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June 30, 2010
No. 28216

Egyptian Columnist in Support of Ban on Al-Rahma Channel: Al-Rahma Does Not Conduct Da'wa, but Rather Incites the Masses Against Non-Muslims

In March 2010, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), the French broadcasting regulator, instructed Eutelsat, which owns the Atlantic Bird A4 satellite, to stop broadcasting the Islamist Egyptian Al-Rahma TV channel because of the virulently antisemitic content it frequently airs. The decision was based entirely on research provided by MEMRI TV, which revealed that the channel regularly portrays Jews as the Muslims' worst enemies, describes them as apes, pigs, and vipers and calls to annihilate them.

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