Monday, December 15, 2008
The Ombudsman de Radio-Canada concluded a propaganda film pro-Palestinian should not be disseminated, by Anne Humphreys
The Ombudsman Julie Miville-Dechêne (pictured right against) concluded that because of flaws in editorial control, the presentation of the film Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land Issue Major reports violated journalistic standards and practices Radio-Canada. Ce film avance, sans en faire la preuve, que le gouvernement israélien contrôle les médias américains. The film advance without making the evidence that the Israeli government controls the American media. It contains anachronisms and inaccuracies groups and pro-Palestinian activists were involved in the research.
The decision of December 8 2008 Julie Miville-Dechêne bearing on the film Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land released on October 23 2008 on the airwaves Network Information Radio-Canada (RDI), follows a request Reviewed by the Quebec-Israel Committee.
The Committee asked the Ombudsman to determine if the film and the guidance offered by RDI meet the journalistic standards and practices of Radio-Canada. The request for review concluded:
'By failing to identify the film as a documentary type of opinion committed and almost literally repeating the description of the perpetrator, RDI has violated journalistic standards and practices of Radio-Canada, which says that production should be clearly identified at the beginning and the end as a documentary author. " Ironically, while the facilitator asked Simon Durivage introduction if the American media does not distorted the trial of his public, RDI has contributed to the deformation of his own trial on the Arab-Israeli conflict. "
The decision of Mrs. Miville-Dechêne, reproduced below, meets each of the objections raised by the Quebec-Israel Committee.
But first, beyond the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict being the decision of the Ombudsman, the whole media coverage of political Islam that we put in question at tipping point, on which we will return in depth.
When a report on ideology imperialist supremacy and hatred that has taken epidemic proportions among Muslims, as pointed out clearly the eminent Indian religious Wahiduddin Khan, who calls Muslims to work for introspection and deconditioning ideological ? This ideology to theological foundations that Khan calls to deconstruct, has led to countless massacres of innocent civilians around the world. It leads the Salafist Sunni Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia (11 / 9), the Deoband Pakistan (Mumbai), the Shiites of Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon. It explains jihadist violence in Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Chechnya, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Gaza, London, Madrid, and elsewhere. What is the common pattern here? It is obvious, but the media is split into four so as not to appoint, under cover of a misplaced political correctness is part of the problem rather than the solution, or a sense of objectivity Godard 's is mocked by the phrase "five minutes for Jews, five minutes for the Nazis."
Returning to our subject, let's first see what the Ombudsman Radio-Canada.
OMBUDSMAN OF RADIO-CANADA
The ombudsman's office is presented as follows on the website of Radio-Canada:
Accuracy, integrity, fairness
"The ombudsman Julie Miville-Dechêne is listening to you. It represents you, you viewers, listeners and Internet Radio-Canada. It assesses the merits of your complaints, to the best of his trial, and quite independently. You believe that information to our office or on our website is biased or inaccurate? Contact us. "
Radio-Canada has established journalistic standards and practices that describe how this institution funded by taxpayers meets public expectations and fulfills its obligations. These standards are quite detailed, and serve as a guide to the decisions of the Ombudsman.
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Office of the Ombudsman Services French
On December 8, 2008
REVIEW documentary Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land Released on 23 October 2008 to broadcast Major reports Network Information
Contents
More than 150 people have complained to my office dissemination of the documentary foreign pro-Palestinian Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, the issuance Major reports, the Network of Public Information (RDI) on 23 October 2008. They accuse the CBC for having aired a work of propaganda with errors of fact.
Radio-Canada has admitted a mistake: its journalistic standards and practices have not been respected in the presentation of the documentary. There was no mention of the date of production (2003) and the fact that the situation on the ground had changed since then, particularly because of the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.
Produced five years ago, the documentary contains inaccuracies and anachronisms, groups and pro-Palestinian activists were involved in the research.
Given the circumstances and vulnerabilities identified in editorial control, this documentary would not have been released.
COMPLAINTS
On 23 October 2008, issuing reports Major Network Information (RDI) presented a documentary entitled American Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, which focused on the image of Arab-Israeli conflict that carry the American media.
