Egyptian TV Cites 'Simpsons' Episode as Proof Arab Spring Was Foreign Plot - NYTimes.co... - 2 views
Iraq | Press Freedom - 0 views
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media watchdogs said the action was more likely taken in response to the station’s programming, which had at times been critical, or satirical, of the Iraqi government. The move by security forces is an ominous sign for the country’s press, which, for the first time in decades had been enjoying relative freedom.
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Ziad al Jillily, head of Iraq’s Journalistic Freedom Observatory, said that freedom of speech and journalism were the sole benefit of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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The media here is now freer than Syria’s or Iran’s and less partisan than, say, Lebanon, where most of the media outlets are owned or controlled by politicians of various stripes. Basking in this freedom, both news and entertainment programs regularly push the boundaries. In an Iraqi version of "Punk’d," for example, which aired on Baghdadiya, actors played pranks on celebrities that often involved fake car bombs, checkpoint harassment and live bullets. As the celebrities screamed and fainted on screen, and readers complained, Punk’d Baghdad-style might not have been a good idea. But it did come from a lively, growing culture of media freedom.
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Global Neighbourhoods: Egyptian Terror Spoofers Get Treated Like Terrorists. - 0 views
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One woman activist posed with a description that she represented the "Military Wing of Photo Shop." Egyptian authorities, as usual, were not amused. "Dead" has been arrested. Facebook was also apparently unamused. Several of the groups satirical photos have been deleted.
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But spoofing Islamic terrorists while residing in Egypt is ballsy to me and represents the free speech which is supposed to be a sacred right in democratic societies.
Informed Comment: Palestinians: Israeli Attack on Jesus, Mary "Racist," Anti-Semitic - 0 views
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The satirical comedy skits put on by Lior Klein concerning Jesus and Mary on Israel's Channel 10 last week have provoked rallies and protests by Palestinian-Israeli Christians, of whom there are about 120,000. They also drew condemnation from Muslim Palestinian-Israelis, of whom there are over a million. Klein said that since Christians were denying the Holocaust, he was denying Christianity. He and Channel 10 later apologized to a delegation of Israeli Christians, and pledged that the skits would not be rerun.
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the pieces were viewed as racist and not just anti-religious but as ethnic bigotry. They were even called "anti-Semitic," since Arabs are Semites as are Jews
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the show offended Israeli Muslims, as well. I saw them on Aljazeera speaking out against the skits and denouncing them as racist (`unsuri).
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Egyptian Chronicles: Sisi's 2030 speech : Be worried ... be very worried - 1 views
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