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I AM NOT CHARLIE:Leaked Newsroom Emails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury over Global Support for Charlie Hebdo
National Review ^ | January 9, 2015 | Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 01/10/2015 5:05:19 PM PST by Steelfish

‘I AM NOT CHARLIE’: Leaked Newsroom Emails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury Over Global Support For Charlie Hebdo By Brendan Bordelon January 9, 2015

As journalists worldwide reacted with universal revulsion at the massacre of some of their own by Islamic jihadists in Paris, Al Jazeera English editor and executive producer Salah-Aldeen Khadr sent out a staff-wide email.

“Please accept this note in the spirit it is intended — to make our coverage the best it can be,” the London-based Khadr wrote Thursday, in the first of a series of internal emails leaked to National Review Online. “We are Al Jazeera!”

Below was a list of “suggestions” for how anchors and correspondents at the Qatar-based news outlet should cover Wednesday’s slaughter at the Charlie Hebdo office (the full emails can be found below).

Khadr urged his employees to ask if this was “really an attack on ‘free speech,’” discuss whether “I am Charlie” is an “alienating slogan,” caution viewers against “making this a free speech aka ‘European Values’ under attack binary [sic],” and portray the attack as “a clash of extremist fringes.”

“Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile,” Khadr wrote. “Baiting extremists isn’t bravely defiant when your manner of doing so is more significant in offending millions of moderate people as well. And within a climate where violent response—however illegitimate [sic]—is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: it’s pointlessly all about you.”

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1 posted on 01/10/2015 5:05:19 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Did anybody really expect anything different?


2 posted on 01/10/2015 5:09:11 PM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: Steelfish

oh some moderates may have been Offended.....too

dear mr muslime cultist go straight to hail

do not pass go.. do not collect any stinking virgins


3 posted on 01/10/2015 5:23:03 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Steelfish

““I am Charlie” is an “alienating slogan”

Je suis Charlie Martel.

How’s THAT for an “alienating slogan”?


4 posted on 01/10/2015 5:23:42 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Heh, Good one, Van.


5 posted on 01/10/2015 5:28:00 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Steelfish

>>Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile<<

Someone should email him that many are FREE TO BE INFANTILE! Also, infantile is in the eye of the beholder and throwing a tantrum because your guys are getting called out as the evil scum they are is as infantile as it gets.


6 posted on 01/10/2015 5:28:14 PM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: Steelfish

And yet, AJ has a campaign to get their folks freed from Egypt, calling them ‘journalists’...


7 posted on 01/10/2015 5:29:34 PM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: VanShuyten

Charles Martel wasn’t harsh enough.
I’m more of a Vlad the Impaler kind of guy.


8 posted on 01/10/2015 5:30:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MeshugeMikey

I am offended by the the sight of muslims. I am offended by Hijabs, Burkas, and mosques, I am offended by the minarets. I am offended by the images of the actions of every muslim. I am offended by their very existence.

I want every muslim dead, or converted to Christianity.


9 posted on 01/10/2015 5:37:35 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk

ahaha I HEARD that!

I’m offended by so very much these days that to begin a list here would be inappropriately screed like....

I find islam REPUGNANT.


10 posted on 01/10/2015 5:39:20 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Steelfish

We know who you are...


11 posted on 01/10/2015 5:42:03 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: VanShuyten

We need T-Shirts... and croquet bats.


12 posted on 01/10/2015 5:44:58 PM PST by jonatron
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To: sauropod

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13 posted on 01/10/2015 5:46:57 PM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Steelfish

France should take these dead “martyrs” bodies out in the public square and shoot a pig, douse their bodies in pig blood and wrap them in the hyde for burial. Would make a lot of other martyr wannabes reconsider.


14 posted on 01/10/2015 5:47:20 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Ouderkirk

I would have to lengthen my tagline too much to make it very useful..but Id love to add a bunch of “thoughts” In German.....for the Mooselim Trolls..

Ich liebe Schweinefleisch

sind Sie beleidigt ?

das ist zu stinkend schlecht


15 posted on 01/10/2015 5:49:19 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah like skin his victims alive and impaly them

BTW there was good docuemtnary came out on Smitheron channel when first came on Vlad the Impaler was first Ortdhrox Christian ruler of that part of Europe


16 posted on 01/10/2015 5:56:46 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Steelfish

So glad this was leaked.


17 posted on 01/10/2015 5:59:49 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
France should take these dead “martyrs” bodies out in the public square and shoot a pig, douse their bodies in pig blood and wrap them in the hyde for burial. Would make a lot of other martyr wannabes reconsider.

Go a step further: grind up the bodies, feed them to pigs, bury the pig shit in the graves.

18 posted on 01/10/2015 6:11:57 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Steelfish
SINCE YOU MUZZIES HATE JEWS
YOU'LL BE GLAD TO KNOW


YOUR LUNCH IS NOT KOSHER!

19 posted on 01/10/2015 6:12:03 PM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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To: VanShuyten
OUTSTANDING!!!
20 posted on 01/10/2015 6:50:01 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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