Arab TV binging on Lebanese death porn to incite Muslims (Update: Ynet busts CNN)

It’s electrifyin’.

A month after it started, the Sixth War, as al-Jazeera calls the fighting, continues to consume the Arab world, which tunes in every night to a bloodier, more painful and more devastating conflict than the rest of the world sees.

The region’s 24-hour news channels and nightly news broadcasts give their audiences endless images of gutted homes, damaged bridges and runways, fires and a relentless loop of human suffering: young girls in pajamas, their limp corpses caked in dust; toddlers in diapers, their faces and bodies pockmarked with wounds; relatives digging with their hands in the rubble of destroyed buildings, trying to rescue survivors.

Although no figures are available, anecdotal evidence suggests that Arab viewers have not been as electrified by a conflict since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.

“The Sixth War,” as in the sixth Arab-Israeli war. They’ve made Hezbollah the standard-bearer of Arab pride. Quote:

“The biggest thing here is that Hezbollah and their small force has been able to restore the dignity of the Arabs. That is the bottom line,” said Timur Goksel, an American University of Beirut professor who spent more than two decades as a senior U.N. adviser in south Lebanon.

And this despite the fact that Sunni governments like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan blamed Nasrallah for starting the whole thing.

Two questions and an observation. One: if Arab photojournalists are willing to doctor images and stage scenes for western media, which they know objects to such practices as unethical, what must they be willing to do for a Middle Eastern media that likes its news inflammatory? Two: is competitive pressure from new Muslim media outfits like Al Jazeera forcing western media bureaus in the region — like APTN — towards even greater radicalization? And three: note how perfectly this sort of incitement dovetails with attempts by some western Muslims to extort concessions from their governments on foreign (and even domestic) policy. The more victmized Arabs feel, the angrier they get, the easier it becomes for Islamists to cow Europeans into meeting their demands. Here’s the latest from England, where the government’s just concluded an “emergency meeting” with Muslim community leaders:

[O]n leaving the meeting, Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary general of the [Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland], said: “We are willing to cooperate but there should be a partnership.

“They should understand our problems, then we will understand their problems.”

Dr Pasha said he pleaded that the entire Muslim community should not be targeted because of the actions of “only a few people”.

He said he had asked for holidays to mark Muslim festivals and Islamic laws to cover family affairs which would apply only to Muslims.

More:

Khurshid Ahmed, chairman of the British Muslim Forum, who was at one of the meetings, said: “No-one has said that British foreign policy is singularly responsible for what is happening at the moment.

“What we’re saying is that there’s a massive amount of disquiet about British foreign policy.

“And some of our young people have the perception that this foreign policy is directed against the Muslim world and therefore needs to be looked at.

“And all we’re asking for is a review, and – if necessary – a change.”

What would make a change in foreign policy “necessary”? Listen to this filth. He’ll tell you.

One other demand while we’re at it — we should make sure not to call terrorists “Islamic fascists.” Saudi fascists don’t like that.

I leave you with the must-read of the day: Melanie Phillips, author of “Londonistan,” interviewed in Newsweek about the UK terror plot and the quite-shocking-indeed fact that her book’s been almost totally ignored by the western media. Quote:

What should Britain do to combat the threat of terror?
Well, it’s obviously a good thing that last week’s plot was uncovered, and all credit to the authorities for that. But we need to do more than just defeat plots and break up cells. We need to target the people who incite them. We should say that we respect Islam as a religion, and we respect peoples’ right to practice it, but if that practice and preaching includes things like hatred for the West, incitement to violence, anti-Semitism, etc, then we won’t stand for it. We will prosecute people, get rid of them, and throw them out of the country. It’s not Islamophobia to say this.

Why aren’t moderate Muslims getting more attention?
It’s a good question. Truly moderate Muslims are, I think, in fear for their lives, literally, if they speak out in public. Our government hasn’t supported them, hasn’t given them money and worked with them to make sure they are heard. In fact, the whole definition of “moderate” has become skewed. Officials think that a “moderate” is someone who is not committed to mass murder. We’re pathetically grateful just for that. But a lot of people who are called moderates still believe in things like an international Jewish conspiracy, or the idea that the CIA was behind 9/11, or that sort of rubbish. These people may not be violent themselves, but they are the sea in which those who are violent swim–they make the violence possible.

Update: Says Ace, “You wouldn’t like the American Street when it’s angry.”

Update: “Yes, the problem is ‘Islamic fascism.’”

Update: Ynet watches CNN and concludes that there are no civilian casualties on the Israeli side.

I said Arab TV was binging on death porn to incite Muslims. I didn’t say it was only Arab TV that was doing so.

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