I was shown the film once last year on a sponsored trip to Israel for American Jews. It’s pure propaganda in the way it tries to manipulate your emotions. It’s edited with quick cuts, flashing images and text, highly subjective reporting of “facts,” and minimal to no presentation of what Islam is in the first place. It’s a manipulative video that will leave you feeling sick, either angry at Islam, or angry at the filmmakers.
It’s intent is to instill fear, not to give an understanding of the situation. That it’s being introduced into swing states at this stage of the election, coupled with false claims that Obama is Muslim and McCain’s militarism… one can only guess at the distributor’s objective.

Michael, thanks. That was an informative post.
There’s no question the McCain camp will happily split the country if it will get him elected.

The manipulators know that it’s been working for what they want, and that the people either don’t want to read, think, or figure out what they want in their country, they want what the smoke throwers keep telling them they are going to get, but they better wake up soon and get more informed or they will lose more of their homes, stocks, freedoms, jobs and on top of it the taxes they are assured they won’t get if the Republicans win the election. They seem to think this is just a big game, and that both Democrats and Republicans are the same, they are not. If the Republicans win, just like in “Ma Mia” the “Winner Takes All”.

Yes, Michael, thanks for your imput. Just reading the article I got the vivid impression that it was a propaganda movie meant to instill fear of Muslims. Fortunately this country allows freedom to make and show films,and to advertise them in newspapers. Wouldn’t be surprised if McCain doesn’t profit from it….unless folks will see it for what it is…propaganda similar to that shown in WWII. Stir up hate for everyone of a certain religion or ethnic group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession:_Radical_Islam%E2%80%99s_War_Against_the_West
Now, I’ve semi-familiar with this film (I believe I’ve seen a long excerpt but not the whole thing), and I have to disagree with Michael. The majority of the film that I saw was not just random attacks on Islam, but rather, largely made up of Muslim demonstrations, in the Middle East as well as Europe, demonstrating for themselves their positions with insane calls for violence (including, as I recall, a scene where you see a two-year-old girl calling for the deaths of those ever-so-nasty Jews). Like I said, I can’t speak for the whole movie, but you can’t blame them for showing what people actually say for themselves.
God bless.

I don’t take the word of a two-year old girl for what she thinks in a situation like that.
And I don’t assume the claims made about who’s doing the demonstrating are true. If it’s convenient for group A that group B advocate X, it’s no doubt possible to come by people who look like they are of group B who are advocating X.
I.e. take everything with a grain or ten of salt.

This has all the aroma of a 527 ploy. These groups are destroying an already threadbare system. If McCain supporters are behind it, I hope he has enough sense to distance himself from it. We do not need any more efforts to polarize our already bipolar, manic/depressive nation.

Yes Bush/Cheney/Rove won by dividing the nation so they came close enough to 51% to steal the election. McCain has shown he’s quite willing to go down that same divisive road. For John McCain it’s America Last, McCain First.

I don’t really think a movie of this type, true or not, is needed. Muslim groups the world over have done a great job on their own stirring up violence. As for the so called “majority” of tolerant, peaceful Muslims who abhor this type of hate…they could possibly be the biggest pushover “majority” in the modern world, which acts more like a scared “minority” than anything else. This group, which is supposed to be huge, needs to start playing the part and put this peaceful and tolerant Islam out there for the world to see and stop allowing radicals to dominate the scene. Wait…that might be politically incorrect. Oh well, at least there’s still the oil issue. Pax

I just learned that our local newspaper had these things inserted Sunday (I read the paper online so i miss some of the wonderful ads and inserts like this). It is a paid insert, which may explain why even the Times included it. I am not at all surprised the Wall Street Journal had it – this is right up Murdoch’s alley.
Newspapaers can refuse things like this, though in this economic climate, not many will. They are surely the road rash of politics – that which you get when you crash and slide along the pavement. And it seems we have indeed crashed. Sad sad sad.

While I abhor the idea of “advertising” like this, as it can be and often is used to manipulate public opinion on any given issue or against any given group of people, I have to agree with jikans.
Where are the screams of protests from “tolerant”, mainstream Muslims who love this country and just want to earn a living?
Is it the fault of the media for not giving more attention to these folks and/or trying to find where they are making their voices of tolerance heard?

I discover this little bit of camel patty in my mailbox this week. Our newspaper had enough sense to reject the “offer” to insert it. It is a shamefully obvious political ploy. Its use of fear, stereotypes, and inflammatory rhetoric is typical of groups like this. Now I have to work out some sort of response to it based on crazy concepts like Christian compassion, God’s grace, and new life in the Spirit (it shouldn’t be hard). I wonder if the hate-mongers who generated this under-digested bit a waste have ever heard of these ideas.