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| Muslims urged to buy influence in world media |
| 2006-10-23 |
| Mid-september news, but I don't recall seeing it here. RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, said Islam faced vilification after the September 11 attacks, when 19 Arabs killed nearly 3,000 people in U.S. cities in 2001. "Muslim investors must invest in the large media institutions of the world, which generally make considerable profits, so that they have the ability to affect their policies via their administrative boards," OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the gathering in the Saudi city of Jeddah. "This would benefit in terms of correcting the image of Islam worldwide," he said, calling on Muslim countries to set up more channels in widely-spoken foreign languages. Muslim stakes in Western media are minimal. Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns 5.46 percent of media conglomerate News Corp., the Rupert Murdoch-run group behind the Fox News Channel. The U.S. channel is generally seen as right-wing and no friend of Arab or Muslim interests. Washington's response to September 11, invading Afghanistan and Iraq and tightening civil freedoms at home as part of a wider "war on terror", has created a widespread feeling among Muslims worldwide that their religion is under attack. A row earlier this year over Danish cartoons that depicted the Prophet Mohammed deepened the sense of a divide between Islamic culture and the West. "The fierce attack on Islam in the five years since the September 11 attacks has forced us into a defensive position on our faith and understanding of our tolerant religion," Egyptian Information Minister Anas el-Feki said in a speech. "Now more than ever we need a new Islamic media message that reaches all parts of the world," Feki said, citing Israel's recent 34-day war in Lebanon as one issue where Muslims needed to make their views and influence felt. Let the petrodollars flow! May a thousand rooters bloom! How, Gawd, the MSM will become even more of an ennemy in the years to come, not only will they be traitors, but they will be BOUGHT traitors. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #5 Some Jews control some media. Some Christians control some media. Some Muslims control some media. Some atheists... Reverand Sun Myung Moon... One of the Saudi princes bought an influential amount of stock in FoxNews a year or so ago, and boasts how nicely they respond to his little suggestions. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-23 20:25 |
| #4 some Jews control the Media,But not all of the media..Besides,It better to be in their hands than In the Hands of these Islamic Monsters..Give me a Jewish Controlled Media any day..However,I see some are Falling into the Islamic Trap of Accusing Israel of being the World's Ill's etc.Shame on you Ediots..Shame on you..You are not better than the Islmamists Israel Today represent True freedom in a Hostile Islamic Surrounding,Yet the Muslims don't know the Meaning of the word peace or freedom! Away with them i say! |
| Posted by: Angaiper Angeater1515 2006-10-23 10:19 |
| #3 Support worldwide terrorism, promote the religion of peace, import more oil. |
| Posted by: Slaviger Angomong7708 2006-10-23 10:03 |
| #2 Guess they've figured their State Department investment isn't really paying off. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-10-23 09:37 |
| #1 mebbe they should hire a Jewish consultant. After all, Jews control the media. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-10-23 09:31 |