Would you like tennis with that beheading?   May 13, 2006

The Arab government-funded Al-Jazeera International will be offering sports events, along with the hostage tapes, suicide bombers,  and bin Laden statements. One report says Al-Jazeera will be offering the “best of the football leagues in Europe and South America, the tennis grand slam events, the golf majors, cricket test matches, rugby internationals, Formula 1 and MotoGP, North American sports, athletics, boxing, cycling, sailing and winter sports.”  One of the channel’s hires is Dara McIntosh formerly of ESPN and NBC in the USA.

Meanwhile, in Qatar, the base of Al-Jazeera International, a group of Muslim scholars has urged funding of the terrorist Hamas. Leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were reported at the meeting.

The regime in Qatar recently announced a gift of $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, led by Hamas.