Last night at 9pm EDT Fox News Channel broadcast a much anticipated PBS-nixed documentary from its "America at a Crossroads" series. The liberals and leftists at American tax dollar-funded PBS had wanted to broadcast an extremely skewed, politically biased construct.
No surprise here, this is how all media reports aired by the liberals and leftists in American media are constructed. From the standard staple of evening news programs to documentary specials like this one, what PBS desired to be produced was a pro-leftist, pro-terrorist, al-taqiyya flavored, sack of islamist disnformation and propaganda.
Hosted by E.D. Hill the program FoxNews aired was titled "Inside Islam: Faith vs. Fanatics." In sum, what FoxNews did was attempt to kill two birds with one stone by airing the best segments of the documentary produced by Alex Alexiev and Frank Gaffney and originally titled "Islam vs Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center" with much deserved assaults upon the ideologically driven propaganda that PBS executives wanted to deliver into American living rooms.
Overall I suppose the concept worked, subsequent viewer commentaries will tell that tale. I just think that had FoxNews aired the Alexiev-Gaffney documentary as one piece and followed it up with E.D. Hill's interviews exposing the PBS executives nonsense might have given the entire production a more logical and easy to follow continuity.
That's my take. What's yours?
Link to the IslamDocumentary.com website.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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Sean,
I saw the special last night also.
I don't know why Fox felt the need to run the program with all those annoying interruptions (besides the obvious reason of revenue from commercials)but it was annoying and distracting and it really took away from the message of the program.
While I'm nitpicking...I might as well say that I wish they had used someone other than E.D. Hill.
I think that the program, "Inside Islam: Faith vs. Fanatics" needs to be seen on regular tv by all Americans.
What I got from watching the program is that I think we're in more trouble than we know.
Most "moderate" Muslims won't speak out against the radicals.
Various sources put the worldwide Muslim population at 1.6 billion.
Using the low-ball (my opinion) figure that "only" 10% of Muslims are radical...that gives us a worldwide figure of 160 MILLION radical Muslims.
Last night's program was informative but it only scratched the surface.
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I missed the show last night. But I am still concerned that Muslims who say they are for peace and then at the same time, are learning from a book that looks to destroy those that don't follow them. I know that we are suppose to be a melting pot of culture, BUT if we see a group of people NOT stand up and denounce that their teachings are wrong and dangerous, to me that is what I don’t get. I understand Islamic Fundamentalists, but for some of them to say, "Oh I don't want to behead people. I want peace, and yet stand up to protect the Quran." If a person does not say it is wrong then that means they agree with it?
Maybe I am a misguided person but I am still going to stand up and say, "NO to Shari’a Law. NO…..to anything that would destroy what this country has been built on. The US Constitution and The Freedom our Soldiers, PAST and PRESENT, have fought for to protect."
To have a group, CAIR, who are un-indicted co-conspirators to terrorists claiming they want peace for all Islamic and yet they support radical Islamic who are killing Christians and Westerners. You have some people saying there are Moderate Muslims and radical Muslims. Well are they both studying the teachings of the Quran at a Mosque? Again, if the Moderates are not standing up to the Radicals and saying this is wrong, this is not what we are suppose to believe then they are just all the same. Period. If they are worried about getting a Fatwah put on them, well what about all of us AMERICANS and WESTERNERS who are standing up and saying NO we don’t want that teachings. We don’t want that way of life. NO, We want to live in Freedom and PEACE. And By GOD if we can stand up and say NO then so can the “Moderate Muslims.”
Yes, I have to agree with Joey, We have just scratched the surface. But we also need to keep in mind this, we have a long journey coming to keep the freedom we have fought for.
I may not have written this correctly but I believe in this country we live in and I served to protect its Freedom from all enemies, Foreign and Domestic.
I will watch to see if the show will air again and try and watch it then.
Joey,
I agree with you, the program needs to be seen by the entire country, and during prime time.
