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Muslims urged to buy influence in world media
Reuters ^
| Sept. 13, 2006
Posted on 09/13/2006 11:44:02 AM PDT by Alouette
RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, said Islam faced vilification after the September 11 attacks, when 19 Arabs killed nearly 3,000 people in U.S. cities in 2001.
"Muslim investors must invest in the large media institutions of the world, which generally make considerable profits, so that they have the ability to affect their policies via their administrative boards," OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the gathering in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
"This would benefit in terms of correcting the image of Islam worldwide," he said, calling on Muslim countries to set up more channels in widely-spoken foreign languages.
Muslim stakes in Western media are minimal. Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns 5.46 percent of media conglomerate News Corp., the Rupert Murdoch-run group behind the Fox News Channel. The U.S. channel is generally seen as right-wing and no friend of Arab or Muslim interests.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; alreuters; axissally; cair; goebbelswouldbeproud; islam; media; mediabias; mediawar; muslims; propaganda; traitors; treason; trop; usefulidiots; wot
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To: samadams2000
You have a point there. I was quite unfair to OBL on my prior comment. If you can reach him in Hades, please forward my regrets.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:14:07 PM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The LORD spoke to me ..."Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy")
To: Alouette
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media
Huh? Why spend the money? Most of the MSM "journalists" are
already agents of Jihad!
BUT...if we can get them to spend all their revenues on a dying
MSM instead of nuclear weapons...
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:18:31 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Alouette
Once again, life imitates the movie "Network." Paddy Chayefsky was ahead of his time.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:20:05 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Alouette
"Muslim stakes in Western media are minimal."
Memo to al-Reuters: Horse hockey!
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:23:29 PM PDT
by
Convert from ECUSA
(Mid East Ceasefire = Israel ceases but her enemies fire)
To: ClaireSolt
Many countries have "state owned" media, even in the West.
Canada and England among them.
Maybe not exclusively state run but still...
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:23:54 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Alouette
The muslims need greater ownership of American media. Dozens of prisoners decapitated and still Americans don't get to see the footage.
How can we bow to our new masters if we don't see what they do to scare us into submission?
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:25:51 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Alouette
Maybe the Muzzies can buy a bigger share in ERROR AMERIKA.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:32:34 PM PDT
by
pointsal
(q)
To: P-40
I just heard on Rush that Air-America is about to file bankruptcy.
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:33:58 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: Alouette
"Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets". I say save your money,global media outlets are spinning for you already !!!
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
Obie Wan
To: Alouette
They own a chunk of Fox too.
It's a successful strategy.
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posted on
09/13/2006 1:01:36 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Alouette
Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Here's a better idea to change attitudes: Stop practicing and promoting violence!
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:15:18 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
To: sandra_789
Exactly - just look at the garbage foisted upon us by PBS and NPR.
To: weegee
"Fox News is to the right of CNN but CNN US is to the right of CNN Europe/World. Doesn't mean a thing." Agree, weegee, in the end they are all just one big pile of "bleep".
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posted on
09/13/2006 3:56:16 PM PDT
by
apro
To: TimesDomain
"Their reporting against the islamofascist and other terrorists and aljazeera dropped dramatically when they saudis bought that 40% chunk" Remember how long it took them to tell us those youths burning down Europe were actually MUSLIM YOUTHS.
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posted on
09/13/2006 3:58:26 PM PDT
by
apro
To: weegee
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posted on
09/13/2006 4:18:02 PM PDT
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
As Ann Coulter once said: "I'll believe Islam is a religion of peace when Muslims stop killing people."
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posted on
09/13/2006 4:33:19 PM PDT
by
rickmichaels
(Snakes on a plane? That's nothing. Muslims on a plane...now THAT's scary!!!)
To: Alouette
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posted on
09/13/2006 10:12:47 PM PDT
by
dervish
(the worst are filled with passionate intensity)
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