Hillary Clinton Says Al Jazeera is "Real News!"

As part of its pro-Hamas bias, Al-Jazeera in March broadcast a conference in Yemen where a supporter of al Qaeda praised Palestinian suicide bombers and called on the crowd to financially support Hamas. Coverage of this event is available at the website of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which monitors the media in that part of the world. Al-Jazeera in May aired a Hamas fundraising event in Gaza, where a jacket worn by the “martyred” former Hamas Chief Sheikh Salah Shehada was auctioned off. Shehada, who was responsible for hundreds of attacks on Israeli citizens and security forces, was killed by Israel in 2002.

Cliff Kincaid -- Al-Jazeera Stokes Fires in the Middle East
 
They can be real news, Their coverage of Egypt for example has been very good. Do they go off into one sided Biased BS often? Sure but then so do many of our networks as well.
 
Al Jazeera boosts beheadings

And we are to believe that Al Jazeera, with its almost exclusively Muslim audience, would do this if the beheadings were plainly against Islam? From UPI, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:

Imagine a television talk show where the hosts debate the merits and demerits of cannibalism, discussing whether it is good to kill people to eat their flesh, liver and hearts -- seriously, on the air on prime time.
This past Tuesday, Feyssal Al Qassem, the infamous anchorman of Al Jazeera's program "Counter Direction," or "Alti jah Al Muaakess," went well beyond.

Al Qassem hosted an Egyptian guest who over an entire hour was allowed to advocate, with sickening insistence, the beheading of hostages in Iraq as a legitimate act of resistance to what he called "these American dogs," regardless of whether the captives -- who are of many different nationalities -- are military personnel, civilians, aid workers, or spies.

Al Jazeera boosts beheadings - Jihad Watch
 
Amnesty International Releases 2010 Report on Death Penalty Statistics

Interesting Facts from the Report:

In 2009, 139 countries were death penalty free in law or practice. (This is up from 16 countries in 1977, when Amnesty began working to abolish the death penalty.) Burundi and Togo joined the list in 2009.
Executions happened in only 18 countries last year with five accounting for the lion’s share: China (thousands), Iran (388), Iraq (120), Saudi Arabia (69) and the US (52).
We know of 718 executions that happened in 2009 in addition to thousands from China. And we know that at least 17,118 lived under sentence of death.
Only one country in Europe retains the death penalty – Belarus. No one was executed in the continent last year.
 
Al-Jazeera consistently and misleadingly describes the Muslim Brotherhood as a “non-violent” organization. In return, the Muslim Brotherhood describes Al-Jazeera as “the greatest Arab media organization” and has published an interview with Khanfar, Al-Jazeera’s General Manager.

In the interview, Khanfar said, “We do not have any tense relations with the Egyptian government. We have an effective office in Egypt which is sending news from all viewpoints, whether from the government or the opposition…”

Citing inflammatory and biased coverage, the Egyptian government has since closed Al-Jazeera’s offices. Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman declared: “I actually blame certain friendly nations who have television channels, they are not friendly at all, who have intensified the youth against the nation and the state. They have filled in the minds of the youth with wrongdoings, with allegations, and this is unacceptable.”

One of those “friendly nations” is Qatar, where Al-Jazeera is based.
Mamoun Fandy, an expert on the Arab media, has called Al-Jazeera “the Muslim Brotherhood channel.” His book, Uncivil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World, notes that Al-Jazeera glorified Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Bannah, in a two-part documentary in 2006.

Al-Jazeera's radical agenda, posing as news, finding acceptance in the U.S.
 
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