Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New York Times covers a TV program

I will get to the issue at hand in a second but I will say this: since when does the New York Times report about a TV program? I mean there are official reports about hate and murder by the state of Israel that go unmentioned by the newspaper.  But this one got attention--as it should, of course.  The writer is John Burns who headed the segregated (by Iraqi versus non-Iraqi, i am told Iraqis could not stay overnight in the Western supremacist fortress in Baghdad) New York Times bureau in Baghdad.  He was a loud cheerleader for Bush's war and was invited to celebrate it with Bush's father in Texas, where he teared up embracing Bush senior.  But the report warrants attention but why not mention the hypocrisy: that Saudi Arabia receives great support and its horrors are still covered up by virtue of its subservience to the US and Israel:  "A British network of more than 40 part-time Islamic schools and clubs with 5,000 students has been teaching from a Saudi Arabian government curriculum that contains anti-Semitic and homophobic views, including a textbook that asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jews, according to a BBC documentarybroadcast on Monday."