Sunday, April 12, 2015

How to insult Jews and Shi`ites in one sentence: from Arabic Aljazeera website

Western media never report about the avalanche of grotesque sectarian rhetoric in Saudi and Qatari media.  Instead, they consider any criticisms of Wahhabiyyah by anyone in the region as anti-Sunni sectarianism (as Anne Barnard did in her articles on Syria).  This is a well-known (and widely followed) Saudi academic and who specializes in media and communication:  "And it is noteworthy that this [the Iranian project in the region] is a project founded on myths that resemble Zionist myths: the so-called Jewish holocaust in contrast to the so-called victimhood of House of `Ali, the destruction of the temple contrasted with Karbala' tragedy".