I received 156 complaints about this issue. Most complainants from various countries have responded to the call of pro-Israeli group monitoring media HonestReporting Canada. The pressure group urged its supporters online to send complaints to my office. Other Canadian viewers who have seen the show have also complained spontaneously to my office. For them, this is not a balanced documentary but a work of propaganda for the Palestinians, which contains errors of fact. Here is an excerpt from the complaint of Quebec-Israel Committee:
"(...) By failing to identify the film as a documentary
opinion type committed and showing almost literally
description of the author, RDI has violated the standards and
journalistic practices of Radio-Canada, which stipulate that
production should be clearly identified at the beginning and the
end as a documentary author (...)
The exclusive participation of activists and groups of employees
pressure and organized interests, as well as thanks
of production to those groups not only do they undermine
seriously the responsibility of the RDI to ensure that groups
interest policies [...] or pressure do not seek to
assert their views through this kind of productions, but
should raise with the RDI questions about
the independence of the film of any group that could
have a direct interest in the issue.
In presenting an indictment against unilateral either party
a conflict, RDI has failed in its duty to ensure fairness and balance
by failing to present in this other issue
views on the item, as stipulated Standards
and journalistic practices of Radio-Canada, the audience can
note that can draw different conclusions from the same facts.
Tolerating the many snags to the realities of film history,
RDI a political and diplomatic settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian RDI has
failed in its responsibility for the accuracy of the facts - applicable
even in the case of a document of opinion - and has failed to enforce
film the criterion of exceptional quality and relevance before
to disseminate, as stipulated in its own standards and journalism. (...) ".
Director, Complaint Handling and General Affairs, sent this reply to all complainants:
"We've received your comments on
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, presented
at the major reports, RDI broadcast on October 23.
Let me first give you some explanations on
the context in which we broadcast documentaries. The
documentary focuses on personal point of view.
In the almost all cases, these documents are signed works
by directors from outside the CBC. We choose
to disseminate because we believe they contain
information of interest.
By airing documentaries opinion, Radio-Canada does
not promote the views contained therein. On
the contrary, it is part of our commitment to offering a
variety of perspectives on topics of public interest.
The documentary Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land
contained interesting information to the Canadian public on the
treatment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the American media.
It was a U.S. production of a Media Education Foundation, distributed
by Mundovision.
However, this documentary is an updated version of a partial
document turned ago now four years before Israel
withdraw from Gaza. Therefore our presentation CW
should have put in context of four years ago rather
as a contemporary challenges posed the Middle East
on the eve of U.S. presidential elections of 2008.
It was indeed a very personalized the conflict.
We recognize that this view was clearly pro-Palestinian.
We wish to assure you that we have recently acquired
other documentaries offering glances different on the
situation in Israel and Gaza and we expect to circulate
in the coming months. (...) "
After receiving this response, several plaintiffs have asked me to review the issue because they believe this documentary simply would not have been broadcast, whatever may have been the presentation.
REVISION
The rules to follow
The information broadcast on Radio-Canada must respect the three principles at the heart of its journalistic standards and practices: the accuracy, integrity and fairness. However, there are exceptions for documentaries produced outside the house, including "documentaries of opinion within the meaning of documentaries engaged":
"The term documentary opinion is also used to describe a
work commenced or a thesis, an advocacy, based on facts,
calls for a solution or a point of view on a controversial subject.
Although the work is based on facts, it does not fairly the
variety of opinions that may exist on the subject or record.
The programmer must sometimes decide whether to disseminate
production significantly transgresses standards journalistic
Radio-Canada because this production openly takes sides on a
controversial issue, the point to exclude other relevant facts
and other items of view. (...) "
The documentary Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land satisfies these criteria. The film advance without making the evidence that the Israeli government controls the American media, written and electronic. To illustrate this thesis, the documentary uses excerpts from television news reports that pass over in silence the fact that the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. According to the film, this omission, the choice of words and the systematic lack of context reinforces false perceptions in the American public. There is no fairness, balance or nuance here: the pro-Palestinian documentary presents a single point of view, only one side of the coin. All those interviewed - academics, Israeli and Palestinian activists, media critics and journalists - are in agreement with this view. If Radio-Canada chooses to present a documentary such rules apply:
Radio-Canada (...) should ensure that interest groups political or
economic or pressure groups, not seek to enforce their views
through this kind of production. "
(NPJ A, 2.4)
"The production should be clearly identified at the beginning and
the end as a documentary author. "
(NPJ A, 2.4, b)
"The facts should be accurate even if it is a work of opinion, and
arguments should conform to facts. (...) "
(NPJ A, 2.4, d)
The production is clearly identified?
