Reaction to Obsession DVD distribution shows many Americans clueless about jihad, Part 5: “‘Radical Islam’ video angers South Florida Muslims,” by Jaweed Kaleem for the Miami Herald, September 16 (thanks to J.H.):
A controversial DVD distributed to millions of Americans during the past week through direct mail and newspapers, including The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, has angered many Muslims in South Florida.
Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West is being packaged as an advertising insert in 70 newspapers, including The Sun Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post….
The DVD includes montages of terrorist training camps and suicide bombers paired with narration by commentators such as Daniel Pipes, founder of the conservative Middle East Forum think tank. Many of the film’s pundits are known for controversial views on Islam. In one part of the DVD, clips of Muslim children being recruited as suicide bombers are interspersed with images of Nazis.
Horror of horrors! Recruitment of Muslim children to be suicide bombers is compared to Nazism? When we all know that the recruitment of Muslim children to be suicide bombers is all sweetness and a blow for justice against wicked Zionism!
”My cellphone has been ringing off the hook . . . We feel that it’s going to incite more hate and bigotry against our community,” said Altaf Ali, Florida chapter director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The DVD does not do enough to differentiate between terrorists and mainstream Muslims, he said….
Neither, of course, does CAIR. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a jihad terror funding case. It is a spinoff of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which is listed in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum on strategy in the U.S. as part of its “grand jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” Several of its officials have been arrested and convicted on terror-related charges, and one of its founders has made Islamic supremacist statements, hoping that one day the Qur’an would be the only law of the land in America. But the Herald, of course, mentions none of this.
Syed Rahman, a Muslim pharmaceutical consultant from Weston, said he was shocked to see the film bundled with his Sunday Miami Herald. ”I could not believe my eyes,” he said. Nidal Hussain, a Kendall computer consultant, was also taken aback. ”I watched it with my wife . . . it is vulgar material,” he said. “I’m sure good, wholesome Americans are going to see it and be able to decipher the truth.”
I’m sure they will.
At least one newspaper, The News & Record of Greensboro, N.C., decided not to distribute the DVD. The publisher ”said it was divisive and plays on people’s fears and served no educational purpose,” editor John Robinson wrote in his blog….
Robinson did not explain what exactly we should do with those jihadist preachers preaching death and destruction in the video.