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Muslims Seek Media Ownership

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media, Money

You know what they say…if you can’t control the media…buy the media.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world’s largest Islamic body, said Islam faced vilification after the September 11 attacks, when 19 Arabs killed nearly 3,000 people in U.S. cities in 2001.

“Muslim investors must invest in the large media institutions of the world, which generally make considerable profits, so that they have the ability to affect their policies via their administrative boards,” OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the gathering in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

Something tells me that until Muslims start to seriously denounce the tactics used by those who claim religious purity, they won’t gain much traction in any media other than the sources they already subscribe to.

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2 Responses to “Muslims Seek Media Ownership”

sleipner Says:
September 17th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Of course they want to buy the media. It worked so well for the conservatives in America…
Abu Nudnik Says:
September 25th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
and liberals!

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