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...fantasize about massive pristine convenience. Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Channel No. 5 and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll. But under the circumstances I’ll settle for anywhere...
...beginning, he has started to work on people’s minds-on those minds open to, but not yet convinced by his incendiary idealism. “Every Muslim shall support his religion,” he said on a taped message sent to Al-Jazeera television channel last week, after mentioning how his “brothers and sisters” in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq had symbolically retaliated in the recent attack on America. His denunciation of U.S. intervention in Israel will undoubtedly also bring others to his cause...
...That's not surprising. Since its inception five years ago, Al Jazeera (its name means "the Peninsula" in Arabic) has been the toast of Western media. American newsmagazines (including TIME) and newspapers sang the praises of the channel's defiantly novel approach to reporting news in the Middle East. Rather than feed its audience the officially-sanctioned, cookie-cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. And such irreverence has naturally earned it plenty of enemies...
...Founded in 1996 by Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, the fledgling news channel quickly became famous among locals, and infamous among the governments of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including in one case turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming. While its liberal coverage has raised hackles among members of the Taliban and other fundamentalist groups, Al Jazeera strives to maintain working relationships with organizations across the region's ideological spectrum. And that inevitably makes it, on occasion, a platform for some...
...Jazeera's broad mix of views doesn't much bother Washington, except when U.S. interests are perceived to be at immediate risk. That came into play last week, when the U.S. officially asked the channel to tone down what the Bush Administration believed were anti-American sentiments in broadcasts. Emir Hamad remains defiant. "Whenever we hear from our friends (on the topic of Al Jazeera), we consider this as a friendly advice and we listen to the friends and their advice," he told reporters in Washington last Wednesday. "But the issue here is the program that has been put together...