The direction of Radio-Canada has quickly admitted its mistake: the presentation of this report does not respect the political journalism of Radio-Canada. Here is the transcript from this Great reports:
"Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land.
The American media does
they see Israeli settlement in the occupied territories
a gesture of defense?
Welcome to Great reports. The signing of a peace agreement
in the Middle East before the end of 2008, as provided in the
Annapolis conference last year, is it still possible?
With the approach of the American election and the first two
Israeli and Palestinian ministers, both at their departure,
much in doubt. According to experts from the Middle East since
40 years, the settlement policy of the Jewish state has increased
inside the occupied Palestinian territories. Therefore:
Daily violence is both the Palestinian and Israeli sides.
So what message convey the American media on this
interminable conflict? They distort the trial of our neighbors
of South? "
At no time, nor in this presentation, or at the end of the show, it is said that it was a documentary view of a film commitment. No mention is made of its author or its production house American Media Education Foundation. In fact, the name of Montreal distributor who is at the beginning of the documentary and the generic. More troubling still, at any time or in the presentation or in the generic, it is said that the documentary was released in 2003, when I was confirmed by the producer.
Such omissions deprive viewers of vital information. However, the website of the production makes clear that this film in 2003. Five years in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a long time. At that time we were in the second wave of the intifada. Since then, the situation has changed: the Israelis have withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, Ariel Sharon created a new party in favor of dismantling settlements before being terraced by two strokes and falling into a coma, Yasser Arafat is dead; Palestinians from Gaza have elected the radical Hamas and the Israelis have built a fence around the West Bank, suicide bombings have ended in Israel's offensive the Israeli army against Hezbollah in Lebanon has killed 1 200 .
The presentation gives the impression that the documentary is recent. The first director responsible for the content of documentaries on Radio-Canada recognizes that the context is lacking. In his opinion, should have been saying that the settlers and the Israeli army left Gaza, and perhaps ask the question to launch the documentary: "One wonders whether the situation has changed since then."
When Radio-Canada buys a documentary, it adapts, translates to the need and shortens, in this case from 52 to 43 minutes. It is a director who is responsible for this work. The director in question tells me he has not managed to find the date of production of the documentary. It chose instead to identify video clips in the documentary, excerpts dating from 2000 to 2003.
The journalist in search charged with writing the show, admits his error. He was captured, he said, by another series of documentaries. Two hundred documentaries must be adapted to the major stories in every IRD year.
The director of Radio-Canada responsible for acquisitions said that, on paper and during the viewing, Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land seemed worthwhile because the documentary presented a new angle on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The director believed that the work was contemporary, since 2008 in the catalog of "international documentary programs," Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land was described as "production".
He said that the distributor has not warned that the movie was not recent. For its part, distributor remembers that Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land was released in room in early 2005. However, Radio-Canada has recognized the true date of production (2003) when complaints began to accumulate. The craftsmen who I spoke to me all said they will be more vigilant in the future.
The big difference between documentary and the 2003 version distributed in October 2008 to RDI is its duration. The original work is 80 minutes, the distributor asked the producer to reduce his film to 52 minutes to sell it to TV. The distributor has registered a narration to accompany the abbreviated version. It has removed some glaring anachronisms in the international version in English. In my opinion, this is not enough to talk about "updating". You can see the documentary and read the full transcript on the site of the production: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi
A author Documentary pro-Palestinian or a work of propaganda?
Radio-Canada must ensure that it buys documentaries are not propaganda tools of lobbyists. If Radio-Canada had viewed the full 80 minutes of Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, it would have realized that by the end of the film can be read thanks to several militant groups pro-Palestinian (Electronic Antifada, Al -Awda Right of Return Coalition, Islam Online). The producer and director assures me that these lobbyists have not funded his film, but only provided assistance for research.
This proximity between militant groups and documentary is disturbing. For example, a data-shocks of the documentary is that only 4 percent of the new state television that the West Bank and Gaza are "occupied". A small note at the bottom of the screen attributes this statistic in 2001 the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting FAIR. This is a pro-Palestinian group monitoring the media for the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) and HonestReporting, the source of many complaints to my office against this documentary. This is not independent research.
It would have taken at least that these facts are known to Radio-Canada so that it may be part of the evaluation of the editorial product.
The facts are they true?
