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The Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project has this clip on what’s being shown to children in Iran: a propaganda glamorizing the virtue of suicide bombers. Sigh, they start ‘em young, don’t they? Link |
Gary and Abby
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
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
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/
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
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
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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