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Al-Jazeera, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Huffington Post

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COMMENT: With the Mid­dle East boil­ing over and the lat­est install­ment of pre­dictable Hamas/Israeli blood­let­ting pro­ceed­ing apace, it is depress­ing (though not sur­pris­ing) to see The Huff­in­g­ton Post launch an Arab Lan­guage edi­tion edit­ed by a for­mer Al-Jazeera “jour­nal­ist.”

Deeply con­nect­ed to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, Al-Jazeer­a’s ascen­sion as a sup­pos­ed­ly cred­i­ble media out­let marks anoth­er step in the real­iza­tion of Ser­pen­t’s Walk.

“Huff­in­g­ton Post Team­ing with For­mer Al-Jazeera Head to Launch Arab Lan­guage Edi­tion; Wad­dah Kan­far Long Tied to Hamas/Muslim Broth­er­hood”; Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Watch; 8/6/2014.

The Huff­in­g­ton Post is team­ing up with the for­mer head of Al Jazeera to launch an Ara­bic-lan­guage edi­tion tar­get­ing a fast-grow­ing pop­u­la­tion of mobile-con­nect­ed Mid­dle East­ern youth. . . .

. . . Like most of its inter­na­tion­al sites, the Ara­bic edi­tion is a part­ner­ship between Huff­in­g­ton Post, which pro­vides its plat­form, and a local media group. Sto­ries and video will be pro­duced by local cor­re­spon­dents trained by Inte­gral Media Strate­gies, a dig­i­tal news start-up found­ed by Wadah Khan­far, for­mer direc­tor-gen­er­al of Qatar-based Al Jazeera. . . .

. . . . Ms. Huffington’s com­ments about being “com­plete­ly inde­pen­dent”, part­ly attrib­uted to the Lon­don loca­tion, strike us as high­ly iron­ic giv­en that Mr. Khan­far has long been tied to Hamas and the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. . . .

. . . In 1997, Khan­far became the Al Jazeera cor­re­spon­dent in South Africa. How­ev­er, while liv­ing in South Africa, Khan­far was also was the Direc­tor of Human Resource Devel­op­ment for the Inter­na­tion­al Islam­ic Fed­er­a­tion of Stu­dent Orga­ni­za­tions (IIFSO), an orga­ni­za­tion close­ly tied to the glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. A memo pur­port­ing to be a 1998 brief­ing doc­u­ment pre­pared for the South African Pres­i­dent Thabo Mbe­ki has long been post­ed on the Inter­net and describes the IIFSO as work­ing close­ly with Hamas . . .

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One comment for “Al-Jazeera, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Huffington Post”

  1. After hear­ing a dis­cus­sion ear­li­er
    by Andre Vltchek on “How the West Funds Oppo­si­tion Move­ments”, it reaf­firms how this oper­a­tion was flawed and smelly from the begin­ning. And I real­ly appre­ci­ate find­ing you again Mr. Emory, as your mate­r­i­al is so rel­e­vant and more per­ti­nent to events going on now.
    I want to share your mate­r­i­al so peo­ple can become bet­ter informed
    quick­ly to con­nect dots and regain some aspect of our human­i­ty.

    Posted by Henry | August 11, 2014, 2:00 am

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