Iran’s Propaganda Glamorizing Suicide Bombers.

• Gary and Abby
  January 1st, 2006 at 9:49 pm

  MEMRI is a discredited, Israeli slander site, which seeks the most exploitative or extremist examples found in the Arab culture in order to create anti-Arab stereotypes. Use of their sources is perpetuating their misleading bigotry, and you ought consider removing this post. Thanks

• Dave
  January 1st, 2006 at 10:43 pm

  To Gary and Abby

  Yes, but is it true? If this is true, than it is not propaganda. And to the best of my knowledge Persians do not consider themselves arabs. So this is not anti arab.

• Blacknimbus
  January 2nd, 2006 at 12:37 am

  Truth hurts, doesn’t it? MEMRI didn’t create this cartoon…Iranian state television did. It boggles my mind how the most ‘tolerant’ people in the western world go out of their way to defend and excuse the most intolerant cultures among us. See also:

  http://www.newcriterion.com/archives/24/01/its-the-demography/

• Scribal Terror
  January 2nd, 2006 at 11:34 am

  Blood Libel from Iran

  MEMRI quotes an Iranian TV program, which promotes Holocaust denial, spreading some old familiar tales:Unfortunately, the West has forgotten two horrendous incidents, carried out by the Jews in 19th-century Europe - in Paris and London, to be precise. …

• gail
  January 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 am

  MEMRI is an extremely valuable resource which translates the grossly anti-Semitic propaganda that we in the West would never have the opportunity to see otherwise. It is not MEMRI’s job to present anything else to “balance” this — other sources are available for that.

• Alex
  January 2nd, 2006 at 1:32 pm

  Read more about Wikipedia’s entry on MEMRI (including criticism of the organization, and discussion of neutrality of the point of view of the article) here: Link.

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