This is Al-Watan, the newest newspaper on the island, and it has, by publishing the marked article, demonstrated that it is nothing more than a bought and paid-for newspaper. Nothing more and nothing less.
They chose to “feature” Dr. Abdulhadi Khalaf, a gentleman and a scholar, a dissident and a member of parliament which was dissolved in 1975, in a very bad light. Trying desperately to link him with the derogatory comics about the Prophet (pbuh) and doing a pretty bad job at it.
I guess this is what you call yellow journalism.
I think; however, what they really took umbrage at is this article!
[arabic]
موقع عبدالهادي‮ ‬خلÙ?‮.. ‬تساؤلات ومغزى وتوقيت‮!‬
تساؤلات واسعة ارتسمت على قسمات بعض المواطنينأمس وهم‮ ‬يتابعونموقع الدكتور عبدالهادي‮ ‬خلÙ?‮ (‬الكاتب البØÂÂريني‮ ‬المقيم بالسويد‮)‬،‮ ‬إذ أضيÙ? إلى الموقع رابط إلكتروني‮ ‬يسخر منمهاجمة ومقاطعة المسلمينللدنمارك بسبب الإساءات التي‮ ‬طالت الرسول الكريم،‮ ‬ويدعوبدلاً‮ ‬منذلك إلى مقاطعة عدد منالدول العربية بدعوى إساءتها Ù„ØÂÂقوق الإنسانوعمالتها لأمريكا‮. ‬وتدور التساؤلات بينقطاع واسع ممناطلعوا على الموقع عنمغزى نشر مثل هذه الدعوات وصرÙ? الوجهة عنقضية الإساءة للنبي‮ ‬عليه Ø£Ù?ضل الصلاة والسلام Ù?ي‮ ‬مثل هذا التوقيت‮.‬
Al-Watan[/arabic]
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Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
nice! someone of us “bloggers” is getting attention! will we get it? not that I am asking for fame, but I also need people to know that boycotting isn’t right. For one reason that we LiB believe in, ATTITUDE! please read the article [url=http://lifeinbahrain.blogspot.com/2006/02/boycott-attitudes-not-products.html]here…[/url]
Thanks mahmood and thanks Dr. Abdulhadi for highlighting such disastrous issues, disastrous to our nation!
best of regards,
LiB Team Leader ([url]http://lifeinbahrain.blogspot.com[/url])
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
wow front page too…
they clearly saw an opportunity to slander AbuRasool… thankfully such propoganda normally has the opposite effect… readers have learnt to read between the lines very well…
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
For your non-Arabic reading avid followers, could you please give the gist of the Arabic article in English?
Ta
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
[i]*watching the news*[/i]
Great!! Now, some stupid twits are raging the Danes embassy in London and shouting “Bin Laden” and “Nuke Denmark and USA” over and over again!!
Seriously, what line of reasoning do they have to think that this is the best way to go about it!!??
[i]*Can’t bring my self to assign any more attention to this issue..*[/i]
Maybe I’ll go draw a cartoon of several prophets looking down at humanity and sighing “how do they manage to miss the point every single time!!”
HMD
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
Hooray for Dr Khalaf! Now he can be sure that people will be reading his posts.
It is sad however that Al Wa6an has turned out to be another bought newspaper. Let’s hope that the upcoming Al Waqt fares better.
— chan’ad
Re: Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
hah! I would love to see the editor’s face when he heard the king during this interview (arabic) confirm without a shadow of a doubt of the inviolability of the freedoms of speech and expression!
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
you call this crap “newspaper” ?
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
I am grateful to Al-Watan!
Now I know ‘someone’ reads my humble postings AND care 😉
AbuRasool
Bahraini blogger makes the front page!
Bravo Abu Rasool..
What on earth did you do to win Al Watan’s spite ??
Regards,
Silly Me