While reading Al-Akhbar English website, I was faced with Israeli adverts near the target article. It was a bit of shock for me, but fun at the same time.
I know these are Google adverts and Al-Akhbar has little or no control on them, and I know they track the IP address of the reader combined with his browsing history, but still I thought to poke fun at Al-Akhbar.
To be fair to them, just before browsing their website, I was on Haaretz‘s reading a piece on why boycotting settlements is justified, and it is of course.
But the point here is that Al-Akhbar is making money from Israeli adverts/products. If Al-Akhbar spotted a similar phenomenon on another (remarkable) website, we would probably ended up with a 1,500 words-article on their front page telling us how BDS campaigns (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) should be pushed forward, and how to resist the Zionist influence.
By the way, the original article was Sidelining Muslim Brotherhood: A Blow for Egyptian Democracy written by Karl Sharro who is always worth a follow. You can check his blog here too.
Update: thanks for Al-Akhbar English editor Antoun Issa for taking note of this post.
INTOLERANT ISLAMIC REVOLUTION
We, the West have no business in “helping” the ‘INFIDELS-WINTER’ AKA “Arab Spring.”
Fact is that it is overall an horrific Islamic Revolution. Not about “freedom” (any more)..
It is rather anti Freedom, anti rights for Women and anti all non-Muslims. Including minorities suffering (now even more) from racist Arab world and Islamic apartheid:
Victims include: Christians; Nedoons; Berbers; Blacks; Jews; Kurds; Ahmadis; al-Akhdam; Druzes; Gypsies; Asian (slaves); [Sunni vs Shiite, and vice versa, Alawite vs others] you name it.
Since it has BECOME Islamized. Bigotry only strengthened.
I disagree with your view. Big time. Of course the ‘Arab Spring’ is not an easy ride, but it should be better for the locals on the long term. It’s always good for people to break the silence barrier.
It’s not really true all these groups you listed are in danger. But of course, new soceities are getting used to the idea of diversity.
If there is anything making worse, it’s the bloody response of the dictators which is radicalising people, who feel helpless.
Winter or spring or whatever, hunting people down like it used to be, and like is happening now, is not the right answer to it.