Radical Islam: Nothing To See Here, Folks - Move Along

Censorship at PBS? Who knew? A film on radical Islam has been quashed and PBS just to silence a conservative voice associated with the work. Read it all.

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 Crossroads after he refused to fire two co-producers affiliated with a conservative think tank.

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[charles]

bobby/victor

i should explain anything to you? why

you don't merit it

you're a nasty little creep aren't you?

you're too insignificant to make me angry, but feel free to flail away in your erstwhile useless manner - it really isn't having the effect you desire

you seem a little obsessed - not healthy, you know

wonder what i'd find if i would bother to go back thru the posts and see when victor/you signed off, and bob/you signed on

but i won't bother because i already know the answer

but i have unfortunately formed a mental picture of you

it ain't pretty

so in order to avoid your obsession, and further icky juvenille creepiness i'll check back on you friday a.m.

let me know what time, i'll bring an old sock so you can have a budddy there to help you out

loser

[TheSpartan]

"TK, you hit it right on the head. Most of the Conservative posters here have been out of college for a while. We have actually lived long enough to know better than to think we know everything, unlike the little boys like Scar.You see lefties, we have actual LIFE experience. Life will be a very rude shock to these leftist children."

I've been out of college for 13 yrs, married for ten and have held some form of employment (always fulltime whn not in school) since I was 15, does that count?

"So all you pukes have 3.8 GPA's, Ziffy. Quit making me laugh. And how would you know what the other pukes GPA's are, anyway, Ziffy, and why would anyone believe what you or they said? You should at least have made it believable, Ziffy."

Mine was 3.875 in grad school, does that count?

[templar knight]

Did I mention your name, Spartan? I guess you're a doctor, also. Should have guessed. Oh, my GPA was 3.904, see how that works, looks like I'm smarter than you, and Zif, and the rest. Of course, my degree is in geology, so it probably doesn't compare to the sociology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy/history types who masquerade here. They are mental giants. Me, I'm just a redneck inbred.

[Phoenix]

Spart,

"I've been out of college for 13 yrs, married for ten and have held some form of employment (always fulltime whn not in school) since I was 15, does that count?"

It only counts in that you more often than not sound like the rest of the rogues. Live up to your wisdom. Like me. :)

I have a 4.0 GPA in my two graduate degrees. I'm a trust fund baby, but I worked because I love teaching. That must make me a saint or something. St. Phoenix. I like that....

[Hard Right]

All you lefties have done is prove a college education doesn't mean you are able to think, or are intelligent. As I like to say, you are book smart and common sense retarded.

[TheSpartan]

"So all you pukes have 3.8 GPA's, Ziffy"

Nope, I'm not mentioned by name specifically but certainly by inference.

And as for common sense HR, I've got plenty. You think all libs are left coast hippies or something. I grew up in rural NH, I hunted, fished and owned (still do) firearms, all the things your leading GOP candidates like to pretend they did. I grew up in a very conservative area, I would say my liberal views are actually proof that I can think for myself. You may not agree with my views, but wouldn't it be ironic if you thought only those who thought like you had common sense and could think for themselves?

[St.Phoenix]

Good points, Spart. Maybe if you put the common sense to work and quit treating us all like morons, you'd be treated as worthy of the respect you seem to deserve when you're not on the hunt.

[templar knight]

Phoenix, you are a saint. And I know a little something about Saints and religious relics, hence my nick. Yes, St. Phoenix, you are a saint of intelligence and reason, if a bit snarky on occasion. Very nice.

[Hard Right]

For you leftards:

LGF reader Paul Green emailed some interesting information about one member of the five-member panel that reviewed the documentary, DePaul University Professor Aminah McCloud. McCloud apparently showed some footage from the film to members of the Nation of Islam, and has very close ties to the extremist group herself. In the March 10, 2000 issue of the NOI paper The Final Call, she declared, “The Nation of Islam must define what Islam is within the American culture.”

For the Nation of Islam itself, the challenge now means a greater leadership role in the spiritual, social, and political aspects among the Black “mainstream”, according to Aminah Beverly McCloud, author of “African American Islam.”

“Only if we take the reigns,” Ms. McCloud said in an interview, “because there is an impetus in this country for the immigrant community to define what is Islam, and they’re very adamant.” The Nation of Islam must define what Islam is within the American culture, she said.

And according to the January 17, 2004 edition of the New York Times, McCloud is also “a board member of the American Muslim Council and of the Chicago branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.” Googling her name in connection with CAIR brings up quite a list of results: aminah mccloud cair - Google Search.

Here’s an informative profile of McCloud at FrontPage: Teaching and Terror at DePaul.

As you read about the radical Islamic connections and sympathies of the person picked by PBS to judge “Islam vs. Islamism,” keep in mind that PBS’s executive producer Jeff Bieber reportedly asked the documentary’s producer Martyn Burke, “Don’t you check into the politics of the people you work with?”

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

[Hard Right]

Scar, if you had common sense you wouldn't be liberal on most of the issues you have spoken out on.

[St.Phoenix]

if a bit snarky on occasion. Very nice.

:) And I drive a mean tractor.

(Part of one of my grad studies was the Abrahamic religions and western civilization via the Greco/Roman Empire. I know all about the Knights Templar. A b s o l u t e l y fascinating. I love it.) (You do the name proud.)

[jackie vance]

Is there any possible way this documentery can be viewed? Personally I'd purchase it in a DVD if made available.