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Leaked emails from Al Jazeera show that atleast some of their higher ups do not support " Je suis Charlie " . Infact they say " I am not Charlie " and imply that what Charlie Hebdo did wasn't Free Speech.
Al Jazeera English editor and executive producer Salah-Aldeen Khadr sent out a staff-wide e-mail last Thursday, reminding his staffers that "We are Al Jazeera!!!"
Khadr made suggestions for Al Jazeera employees on how to cover the Charlie Hebdo massacre, including, asking if it "really was an attack on free speech," whether "I am Charlie" is an alienating slogan and whether this was really an attack against free speech and, or "European values" or really "a clash of extremist fringes."
Kahdr finished by writing:"Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile."
Firing back at Ackerman's response, Doha based correspondent Mohamed Vall Salem wrote: "I guess if you encourage people to go on insulting 1.5 billion people about their most sacred icons then you just want more killings because as I said in 1.5 billion there will remain some fools who don
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