Wednesday, March 24, 2010

IOL Needs You

There has been a dangerous and alarming update in the IOL Saga : Sheikh Qaradawi has been sacked by Qatar from IOL . The minister of social affairs in Qatar has ordered the disband of the Al-Balag board of directors which was headed by Qaradawi . The minister has appointed a new temp board of directors which Qaradawi has no place in especially all his rivals are members there. A very strange and surprising move from Qatar , the same official Qatar Qaradawi has avoided in the IOL crisis.

It is a shock because this week there was this hope that Qaradawi would save day , after all he returned back defending the rights of the journalists and editors and taking important decisions to save this very important website. Already his Qatari rivals took advantage of his surgery in Saudi Arabia so they could take over the international website. Yet today , tonight actually we found this surprising news which can indicate that the good years of Qaradawi are over and he may return back to Cairo for good.

Some people believe that the reasons behind this hijacking are political ones : Israel wants Qatar to stop the website from covering what is going on the occupied territories especially in Jerusalem and some are speaking about the rivalry between Cairo and Doha !!

Other people believe that the reasons all this are merely religious : Salafi Vs. moderate Muslims , America Vs. the Websites that caused thousands to convert to Islam !!

I think all these reasons above are not all wrong nor they are all right , there is no smoke without fire still I think the decision to sack off Qaradawi came from above in Doha for certain I can’t fully understand because the Doha leadership is claiming that it is the new center of moderate Islam.

Now it is not about Qaradawi , it is about the editors and journalists who believed in the message they wanted to delivered and they actually managed too perfectly despite all the hardships they have met. The strike is still on and you can follow it on air second by second. The sit on continues and the invitation is on for all those who believe in those cause of these wonderful men and women who really believe in their job.

Tomorrow insh Allah a group of activists and journalists are going to participate in the sit in at the IOL service center, you can go there whether you are an activist or journalist or even a simple person.

I am a blogger and I support IOL

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Here is the address :

IOL Service center , West of Somaid Land piece 7

6th of October City , 6th of October Governorate.

Also here is the telephone no. : +2(02)3827-4200

Join the strike or at least watch it on air from time to time and spread the word about it in the forums and facebook

1 comment:

  1. "America Vs. the Websites that caused thousands to convert to Islam"

    So many Arabs appear to be using drugs these days...

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