* PBS has betrayed its viewers by presenting an airbrushed and uncritical documentary of a topic that has both world historical and contemporary significance. Its patronizing film might be fine for an Islamic Sunday school class, but not for a national audience.
1 posted on
12/18/2002 11:58:15 AM PST by
Y2Krap
To: Y2Krap
Already posted about 10 times .. run a search on "Islam."
To: Y2Krap
To: Y2Krap
Truth must take a back seat to fiction when it comes to PBS pushing an agenda.
Defund PBS now!
5 posted on
12/18/2002 1:35:51 PM PST by
Bullish
To: Y2Krap
*PBS has betrayed its viewers by presenting an airbrushed and uncritical
documentary of a topic that has both world historical and contemporary significance.
Its patronizing film might be fine for an Islamic Sunday school class,
but not for a national audience.
I am glad you ("Y2Krap") and others have taken notice of this white-wash-"feel-good"
commercial for Islam.
At the same time, I am glad that PBS...with the sponsorship (payment) by
a whole list of Middle-Eastern surnames (none Israeli, of course) have produced this
film.
It should be shown...and re-shown in every church and synagogue of the United States
and every freedom-loving country of the planet.
I was actually suprised at some of the things that made it into the film.
For example, the imam (in Michigan) remarking that he thought some Muslims actually
felt more freedom to worship as Muslims in the USA...than they had in their Muslim
homelands.
(Hello Mr. Imam...that's because you are in a FREE country based on JUDEO-CHRISTIAN
PRINCIPLES!!! Get a freakin' clue!!!)
And the stories about The Prophet Muhammed.
They left out the unfavorable stuff for the most part, such as "oh, I must have
been demon-possessed when I posited that part of my theology...I'm making a 180-degree
turn from what I previously said!"
OR
The Prophet marrying a 9-year-old female and getting down to bidness.
(if that was in there, I must have been in the kitchen...)
But the one thing that got me was the story about The Prophet not being omniscient.
E.G., in the preparation for one battle, The Prophet is asked by a subordinate
something like "hey, did you get this plan to defend this small waterhole hole
from above or yourself?...
maybe a move to a bigger waterhole and denying it from our enemy in this desert sounds like
a better idea"...to which this "last prophet" says "OK".
What got me about this passage was this:
We might smile at this "WWJD; What Would Jesus Do?" phrase...
but here we have a Last Prophet and his obedient followers aren't asking
"What Would Muhammad Do?"...they are TELLING Muhammad wht to do...and Muhammad,
like any rational, flesh-'n-blood mortal meekly says "OK".
I don't recall any passage of The Gospels of the New Testament where I was getting
a feeling that Jesus was saying "What Would Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, or
the rest of the Twelve do?".
OK, call this a religiously prejudicial, bigoted point of view...but that is the way
I see this "Last Prophet".
Overall, I do give the show decent marks for the latter parts about the life
of Muhammad (at least as most Muslims apparently see it).
Muhammad was apparently wise in the ways of business, warfare, statecraft, and
picking up the babes (including the financial assets of his first wife).....
but a real Last Prophet to eclipse a figure like Jesus?
I don't think so.
"Muhammad, Legacy of A Prophet" and the unblinking Frontline special "Muslims" need to
be shown in ALL Churches, Synagogues, and Schools in the USA.
The world of Islam will soon find their public affairs campaign (e.g., getting terrorism
expert Steven Emerson banned from National Palestinian, er, Public Radio) screeching to a halt.
If not retreating to the middle of the desert...where it belongs.
8 posted on
12/21/2002 1:59:57 PM PST by
VOA
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