Which Egyptian TV Station Should Get An Obama Post-Speech Interview?
LGF has a clip of an Egyptian TV show where little children sit at a cleric's knee and learn about how it's glorious to deceive and massacre Jews. It was on Al-Hafez TV, which got me wondering: which Egyptian TV outlet - if any - will land a coveted post-Canossa interview with Obama? Kind of like the al-Arabiya interview he did, only with more obsequiousness.
It could be Al-Nas, known for its groundbreaking work uncovering Jewish plots to infect Muslim food with cancer and infiltrate the Muslim world via Starbucks:
On the other hand, Al-Nas hosted US cleric Salah Sultan a few months ago. He took the opportunity to threaten terrorist attacks against America. That's neither hopey nor changey!
So maybe Egyptian station al-Rahma. Although the thing with al-Rahma, though, is that I'm not sure how they'd fit into the President's vaunted image as a pro-science intellectual. Their shows with little boys who scream about talking rocks and trees who instruct Muslims hunt down Jews - those seem a little scientifically untenable.
Plus they keep putting on shows where Jews are branded "the scum of the earth, devils in human form." In between those they regularly feature that dirtbag cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya'qoub, who keeps talking about biting off the heads of Jews:
Ya'qoub's insistence that a two-state solution will do nothing to abate genocidal Islamic anti-Semitism - dutifully broadcast by Al-Rahma - would also probably count as "off-message."
Maybe it'll be both Al-Nas and Al-Rahma. Kind of like a "nobody's at fault because everybody's at fault" press pool. That would be just perfect:
Al-Nas TV, December 28, 2008 Egyptian cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Saghir: "I say to the people of Gaza: Take my heart, which has hardened like a stone. Take it, and use it to stone all the Jews. Take my soul... take my eye - by Allah, take my eye... Take my skin, and turn it into a fuse or a slingshot for a child or a newborn baby."
Al-Rahma TV, December 29, 2008 Egyptian cleric Sheikh Amin Al-Ansari: "It is told that the Israelites killed more than 70,000 prophets in a single day... They do not want there to be any revelation, purity, religion, or religious...
Al-Nas TV, December 29, 2008Dr. Sallah Sultan:"The stone which is thrown at the Jews hates these Jews... The Jew will hide behind stones and trees, and the stone and the tree will speak, saying: 'Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' The only exception will be the Gharqad tree."
TV host: "The Jews know this for sure, that's why they plant Gharqad trees."
Dr. Sallah Sultan: "The stone's self-awareness is such that it can distinguish Muslims from Jews."
TV host: "True, and it will support the Muslims."
If Obama talked to one of these hate outlets, it would be bad for America and bad for the West. But it would be almost worth it to see the left - which gets hysterical whenever Democrats "legitimize" Fox News - paint the spectacle as the height of sophistication.
References:
* Egyptian Child Abuse [LGF]
* Obama Speaks to the Arab World [WaPo]
* Egyptian Cleric Ahmad Abd Al-Salam: Jews Infect Food with Cancer and Ship it to Muslim Countries [MEMRI]
* Video: Egyptian State TV On Jews And Starbucks [Daled Amos]
* Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV [PJM]
* Comment: Hail to the intellectual president [New Scientist]
* Children Memorize and Recite Antisemitic Messages on an Egyptian Islamist Channel [MEMRI]
* Egyptian Cleric Zaghloul Al-Naggar: The Arab World Is Ruled By the Scum of the Earth and the Garbage of All Nations; I Am 'Absolutely' Calling to Wage Jihad Against the Jews, Who Are Devils in Human Form [MEMRI]
* Egyptian And Lebanese Clerics Sounding Pretty Anti-Semitic, Not Particularly Anti-Zionist [MR]
* As Gaza Fighting Continues, Egyptian Clerics Intensify Antisemitic Statements; Columbus, Ohio Muslim Scholar/Leader Dr. Salah Sultan: Muhammad Said That Judgment Day Will Not Come Until Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them; America Will Suffer Destruction [MEMRI]
Previously:
* Just A Reminder: Arab Media Is A Cesspool Of Genocidal Anti-Semitic Incitement
* Anti-Israel Partisans Set New Record For Decades-Old Trick Of Brazenly Rewriting History, Blaming Israel
* Video Flashbacks: Hamas TV Blames Holocaust On Jews, Egyptian TV Celebrates Holocaust
