Column | Rabiate hate preachers – NRC

For those who are interviewed, TV interviews are perilous. They can say too much, but also too little. In both cases, great annoyance arises with the viewer. These days I saw two of such interviews: with Douglas Murray in WNL on Sunday and with Francisco Farioli in the football talk program Rondo At Ziggo Sport. Murray said too much, Farioli too little.

Douglas Murray is a British publicist, rightly controversial as a frantically surrounding theorist, who was at the CIDI with Hirsi Ali guest speaker, among others, on an anniversary symposium. Then you know what you get – and apparently they need a great need at the CIDI. They « went full on the organ in their aversion to European Muslims, » ​​writes Abelkader Benali in his column Fidelity. « The room burst into cheers and cheers. So much racist cacophony does not deserve applause but further investigation. »

Benali exaggerates? After the interview with Murray in WNL on Sunday I don’t take that into account. Murray turned out to be a fanatic right -wing radical who even denied what is confirmed by all kinds of sources, including Israeli generals: that there is a large scale in Gaza; Netanyahu now also takes that word in the mouth, albeit in an extremely hypocritical way.

But Murray said ice cold to interviewer Rick Nieman: « It’s not true. » Murray: « If you go to Gaza and you see the citizens, there is no lack of food, on the contrary. If you look at how much food has arrived, even in recent months, that is more than the daily recommended amount according to the UN. »

When Nieman actually refuted that statement, Murray suddenly took another way: the Palestinian citizens had asked for it, they should not have voted for those terrorists of Hamas. Destroying an entire country and starving an entire population? Murray shrugged – that had happened in all wars, right?

Nieman interviewed Murray critically enough, yet it seems to offer little useful such rabid hate preachers such an influential audience stage. The CIDI should also wonder. From the verbal poison that spread such people, something always lingers in confused, heated heads.

From Murray to Fararian-this column looks like such a TV talk show in which the heel is jumped on the branch. I can’t help it that I heard both speakers in detail in two consecutive days. They share a fanatic dedication to their mission, but Faroli is friendlier and more diplomatic than Murray. Why exactly did he leave Ajax? What did he disagree about? Did the board want his attacking football from him? And that’s why he asked for more money for good attackers?

He wanted to get in for an hour Rondo Do not give a clear answer, however much Ruud Gullit insisted on that. Faroli tattered and narrowed in the monotonous speaking style that we know from him. Suddenly I realized that I would not miss him later – and certainly not that defending football of him. Paul Simonis van Go Ahead Eagles? Come on.

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