American Herald Tribune |Thomas C. Mountain: Al Jazeeras Arabic TV channel has been promoting both ISIS and Al Qaeda/Al Nusra for years now. ISIS and Al Nusra representatives appearing on the channel are greeted with welcome back brother and when finished are told to go with god. Rayan Mishaal founding Director of ISIS-Aamaq news agency was a regular guest and when he was killed in Syria Al Jazeera Arabic offered their on air condolences.
One entire program featured anAJArabic senior anchorman arguing in support of a genocide in Syria of the Alawite religious minority (which the Presidential Family hails from) as being the best solution to the Syrian peoples problems (see Nervana1 or Hayder al Khoei for more).
When the Arab Spring broke out, or was instigated from abroad, in 2011,Al JazeeraArabic TV channel, a fiefdom of the Qatari Royal Family, went into hyperdrive against the Assad government in power in Syria and forced most of the authentic journalists at the station toquit in protest. Some of them formed new TV channels, includingAl Mayadeen TV, based in Lebanon, which has since been kicked off both the Saudi Arabsat and the Egyptian Nilesat satellites, thoughAl JazeeraArabic andAJEnglish are bothstill carried by both satellite systemsnever mind the so called Boycott of Qatar by the Saudi lead coalition.
The NATO War Against Libyastarting in 2011 was the watershed moment forAJArabic when they launched a racist terror campaign with star reporter Hoda Abdel Hamid saturating the airwaves with hate speech falsely claiming that Gaddafi had sent Black, African mercenaries to rape thousands of the wives and daughters of Libyans in a wave of rapine and mayhem spreading across the country.
Fear of black sexual predators, playing right smack into the most backward and racist tendencies of a people only a generation, if that, removed from nomadism, Hoda seemed to instinctively know how to panic the Libyan Arab population and upwards of a half a million Libyan
Arabs fled their homes to supposed protection in the Al Qaeda and later ISIS controlled east of Libya, Serenaica of old.
This racist hate speech was a complete fabrication and when challenged on this Hoda Abdel Hamid was forced to return to Libya only to completely fail to find any trace of African Mercenaries or a single woman who had been raped. This was the same campaign that saw
Secretary of StateHillary Clintonand UN Ambassador Susan Rice claiming that Qaddafis fighters were being given viagra to fuel rape and pillage against their own people, giving fresh meaning to lies and damned lies.
As a result of this racist incitement to violence hundreds if not thousands of African guest workers were lynched by Libyan Arab death squads, with their tortured, burnt bodies hung from bridges or dumped in the desert. I attended funerals for Eritrean victims of these racist lynch mobs and the images of the tortured and burnt alive Africans, broadcast for the whole world to see, could only resurrect memories of similar lynchings of black men committed throughout the former slave states in the USA well into my lifetime.
This war crime, what amounted to an ethnic cleansing of Libyan Arabs and mass murder of African guest workers is no different from other war crimes that have had perpetrators, both military and civilian, indicted by the International Criminal Court. Of course to be indicted
by the ICC requires White House approval so dont hold your breath that Hoda and the rest of the journalistic hoodlums atAl JazeeraArabic TV will ever face justice for their crimes against the Syrian, Libyan and African people.
The western media has been pumping support free speech in its defense ofAl JazeeraEnglish but almost completely blind when it comes to shining the light of day on theAl JazeeraArabic TV channel and its promotion of Terror TV by its support for ISIS and Al Qaedaover its airwaves internationally. In the case ofAJArabic Journalism Is A Crime putting a lie to its sister stations claims otherwise.