Posted on 08/30/2007 1:52:37 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
PBS 'Sympathetic' to Radical Islamists, Filmmakers Say By Kevin Mooney CNSNews.com Staff Writer August 30, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - High level officials in the Public Broadcasting System are operating from a mindset that is overly sympathetic toward the concept of "parallel societies," where sharia (Islamist laws) holds sway over democratic norms, according to documentary filmmaker Martyn Burke.
Burke, also a Hollywood producer, collaborated with some conservative national security experts to produce a documentary on moderate Muslims, entitled, "Islam versus Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center."
WETA, the Washington, D.C., affiliate of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) declined to air the film as part of the "America at a Crossroads Series" earlier this year. (See Related Story)
The objections WETA-PBS officials had to the film were outlined in a series of notes "Crossroads Series" producer Leo Eaton addressed to Burke and his partners at ABG Films.
The documentary "created a one-sided narrative," wrote Eaton. "You present the ongoing struggle between your chosen 'moderates' and 'extremists' in very subjective and very claustrophobic terms," he continued. This sentiment was apparently shared by other top officials connected with the series.
For instance, Robert MacNeil, formerly of "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour," who served as a host for the series, described the film as being unbalanced and "highly alarmist" during an appearance on National Public Radio this past April. MacNeil's own film, "The Muslim Americans," was inserted as a replacement for the ABG documentary.
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Whoa, breaking news. Call 60 Minutes !
“High level officials in the Public Broadcasting System are ...overly sympathetic toward the concept of ‘parallel societies,’ where sharia (Islamist laws) holds sway over democratic norms...”
Naturally, they don’t ever expect to have to personally live in such medieval backwaters...those places are for — well, you know — lesser peoples.
I think that it would be of value to investigate who WETAs top contributers are, to see if any eyebrow raising names or organizations pop up on the list.
Like all leftists.
They figure that the chances of the terrorists killing them, as individuals, is minimal — and the rubes that do get killed aren’t worth any concern whatever.
They figure that the chances of the terrorists killing them, as individuals, is minimal — and the rubes that do get killed aren’t worth any concern whatever.
They are viewed by the left as a poor minority in this evil western world and therefore they deserve support and sympathy. They don't catch on that muslims have been very successful militant fanatics who have been expanding their influence (less a couple of setbacks) for the past 1300 years. The weakness of the left, if abetted by passive standers-by, will assist them in continuing their expansion.
No doubt — and when they gain sufficient power somewhere in the West they’ll start lopping the heads off leftists.
I, for one, will not have a shred of sympathy for any of them so treated.
Robert “is he stll alive” MacNiel, a host of the series described the film as alarmist. His own film was inserted as a replacement. Isn’t that SPECIAL.
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