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BBC Did Not Know Of 9/11 Film's Link To Religious Right (Path To 9-11)
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 9-13-2006 | David Leigh

Posted on 09/12/2006 6:41:27 PM PDT by blam

BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right

David Leigh
Wednesday September 13, 2006
The Guardian (UK)

The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right. The three-hour programme, shown over two nights on BBC2 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attack on the twin towers, was purchased from ABC, a subsidiary of Disney. At the last minute the US television company was forced to re-edit sequences after claims of distortion from former president Bill Clinton and members of his administration.

A BBC spokesman said the organisation did not vet film-makers on their political or religious beliefs.

The film's director, David Cunningham, is active in Youth With a Mission (Ywam), a fundamentalist evangelical organisation founded by his father, Loren Cunningham. According to its publications, the group believes in demonic possession, spiritual healing and conservative sexual morality.

Last month David Cunningham addressed a conference in England organised by the group at its UK headquarters in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on the making of the film. His talk was entitled Christ-like Witness in the Film Industry.

According to one of the group's publications,"David and his wife Judy are the nucleus of an association of more than 40 Ywam alumni who are called to the communications industry in the Los Angeles area ... to create an independent film company whereby he could both influence the Hollywood film industry and produce major motion pictures that would carry a Biblical, values-based message".

Speaking from the Harpenden HQ, where would-be "disciples" pay more than £2,000 for six-month courses, the missionary organisation's international chair, Lynn Green, said that Mr Cunningham's influence in the film was limited. "He was hired by Disney to direct. He was not...

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KEYWORDS: 911; bbc; bookburners; eurotrash; films; jesushaters; know; link; moralabsolutes; religious; right; waronjesus
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To: unspun
Do you know anything about Mel's dad? He's extremely antisemitic and has some pretty way off views. Just because someone is a Jesus freak does not make them above reproach.
41 posted on 09/12/2006 7:21:00 PM PDT by rintense (Liberals stand for nothing and are against everything- unless it benefits them.)
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To: blam
But they did know about Michael Moore's links to the 'radical, Fundamentalist Left. . .Right?

And just what are the idiological 'leanings' of those who have written, produced and packaged. . .bought/sold 'Death of a President'? . . .

. . .

42 posted on 09/12/2006 7:21:22 PM PDT by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .)
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To: defenderSD
these same Britons have become reflexively anti-religous.

Only where Christianity and Judaism are concerned.

43 posted on 09/12/2006 7:22:46 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 90-96)
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To: unspun; rintense

Most critics of David Cunningham and Mel Gibson live in a spiritual darkness and thus they cannot find the light switch to turn on the spiritual light. Our responsibility is to give them a flashlight (or a "torch" if you're British).


44 posted on 09/12/2006 7:23:35 PM PDT by defenderSD (The concept of national martyrdom, combined with nuclear weapons, is extremely dangerous.)
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To: rintense
Do you know anything about Mel's dad? He's extremely antisemitic and has some pretty way off views. Just because someone is a Jesus freak does not make them above reproach.

Thanks for your explanation. Looks like my caveat may not have been called for. It seemed you inferring Lauren C. in the same camp.

45 posted on 09/12/2006 7:25:01 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: Alouette
"Only where Christianity and Judaism are concerned."Agreed. The root cause is their feeling of anger and envy directed towards successful Jewish and Christian conservatives.
46 posted on 09/12/2006 7:25:37 PM PDT by defenderSD (The concept of national martyrdom, combined with nuclear weapons, is extremely dangerous.)
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The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right

OH
MY
GOSH!

ABC IS NOW A MEMBER OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT! They, not David Cunningham, put this together. They invited Cunningham to direct it. It's based in part on a book by the ABC reporter, John Miller, called The Cell, which is based on his investigative work.

47 posted on 09/12/2006 7:25:39 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: P-40

At 78 RPM


48 posted on 09/12/2006 7:25:40 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: unspun
More on John O'Neil: "The Man Who Knew"
49 posted on 09/12/2006 7:26:32 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: blam
The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right.

Did they know that Farenheit 911 was made by a member of the loony left?

50 posted on 09/12/2006 7:27:15 PM PDT by wai-ming
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To: Alouette
Sorry, left out two tags on that one. Should have read like this:

"Only where Christianity and Judaism are concerned."

Agreed. The root cause is their feeling of anger and envy directed towards successful Jewish and Christian conservatives.

51 posted on 09/12/2006 7:27:28 PM PDT by defenderSD (The concept of national martyrdom, combined with nuclear weapons, is extremely dangerous.)
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To: blam

Loren Cunningham was/is top flight. I respect him as much as any Christian of our era and a lot more than 98% of the others.

He had a real heart for God and for man.

YWAM is a human organization and has made mistakes here and there but on the whole, they do a wonderful job in a lot of places most folks would not want to get near.

Praise God for the son's efforts.


52 posted on 09/12/2006 7:27:47 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: blam

How can I email them and give them a piece of my religious right mind?


53 posted on 09/12/2006 7:28:04 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: sageb1

"the group believes in demonic possession"
Has the BBC ever listened to Howard Dean?

= = =

Or looked in Shrillery Machiavelli Klintoon's eyes?


54 posted on 09/12/2006 7:28:38 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: sageb1

or for that matter, George Galloway?
= = = =

Indeed. I think his night job is to lick the toe jam of Bellzebub.


55 posted on 09/12/2006 7:29:41 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Surprised it didn't show slick willie with his head spinning around, LOL.


56 posted on 09/12/2006 7:30:27 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: One_who_hopes_to_know

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Isaiah 5:20
= = = =

INDEED!


57 posted on 09/12/2006 7:30:51 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: GretchenM; Alouette

I don't know if ABC has joined the religious right, but clearly there are some people at ABC who don't want Hillary Rodham Rodham to be the Democrat presidential nominee. ABC also ran a Nightline show a few months ago that was pointedly critical of the lack of CIA hiring during the Clinton years.


58 posted on 09/12/2006 7:31:29 PM PDT by defenderSD (The concept of national martyrdom, combined with nuclear weapons, is extremely dangerous.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Oh no, can't have religious people making movies.....

OK. Who let the Christians out of the cage?

59 posted on 09/12/2006 7:31:41 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: theBuckwheat

So, the left once more is pure as the driven snow while Christians are assumed to be idots.
= = = =

Of course!

That's one of the CARDINAL DOCTRINES OF:

--THE PUPPET MASTERS in behalf of their satanic global government goals.

--and therefrom, the university leadership

--and the MSM leadership and troops

--and most of the U.S. Senate

--and the religion of science's high priests and rank and file priests

etc. etc. etc.


60 posted on 09/12/2006 7:33:03 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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