Sun News has published and broadcast information about the two Canadians being held in Egypt which paints them, not as innocent tourists caught up in local events, but as militant activists who support the Muslim Brotherhood. The men are Dr. Tarek Lubiani and John Greyson, referred to for many weeks in the media simply as a physician and a filmmaker. The Sun News contention, as detailed by Michael Coren (inset) is that these titles may be correct in a narrow sense, but they provide no context to explain why the two men are being held by the Egyptian Army. Coren says that Dr. Loubiani is an extremist who has disrupted government news conferences in Canada to complain that he is a Palestinian refugee. He is, according to Coren, no such thing. The facts as stated by the Sun are rather remarkable. Mr. Greyson, says Coren, is a “leader of the extremist group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.” These previously unheard statements, if true, explain a lot about the difficulty the government is having getting the two men returned home. Sun News.2 held in Egypt are extremists, says Sun News
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Sun News has published and broadcast information about the two Canadians being held in Egypt which paints them, not as innocent tourists caught up in local events, but as militant activists who support the Muslim Brotherhood. The men are Dr. Tarek Lubiani and John Greyson, referred to for many weeks in the media simply as a physician and a filmmaker. The Sun News contention, as detailed by Michael Coren (inset) is that these titles may be correct in a narrow sense, but they provide no context to explain why the two men are being held by the Egyptian Army. Coren says that Dr. Loubiani is an extremist who has disrupted government news conferences in Canada to complain that he is a Palestinian refugee. He is, according to Coren, no such thing. The facts as stated by the Sun are rather remarkable. Mr. Greyson, says Coren, is a “leader of the extremist group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.” These previously unheard statements, if true, explain a lot about the difficulty the government is having getting the two men returned home. Sun News.