573 - Documents Exposed by Egyptian Government Weekly Allege Ties Between Iraqi PM and Iranian Revolutionary Guards
May 04 SD# 1570 - Saudi Women Columnists Protest Against Oppression of Women in Saudi Arabia
May 03 SD# 1569 - Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: ‘There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People’
May 02 SD# 1566 - Iranian Holocaust-Denial Documentary Series On Iranian TV: ‘Merchants of the Myth’
May 01 IA# 350 - Reformist Thinker Abdennour Bidar Makes the Case for Individual Islam and Poses Questions to France’s 2007 Presidential Candidates
Apr 30 SD# 1564 - Saudi Arabia Gives Extremists Financial Incentives to Renounce Their Views
Apr 27 SD# 1563 - Prominent Islamist Kuwaiti Sheikh Questions Religious Legitimacy of the Islamic State of Iraq, Calls to Dissolve It
Apr 27 SD# 1562 - Egyptian Islamic Scholars Debate Whether Women May Serve As Heads of State