Movie Review: Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West
During last weekend's appearances at the Minnesota State Fair, I met Vince Muzik of Minnesotans Against Terrorism, who told me of a new feature-length documentary MAT had assisted in producing. He agreed to send me a copy of the film on DVD for an opportunity to preview it ahead of its Minneapolis premiere next week, and we watched it tonight.
Based on Vince's casual introduction of it at the fair, I didn't know what to expect from Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West, the film produced by Wayne Kopping and Raphael Shore. It actually is quite an impressive production. Obsession, according to IMDB, had its release last year and has won several film festival awards, notably the Best Feature Film at the Liberty Film Festival and awards in Houston and Newport Beach festivals as well. Kopping's previous effort, Relentless: The Struggle For Peace In The Middle East, provided a critical look at the Oslo accords, but Kopping opts for a much broader view in Obsession.
The film takes care to differentiate between mainstream Islam and radical Islamism, and it does so for a reason.
The opening sequence of the film takes up more time than I think it needs, and it delays one of the film's most important themes from developing until almost midway through, which is the correlations between Islamism and Naziism.
The Nazis of the Middle East
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Manipulating Rummy
What Rumsfeld said;
I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism. Today, another enemy — a different kind of enemy — has also made clear its intentions — in places like New York, Washington, D.C., Bali, London, Madrid, and Moscow. But it is apparent that many have still not learned history’s lessons.
We need to face the following questions:
* With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?
* Can we really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?
* Can we truly afford the luxury of pretending that the threats today are simply “law enforcement” problems, rather than fundamentally different threats, requiring fundamentally different approaches?
* And can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America — not the enemy — is the real source of the world’s trouble?
These are central questions of our time. And we must face them.
And what the Associated Press says Rumsfeld said.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism."
Much more at the link.
Because the report originates with AP, it will quickly be disseminated widely and without question by any number of news "sources". For his part, Donald Rumsfeld might as well have recited nursery rhymes, for all the resemblance the AP account bears to the original.
Just another day at the news bureau.
My dear friends in media, remind we consumers again why we should trust anything you report?
Flashback - CNN manipulates Condi Rice's testimony before the 911 Commission through undisclosed editing.
h/t
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Comments (30)"The Washington Post
Because for 11 years years, the American public wasn’t informed about the threat that lead to September 11 and because the classrooms and newsrooms of the United States were not educated enough about the global threat of “Jihadism,” we feel it is incumbent on individual citizens to educate themselves about this danger and mobilize to prevent a Future Jihad looming around the world and at home. It is important that American citizens understand who the “Jihadists” are, what they want to achieve, and how they are proceeding."
Here’s a great piece by Melanie Phillips on the wider lessons of the Fauxtography scandal: The media war against Israel. link: 130 comments "The internet has exposed the news "profesionals" as a sorry bunch of pompous, self-congratulating, groupthinking, biased, lazy-assed mediocre hacks."
The radical-linked Islamic Society of Boston is continuing to sue just about everyone who criticizes their plans for a huge mosque in Roxbury; their latest targets are talk show host Michael Graham and a list of other Boston media outlets: WTKK, Boston Herald, FOX 25 Boston, Michael Graham.
They must really want to build that mosque.
For more information on the case: Praised as beacon, mosque project stalls amid rancor.
This is just the tip of the iceberg boys and girls....this part of jihad will be heard about more and more....
UPDATE at 8/30/06 6:54:40 pm:
More about this shameful example of legal harassment by an Islamic advocacy group, at Daniel Pipes’ weblog: The Islamic Society of Boston & the Politicians’ Red Faces. link: 112 comments
Fascism Is New Buzz Word Among Republicans
Bombs hit 22 banks in southern Thailand killing one person, injuring dozens --Suspected Islamic militants
Just Nuts?--
"S.J.S."
Sudden Jihad Syndrome
Muslim Timeline For World Rule
