As she’s wont to do, Claudia Winkler takes a hard look at the “religion of hate dished out by Palestinian TV”:
In between eruptions of exceptional violence that propel the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the front pages, life goes on in the Palestinian Authority. Friday sermons, in particular, go on, and every Friday at noon, one of them is broadcast live on the radio and shown on the PA’s single TV channel.
It’s worth tuning in from time to time. Non-Arabic speakers can do this thanks to the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute, which posts its translations of items from the Arabic media on its website. Because of MEMRI’s work, we can sample the hate speech characteristic of extremist Islam.
Thus, Friday before last, on March 12, the Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris used an example from the life of the Prophet Mohammed to explain why the Jews must be destroyed. When it came to eliminating the Jewish “cancer” from the city of Medina, the prophet got his orders direct from God[…]
Go. Read it all. In fact, memorize it. Then you can plug it into an abusive letter and shuttle it off to Peter Jennings the next time he sanctimoniously bemoans the plight of the Palestinians after having spent the previous segment sneering at evil rightwing Christians who support, say, late-term abortion restrictions or publically displayed nativity scenes…
One day while getting the kids ready for Sunday school, I flipped over to the UHF Christian TV station. They were airing a segment on terrorism in Israel. They showed a snippet of a music video, featuring a woman in black fatigues and a chorus line of boys in jihadi garb. The song, according to the subheadings, was one long death threat against “zionists”.
This got me thinking. Surely someone out there is monitoring stuff like this. Besides the DayStar people, I mean. And it turns out that there is. Click around in here: http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?Curr=91#24