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Mottahedeh said that the events of Sept. 11 arose out concerns felt most strongly in the Arab world...
...discussed how the Arab world is full of diverse religious views, because religious authority is diffused in Islam. The recent terrorist attack, he said, was one made on the moral responsibility of individual opinions—not by a collective Arab voice...
When al-Jazeera first appeared on the international news scene five years ago, Western journalists were quick to sing its praises. “Al-Jazeera is not only the biggest media phenomenon to hit the Arab world since the advent of television, it is the biggest political phenomenon,” wrote New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last February, marking what was probably the first time Friedman said something positive about Arabs or the Arab world. Both CNN and ABC have signed deals with Al-Jazeera, giving them rights to re-broadcast al-Jazeera footage. CNN has even...
...American eyes and ears the leaflets and broadcasts may seem pretty pedestrian, nothing that would sway a U.S. audience. But the messages have been crafted for Afghans not Americans. The 4th Psyops Group has teams of Arab and Southwest Asian experts and artists who've been working around the clock crafting the words and pictures. For the Afghans, the words to be spoken have to be chosen carefully and the ones printed on paper have to be few. "Our big problem in Afghanistan is that a vast majority of the people are illiterate," says a U.S. Army colonel. The leaflets...
...wonder why there aren’t more Arab Americans out there [protesting], and it’s because they’re scared,” said Jirmanus, a Lebanese Christian. “I think there’s something wrong with that...