Even if it is a documentary of opinion, the arguments must be based on facts, under the rules Radio-Canada. But the obvious anachronisms. Of anachronisms that are not believing the viewer warned that Gaza is still occupied by the army and Israeli settlers. The reality is quite different: the settlers left the Gaza Strip since 2005, the Israeli army evacuated the territory, although it still encircles and control the entry and exit of Palestinians and goods.
At 3 minutes and a half early, it can be read at the bottom of the screen: "The West Bank and Gaza Strip under military occupation."
At 9 minutes into "So we could say that in addition to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel (...)."
At 12 minutes into the narrator says: "... Four percent of the media network 2 on the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip indicate that they are occupied territories."
At 20 minutes 17 at the beginning, the narrator says: "The Palestinian territories are dotted with settlements that are established in strategic (...) settlements with the neighboring land they have appropriate control over 40% the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "On screen, we see a map of small white dots, illustrating the settlements dot the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The first was erroneous overprint added by the director of Radio-Canada that adaptation. Neither him, nor anyone has noticed anachronisms before the CW. Even if the director who adapted the work tells me that he thought the documentary was "limited", it has not expressed its concerns to staff framework. Result: no connection charge has viewed the documentary before it is released.
The convener Simon Durivage is not responsible for these errors. He records the presentations that he prepares between two direct interventions RDI, where he is on the air four hours or more per day.
The failure to mention the withdrawal from Gaza is not trivial, because part of the argument of the film is based on the following statement: "The purpose of Israel is permanently annexing the occupied territories" . That may be true for part of the West Bank, but it has already proved false in the Gaza Strip.
Other inaccuracies:
The fighting in Jenin in 2002. "This event, although widely condemned as a war crime by organizations of human rights, was minimized by the American media who gave écartèrent involved and the possibility of a massacre." (Excerpt of the documentary). On the Palestinian side, there was talk at the time of 500 victims. An investigation by Human Rights Watch concluded that there was no evidence of the massacre. Fifty-seven Palestinians and twenty-four Israelis have died in these clashes.
"Israel's position is anything but defensive.": This is a dubious generalization.
The occupied territories, "a foreign country: the West Bank and Gaza Strip are not part of Israel. These territories are under no jurisdiction. The Palestinians want to make a country, but it is not yet a reality.
On several occasions, the documentary refers to the occupation "illegal" Palestinian territories by Israel. The legal reality is more complex: the Jewish settlements and the erection of a security fence in the West Bank are clearly illegal. But experts disagree about the "illegal" any Israeli military presence in the West Bank because of the ambiguity in the English version of resolution 242 United Nations (1967). The withdrawal must be "territories" (from territories). The Israeli withdrawal from all territories it is mandatory or not under resolution 242? The interpretation of this clause has never been clarified by the courts.
On this issue, the director of the grid RDI think that the CBC has no staff necessary to verify the facts contained in the 200 documentaries purchased each year. Hence the importance of a strong write to the warnings required for the viewers. The first director responsible for the content of documentary adds that the CBC trusted foreign producers known (eg., BBC), but the Company can not abandon its responsibility to seriously evaluate the content of broadcast works.
The two executives, who have several responsibilities, say it is unthinkable for them to watch all the documentaries before putting on the air, especially that to buy 200, one must view the double. When artisans have doubts about a documentary, they should seek advice from one of their superiors. This time, no alarm was triggered throughout the process. The director of the grid RDI believes this is an isolated event, which should not obscure the work done for 14 years. In light of this error, the first director of the documentary says it needs tighter control editorial Service acquisitions.
The documentary would it have been broadcast or not?
The fact that this documentary is favorable for the Palestinian cause is not in question here. Radio-Canada has the right to broadcast films opinion, provided they are clearly presented as such. Radio-Canada must also encourage a diversity of views in its programming. There is no strict accounting on the "views" disseminated about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the first director ensures that the interests of diversity exists. Before this controversy erupted, he had bought the rights of Israeli interesting documentary to be broadcast in early 2009.
The first director think this documentary deserved to be released because of the fame of some of the participants. It is of the opinion that to preserve the integrity of the work, do not get to touch here and there so that the film has more air after five years. It is therefore not agree with the approach of the dealer who says he is an update of Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land in 2008.
