Reply #50: NO, I am not objecting to lies and untruths in and of themselves [View All]

[MADem]

I am objecting to hate speech, recruitment to commit terrorist acts, and propagandizing that consists of over one third of their total programming.

Look, you see the Falwells and Robertsons getting up on teevee and shooting off their mouths--they make "a" comment, and rightly, the people who pay attention jump on their ass and make it a controversy. There's usually a bit of waffling, and one of those non-apologies where they say "If I was misunderstood I apologize."

What is happening on al-Manar is NOT that at all. It is HATE speech, all day. Between the shows, they show martyr videos, play songs that advocate hate and murder, it's NOT the same. The purpose of the programming is to recruit suicide bombers, to push the idea of "loving death" as Nasrallah (who won't strap a vest on himself, the chickenhawk terrist cheerleader) says.

How would you feel if The 700 Club or one of those moronic religious stations showed videos that had adorable young kids singing songs along the lines of "Kill all the Arabs, they are scum, Murder those Muslims, 'Cuz their bums!!!" and then followed up with a tape of the farewell Crusade speech of some Christian kid who had strapped on a vest and gone in and killed a bunch of non-Jeeeesus worshippin' people in a coffeeshop? Then, a round of rousing music while "Christian Soldiers" are shown shooting weapons and prodding the bodies of their enemies. That is what they are doing. That is a huge chunk of their programming.

And the station operates at a massive loss. Who pays the bill?? Iran.

And that Diaspora soap opera was horrible. Just horrible. This goes beyond "free speech"--it's incitement to commit terror.