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From: John Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Seems to me that France is just trying to keep all the religious stuff
> >out of their secular
> >government. The fact that both Jews and Muslims complain about the
> >French makes me
> >sure they are doing a good job.
> >
> >Enjoy.
>So you call television programs that advocate "Death to Israel" and "The
>Zionists will be destroyed" (captions from screen shots of the tv program
>in question that I could not include in my original post) as "religious
>stuff"??! If indeed what was being attempted is the "Separation of Church
>and State" in France this article would not be necessary, nor would the
>Wiesenthal Centers stance on French anti-Semitism. Methinks you ought to
>read the series of articles from Wesley's post before you comment again.
>
>Scott
The article reads:
>Against the backdrop of continuing hate crimes against French Jewry, France's
>Broadcasting Authority had banned Hezbollah's Al-Manar viciously
>antisemitic and anti-Israel TV (see right and below) for violating French
>anti-incitement laws. Earlier this week, French Broadcasting Authority
>announced that it had reversed its ban thereby giving Al-Manar the license
>to continue broadcasting into France and elsewhere in Europe via French
>satellite television after the Beirut-based mouthpiece of the terrorist
>Hizbollah organization allegedly agreed not to broadcast any hate programming.
This says that the French Broadcasting Authorities have banned them in the
past and nothing in the post suggests they would not do so again if
Al-Manar continues to broadcast anti-semitic programs. They have promised
not to do so and would presumably be banned again if they did. They
broadcast Arab and Muslim programming, most of which is not anti-semitic.
Would you simply ban then for all eternity? The Wiesenthal Center is
correct to be concerned and to monitor the programming but if Al-Manar has
promised not to broadcast such programming then they are wrong to oppose
lifting the ban. They have been wrong in the past on occasion and will do
so again. Human agents being fallible it is impossible for it to be otherwise.
John Thornton
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