Aljazeera is a Qatari-state owned media conglomerate that disseminates news and media content throughout the world. AJ+ is a subsidiary of Aljazeera that was launched in 2014 and focuses on online news, pop culture, and current events. They have millions of followers on social media from all across the globe, including many young Muslims.
I remember when I first came across AJ+ on social media. They were reporting on the ongoing bombing of Gaza by Israel that year in 2014. And I remember thinking to myself, alhamdulillah, finally there is some news reporting that is not biased by Zionist propaganda. But my happiness was very short lived because almost immediately after launching, AJ+ began promoting some highly un-Islamic and even anti-Islamic content.
For example, just consider the sheer number of videos dedicated to glorifying drugs and even alcohol.
How smoking weed may actually help keep kids in school: https://t.co/CvJlNzHObq
— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 21, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=679739628834214
Potheads rejoice! Research shows that #marijuana is safer than alcohol:
Weed Deemed Safer than Alcohol
Potheads rejoice! Research shows that #marijuana is safer than alcohol:
Posted by AJ+ on Tuesday, February 24, 2015
High at the White House
Marijuana activists have been blazing up in front of the White House.
Posted by AJ+ on Sunday, April 3, 2016
Today's the day – you can buy legal weed in California without a medical card. pic.twitter.com/2Axw0VpIEu
— AJ+ (@ajplus) January 1, 2018
How smoking weed may actually help keep kids in school: https://t.co/CvJlNzHObq
— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 21, 2016
Weed is now legal across Canada. pic.twitter.com/nBn8oICL36
— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 17, 2018
Women Mock CDC’s Warning to Avoid Alcohol
Or how about the dozens of videos that promote abortion and terminating pregnancies as a “sacred” right?
The Museum of Contraception and Abortion
This museum shows how women have suffered in trying to control their own fertility and access abortion.
Posted by AJ+ on Tuesday, August 1, 2017
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/889429781198530/
Thousands of students in Indonesia are protesting a proposed new criminal code that would criminalize same-sex relations and impose jail penalties for abortions or sex outside marriage.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons at them. pic.twitter.com/VY38BnTOBM
— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 24, 2019
But drugs and abortion are only the tip of the iceberg.
When you go to AJ+’s social media channels, you immediately notice how much of the content is devoted to homosexuality and transgender issues. They have been promoting LGBT as far back as 2015, which is a full year earlier than gay marriage was legalized in the US. So they were way ahead of the curve, with video after video about the beauty of gay marriage and sex change surgery.
What makes this more noteworthy is that they heavily promote LGBT normalization in the Muslim world. If there is anything related to homosexuals or transgenders anywhere in the Muslim world, AJ+ immediately glorifies it with celebratory coverage in multiple languages, including English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
India Overturns Colonial-Era Law
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1048501105311773
You won’t find loners in this state! Same-sex couples are happily tying the knot in Texas.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=579203128887865
Australia Says ‘Yes’ to Same-Sex Marriage
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1084259425048897
Myanmar LGBTQ Festival
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1132467963561376
The LGBTQ community in Cuba is gaining strides and winning respect.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=696835777124599
LGBT Man Speaks Out in Chechnya
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1066103306864509
Trans Actors Feel Snubbed by Emmys
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=386665048965759
Trans Man Fronts Period Campaign
‘The Bravest Knight’ Teaches Kids to ‘Be the Real You’
England’s new school curriculum includes lessons on mental health and cyberbullying, plus updates on sex education that teach students about consent, abuse and LGBT issues. pic.twitter.com/1xFLYXecyK
— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 19, 2018
Hungary's parliament voted to end legal recognition of transgender people.
