Thursday, May 14, 2015

Carol Malouf and the new school of activist-journalists (provided the activism is in line with US foreign policy of course)

According to Ar-Ra'y Ms. Carol Malouf (of the Daily Telegraph fame and her scoop about Ali Mamluk) Ms. Malouf even participate with Syrian rebels in their camera shows and raise their banners (can you imagine the reaction if someone working for a Western paper raise banners of Hamas or Hizbullah?).  Worse, she spoke to the reporter and said that the fighters' moral has been lifted by Saudi bombing in Yemen and said that unlike what you and I think, the Jihadi Ahrar Ash-Sham actually moderate.  More, she was asked if women particpate in "the revolution" and she said: "women work and they organize literacy programs, and computer, and weaving". Lest you think that this is all, she also said that they cook for fighters.  And unlike what you think, there is freedom of speech in areas under the control of Jihadi groups, she says. 

PS And she poses smiling with Jihadi fighters. How cute.