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Friday, February 11, 2011

there's something about hosni

Sky News have been attempting to promulgate the notion that all dictators are bad.
Except of course for the dictator who finances Sky News.
Sky's revenue stream at the moment comes almost solely from advertisements placed by the dictatorial king for life of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Snotbosca.
Apparently he's the only dictator in the Middle East who shouldn't be immediately overthrown.
The Sheikh's patronage of Sky News is concealed behind adverts for an airline called Qatar Air which nobody flies on because its pilots, ground crew, air hostesses and occasional actual passengers are Mussies.
I mean, I don't want to go casting no aspoyshuns.
But would you fly Qatar Air?
"This is the 9am commuter flight to Paris. I am your Captain, Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Mohammed Bin Shite. Fasten your seatbelts please. Next stop the Pentagon."
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
But I digress.
While financing itself through the despotic Islamist royal family of Qatar (who also directly finance Al Jazeera the Nazi channel) Sky has been heaping scorn on the record of President Hosni Mubarrak of Egypt.
A few days ago Sky News twit-in-residence Dominic Waghorn sneered the following at former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "Maybe you're loathe to force Mubarrak to step down because of your experiences in Iraq."
So Dominic Waghorn thinks President Hosni Mubarrak of Eqypt is the same as President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
This is a very illustrative point when it comes to assessing Sky News and its grip on reality.
Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq for more than three decades.
During that time Saddam Hussein: Placed Iraq under the control of Soviet Russia; Repeatedly sponsored terrorist aggression against Israel by offering 25,000 to every suicide bomber to self detonate in that country; Direcdtly sponsored Islamist terror movements Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda; Made war with Iran causing the deaths of at least a million people; Invaded Kuwait causing hundreds of thousands of deaths; Torched the oil fields of Kuwait; Threatened to invade Saudi Arabia and torch its oil fields; Allowed his own people to starve rather than end his chemical, biological and atomic weapons programmes.
Now...
During the same period when Saddam Hussein was using Iraq to threaten the world, His Excellency Hosni Mubarrak was President of Egypt.
How did he behave?
The same if you believe Dominic Waghorn and Sky News.
But no.
Here is the news.
In thirty years running Egypt, President Hosni Mubarrak: Made war with no one; Invaded no one; Sponsored no terrorist movement; Kept the peace with Isreael; Provided stable government to the Arab world's largest most turbulent country with a population of 80 million people; Managed to grow the Egyptian middle class; Steadily explanded Egypt's overall prosperity so that Egypt is still the only Arab country with any sort of standard of living for ordinary people: Ran Egypt in such a way that it is still the only Arab country with anything we might mistake for a culture on a dark night. Ran Egypt in such a way so that inherent instabilities notwithstanding, it is still the only Arab country with a vestige of personal liberty and citizens rights. Ran Egypt in such a way that it is positively the only Arab country which makes any serious attempt to accord civil and human rights to the followers of religions other than Islam; Kept Egypt from swinging under the rulership of Al Qaeda who have been waiting in the wings in the guise of the Muslim Brotherhood to steal the country for decades either through elections or any which way they can.
Okay.
At no time has Sky News and its coterie of groovy cretins, to wit (Witless surely? - Ed note) Dominic Waghorn, Stuart Ramsey, Tim Marshall and the other one, at no time I say, have these conformist atheist tacitly Islamist idiots made it clear that Egypt is the only country in the Middle East where Sky and CNN and all the other liberal leftwing bankrupt viewerless media galoots (Groups surely? - Ed note)would be permitted to film democracy protestors in the first place.
The real dictators, such as Iran, Syria or Qatar, wouldn't even let Sky News in the door.
Interestingly enough, both Iran and Syria have brutally extirpated widespread democracy protests on the streets of their capitals in the past twelve months without anything approaching this level of faux humanitarian outrage from the hand wringers at Sky News.
Both Iran and Syria habitually repudiate any public call or aspiration among their respective peoples for democracy and do so by imprisoning, raping and murdering the protestors.
Both Iran and Syria are run by psychoticised delusional dictators who do what it says on the tin.
That is to say, they kill their own citizens as a matter of course while sponsoring terror throughout the region, seeking to lay waste the State of Israel, and threatening to plunge all of humanity into a new dark ages.
These dictators seem to escape the pious ministrations of Sky News almost completely.
Unlike President Hosni Mubarrak of Egypt... who is an honorable man.

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