The irony is almost too much to bear. A TV station called PeaceTV would, one thinks, promote peace, right? I mean, no one but an anti-Muslim Islamophobe would even suggest that PeaceTV could do anything but promote peace, by the religion of peace.
Yet here we go again, watching Alice spin down the rabbit hole....
From The London Evening Standard Feb 11 by Tom Harrper
Zakir Naik - who has claimed that "every Muslim should be a terrorist" - was banned from coming to Britain last June by Theresa May in one of her first major acts as Home Secretary.
But eight months on, the 45-year-old cleric is still a key figure in a company that holds an Ofcom-approved licence for Peace TV.
Now, the broadcasting watchdog has confirmed it is investigating the satellite channel, broadcast in English and Urdu, after receiving a complaint from a viewer over its extremist messages.
Programmes on Peace TV have included praise for "mujahideen" fighting British troops in Iraq, labelled Jews as an "enemy of Islam" and made claims about the 9/11 terror attacks being an "inside job".
Repeat the lie often enough, and the people will start to believe it. Unfortunately it is an effective tool to demonize those whose speech you wish to shut down. Oh yes, remember it is always the Jews fault, always.
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Yet here we go again, watching Alice spin down the rabbit hole....
From The London Evening Standard Feb 11 by Tom Harrper
Banned hate preacher still broadcasting after 'Jews are enemy of Islam' claim
A radical preacher banned from entering the country may now lose the platform to broadcast messages of hate to British television screens.
Zakir Naik - who has claimed that "every Muslim should be a terrorist" - was banned from coming to Britain last June by Theresa May in one of her first major acts as Home Secretary.
But eight months on, the 45-year-old cleric is still a key figure in a company that holds an Ofcom-approved licence for Peace TV.
Now, the broadcasting watchdog has confirmed it is investigating the satellite channel, broadcast in English and Urdu, after receiving a complaint from a viewer over its extremist messages.
Programmes on Peace TV have included praise for "mujahideen" fighting British troops in Iraq, labelled Jews as an "enemy of Islam" and made claims about the 9/11 terror attacks being an "inside job".
Repeat the lie often enough, and the people will start to believe it. Unfortunately it is an effective tool to demonize those whose speech you wish to shut down. Oh yes, remember it is always the Jews fault, always.
Read it all
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