The preachers of “Free Speech” in the West are finding it hard to accept any praise for the Lebanon Ayatollah, who recently died. I just came across a news story appearing in AFPhighlighting the fact that CNN fired its Middle East Editor Octavia Nasr just because she dared to say the following on her Twitter account:
“one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.”
The West is finding it hard to digest this one sentence while at the same time they preach to us to digest what ever they throw at our respected Holy Prophet. Facebook and JyllandSposten can dare to publish pictures and ridicule our Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and their media tycoons will stand by them since it is their protection of free speech but they can not absorb just one praising comment for Ayatollah of Lebanon!
The purpose of sharing this post is to highlight to our own journalists who then preach the same “Freedom of Speech” lecture to us on behalf of their god fathers sitting in the West. This is the reality. There is nothing like Free Speech. It is always a relative terms and can be used to their own benefit whenever and wherever it suits them.
Even the UK Ambassador to Lebanon, who praise the same Ayatollah on his personal blog, was made to delete the post, since Israel strongly objected to it. Now i wonder if any one here in our media will dare to voice their opposition to this act? I am sure Nopes! The only problem they ever see is with us and with our systems while the acts of West are taken as benchmarks for others to follow!
BEIRUT — The Lebanese militant Hezbollah has denounced CNN’s decision to fire a Middle East editor for posting a note on Twitter expressing admiration for the country’s late top Shiite cleric.
Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet in which she described Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah as “one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” But CNN officials said her credibility had been compromised.
Hezbollah’s spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi says CNN’s decision amounts to “intellectual terrorism” and reflects the West’s “double standards” in dealing with the Mideast.
He said in a statement issued on Friday that the decision to fire Nasr — a Lebanese who worked for CNN for two decades — exposes America’s false claims regarding freedom of expression.
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