Le producteur et réalisateur du documentaire est convaincu que son film est toujours pertinent. The producer and director of the documentary is convinced that his film is still relevant. He said: "This will not change that Gaza is no longer colonized by Israel, since that territory has become an open-air prison." The situation on the ground has not changed, and it is always also true in his opinion that the American media, written or electronic, routinely fail to mention the occupation of the West Bank and the reasons behind the Palestinian resistance. He is preparing a new movie on the cover made by the American media about the Gaza Strip and the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.
Conclusion
The error has already been recognized by the management of Radio-Canada. The Standards and journalistic practices have not been respected in the presentation of foreign documentary Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, distributed to broadcast Major reports, on 23 October 2008. Radio-Canada should have specified that it was a documentary engaged, that the situation on the ground had changed since five years, date of production of the film, particularly since Israel withdrew from Gaza . Finally, it should be clear that a work was produced abroad.
Given the circumstances and vulnerabilities identified in editorial control, this documentary would not have been released.
Julie Miville-Dechêne Julie Miville-Dechêne
Ombudsman Services French
Société Radio-Canada Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2008-12-08 2008-12-08
E-mail: ombudsman@radio-Canada.ca
Web: http://www.radio-canada.ca/ombudsman/index.shtml
Labels: Anne Humphreys, Canada, Islam, Palestine, Radio-Canada
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The flat-to-ventrisme of Radio-Canada before the Islamist propaganda, by Anne Humphreys
Your taxes at work: state television in the service of propaganda of political Islam, allegedly in a program devoted to ethics, spirituality and religious practice ... Radio-Canada made a point of honor, in its educational mission, to "correct" the defense of freedom and criticism of Islamofascism, inviting an apologist for political Islam. It is kif kif.
On November 16, Radio-Canada presented a report entitled: Islam as seen by the father and Boulad Lamine Four. Father Boulad is a Christian living in Egypt. Lamine Foura is an engineer of Algerian origin living in Quebec. Here's the synopsis of the report posted on the website of the show:
Jesuit, Father Henri Boulad is a Christian from Egypt who lives in the heart of Islam ever since. He believes that religious freedom does not exist in Muslim societies. Faced with the rise of fanaticism, Boulad father seeks reform, reform through the emergence of a moderate Islam, otherwise we are heading towards a conflagration. And this reform is through dialogue between Muslim liberals and radicals, he argues.
In that speech without concessions Father Boulad, Lamine Foura replica that beyond a rise of fanatic fundamentalism and lack of freedom in Arab and Muslim countries, the sources of tension within Islam are many . Although this Muslim by concedes that Islam needs a new breath, he contends that the speech of Father Boulad confusing Islam and Islamism, a discourse that ultimately plays into the hands of extremists.
The interview with Father Henri Boulad can be viewed by clicking here. The interview with Lamine Four is accessible by clicking here.
Our collaborator Quebeckers Jugurten of Algerian origin, analyzing the interview with Lamine Foura. - Marc Lebuis
The flat-to-ventrisme Radio-Canada before the Islamist propaganda Lamine Four, by Jugurten
In issuing of Second Regard at Radio Canada, Alain Crevier wanted to correct what wines Father Henri Boulad by someone who know better Islam. But before doing this talk connoisseur, our journalist reassured viewers Quebeckers: the person in question is wrapped qualifications and activities much more important and more numerous than those which engages the average Quebecker. Lamine Foura should be listened to with devotion.
Alain Crevier this Lamine Four as a scientific rational mind, however religious practice. But that may say a staunch practitioner of his religion! And what can we say of rational and scientific about dogma. Second Regard called a judge and party to enlighten us on what the Father Boulad. If the goal of Alain Crevier was to give a right of reply to Islam, he gave the floor to an imam.
Why then Lamine Four? Alain Crevier think his illustrious analyst Muslim will be backed by his university degrees and functions snoring. The Quebeckers, tired of their own religious for ages, will be more likely to believe a Muslim citizen "integrated", rational, committed to his community and graduated a single priest who drool.
Radio Canada believes that Quebeckers are bumpkins who believe that more is high on the social ladder, the more one has access to infuse science, it is more intelligent, it is therefore more credible. Hence the almost vulgar exhibitionism Lamine Foura, certainly encouraged by Radio Canada.
Lamine Foura is presented as "of Algerian origin." In fact, it is not "home alone" but Algerian full, leaving no place in Canada. It is Algerian heart, mentality, culture, religion, spirit and paper. He is even a communitarian asset which is in Algeria rebuild against all odds in Quebec. He built his social life around the Arab-Islamic Maghreb nostalgic way Andalusian and likes to invite the Other, Occidental, to take a look brief and superficial in its exotic world communitarian and closed.
