Al-Jazeera: The Lernean Hydra with Brotherhood, Qatari heads

Islam Mohamed

Relations between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Qatari news channel, al-Jazeera, cannot be concealed any more.

The channel specifies most of its coverage to the Brotherhood and its figures, including Qatari sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi.

Al-Jazeera also shows unmistakable bias to the Brotherhood and its ideological offshoots, including the Palestinian Hamas movement.

The Qatari channel used what came to be known as WikiLeaks to tarnish the reputation of some Arab regimes. However, it concealed all references in the leaks to Qatar and its rulers.

Al-Jazeera also glorifies Muslim Brotherhood theoretician Sayed Qotb.

This turned al-Jazeera into the prime mouthpiece of the Brotherhood. It tried to help this Islamist organization hijack the series of revolutions that happened within what came to be known as the Arab Spring.

Qaradawi, who used to introduce a religious program on al-Jazeera, used the program in mobilizing Muslims around the Muslim Brotherhood. He tried to portray this terrorist movement as the only legitimate one in the Arab region.

The Qatari channel never verifies the news it broadcasts. It focuses only on people in the news, in its bid to vilify these people.

In this, al-Jazeera tries to serve Qatar’s political agenda and political interests.

In covering feuds between the Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas, al-Jazeera did its best to show Hamas as the only Palestinian movement resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

Al-Jazeera does not, meanwhile, mention Hamas when there is violence against the members and the officials of Fatah.