Well, last night while our President was self-depreciative
by calling himself a “Muslim Socialist” at the annual White House
Correspondents’ Dinner, the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki was doing
something Mr. Obama would love to do. He was yanking the licenses of ten news
organizations including Al Jazeera for causing secular, Sunni/Shia, strife in
Iraq. That would be the equivalent of Obama pulling the FCC licenses of Fox
News and every conservative radio talk show host in the country including Rush
Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and scores of others.
The secular killing in Iraq over the past few weeks has left
hundreds dead and wounded. Mr. Maliki’s action is a new approach in his
struggle to keep Iraq from splitting into three nations Sunni/Shia/Kurd. It’s creative
but reminiscent of his predecessor Saddam Hussein.
Cancelling Al Jazeera was a huge move and is one of the main
reasons anyone is paying attention. Censorship of Western news organizations in
the Arab world is a norm, but censoring of Muslim news organizations in Muslim
countries, that’s big, and could be seen as a pro-Western action initiated by
the U.S.
Mr. Maliki should start watching his back, after all, just
think what would happen if Mr. Obama did the same here with Conservatives. –
N.P.Contompasis
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