From comrade Asa: "Al Jazeera English has been terrible on Syria, and getting worse. The biases are fairly open. Look at this silly interview with Hassan Aboud, one of the main leaders in the Saudi-funded Islamic Front:
The questions are so soft it's ridiculous. They even run an Ahrar al-Sham propaganda video in the introduction, showing them handing out bread to people. How cute is that?
Hassan Aboud is more PR-conscious than his comrade, the openly horrific Zahran Aloush, and the AJE interviewer lets him run with it. He does not even ask him about al-Qaida, which his armed forces are fighting side-by-side with on the ground in Syria.
Nonetheless, Aboud still volunteers that information and says of the Nusra Front and Islamic State of Iraq and Sham that "we welcome working with them".
He also can't help himself but toss in a bit of sectarian agitation:
claims HRW report that mentioned their crimes against civilians because it admitted drawing on the reports of refugees "from the regime's religious sect"."
The questions are so soft it's ridiculous. They even run an Ahrar al-Sham propaganda video in the introduction, showing them handing out bread to people. How cute is that?
Hassan Aboud is more PR-conscious than his comrade, the openly horrific Zahran Aloush, and the AJE interviewer lets him run with it. He does not even ask him about al-Qaida, which his armed forces are fighting side-by-side with on the ground in Syria.
Nonetheless, Aboud still volunteers that information and says of the Nusra Front and Islamic State of Iraq and Sham that "we welcome working with them".
He also can't help himself but toss in a bit of sectarian agitation:
claims HRW report that mentioned their crimes against civilians because it admitted drawing on the reports of refugees "from the regime's religious sect"."
