Obsession: Not a cologne sample in your N&O

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12:48 pm — Film, Media, National, News, Politics — By David Fellerath

Subscribers of the News & Observer, and more than 70 other newspapers across the country, found a DVD inserted into their papers this morning. The film is a documentary called Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West. The film itself is two years old, and it is now receiving its second major push. The last time this film—and its South African director Wayne Kopping—appeared in the media was two years ago, on the eve of the 2006 election.

Now the movie—an inflammatory but otherwise unoriginal hash of Middle Eastern news footage of jihadists and interviews with right-wing talking heads like Alan Dershowitz and Daniel Pipes—is in our faces again. Over at the N&O, the editorial staff seems none too happy about the paper’s decision to accept the ad placement from a group called The Clarion Fund. See today’s front-pager by Yonat Shimron to see more about the paper’s efforts to identify the motives and people behind The Clarion Fund ...

Two years ago, the film was broadcast on Fox News ...

http://www.indyweekblogs.com/triangulator/

Controversial film on Islam delivered nationwide
Paid newspaper insert stirs anger
YONAT SHIMRON, Staff Writer


... The two-year-old film was produced by Raphael Shore, a Canadian who lives in Israel, and was directed by Wayne Kopping of South Africa. When no traditional distributors picked it up, the film was screened on college campuses .... Despite the disclaimer, the film features prominent anti-Muslim pundits, including Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson and Walid Shoebat, who told the Springfield News-Leader -- a Missouri daily -- that "Islam is not the religion of God -- Islam is the devil" .... "If there was a 30-minute DVD warning people against the danger of blacks or Jews, would the N&O distribute it?" asked Safi ... "I must say that this video makes me fear for my safety and the safety of my family since people may not be able to differentiate between Muslims living here in Raleigh and the way Muslims are depicted in this scary film!" said Shadi Sadi, a data analyst in Raleigh.

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/1217021.html

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1. To think that I was once related to the idiots that owned that paper

and many others around the nation.

Well, I'm no longer related and they no longer own those papers.

[Hissyspit]

2. Heh. I got that in my paper today. I just found it a few minutes ago and threw it in the garbage.

Looks like a piece of shit trying to affect the election. Was disgusted to see it and it apparently was in the Chronicle of Higher Education, too?

Would an inflammatory anti-Radical Christianity DVD get accepted? An anti-Neocon DVD? How about an anti-gay DVD? A pro-gay DVD?