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Female anchors resign from al-Jazeera over dress
Roee Nahmias
Published: 30.05.10, 12:22
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1. And will the sliced white toast anchors support them?
Brian Cohen ,   Judean Peoples Front   (05.30.10)
Look at the following names and let's see if they support their Islamic colleagues: Nick Clark, Jane Dutton, David Foster, Imran Garda, Shiulie Ghosh, Darren Jordon, Sohail Rahman, Kamahl Santamaria, Hamish Macdonald, Felicity Barr, Stephen Cole, and Barbara Serra, Ghida Fakhry, Anand Naidoo, Shihab Rattansi and Kimberly Halkett, Teymoor Nabili, Divya Gopalan, Laura Kyle, and Veronica Pedrosa. I suspect the cushy Al Jazeera salary they receive for being part of Al Jazeera's anti-Israel obsession is more than enough to outweigh any morality they have for their fellow anchorwomen being harassed.
2. there is no smoke without a fire
ygalg ,   israel   (05.30.10)
3. Invite them
Yossef ,   Rehovot, Israel   (05.30.10)
to work for israeli TV !
4. Important not to resign, Eman Bannora
Salma ,   Palestine   (05.30.10)
Eman Bannora (Ayyad) ,daughter of Palestine, is al-Jazeera's Cinderella..........Only because of Eman , sometimes I watch Al Jazeera
5. not really relevant but thought to ask
Alex ,   Tel Aviv   (05.30.10)
No quarrel with your comment Brian but I have to ask: is your "Judean People's Front" a sly reference to the Monty Python movie, incidentally titled "Life of Brian"?
6. Tell the women anchors to take it off
Don ,   Israel   (05.30.10)
They can take it off...all off!!!
7. The true place of women at Jazeera is...
David ,   Hartford USA   (05.30.10)
the same as it is in the entire Arab world: a piece of property to be hidden and abused at the whim of men. Islam is The Religion of Torment. And 'the prophet' was even clever enough to make it a capital 'offense' to make sure no one ever converted out! What a guy! Does any other religion in the world have such a statute? Nope! The Mafia does and some drug cartels do, but no religion other than Islam has this 'member for life, or death' statute. Time to rewrite the Quran. Time to liberate Arab women across the planet. G-d Bless Rima!!
8. "Morality"
Shimon ,   Cincinnati, USA   (05.30.10)
Someone could make a buck selling "female containment garments" with al-jezira logos, if he didn't mind relegating females to subservient status....oh wait...that's o.k., there.
9. to #4 so you like women, sound about right
ghostq   (05.30.10)
do tell more.
10. If certain sections of the Israeli society had their way,
Michael Steiner ,   Bahrain   (05.30.10)
our anchowomen would be wearing wigs! People in glass houses...
11. Westen Iiberals do not care
Steve from Raleigh   (05.30.10)
You could chop off their heads on TV and western progressives, not seeing any Jews around to blame, would ignore it.
12. Harassed for not being barefoot & pregnant?
Cameron ,   USA   (05.30.10)
Arab culture meets the 21st century.
13. The Judean People's Front
Brian Cohen ,   PeoplesFront ofJudea   (05.30.10)
I'm not the messiah.
14.  If certain sections of the Bahraini society had their way,
Brian Cohen ,   PeoplesFront ofJudea   (05.30.10)
Anybody with a name like "Michael Steiner" would either be forced to convert, enslaved, or simply culled as an infidel. And if Michael Steiner had his way, would the majority be ruling? I doubt it. Who the heck knows what Steiner is trying to say, since in Israel the majority rules and anchorwomen wear whatever their networks permit them or tell them to. Unlike in Bahrain and the rest of the Muslim world, that is. Steiner - what's your point?
15. :: No wonder
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (05.30.10)
The enemy of the Middle East is not the West or Israel so much as modernism and the humiliation that accrues when millions are nursed by fantasies and hypocrisies. Quite simply, any society that does not believe in democracy enough to institute it, shuns female intellectual contributions, allows polygamy, insists on patriarchy, institutionalizes religious persecution, ignores family planning, expects endemic corruption, tolerates honor killings, sees no need to vote, and defines knowledge as mastery of the Quran...is deeply pathological.
16. #13 I'm not the messiah
David ,   Saana, Yemin   (05.30.10)
Yor a nawty boy
17. and this is considered the most advanced and open minded
(05.30.10)
arab channel.
18. #4 - Queen of Jordan also a "daughter of Palestine"
William ,   Israel   (05.30.10)
and she's keeping the light on for you, awaiting your arrival to the Kingdom.
19. #10 - failed to mention certain "very small, non-violent"
William ,   Israel   (05.30.10)
Michael, be atleast remotely honest with everyone when you write your heavily opinionated pieces. The ultra-orthodox you speak of: 1) are a tiny minority in Israel 2) don't even watch the television, let alone have an opinion about women news anchors 3) are essentially non-violent, so even if they did oppose TV attire, no one would be blow up, shot at, or kidnapped and tortured. Basic facts put your comment more in the category of "discriminatory hatred"
20. #15 - I like the "new" Matty Groves better
William ,   Israel   (05.30.10)
Letter bitter and racist, and more logical. Even uses better English.
21. #17 - except by those Arabs they offend
William ,   Israel   (05.30.10)
and are punished with having their offices closed the respective country for a few months.
22. #15 Groves - A Stellar Defense of Islam. How about some of
Meir Elazar   (05.31.10)
the negatives?
23. Syria
Moaz ,   Dubai   (05.13.11)
Most if not all videos taken of the so called Syrian demonstrations are clearly fake. Assad is a true leader of the Arab resistance against the worlds agression. I say you should try to play your media games far far away from the Syrian people. We all saw how the children and women of Lebanon and Gaza were slavishly bombed without any words being heard from the same people defending human rights in Syria now, only Syria stood by those powerless poor women and children while the Gulf nations are watching. I say leave Syria alone,because not only you will waste your time and resources but also Al jazeera and Al Arabia channels they will keep on barking in the shadows and later will be conquered by the Syrian people whom are very educated and loyal to their loved leader Dr Bashar Assad and their pure country Syria the land of the worlds religions.
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