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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood government seeking "total control of the media" http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-government-seeking-total-control-of-the-media.html …

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7:40 PM - 28 Dec 12 · Details

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood  seeking "total control of the media"

I expect that some of our hopelessly compromised pro-jihad pseudo-journalists such as Christiane Amanpour, Manya Brachear, Bob Smietana, Kari Huus, Dave Weigel, Michael Kruse and their ilk are hurrying over to Cairo now, eager to aid the Muslim Brotherhood in its conversion of the nation's media into its own propaganda organ.

"Brotherhood’s Shater seeks ‘total control’ of media: Egypt’s opposition group," from al-Arabiya, December 29:

Egypt’s opposition group, the Popular Front, said on Wednesday that it had laid hands on a leaked document signed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy chairman Khairat al-Shater in which he urged the government to claim “total control of the media.”

Shater, who was the Brotherhood’s main presidential candidate before he was disquieted by the election committee, reportedly also called for shutting down TV channels owned by opposition groups.

Al-Tahreer newspaper reported that Shater even advised his brethren at the helm of Egypt’s policy making to find ways to contain the more radical Salafi Islamists. Salafis have strongly stood by the Brotherhood in recent constitutional battles, but the Brotherhood see extremist Islamists as potential future threats....

Posted by Robert on December 28, 2012 3:31 PM | 3 Comments
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