Posted on 02/20/2014 6:26:25 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Twenty journalists, including four foreigners, have gone on trial in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
They face charges including aiding a terrorist organisation - as the Muslim Brotherhood was designated in December - and endangering national security.
Eight defendants are in custody, among them al-Jazeera's Egyptian-Canadian bureau chief Mohamed Adel Fahmy and Australian correspondent Peter Greste.
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I believe that even the predominantly Muslim CURRENT Egyptian leadership has pledged to rebuild Coptic churches destroyed by Islamic extremists.
The US government has accused Egypt of targeting journalists and others with spurious claims, demonstrating an "egregious disregard for the protection of basic rights", and demanded their release....
Gee, isn’t there an Al-Jazerra channel now in America? And isn’t this channel spiked with many “journalists” from CNN, NBC and elsewhere? What does that tell you?
Our media have been helping the enemy for a century. Not surprising that Al Jazeera is helping them too.
There is just such a channel - and it is given preference over other channels on cable networks, in that Al-Jazzera is part of the basic package, and the Glenn Beck channel, TheBlaze TV (if carried at all) is only available as a premium channel.
But hey, the Universe is a very unfair place, to the extent that it is not only basically cruel, but that it does not forgive and never gives a sucker an even break.
Suckers beware. And for their own good, they stop being suckers.
I have on occasion watched al-Jazeera on the internet. If a major crisis breaks out in the Middle East, they provide much more coverage than the MSM and I find their reporting much less slanted and bias than NBC, MSNBC and CNN. They usually provide enough information that the viewer can make up their own mind. OK, “I’m perfect and your not freepers,” flame away.
“Know thine enemy” is not a bad philosophy.
Somes months back it was claimed that hard evidence tying the bam admin to the muslim brotherhood and terrorism was supposed to come forth. Wonder what came of that.
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