I know of Canadian French origin (the so-called pure laine Quebecois), of English, Irish, Greek, Italian or Scottish. Radio Canada would not insist on the origin of these people, nor their diplomas when they are interviewed on Catholicism or Protestantism or anything else. They live it as an indiscretion, perhaps as a mockery, even as "a flower jetage" hiding something. But the Muslim communitarian as it does because it positioned well in the community, enhances its prestige and increases its chances of one day become one of the leaders listened to the community.
It is not useful to recall the origins of French Canadian, Italian, Belgian or Irish because these people are not proselytes of their community or their religion when they. There is therefore no need to reassure others in launching the message: "See therefore brave people like this person is of Irish-educated, hard working, kind, normal and friendly, yet its origin is Irish." Anyway, the Irish question would not do that!
Radio Canada does not know can be what kind of message it distills, but both condescending and flat-to-may make ventrisme some of its guests that more arrogant, more daring in a lie in the manipulation and opportunism Knowing that does not openly blame and that anyway the audience was asleep in the early minutes of the show. But the audience he was really asleep?
Radio Canada, Father Boulad and specialist ovens are agreed that radical Islamists are a minority. Similarly, the proportion of drug traffickers is small compared to the total population of Montreal. The drug therefore represents no danger to society and we can rest on our laurels. We did not even need to warn our children against this scourge.
Only a minority of political and religious leaders produce and broadcast a speech radical Islamist. False because the majority of Muslims do not blame these radicals and are more likely to listen and to follow them. Again, the famous law of Pareto works wonderfully: 20% of causes are responsible for 80% damage! In any totalitarian ideology, there is forming an elite minority holding a majority in breath and leads by the nose. The most courageous among the silent majority, are suppressed, or die, which is kif kif.
Specifically it means all this? The countries where Islam holds political power are totalitarian, freedoms, oppressive and repressive, and we see no need for additional evidence. Elsewhere in the Muslim world, Islam does not despair of reaching govern directly and permanently. The few countries that have allowed Islamist parties to activate legally saw them win elections (Algeria, Sudan, Palestine, Pakistan, Turkey). In these countries, militant Islamist parties are, of course, minority, but their members, sympathizers and their voters were the majority.
The example of Algeria is just typical during the elections of 1990 and during the 1991 Legislature, there was also nominated for so-called moderate Islamist parties and three parties modern democracy. They had made the ridiculous score of 1% to 5% in the 46 departments where the radical Islamic party was established. The two departments where this party was absent because of language, lack of militants and rejected by the people, parties Democrats have won over 90%. At Nationwide, the proportion is the party's most radical Islamist who has won. The party relied on some influential and radical, but how were they to follow? It is irrelevant how many people preach radical Islam. It is more interesting to know how many people listen because they could organize themselves, formalize and disseminate this speech.
After discontinuation of the electoral process, a minority among the radicals took up arms to engage in terrorism. They were 3000, 10 000 40 000? No more. But how many people were spontaneous outings in the streets to protest against barbarism and daily killings? How such a slaughter she could let marble millions of people who are yet to complain of being victims? How many have taken up arms to fight, while the government distributed to all those who wanted to enlist in the militias popular self-defense? How were they to appoint only "Islamic terrorists"? Lamine Foura knows the answers as much as I do, since we were both on site at the time.
How were they in years 80 to rush to go fight in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation? How are they still to declare their readiness to fight in Palestine and Iraq? The dictators of the Arab countries now closely monitor their youth lest it n'inonde Palestine and Iraq. So much so that the first destination of the jihadists has become the West, because then it is easier to reach the Middle East. I wonder, before such courage and determination of young Muslims, how these famous terrorists and other radical evil can strut without fear in their towns and villages, without fearing anyone. There is simply person to fear. Moreover, in Algeria, any terrorist can go to a police station, put his gun and go quietly to rest two or three months before murdering a policeman or a policeman, the offload his weapon and resume the bush. A real paradise for Islamist terrorists, blessed by the popular will and the forgiveness guaranteed by the chairman of the riboublique.
