Tuesday, September 12, 2006

UK - BBC and the Muslim Brotherhood

Charles has this post on the Muslim Brotherhood's increasing influence on al Jazeera. This stood out for me.

At [Al-Jazeera, employees are] no longer appointed based on qualifications, but [based on] agreed-upon selections, or [are selected by] one of the [Muslim Brotherhood] leaders. Based on what I was told by a friend inside the station, nearly 80% of the station’s recent appointees - particularly in the production and the editing [departments] - are Muslim Brotherhood members or are close to movements [affiliated with] the Muslim Brotherhood. Appointments based on considerations of loyalty [to the Muslim Brotherhood] are even made in the management bodies of new professional departments which Al-Jazeera has decided to launch in the near future. The appointees have no professional expertise in the [relevant] fields [but are chosen for their affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood].


Which is interesting considering the recent hiring by al Jazeera of a BBC news editor.

The BBC even boasted they hired the editor in chief of al Jazeera - to train their journalists!

Which might help explain why the BBC's John Simpson called the 7/7 Muslim terrorisits "misguided criminals", al Qaeda "the resistance" and Iran a "democracy".

The BBC is known for being a left wing, anti-war, communist sympathizer and like those groups has joined forces with Islamists. But just how far down that road is the BBC willing to go? Everyday the BBC seems to inch further down that path.

I'm not saying the BBC have joined forces with the Muslim Brotherhood - yet. Useful idiots more like - for now.

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