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PBS may also be charged with having broadcast religious propaganda in place of balanced educational, instructional, and public information material, despite elaborate claims to the contrary. The Muslim Brotherhood, in a 1991 memoir, spoke of its "work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within." The role played by radical individuals in a PBS broadcast and website raises many serious questions, not just for the trustees of PBS, but for national agencies responsible for accuracy in the U.S. media. If PBS does not publicly correct this confusion and revoke its association...

For two astonishing hours on Wednesday night, the PBS network in the U.S. broadcast a new film devoted entirely to religious propaganda, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. Innocent viewers received no warning. The listings implied that we were to see a documentary, which usually means a mixture of fact and argument, the sort of thing PBS broadcasts on Iraq, Benjamin Franklin, or for that matter, Jesus Christ. But most of those who sat through Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet must have realized eventually that this was no documentary. It was an Islamic sermon on film. PBS documentaries often display grievous...