Posted on 06/25/2007 11:04:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
Are there moderate Muslims? And if there are, why aren't they speaking out against the beheaders and the suicide bombers?
A lot of people ask those questions. Canadian filmmaker Martyn Burke set out to answer them. He made a documentary. "Islam vs. Islamist," which was financed in part by a $675,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Mr. Burke hired journalists who reported from Denmark, France, Canada and the United States. There are a great many moderate Muslims, they found, but they don't speak out because they are intimidated by threats of coercion, ostracism and physical violence from the Islamists in their communities.
Mr. Burke's findings are important, but this column is about why the Public Broadcasting System chose not to air his documentary.
PBS had two objections, Mr. Burke told Bill Steigerwald of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The first was that Mr. Burke showed "favoritism" to those Muslims who don't want to blow up their neighbors.
"Basically, the attitude...was that the Muslims we were portraying as the moderates were in some way, in their view, not true Muslims because they were Westernized," Mr. Burke told Mr. Steigerwald. "They felt the Islamists somehow represented a truer strain of Islam."
PBS also objected to Mr. Burke's co-producers, Frank Gaffney, a former assistant secretary of defense, and Alex Alexiev, a former RAND corporation expert on Islamic extremism.
"They demanded that I fire my two partners, because my partners were conservatives," Mr. Burke said.
PBS is the beau ideal of many liberals when it comes to free speech. Their point of view is subsidized by the taxpayers. Other points of view are suppressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Fox News was supposed to air this on Saturday - it never happened
Psst! It aired Sunday in place of the Hannity show and the 1/2News Hour.
I missed it - what did you think?
It was on...
PBS obviously thinks that the head-choppers are poor, oppressed people and that they are just expressing their frustration by sawing heads off live people, and having so much fun at it that they videotape the whole event, then they post it on the internet so that other bloodthirsty savages can watch it and enjoy.
PBS has proven that it, like the left in general, favors the murder, rape and destruction caused by the death cult.
I saw it on Fox on Sunday night.
It was broadcast on Sunday at 9pm ET.
Thank you all, In that case I have it on my TIVO box.
Fox originally advertised it as airing at 9 ET SATURDAY, then they said 7 ET, then back to 9 ET with a re-run at 3 AM.
It didn’t even show on my channel guide on Dish Network until saturday morning and that was when I locked it in to record.
When the time slot came round, Fox ran never ending coverage with Geraldo, showing irrelevant interviews with the parents of the dead Ohio girl, Jesse Davis (who had already been found, but Geraldo had interviewed the parents prior to the discovery).
Even as Geraldo was running, the banner on the screen said “Muslims against Jihad”.
After that, there was NO advertising of the event on Fox that I saw, and NO listing in the Channel Guide, but they were still advertising the Half Hour News Hour for that evening.
Happily, I set my TIVO box to record Hannity and the HHNH, so I do have it, But it’s no thanks to Fox...
Sorry to say I missed it to but my brother saw it and said it was a great documentary.
For your info, FoxNews will be airing the show again tomorrow (Saturday) 3:00 ET.
Thanks, by pure serendipity, I recorded it last week as I had set up to record Hannity’s America and the Half Hour News Hour
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