Israel takes over CNN


Hassan Al-Haifi
Published:31-07-2010
Yemen Times

Perhaps it is difficult for most Moslems to understand why the West looks at our religious leaders with so much contempt and hatred. When someone like Mohammed Hussein Fadhl Allah passes away after giving so much of his life in service to the Lord All-Mighty and his religious convictions, and facing the threat of death on many occasions, the international Zionist establishment is in jubilation. Of course someone like Mohammed Hussein Fadhl Allah is understandably dangerous to them. They realize this when his death gathered over a million people (including many non-Moslems) to come and show their respect for a man with deep convictions on the strength of his faith and his sincerity in the fight against injustice in all its forms. What forms of injustice can be worse than the Zionist injustices we see daily being perpetrated in Palestine and throughout the world in the media and elsewhere?

Coming back to the topic at hand, we have a devoted professional journalist who has devoted all her professional acumen for a news broadcaster who purports to have an objective international view of events in the world. Ms Octavia Nasr has been working with CNN for over two decades and has headed the Middle East bureau of CNN, and now all of a sudden she has been fired for expressing respects for a man, who even the British Ambassador to Beirut insists does deserve the respect and admiration of all open minded observers. Who saw in Mr. Fadhl-Allah an example of religious moderation and progressive outlook on many views that Moslems could look to for guidance amidst the efforts of extremist foreign renditions of Islam have sought to project otherwise. Ironically, we never hear the Zionist media and their friends suggest that these extremist elements are new to Islam and actually work in favor of the Zionist media efforts to blame the religion of Islam for all their troubles.

Mr. Fadhl-Allah never advocated the killing of innocent civilians for any cause let alone the cause of Islam and he himself was the God saved victim of a terrorist attack that was intended for him in 1985, but took the lives of 82 people instead. He was saved because he insisted on devoting a few minutes of his precious time to listen to an old lady who wanted to hear some kind works of prayer for her. This attack was said to have been orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency on the contention that Sayid Fadhl-Allah was one of those behind the attack on the US Marines and the US Embassy in Beirut during that explosive period in the seventh and eighth decade of the last century. The truth of the matter is that Hussein Fadhl-Allah was outspoken against elements like Al-Qaida. He often suggested that these evil concoctions that have no religious jurisdictional backing whatsoever to support their horrific renditions of Islam, such as those of the Somali version that even considers brushing your teeth with a nylon brush is 'haram' or not sanctified by Islam, are themselves delving into the worst kind of haram by the sanctifying the loss of innocent human lives.

Mr. Fadhl-Allah also was a voice of moderation on Islamic sectarian differences, in which he often suggested to let bygones be bygones and let Moslems start working towards facing the really dangerous threats that need to be addressed in the Islamic World, including underdevelopment, illiteracy, poverty and of course the constant threat that Israel poses not just to Moslems but to the world at large.

Ms Octavia Nasr has never been known to say that Israel should be thrown into the sea or expressed any 'anti Semitic' viewpoints that would have raised the eyebrows of Wolf Blitzer, a former correspondent with the Jerusalem Post, now a leading anchor at CNN, or any one who lived in Israel. Like the British Ambassador, she expressed a viewpoint that rested purely on the intellectual convictions of a man, who was a unique Moslem scholar, with a powerful eloquent tongue that inspired the clear minded thoughts of many Moslems. A man who sought relief from the sad misrepresentations of Islamic thought being perpetrated by the international Wahhabi establishment and their partners, the international Zionist establishment. In fact, I believe that Ms Nasr, who judging from her name is actually Christian, is therefore was quite impartial in making any statement of admiration for the phenomenon that Mr. Fadhl-Allah proved to have been. So, who should one believe? The British Foreign Office or the management of CNN or the more than million farewell bidders to this awesome and revered scholar that Mohammed Hussein Fadhl-Allah was.