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US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA ALVI ... - 4/20/2010 3:50:14 PM

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By YUSRA ALVI

April 20, 2010 "Dawn" -- THE United States claims that one of its top foreign policy initiatives is to spread democracy and freedom around the world. But a recent bill in the US Congress has led many to wonder whether the US wants to become one of the world’s biggest hindrances to media freedom.

Early December the US House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming majority to pass a bill in order to stop satellite TV channels from 17 Arab nations from being transmitted to American audiences due to their engagement in ‘anti-American incitement to violence’.

In a Congress that cannot seem to agree on many burning issues — whether fixing the broken healthcare system or ways of dealing with the turbulent economic situation — the bill passed with 395 ‘yes’ votes, and only three dissenters.

The bill — known as House Resolution 2278 — has to pass many stages before it becomes a law, but it has shocked many for contradicting American support for free speech.

Airing of respectful disagreement with the policies of the US government is a part of the development process, which should be taken positively the US./snip

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25275.htm

RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/20/2010 6:40:34 PM

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That I guess happened about a month or so behind schedule. Ho hum.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/20/2010 6:43:38 PM

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Omg,we can't hear the twisted bias from El Jazeera" any more-what a huge loss!

Only losing FOX would be a bigger blow!

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/20/2010 6:46:37 PM

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/21/2010 7:49:36 AM

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Omg,we can't hear the twisted bias from El Jazeera" any more-what a huge loss!

Only losing FOX would be a bigger blow!

By Arab standards, Al Jazaree is a very liberal and evenhanded news network. There's a lot of Arab states that abhor it for that very reason. It arguably has rather less of a bias to it than Fox.
As far as I can tell, most of the histrionic pissing and moaning about it from Americans is down to it broadcasting a few tapes of bin Laden and those beheading videos from 2005 in Fallujah. Tasteless, but more newsworthy on a local scale, than a bizarre strawman shitstorm about "Freedom Fries". I'd hardly lump a network that refers to Israel by name and uses European anchors for its western broadcasts in with the Iranian ministry of jihadist propaganda, most of what comes out of Syria or even the crap Saudi Arabia's news services regularly transmits.
But then, once Israel is wiped off the map, Qatar is probably next on most of the middle east's list.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/21/2010 8:01:56 AM

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If we are so holy- then why are we afraid of Arab ideas?

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/21/2010 8:37:39 AM

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FR:
I wonder if Al Jazera has any porn channels?

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/21/2010 12:10:41 PM

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"If we are so holy- then why are we afraid of Arab ideas"

When the fagbashers come for you, kick the living shit out of them. On their death bed they might admit that they really like you and want to ..........

Well maybe.

The point is that people who are confident in their version of the truth have no fear of opposing viewpoints. Please forward your tuition for psychology school to Termy's Terminal.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/21/2010 12:14:02 PM

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"Al Jazaree is a very liberal and evenhanded news network"

Well that could easily explain why so many don't like it. Anything fair is now accused of being against one's side. That's why judges carry guns. BTW, in case you didn't know, they do.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/21/2010 12:41:46 PM

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are you arab?

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA AL... - 4/21/2010 5:24:43 PM

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Could it be that what runs the US doesn't want any other education other than the one it provides. Support for actions can only come from correct education.

Al Jazeera I believe was originally started by Western journalists, British or American, I forget which.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/22/2010 12:35:39 AM

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"are you arab"

Kinda close. I am Polak. Therefore my people emigrated from Persia to the northern areas. Persia IIRC is now called Iran. The name of the country is based on some Arriannis or some shit, I can't remember all what my elders told me. It's something like that. Not quite Arab but ...........

So now I will await a response saying that "That explains a few things" which would prove the respondent racist and possibly a bigot. But I said possibly.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/22/2010 5:46:12 AM

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Wouldn't the market decide?

I mean no one is going to pay for crappy programming.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA AL... - 4/22/2010 8:09:02 AM

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Could it be that what runs the US doesn't want any other education other than the one it provides. Support for actions can only come from correct education.

Al Jazeera I believe was originally started by Western journalists, British or American, I forget which.

Yep. That's why there's so many broadcasters on it at the moment.
Qatar is the most westernised of the gulf states by a mile, and they have a television service to match.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/22/2010 8:17:24 AM

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Not quite Arab but ...........

...human. Unfortunately. You know what's hilarious? I look more "Aryan" than you do.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/22/2010 8:19:23 AM

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my comment was for bella but since she is censored it showed up against termie.

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RE: US Ban on Arab Satellite TV Channels By YUSRA A... - 4/22/2010 11:44:10 AM

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Not quite Arab but ...........

...human. Unfortunately. You know what's hilarious? I look more "Aryan" than you do.

Thats just cuz of the beuwbage

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