A new law defines gender as "biological sex" assigned at birth and makes it impossible to legally change. Critics say it is an attempt to "erase" the trans community and will worsen discrimination. pic.twitter.com/ClbeCCHltz
— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 19, 2020
Beyond LGBT, many of AJ+s videos promote prostitution, or what they call “sex work.” Obviously we know prostitution has nothing to do with Islam and we know that it has nothing to do with the beautiful heritage and culture of Qatar. So why is Qatar’s government facilitating the spread of these pro-prostitition ideas to the whole world through AJ+? Are these the images they want people to associate with Qatar?
How Disco Changed Sex in America
Bangladeshi Sex Worker Gets Proper Funeral
Will Legalizing Sex Work Protect Women?
Sex Workers Speak Out About New Law
What makes AJ+ especially problematic is their criticism of Muslim countries for applying hudud. Hudud are a part of the Sharia and Muslims will always be proud of our Sharia, no matter how much Western liberals and secularists try to intimidate or shame us about our religion. Is Qatar’s government not aware that it is funding a media outlet that is adding fuel to the fire of hatred against Islam?
The most subversive aspect of AJ+ content is what we can call “Muslim women breaking stereotypes.” Values of haya and true hijab are “stereotypical” so AJ+ wants to break the stereotypes by presenting Muslim women who blatantly violate haya and true hijab. How many young Muslim girls are watching these videos wanting to follow in the footsteps of these women? Again, it must be asked, does Qatar’s government want Muslim women to emulate this behavior? Does Qatar’s government want the Muslim women in Qatar to emulate this behavior?
Music Video for Saudi Women’s Rights
Rock Out With Your Hijab Out [Indonesia]
Hijabi Ballerina Destroys Stereotypes
Teenage Boxer Fights to Wear a Hijab
When we look at the people running AJ+ and their social media output, it becomes clear as day that they have an ideological ax to grind. These are pro-LGBT, pro-feminist, pro-sex work activists that want to change the Muslim world to make it aligned with far left-wing Western secularism and identity politics.
What is so ironic is that young Muslims in the West are influenced by this pro-LGBT, pro-feminist, pro-liberal secular narrative from AJ+. We usually think that it is Western media that is threatening the iman our youth, but instead it is Qatari-funded media that is doing that job! Just imagine — rather than media funded by Western governments negatively indoctrinating the Muslim world, you have media funded by Muslim governments that is negatively indoctrinating the West!
Now I can see AJ+ defending itself saying that it is only representing Western culture and Western culture involves prostitution, drugs, LGBT, abortion, etc. But this excuse doesn’t fly for two reasons. First, AJ is not only representing these things. It is actively celebrating them. That’s a big difference. And secondly, AJ is often ahead of the curve in promoting things that are on the fringe in the West. They celebrate LGBT in countries where it is still banned. They promote prostitution when it is banned in the US and most countries. They are pushing trans identity when most of the world considers this wrong.
My ultimate message here is: I know that the people of Qatar do not support any of these things. So why is the Qatari government spending millions of dollars funding this stuff? Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying Aljazeera should exclusively focus on Islamic lectures or become a Dawah channel. But at the very least, can they not promote things that go fundamentally against Islam and basic Islamic ethics?
This is following the subversive ways of the cartoons! May Allāh curse them.
They are equally as guilty of crimes against Islam as the others are.
Arab pagans going back to their roots backed/installed by Anglo-French Pagans of the modern era on a full war mode against islam and muslims.
Actually, most the Indonesian students (except the liberals, yeet) didn’t really care about the sex law. This is just what the Western media portrayed.
Our demands were to:
1. Reject 7 different problematic bills and enact 2 beneficial bills
2. Cancel the appointment of the problematic new heads of KPK (anti-corruption commitee) by the corrupt DPR (congress)
3. Prevent the Army and Police from getting civil servant positions
4. Stop militarism in Papua
5. Stop criminalizing activists
6. Prosecute corporations for the illegal burning of forests in Borneo & Sumatra
7. Establish human rights justice
And Al-Jazeera chose to write about us fighting for the freedom to have sex and abortion smh. Though it is true that liberalism is gaining much popularity with the youth in Indonesia.