Free
Al Jazeera Journalists Peter Greste Mohamed Fahmy Baher Mohamed Abdullah
al-Shami and All Other Journalists Detained In Egypt Today
Al
Jazeera has unfortunately got caught up in a web of it's own
intrigue. A staunch supported of the Salafist Arab Spring, due to
it's political naivety, the relative inexperience of it's editorial
staff and the fact that it has become controlled by a Saudi-backed
faction (there was a Putsch
several years ago which ousted it's fiercely independent chief
executive, his team, and replaced them with 'yes' men-bowing like
President Obama to everything on Saudi Arabias' Wish List - especially
Caliphates and Emirates- throughout the Arab world.)
I
have not hesitated in coming out to support Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed
but have been quite honestly reluctant to offer support in print to
journalists working for a media service (Al Jazeera) in part
responsible for the chaos and mayhem which has brought murderous
Salafists, Wahabist and Al Qaeda affiliated networks to prominence
across the Arab world in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. It is
more out of respect for the victims of these butchers that I have
refrained from offering public support to a Salafist affiliated and
controlled network such as Al Jazeera.
I
am only giving verbal support now because their lives are at risk
from, yes you guessed it, the new extremists in power in Egypt
today - the very extremists their own network was in part was
responsible for bringing to power because of it's unflinching support
for the Muslim Brotherhood butchers of Christians who preceded the
military coup
d'état
.
At
one point it was almost certain that a carnage or ethnic cleansing of
the entire Christian population in Egypt was about to be organized by
the Muslim Brotherhood - as they started an organized program to
capture Christian women, forcing them to marry Muslim men and
renounce Christianity and other barbaric practices harking back to
an era before the Dark Ages.
The
one good thing the military coup d'état has done in Egypt
is put an end to violence and persecution against religious and other
minorities - which was being systematically organized by Muslim
Brotherhood fascist 'Brownshirts' with beards.
All
of the above conveniently ignored in their reports for Al Jazeera by Greste,
Mohamed and Fahmy.
So
before I even say 'free the Al Jazeera journalists!' I need to set
this record straight.
Sent
back to Egypt after the military coup their sole objective was to
seek alternative
(opposition)
viewpoints (Muslim Brotherhood Salafist ) to the new military regime.
There
is a genuine basis in unbiased (or fair and balanced) media coverage which Middle-East Muslim societies (like
other non-Muslim societies in the world today) simply fail to appreciate. But this is
made even more complicated when you are working for a network
employer which is a known Salafist ideology supporter and in a
country where media dissent is not understood nor tolerated to the
extent it is in Judeo-Christian Europe and in the United States.
I
never backed the Muslim Brotherhood extremists neither do I back the
Military Generals.
However,
the latter threw a lifeline to Coptic Christians and all other religious
minorities:'if you want to live come with us'; at a time when the
Christian world (including the Russian and Greek Christian Orthodox Churches) had
completely abandoned them.
Russia
Today (A Russian-Government part - owned news channel) also stayed on
the sidelines - until it's naval base and air access facilities in
Syria were at risk.
The
Vatican State was the only country to speak out publicly about the
atrocities being perpetrated against Christians in Muslim lands
following the Arab Spring revolutions.
So
I say, yes free the detained Al Jazeera and other journalists, unconditionally,
but history should not forget nor forgive their employer for the
misery, distress, loss of innocent lives and torn communities it has
encouraged with it's reckless and unconditional support for Muslim
extremism in the period preceding and in the aftermath of the Arab
Spring.
Patrick
Emek
http://www.smh.com.au/world/greste-and-colleagues-to-make-first-court-appearance-20140220-hvd6p.html