Comment

Overnight Open Thread

1104
Kosh's Shadow6/02/2009 9:36:40 am PDT

Egypt launches ‘moderate’ satellite TV

A group of prominent clerics has announced the launch of a new satellite channel in Egypt that will promote the face of what it calls moderate Islam, in order to counter the “distortion of Islam into a violent, intolerant force.”
….
Prof. Hussein Amin, chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo and an expert on Arab satellite channels, said the channel was a good way to confront confusing and sometimes-hateful messages aired on satellite channels. Al-Azhar, he said, was recognized as a reliable religious authority and promoted a moderate school of thought in its preaching to the public.


Think it will still show that Egyptian TV adaptation of the Protocols, Horseman Without a Horse?
Probably.