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Keyword: Media Manipulation

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Main Stories

Feigning innocence: the politics of demonization

Fahad Ansari

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

The blasphemous US-produced movie, while denounced by US officials, is still defended on the basis of free speech. History, however, shows that publishing racist, anti-religious tracts has been punished. Julius Streicher, publisher of a racist, anti-Jewish tabloid, Sturmer, was hanged after a military trial at Nuremberg accused of aiding and abetting the slaughter of Jews. He was not a member of the Nazi party nor was he in Hitler’s military.

Main Stories

Channel 4 documentary exposes British media’s anti-Islam hatred

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

Fake historian distorts history to attack Islam in the most scandalous way and Britain’s channel 4 provides him air time. Islamophobia is now official policy in much of the western world.

Opinion

The lies of politics, the politics of lies and the myth of the American dream

Iqbal Siddiqui

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

American politics is a game of blatant lies and distortions. It makes little difference to the life of Americans whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House.

News & Analysis

How not to fall for the fake “free” media

Waseem Shehzad

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

Muslims need to develop greater sophistication in determining the validity of alternate media, especially outlets like Al Jazeera.

News & Analysis

The strange masquerade of dirty war as “humanitarian intervention” in Syria

Zainab Cheema

Sha'ban 11, 14332012-07-01

With the gory newsfeed of the Houla massacre, the war in Syria seems to be morphing into the horror movie storyline from a DVD watched too many times on Friday rec-nights.

News & Analysis

Beyond the noisy headlines, the real story in Syria

Tahir Mustafa

Rabi' al-Thani 08, 14332012-03-01

Two competing narratives continue to dominate discussion about events in Syria. The first and most-often repeated narrative, eagerly projected by the Western corporate media as well as al-Jazeera, is that the people of Syria have risen up for their rights and will settle for nothing less than the ouster of President Bashar al-Asad.

News & Analysis

Islamic Press Union established amid high hopes

Our Own Correspondent

Muharram 06, 14332011-12-01

On October 29, Muslim researchers, journalists and editors gathered in Tehran to inaugurate the establishment of the Press Union of the Islamic World. The first general assembly session of the press union attracted Muslim media professionals from 38 countries representing different media outlets including Crescent International.

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Opinion

News Corp. scandal provides a rare glimpse of Britain’s power elite

Crescent International

Ramadan 01, 14322011-08-01

The real oligarchic nature of democratic polities and societies, and the fact that “freedom” is actually a cover for the untrammelled exercise of power by the strong in society, are subjects that I have written about before in this column and elsewhere.

Editorials

Corporate-owned media’s deliberate lies

Editor

Ramadan 01, 14322011-08-01

Most people with even limited understanding of how media outlets spin news can see through the lies dished out by the likes of Fox News and CNN. But how does one explain the lies habitually repeated by such supposedly venerable institutions as the BBC, the New York Times or the Washington Post? All of them in their own right are considered paragons of wisdom and their word is considered sacrosanct.

News & Analysis

King’s new witch-hunt to evangelize US prison industrial system

Zainab Cheema

Rajab 29, 14322011-07-01

Peter King’s recent attempt to assert cultural legitimacy, through his June 2011 Congressional witch hunt on Islam’s presence in the prison industrial system, has unfortunately fizzled.

Editorials

Al-Jazeera unmasked by coverage in Libya and Bahrain

Editor

Jumada' al-Ula' 27, 14322011-05-01

In Libya, al-Jazeera is on the side of the Libyan rebels. Their cause is championed even if Western planes are bombing Libyan positions including the April 26 assassination attempt on Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.

Special Reports

Hysteria on Shari‘ah and the rise of US fascism

Zainab Cheema

Jumada' al-Ula' 27, 14322011-05-01

In the Republican Party’s latest homage to fascism, conservative politicians and media networks are spreading hysteria about the “invasion of Shari‘ah” in the United States. As Glenn Beck, the Tea Party’s weepy evangelist described it on his Fox News show, Shari‘ah is a form of “stealth jihad” that is “working to destroy America from within.”

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Editor's Desk

Israel’s ongoing killing of Palestinians in Gaza

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 27, 14322011-04-01

While the world and indeed much of the Muslim world’s attention is diverted to the uprisings sweeping the Islamic East, Zionist Israel is using the regional political turmoil as a cover to do what it has always done best: kill innocent Palestinians in Gaza with its weapons of mass destruction and disinformation.

Opinion

Ummah suffering from information overload and misinformation toxicity

Iqbal Siddiqui

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

The New Year is traditionally a time when people reflect on their situations in life, as well as contemplating the possibilities of the year to come. This New Year in the Gregorian calendar coincides (more or less) with a new year, 1432, in the Hijri calendar; Muharram 1 fell on December 7, 2010.

Opinion

Looking at the future through the past

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

Journalists, it is said, write the first draft of history. Given the manner in which the once honourable profession of journalism has been subverted into a propaganda tool of the Western corporate elite, it is a totally undeserved compliment.

News & Analysis

Canadian media complicit in Israeli propaganda

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

Some Canadian media outlets have become conduits for Israeli propaganda. The latest in this series were “leaked” United Nations documents about the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination in Beirut.

Main Stories

The media war on Iran

Tahir Mahmoud

Jumada' al-Akhirah 08, 14302009-06-01

By Tahir Mahmoud On July 20, 1988 when Iran accepted a ceasefire in the Iraqi-imposed war that was backed and financed by the US and Arab regimes, most people assumed that the war had ended. The shooting may have stopped but the war against

Special Reports

Language of Western political discourse

Tahir Mustafa

Jumada' al-Akhirah 08, 14302009-06-01

During the last years of the Soviet Union when Mikhail Gorbachev was President (mid- to late nineteen eighties), a group of Soviet journalists was invited to see how a “free press” in the US worked. This was intended to teach the By Tahir Mustafa

Special Reports

Israel and the mainstream media: tight bedfellows

Tahir Mustafa

Safar 05, 14302009-02-01

Wars are fought on several fronts of which the one in the media is just as important as the shooting war. While the outcome of a shooting war cannot be predicted with certainty despite careful planning and use of the most sophisticated weapons, the media war is often better controlled and managed, especially if the crimes are perpetrated by the US and its surrogate Israel.

Perspectives

The disgraceful failure of the mainstream world media

Iqbal Siddiqui

Rabi' al-Thani 25, 14292008-05-01

Five years after the US invasion of Iraq, it is now widely accepted that the war was based on a web of lies deliberately spun by the Bush administration to justify a war that they were determined to execute come what might. A number of other groups have also been criticised for their roles in the deception, including the US intelligence community and the British government.

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