It was broadcast as it was - adertized only via the Fox commercials which were broadcast themselves within a day or so of this program. It preempted the regularly scheduled and published programming for that time slot.
Ditto for yesterday afternoon when the program again aired virtually unannounced. It preempted Oliver North's "War Stories" in the 3 PM Eastern Daylight Time slot.
I think I know why these things are the way they are. A certain Saudi prince owns a financial stake in the parant corporation of Rupert Murdoch. He has a specific influence on what is aired, what is not aired, and when it is aired.
The FoxNews of today is not the original FoxNews of yesteryear. Not even close.
Is the video that can be purchased the same as what Fox News broad casted on Saturday?
And yes, I am at wits end. Fox News used to give plenty of notice and be Fair and Balanced and when shows are not even advertised, or preempted over another show without announcement, makes it real hard to watch it. Any show that provides the truth needs to be witnessed by ALL Americans.
Armyman wrote:
"Is the video that can be purchased the same as what Fox News broad casted on Saturday?"
Armyman,
To the best of my knowledge:
1. The linked website has the full, original DVD video version of the documentary, and only the documentary.
(The FoxNews program only aired small, selected segments of the DVD documentary.)
2. The DVD documentary does not contain any of the E.D. Hill segments which FoxNews broadcast as a part of its own program.
Ok, So Fox News only took its and pieces either for time constraints or just nit picking the truth. NP, I will look at buying the whole documentary and get the whole picture. Thanks Sean.
The complete documentary is important to see. It places the entire context of this issue into focus, and will undoubtedly create theneed for an even deeper exploration into the basics of Islam, or more precisely, the differences between "moderates" and "radical" adherents.
To be specific, and based solely upon what I was able to take away from my own viewing of the FoxNews program, here's what i am thinking at this time.
What the Fox program and the aired segments of the original documentary totally failed to do is provide anything to enable non-Muslims to identify on-the-street differences between jihadists and the moderate (some say apostate) Muslim's the program highlighted.
Those people identified in the documentary as "center" or "moderate" Muslims still adhere to Allah-worship, and the Qur'an/hadiths for the ideological and theological basis of their beliefs - the primary of which is to propagate Islam throughout the world, converting non-Muslim's to Muslims.
None of the on-camera "moderates" said one word, not one sylable, about the freedom of any individual to worship by their own free will. Therefore, these "moderate" Muslims apparently still continue propagate Islam by stealth and not by the in-your-face militant tactics of the Jihadi's.
How does this reconcile with Constitutional rights of religious freedom in the USA?
If I am correct, this the still a widley unaddressed issue regarding the crux of the difference between "moderate" and radical Islamists, and between Islam and ALL other faiths.
To my knowledge Islam has no 'center.' One is either a Muslim following in total submission to all the dictates of "Allah" within the specific ideology of a given Islamic sect, or one is an "apostate" Muslim.
From the Christian perspective, ALL Muslim's deny the divinity of Jesus Christ and His role as the Messiah of all mankind.
Are there significant issues beyond what the documentary relates? No doubt.
Those issues will be addressed - for better or worse - in the near future.
For the moment, I will say that any Muslim who takes a public stand against the barbarism of Islamic Jihadism is an ally. An ally in a role not unlike that played by Russian communists allied with the West against fascism in WWII, or by German soldiers who attempted several times to assassinate Adolf Hilter during the closing stages of that same war.
Theological differences will have to be addressed at some point down the road.
Just one more comment...a link to a YouTube page where you can listen to Neal Boortz talk about "No Muslim Outrage" in a 7 1/2 minute clip. I think you'll love it...I do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ibSawjZHw
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Neal Boortz is Awesome. He is a local boy from my neck of the woods.
Speaking of Neal Boortz, he will be in College Station, Texas Friday 26 Oct 2007 for his show at a Hotel and Conference Center on University Drive. Wow, Can't wait.
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