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Shoot up a TV news channel
If you have played Call of Duty 4, you may have come across the scene where soldiers shoot their way round an Al Jazeera-lookalike TV station. Now it’s on YouTube. It is only a game, and I’m probably terribly old-fashioned, but it makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
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Review: Al Jazeera English – one year on
Here’s a piece I wrote for Press Gazette on Al Jazeera English, one year on. In the gardens of Versailles you can visit a charming monument to France’s conservative, construction-crazed 18th-century monarchy. It’s the Petit Hameau, an idealised village built at the whim of Marie Antoinette as a way of “connecting” with the great unwashed.…
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Jihad Watch
Hadn’t really come across the JihadWatch folks before, but had to share this insightful gem from Robert Spencer: There is no reliable way to distinguish peaceful Muslims from those who may be inclined at one time or another to commit violence in the name of jihad and Islam. I’ve gotten a lot of criticism for…
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Islamic Rage Boy and the Daily Mail
Never write off the Daily Mail. It always has the capacity to confound. Evidence? Patrick French’s piece on Islamic Rage Boy. French, a writer rather than a reporter, has done what no one in the global village seems to have bothered to do – travel to Indian-ruled Kashmir to meet 29 year old Shakeel Ahmad…