by CLIFF  KINCAID

If Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) lets  the Al Jazeera-Al Gore deal go through without scrutiny, then every broadcast  entity or communications facility in America is ripe for the plucking by any of  our nation’s enemies and adversaries.

For those who haven’t been paying attention lately, the government of Qatar  has announced a deal through Al Jazeera with former Democratic Vice President Al  Gore for his Current TV cable channel, in order to transform it into an arm of  its Jihadist or “Terror TV” network, once known as a mouthpiece for mass  murderer Osama bin Laden. They are planning to call it “Al Jazeera America,”  when the oil money for the transaction is coming from abroad. This is part and  parcel of the deception, which is designed to make it appear as though Al  Jazeera is as American as apple pie and simply has a foreign-sounding name.

To be sure, the deal was not technically announced by Qatar, a Middle Eastern  dictatorship where freedom of the press is not permitted. Instead, Al Jazeera  made the announcement. But that is part of the deception. Al Jazeera is an arm  of the Qatar regime and is not in any sense of the term an “independent” news  organization. It is government-funded with “advertising” from such entities as  Qatar Airways, the national airline partly owned by the regime. Qatar and Al  Jazeera are one and the same.

The purpose of this transaction is to soften the American people up for more  Middle East revolution, including within the borders of the U.S. Dr. Judea  Pearl, the father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, supports an  investigation of the deal and says, “Al Jazeera weaves the ideological  structure and combustible angers from which Jihadi recruits eventually  emerge.”

Qatar postures as a friend of the United   States and hosts a U.S military  base. But Qatar also served as the base for anti-American and anti-Semitic  “cleric” Yusef al-Qaradawi before he returned to Egypt to help consolidate the  Muslim Brotherhood revolution there. Al-Qaradawi is a leading television  personality on Al Jazeera.

You may have missed the news that Qatar just extended another $2.5  billion in economic aid for Egypt, following a gift of $400 million that the  emir of Qatar made to the terrorist group Hamas.

Al Gore and his partners, including Joel Hyatt, got more than that-$500  million, according to reports. Whether or not that is an accurate figure, any  amount is a drop in the bucket to the emir, who is worth billions of dollars and  lives in opulence.

By the way, Muslim Brotherhood leader and president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi,  just told  CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he wants the release of the Blind Sheikh, sentenced  to life in prison for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City. This  first terrorist attack on the World  Trade Center killed six people and injured  over 1,000 others.

Dr. Pearl calls Al Jazeera ”the main propaganda machine” of the pro-terrorist  Muslim Brotherhood. It is no surprise, therefore, that Qatar would underwrite  the Egyptian regime and Hamas, and that the Obama Administration would voice no  public objection to the sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera.

However, there is no reason to believe this sale is legal. The circumstances  surrounding the sale clearly require Congressional hearings and this is where  the Republican House of Representatives and its new chairman of Homeland  Security, Rep. Michael McCaul, come in.

If ever there was a time for Congress to take action, this is it. This is not  a time to let the Obama Administration take the lead, since it has already  approved the questionable deal, which fattens the coffers of two prominent  Democrats.

There are many things about this deal that stink and which require an  investigation by McCaul’s committee.

First, there are unresolved complaints to the Federal Communications  Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) about Al Jazeera’s  operations in the U.S. Jerry Kenney of Kenney Broadcasting has asked that the  DOJ enforce the law by requiring that foreign propaganda pumped into American  homes by Al Jazeera be labeled as such. He says, “Why is it that if I buy a pair  of tennis shoes made in China, it has to be labeled made in China? But foreign  propaganda which is being aired in the U.S. is not being labeled as foreign  propaganda, with its country of origin, in violation of the law? I want to know  what I am getting. If you know who has produced something, you look at it  differently.”

Secondly, it appears that Al Jazeera has evaded the law requiring federal  approval for foreign investments in America that have national security  implications.

Read more: Family Security Matters

If you would like to express your opinion on conducting hearings into this  curious transaction, the Committee on Homeland Security can be reached at  202-226-8417.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing EditorCliff  Kincaid is Editor of Accuracy in Media. He can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org.

Related articles

• Call for Congressional Hearings into Al Jazeera as a Homeland Security Threat (counterjihadreport.com)
• Qatar’s New Pearl: Al Jazeera America (counterjihadreport.com)
• Is Saudi prince steering News Corp. coverage? (counterjihadreport.com)

• Al-Jazeera’s “Alternative Viewpoint” in Qatar’s Paradise (counterjihadreport.com)
• Meet Al Jazeera’s Holocaust-Denying Televangelist…Is This What We Can Expect on the New Current TV? (counterjihadreport.com)
• Al Gore Profits from the Stealth Jihad (counterjihadreport.com)