A Hezbollah-run Arabic station could soon be broadcasting in Australia.
IMAGINE for a moment that Abu Bakr Bashir ordered his Jemaah Islamiah followers to start a satellite television station, perhaps called JI-TV.
Such a station might include sermons declaring it a duty for all Muslims to fight and kill Australians and residents of any other country who participated in the fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq. It might have hagiographic portraits of JI "martyrs", such as the Bali bombers, urging others to emulate them. It might have children's programs designed to convince children to aspire to "martyrdom". And it might routinely include openly antiSemitic rhetoric. And imagine that this "JI-TV" was broadcast into Australia, perhaps from Indonesia.
According to Australia's peak communication regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), all of this would apparently be fine under Australian law... (Read the full article)
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