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A controversial film that PBS axed from its documentary series about the post-Sept. 11 world will be broadcast for the first time nationwide this week by the FOX News Channel.< >"Islam vs. Islamists" will be seen in its entirety as part of an all-new FOX News Channel special. The 90-minute FOX program, called "Inside Islam: Faith vs. Fanatics," includes interviews with "Islam vs. Islamists" director and producer Martyn Burke and executive producer Frank Gaffney. It will be broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 20.< >

Moderate Muslims Silent No More by: Matt Hadro, July 18, 2007 One of the ironies in post-9/11 America is that the rush to defend Islamic extremists on campus and off leaves the mostly moderate Muslim population in the United States virtually invisible. This moderate view is actually widespread throughout democratic America, though many have not heard its message. Instead, the radical shouts of Islam remain prevalent amidst the high reaches of society, including the media. A film was created for this very purpose, to expose the unheard voices from the Muslim moderate center in America and the free world. The...

Banned by PBS: Muslims Against Jihad — Sun. 9p ET It's a riveting documentary about moderate Muslims fighting jihadists who want us dead ... but was it stifled by liberal bias? Now, we air the story that PBS tried to kill! Don't miss it!

Banned by PBS: Muslims Against Jihad Saturday, June 23 at 9 p.m. ET Repeats Sunday, June 24 at 3 a.m. ET Hosted by E.D. Hill Tune in this weekend, as FOX News Channel presents the documentary the Public Broadcasting System didn't want you to see.

Where on Earth are the moderate Muslims? Thanks to PBS, they’re not on public television. PBS has blocked the broadcast of Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center. This new documentary — funded with a $675,000 Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) grant — contrasts the ubiquitous bearded, burka-covered Muslim radicals with others seldom seen: men and women who wear Western attire, shave daily, show their female faces, and prosper without slaughtering “infidels.” While moderate Muslims may appear elsewhere on PBS, Uncle Sam’s TV channel declines to air this compelling, even-handed, and surprisingly tame film that explores the struggle between...

Where on Earth are the moderate Muslims? Thanks to PBS, they’re not on public television.-Deroy Murdock, National Review Wednesday, I happened to catch Dennis Prager mention a free screening of Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, Thursday evening. I emailed in for tickets, and within moments, my name was added to a shrinking list. I must say, my schedule has been packed (hence, the light blogging and blog-visits) and this opportunity coming up was throwing a monkey wrench into the tire of my tired schedule. I almost talked myself out...

Responding to pointed questions about her recent PBS documentary, "The Mormons," filmmaker Helen Whitney said Friday the criticism she gets most is over her insistence not to label the people she interviewed on camera as either Mormon or not. Helen Whitney It was a conscious choice, she said, "and I stand by it.... I wanted each of you to listen with your heart and not give anyone more or less credence because they were Mormon or not," she told hundreds of people attending the annual meetings of the Mormon History Association in the Salt Lake Hilton. Whitney said she has...

A documentary billed as "the film PBS doesn't want you to see" will at long last get a national audience. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) announced a joint agreement yesterday to make "Islam vs. Islamists" available to the 354 Public Broadcasting Service member stations across the nation as a "stand-alone" TV program, with a little extra embellishment. "We plan to distribute the film to any public broadcasting station that wants it..." OPB President Steve Bass told The Washington Times yesterday. "There has been a lot of debate on whether this program needed editing. Some...

On May 9 and 16, PBS will air a four-part docudrama called “The Secret Files of the Inquisition.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue raised some concerns today: “PBS will not air a movie that its officials say paints Muslims in a bad light, ‘Islam vs. Islamists,’ but it has no qualms about showing a flick that Catholics have every right to question. This film is advertised on PBS’s website with an eerie black background depicting all the ‘T’s’ as crosses. All that is missing is Dracula’s voiceover. ‘For over half a millennium a system of mass terror reigned,’ it says, and...

The Film PBS Doesn't Want You to See - Islam vs Islamists "This documentary tells the story of courageous anti-Islamist Muslims in Western Europe, Canada and the United States and the extraordinary challenges they face in taking on adherents to the theo-totalitarian ideology known as Islamism. What is happening to these moderates – who are being ostracized, intimidated and, in some cases, threatened with death – offers critical insights into the dangers that both they and we are facing. It also suggests steps we must take to help and empower these moderates and others like them. Unfortunately, as things stand...

WASHINGTON -- The film features grainy footage and dramatic music, presenting itself as a stark look at the way fundamentalist Muslims in America and Europe crush dissent by their more moderate co-religionists. But the very production of "Islam vs. Islamists: Voices From the Muslim Center" has highlighted sharply different views about the state of Islam in the United States and showcased how intensely sensitive that subject remains. PBS, which commissioned the project, is delaying airing the film after protests that it is anti-Muslim. Now its creators are launching a public campaign against PBS to get it shown. (snip) "Islam vs....

PBS -- exercising its taxpayer-funded powers -- perpetrated unethical censorship when they pulled “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center ,” from their lineup last month. In a time of turbulent debate about our ability to coexist with the Muslim faith, the publicly-owned network shelved the $675,000 taxpayer-funded film that answers a question many Americans have continually posed since 9/11: where are the moderate Muslims?

Moderate Muslims Speak Out, But Not on PBS(CNSNews.com) - Islamists are working to build "parallel societies" with the aim of imposing strict Islamic law in parts of the West, according to a documentary the Public Broadcasting System has chosen not to air. "Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center" highlights the work of moderate Muslims who oppose the Islamist agenda and are willing to speak out. PBS officials decided against airing the film, which PBS's Robert MacNeil told the Diane Rehm Show earlier this month was "one-sided" and "alarmist." Some of the key Muslim figures featured in the documentary...

When PBS refused to air a documentary about the rift between Islamic moderates and their radical, murderous counterparts, PBS based its decision on the judgment of an employee whose sources on this topic are themselves aligned with self-confessed radical Islamists. FSM Contributing Editor Stephen Schwartz’s shocking exposé will have you demanding answers! _______________________________________________ Last week, in a reportage for FSM - the antidote to the “mainstream media” - Contributing Editor Alex Alexiev, one of the most authoritative Western experts on radical Islam, described the fate of a documentary video of which he was co-producer. Titled Islam vs. Islamists, the documentary...

Clear your TV-viewing calendar next week. PBS has brought together "America at a Crossroads," a six-night television package that aims to explore challenges confronting the United States in a post-9-11 world. Topics to be tackled include the war on terrorism; conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on America's The series, airing Sunday through Friday from 9 to 11 p.m. EDT (check local listings), consists of 11 documentaries from a variety of producers, probing urgent issues in a variety of voices. The Corporation for...

WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) — The producer of a publicly funded documentary on Islamic extremism blames politics for his work being axed from public TV's "America at a Crossroads". Martyn Burke says his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, was dropped by executives at station WETA in Washington and the Public Broadcasting Service after he refused to fire two co-producers associated with a conservative think tank, the Arizona Republic reported Tuesday. "I was ordered to fire my two partners (who brought me into this project) on political grounds", Burke said in a Feb. 23 letter to PBS and the Corporation for Public...

The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide. Key portions of the documentary focus on Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix and his American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a non-profit organization of Muslim Americans who advocate patriotism, constitutional democracy and a separation of church and state. Martyn Burke says that the Public Broadcasting Service and project managers at station WETA in Washington, D.C., excluded his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, from the series America at a...