Millions watch Hezbollah TV daily

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Late last week, the State Department added al-Manar, the official television station of Hezbollah, to the Terrorism Exclusion List (TEL), effectively prohibiting it from broadcasting in the United States. While this action is welcome, it must be the beginning, not the end, of the effort to combat propaganda of a new and much more ominous sort.

Al-Manar is viewed by an estimated 10-15 million people a day across the world. Its mission was explained to me with chilling clarity by one al-Manar official: It is meant to "help people on the way to committing what you call in the West a suicide mission. [Its videos] are meant to be the first step in the process of a freedom fighter operation."nationalreview.com/comment/jorisch200412220812.asp
 
be careful with that type of advice… next will be Fox News… :cool:
 
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be careful with that type of advice… next will be Fox News… :cool:
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From that bastion of conservative though, the Boston-Globe:

…a lot about al-Manar’s programming is objectionable by Western standards. The move in France against al-Manar began after the station caused an uproar in October by broadcasting a series titled ''The Diaspora" which is based on the controversial Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a 19th-century publication that depicts a Zionist conspiracy to take over the world. France’s higher audiovisual authority instructed al-Manar to change the tone of its programming or face a ban. The authority then took al-Manar to court and subsequently banned it from broadcasting to Europe after a guest said on a live show that Zionists were trying to spread diseases, including AIDS, to Arabs. The station said it was unfair to ban a channel on the basis of one live caller, and denies it is anti-Semitic. Continued…
 
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