Al-Jazeera launches its English-langauge channel

The English-language channel of the Arab TV news channel al-Jazeera starts broadcasting today. Jerzy Haszczynski takes a critical view of the enterprise. "It's hard to say whether the channel will be popular in the West, whether it will become a mouthpiece for values that are alien to our culture, or whether it will help us to understand the Arab and Islamic world. ... Broadcasting the speeches of Osama bin Laden is not just conveying information. His words are filled with hate against the West and incite thousands of frustrated people in the Muslim world to take action... It would be good if the English-language al-Jazeera showed a different fact. It would be good if it didn't try to convince us that terrorists are really martyrs fighting for a just cause."

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