Al-Jazeera working to stoke up protests in US

Noura Bendari

The media outlets of the Muslim Brotherhood always work to use developments on the ground everywhere to serve the interests of this Islamist group.

The Qatari news channel, al-Jazeera, has a knack for playing this role. This was clear in al-Jazeera’s coverage of the protests that erupted following the death at the hands of American police of black American man, George Floyd, in May this year.

Using the event

Al-Jazeera’s journalists, hosts, and presenters used the protests in posting comments on their social media accounts and pages. In these comments, they encouraged Americans to stage even more protests and riots.

Al-Jazeera hostess, Ola al-Fares, was at the forefront in this regard. On June 3, she posted a comment to her Twitter account, in which she claimed that some rulers had paid U.S. President Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars so that they could preserve their thrones.

Al-Fares had, however, deleted the comment a short time later after she came under fire from her followers.

In the same comment, al-Fares claimed that Palestinian American national Mahmud Abu Miala reported Floyd to police for $20.

Al-Fares’ followers accused her of abusing the Palestinians’ cause, even as her channel keeps claiming that it backs the same cause.

Al-Jazeera hostess, Ghada Owuies, did the same. She posted a series of comments on her Twitter account to incite violence against American police.

Qatari lying

Al-Jazeera was keen on airing videos of police violence, apparently to stoke up anger against police. It posted reports to its website about discrimination across the U.S.

Muslim Brotherhood members also appeared in the protests that erupted in a number of American states.

Al-Jazeera took photos of the same people, raising placards on which they wrote “We are not Arabs who can be killed in silence”.

Nevertheless, some U.S. activists challenged the authenticity of the photos and accused al-Jazeera of fabrication.