The Arab world turns out a typical response to a great story put out by Fox News a couple of weeks ago. I urge everyone to read the Fox News piece, if you haven't already. A buddy of mine told me pretty much the same story about his experience growing up Coptic in Egypt.The article which I translated below is from al-'Ankabout (literally "The Spider"), which according to its website was started in Australia by a Lebanese man, and publishes viewpoints from all over the political spectrum. This one, however, is just the typical Arab response when there is no good response: blame it on the Jews. Rather than actually debate the issue at hand, the author simply slanders Fox News by accusing it of being an arm of the "New Zionist Movement," and further impugns it by associating it with the likes of such shadowy Islamophobes as Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, and Robert Spencer, who we all know are part of a sinister plot to revive Protestantism in America. For the original Arabic, click here.
Fox News Claims to Have Deceived Egyptian Police and Planted Cameras to Spy on the "Persecution" of Coptic Christians
From al-Ankabout, 11 Feb 2010
An American television station accused Egyptian police of provoking citizens to conduct attacks against Copts, and of turning a blind eye to some of the attacks.
The news agency America in Arabic transmitted from Fox News, known for its affiliation with the New Zionist Movement and for promoting military interventions in Arab and Islamic lands, what it conveyed in a report broadcast this week. In the report, Fox News claimed it concealed recording devices in order to deceive Egyptian police, and used them to record Egyptian authorities turning a blind eye to attacks on Christians. It confirmed that it had some evidence condemning Egyptian police for provoking the latest attacks against Copts in the Nag Hammadi incident.
The American television station continued in its report...(quotes directly from Fox News piece)
Fox News also said...(again quotes directly from the Fox News piece)
Fox News is considered a part of the media empire of known American Zionist Rupert Murdoch, and normally takes right-wing and pro-Israel positions, and supports military interventions in Arab and Islamic nations.
Fox News also played a chief role in promoting the Iraq invasion of 2003, and often hosts guests on its programs who write books which attack Islam, considering them "experts" on Islam, such as Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, and Robert Spencer, as it attempts to promote a wave of Protestant revival in the United States.
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