Lamine Foura does not care all that happened in his own country and does not care what happens elsewhere. His only concern INTELLECTUA spoiled child is to understand how we arrived there "referring to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. This questioning is a false intellectual posture trying to fool his audience. When there is carnage in his own community, an intellectual should betray a part of his community, one that is guilty. It does not save everyone, perpetrators and victims under the pretext that they are all his own. This pretext communitarian unconditional pushing Lamine Four to "question" and then serve on a platter disparate reasons which are heard by a miracle child Islamic terrorist regardless of goodwill of culture and religion Muslim.
Like everyone, Lamine Four seeks to create this image dear to European chroniclers of the good old days of the colonies: Islam, perfumes smell of jasmine mixed with orange, during voluptuous women whispering behind their veils rustle, shadow and darkness housing the frolics man and woman in the freshness of the setting sun casting its color purple on the undulating horizon of the Mediterranean .... and potatoes and potatoes. For Lamine Foura, anything that is not unbridled poetry is not Islam. A real slogan for sex tourists to Malek Chebel. We must listen Lamine Foura.
This "intellectual" is completely disconnected from reality and appears to be under the influence of a narcotic. Unless it does that remains elusive. Half the planet today is regularly shaken by Islamist attacks. The free media (the Web not to appoint him) reported every day hundreds of cases of mistreatment and abuse with impunity on women, religious minorities in the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Mr Foura wants to "understand how we arrived there." Usually you wonder how after something unfortunate could have happen. We want to find out afterwards calmly, once the unfortunate event behind us, how things have slipped while everything was fine. Here then, it went well?
Lamine Foura plays on words to suggest that usual, Islamic fundamentalism does not exist in its violent and terrorist. I understand the process if Muslim countries have been democracies and the Islamist terrorist adventure was a brief parenthesis in the past now. The fact that Lamine Four is the question while it is happening again is not mere curiosity neutral, but a willingness to immediately appoint officials, even guilty, to immediately bring charges.
The culprits are of course the West and Jews. It lists a series of cases that dummy do any analysis, however short. Saying that "it's complicated" is just a simplistic way of trying to cover their tracks. The technique is to establish a multitude of cases mounted fan to keep spirits as much as possible the only real cause: the violent and aggressive nature of Islam, never ceased children Islamism. Lamine Foura therefore directs viewers to other considerations to prevent it from seeking in Islam itself the rise of fundamentalism (euphemism for terrorism, intellectual and factual). Lamine Foura counting on the laziness of the viewer to get there because there is a caricature showing the viewer slumped on his sofa, liabilities, gobant whole and not reflective.
According Lamine Four, the causes of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism were totally alien to Islam and Muslim societies. See this:
"What happened after the 2nd World War"
What has happened after the second world war that would explain the rise of Islamic fundamentalism today in all Muslim countries and Muslim communities established in the West? Lamine Foura does not say so. But in coded language Islamic Lamine Foura discussed the creation of the State of Israel. For him, this "injustice" justifies the radicalization of Muslim societies and its corollary, Islamist terrorism.
What Lamine Foura cache is that all current Arab states were created after that of Israel or in the same decade. The Arab nation states today in their borders and their sovereignty, have been created by colonial forces as the decolonization movement empower Arab peoples. Most of these reports are mere provinces of the Ottoman Empire or from different governorates Caliphates before the empire. Thus, an Algerian citizen of a sovereign state, Algeria, founded in 1962 is quite normal to challenge the state of Israel yet established in 1948. Israel is the only state unanimously challenged in the Muslim world.
"Colonization"
We notice that most colonial episode is distant history in Muslim countries over Islamic fundamentalism is gaining in thickness in Muslim societies. If colonialism was the cause of the rise of fundamentalism, it would have assisted rather to reverse. The injury is calm and generally heal with time, and with them, resentment and feelings of hatred fed by the colonial fade. Generally, as the memory treats the most tragic episodes in their history, the people calm down and become prone to forgiveness. Thus, Europeans, Russians and Americans today feel no hatred against the Germans, nor to the Japanese, while in the Muslim world, hatred of French and English, former colonizers, is more visceral, including even the Western countries that have colonized any Muslim country (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland). For these countries there are other reasons cited.
