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July 28, 2004
France bans Hizbullah's al-Manar

JERUSALEM POST: France bans Hizbullah's al-Manar

The French Broadcasting Authorities (CSA) on Wednesday complied with a recommendation by the French government to ban Hizbullah's al-Manar satellite television from broadcasting in France.

On July 12 of this year, the French Ministry of Interior sent an advisory memo to the CSA recommending al-Manar's transmission via the European satellite operator Eutelsat be "immediately terminated due to their anti-Semitic content."

Al-Manar is the official mouthpiece of Lebanon's Shiite guerrilla group Hizbullah.

Posted by Laurence Simon at July 28, 2004 06:00 PM | TrackBack
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Maybe Israel exposing France as becoming an Islamic controlled country might have hit a nerve. Good luck getting rid of them, France. You asked for it, you got it. Let's see if you have the balls to clean it up yourself.

Posted by: No Party [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2004 09:38 PM

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