Just another coincidence... Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki was clicking glasses together at the Pentagon with American military brass just months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Also, "coincidentally," he had in fact met at least one of the several alleged hijackers. He also, just before being liquidated by a US drone attack in 2011, allegedly funded the terror cell responsible for the recent Paris shootings.
A British radio station has been suspended after it broadcast more than 25 hours of lectures by a suspected Al-Qaeda recruiter during Ramadan that called for "holy war" and "encouraged violence."
The Office of Communications (Ofcom) has temporarily revoked the license of Sheffield-based Iman FM for playing
lectures by radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a hate preacher who was killed by a US drone strike in 2011.
Ofcom said it received a complaint from a listener in June. When contacted by the watchdog, the radio station said it decided to broadcast a series of pre-recorded lectures during Ramadan as the regular presenter was not available.
In one, Awlaki said, "prepare whatever strength you have for holy war in the cause of Allah. This is a form of worship," according to the
Daily Mail.
Comment: No one presumes that Radiohead is unfamiliar with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What's being addressed is the fact that Radiohead knows about the situation and is not taking a moral stand on it. Yorke's righteous indignation is misplaced here.
But others in the music industry do have the right idea:On New York Times' stage, Roger Waters calls BDS 'valid and legitimate picket line'