Up the street from our office is the Arab Broadcasting Service, which hosts Al-Jazeera’s Office in Jordan. About half an hour ago, a colleague called me out to see this protest by fifty people or so.
Signs and banners were saying that Al-Jazeera should apologize for having insulted the Prophet during Faisal al Qassem’s notorious talk show “The Opposite Direction”, where he hosted Wafa Sultan and an Islamic Cleric to discuss the reprinting of The Cartoons in Denmark. Another sign read “In what concerns our Prophet, there is only one direction, no opposite direction!”
Al Jazeera had already apologized, but I guess people wanted to protest anyway.
I have to get back to work, but you can read more about the controversy on Tololy’s blog.
Signs and banners were saying that Al-Jazeera should apologize for having insulted the Prophet during Faisal al Qassem’s notorious talk show “The Opposite Direction”, where he hosted Wafa Sultan and an Islamic Cleric to discuss the reprinting of The Cartoons in Denmark. Another sign read “In what concerns our Prophet, there is only one direction, no opposite direction!”
Al Jazeera had already apologized, but I guess people wanted to protest anyway.
I have to get back to work, but you can read more about the controversy on Tololy’s blog.
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