Al-Iman, The TV Station
Nifty, UN specially designated terrorist Abdulmajid al-Zindani gets his own TV station. The jihadization of Yemen is just rolling along. News websites blocked; jihaddi websites open. Terrorists free; journalists in jail. The US Treasury Department notes al-Zindani as a mentor to bin Laden and a financier of terrorism. Zindani runs al-Iman University that teaches hard core Salifism, and the US has charged that it provides terror training or indoctrination. Alum include John Walker Lind and that French guy, Brigette, among others. Meanwhile the regular journalists are under assault and the broadcast media is monopolized by the state.
SANA’A, NewsYemenMinister of Information Hassan al-Lawzi has issued a decision to establish a religious TV satellite channel called El-Eman according to instructions of president Saleh.
The decision stipulates that the new channel will be run by the Yemeni Corporation for Radio and TV and monitored by a group of scholars from Yemeni Scholars Association, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Endowments and Religious Guidance.
The decision has also determined that the channel’s focus will be the holy Quaran and its sciences; health awareness according to Islamic Sharia; promoting Islamic virtues like justice, equity, cooperation, tolerance and solidarity; and Islamic view towards extremism, terrorism, revenge, disputes and corruption . The channel will also broadcast programs on Islamic civilization and debates on contemporary Islamic issues. Official news agency said the channel will start a trial period of broadcast via Arabsat’s Badr 4 in the coming few weeks.
