Al-Jazeera in Al-Canada?

Daniel Pipes and Charlotte West discuss frightening Canadian political correctness:

Al-Jazeera is in the news again. Iraqi authorities shut down the Qatari television station's Baghdad offices, citing the "violence they are advocating, inciting hatred and problems and racial tension." The U.S. Democratic party decided to take down Al-Jazeera's banner from its national conference, so it would not be televised around the globe.

But in Canada, in the biggest telecommunications uproar in decades, Al-Jazeera won approval for distribution over Canada's pristine, politically correct, airwaves. This unlikely success in Canada for an Islamist, antisemitic, pro-terrorist channel was achieved by winning a special dispensation not available to the Fox News Channel, the Italian state channel RAI, or a local Quebec City-based radio station – a dispensation full of implications. ...

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Posted by Andrew Jaffee at August 15, 2004 02:56 PM