"What is happening in the Middle East"
Lamine Foura confirms what everyone has come to believe the problem is not between Palestinians and Israelis, but between the Muslim world and Jews. The conflict between Israel and Palestine can grow Nigerian Muslims to radicalize. Thus, the existence of Israel as much a problem for Muslims in Indonesia, the Berbers of North Africa, the Iranian and I do not know what ethnic group in Nigeria under the jurisdiction of the Sharia. The hypothesis, if true, Israel has despoiled land Arabic to explain the rigor a rise of Arab nationalism. But we see that all Muslims on earth are against Israel. But historically, this land was rather the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, not Islam .. By a sleight of hand to Islamize the Christian and Jewish history that the Muslim conquerors had made a Muslim land since forever and ever. At this "forever" believe that all Muslims Jakarta to Rabat and not to give the Palestinians a viable and modern state.
But beyond its formulation, it is unclear how this problem can explain that Islamist armed group slaughtered thousands of people in Algeria, another raises bombs in Egypt, another crisis in Morocco, another in the Philippines, another India, etc.
"Interventions increasingly intense in the West in Muslim countries"
The only intervention of the West in Muslim countries were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, there have been no other, despite Darfur. Lamine Foura speculates thus adding his "increasingly intense." The rise of modern Islamic radicalism began well before any intervention by the West as a Muslim country. The campuses of the Arab world already teeming young preachers ignited in the late 70s. The war against the Soviets in Afghanistan was carried out by radical Islamists, funded by Saudi Arabia and supported by Pakistan and the West, precisely. The seizure of power by radical Islamists in Iran and Sudan has nothing to do with "interventions increasingly intense in the West in Muslim countries."
The sticking massive Algeria have nothing to do with the West and are certainly not committed to punish the regime, nor denounce the administration.
Lamine Foura what defines us secularism, to us ignorant, advance and the'islam that may fall within the theocracy. It's like say that water can be wet if we do not blunder!
Lamine Foura does not know without doubt Saudi Arabia or the Sudan or Iran. Where potentates govern in the name of religion and Islam. For him, these countries are fictitious and Islam has nothing to do with any form of theocracy. It intends G. Bush to speak well axis and axis of evil, but never heard Khomeini and other Islamic preachers talk about Great Satan is already 30 years. The U.S. of G Bush would be totalitarian, but not Iran or Saudi Arabia or the Sudan, nor any other Muslim country. It must be to allow Radio Canada say that without shy.
Finally, Lamine Four runs in a speech that neither head nor tail. He contends that the lack of religious freedom in Muslim countries is the lack of freedom itself that has nothing to do with religion. However, we see that in countries where Islam is in power that there is less freedom, including religious freedom (Arabia, some Gulf countries, Iran, Sudan). In other totalitarian countries, the lack of freedom is justified by Islam, known by other names, such as "national constants", "Muslim values framework", "our values and traditions" etc ... but all these disguised in secular dictatorships continue to introduce Islam the state religion and to take advice from clerics and other advice from the fatwa. They are all members of the Islamic Summit and all use Islam to end their policies because people ask. All Muslim societies are against "freedom itself" and this is directly related to religion.
In most of these dictatorships, there are political parties and cultural associations in favor of freedom, secularism, democracy, freedom of worship, to diversity. These parties and these associations are tiny, downright invisible. They do not sucked or Algeria or Morocco, or Tunisia or Egypt, or zero otherwise. They simply disappear for lack of human component to promote, disseminate and upholding these values.
This is of course the happiness of dictatorships in place, they know what the people want to hear.
For Lamine Foura, Islam has nothing to do with the catastrophic situation of Muslim countries. It puts everything on the back of colonialism. Nothing has ever happened before colonialism and nothing after. Thus, in Algeria, 46 years after independence, dictatorship and Islamism murderer charged on French colonialism. It does not accuse the West of trade with Saudi Arabia totalitarian, fundamentalist, theocratic and freedoms. No, it makes it responsible for attacks and killings that happen in the West itself.
Christianity and Islam
What about the comparison between Christianity and Islam. Lamine Foura wants to make us fatalistic. For reasons of equity, see equality, we must now leave Islam do what it wants because the Inquisition had done what she wanted in the Middle Ages. We must therefore compare Islam to Christianity today the fourteenth century, which would make lenient.
You must be totally geek to believe that Christians today endorse the Saint Bartholomew, witch hunting and burning heretics to time. Lamine Foura is categorical: Islam will evolve over time. Just be patient, bending the spine and count the dead to pass the time. In five or six centuries, Islam will be the same stage of development as Christianity today. I swear, it Lamine Four and who says we must believe. Otherwise, you would be in bad faith.
Labels: Anne Humphreys, Canada, Human mistake, Islam, Radio-Canada, Religion and fanaticism
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