Posted on 10/28/2006 12:31:32 PM PDT by LSUfan
At 5:00 p.m. EST today, Fox News will render perhaps its most important public service this election season: It will broadcast on "The Big Story" program the first half of an extraordinary documentary - Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. The second half will be aired in the same time slot next week, four days before what promises to be a hugely consequential election.
Obsession's subject matter could hardly be more topical and the timing of these broadcasts more providential. The film describes the nature, objectives and ideological roots of the totalitarian movement that currently poses the most immediate and a potentially catastrophic threat to America and the rest of the Free World: Islamofascism. It does so in a way that not only informs its viewers of the danger we face but compels them to reflect upon the risks associated with inaction - or, worse yet, appeasement - in the face of such a threat.
The filmmakers combine three elements to make Obsession exceptionally compelling. First, an array of profoundly knowledgeable and articulate experts provide historical and strategic context to the phenomenon of this violent theo-ideology. They include: the Center for Security Policy's Senior Mideast Fellow, Caroline Glick; historian Sir Martin Gilbert; former Hitler Youth Group Leader Alfons Heck; columnist and researcher Daniel Pipes; investigator Steven Emerson; former federal prosecutor John Loftus; journalist Brigitte Gabriel; and Professor Robert Wistrich.
Second, anti-Islamist Muslims and former Muslims provide powerful first-hand testimonials about the nature of Islamofascism as seen through the eyes of those most immediately at risk from its violence and repression: the Islamists' peaceable, tolerant co-religionists. Among the incredibly powerful contributions from this group were comments by: Canadian professor and columnist Salim Mansur (a featured participant in the Center's Muslim Speak Out program); Nonie Darwish, the daughter of a suicide-bomber; Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist; Palestinian journalist Khaled Abu Toameh; Pakistani expat and editor Tashbiy Sayyed; and California-based Professor Khaleel Mohammed.
Perhaps the most evocative material of all, however, is provided by the Islamofascists themselves, in the form of footage taken directly from various television broadcasts from around the Muslim world. These scenes have been compiled by two formidable organizations, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and Palestinian Media Watch, and feature various imams, talking heads and political figures exhorting their audiences to bring "Death to America" and legitimizing the destruction of Christians and Jews and their societies. The point is unmistakable: Such virulent propaganda is being broadcast incessantly on such official outlets as Saudi, Iranian, Qatari and Palestinian television and Hezbollah's TV network, al Manar, cultivating among particularly young people the most extreme sorts of jihadist sentiment - including the notion of murderous self-sacrifice for Allah.
In a television advertisement aired in six states this Fall, the Center has urged every voter to cast his or her ballot as though their lives depend on it - for indeed they do. Viewing Obsession is a prerequisite to understanding just how literally that is the case, and to the evaluation of which candidates most clearly understand, and are best equipped to deal with, the danger posed by Islamofascism and its enablers.
Did you hear them talk about it on Fox?
Maybe they'll show it at the half hour...
Buy the DVD. Watch it. Loan it out to your friends. All Americans need to see this.
Thanks for letting me waste my afternoon ... it's a normal broadcast Saturday.
Not on here, Comcast
Bumperoo
Thank you for the heads-up. What a bunch of ungrateful creeps you tried to alert. Fox preempts a show and they blame you for not KNOWING in advance.
Well, that was exciting - what? a whole 5 seconds of the movie shown? WTF
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726538/posts?q=1&&page=1
Dixie Chicks
bttt
Agreed. Will do before I go back in a couple days and cancel my sub anyway
W has done such a piss poor job of explaining what we are up against we are going to need more shows like this to get the message out.
email the people who put out that press release and thank them for wasting your time and credibility:
info@centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Whole thing on You Tube (in 8 parts):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KZC5cFoldI&feature=PlayList&p=5F795E5024A417E1&index=0
The whole thing is up on YouTube right now.
It’s in eight parts of roughly ten minutes each; all of them are there, in sequence, in the video sidebar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KZC5cFoldI&feature=PlayList&p=5F795E5024A417E1&index=0
Thank you for the link!
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