Controversial film on Islam delivered nationwide

Source: The News & Observer

The documentary, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," features scenes of Muslim children being encouraged to become suicide bombers, interspersed with those of Nazi rallies. 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.

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Ross said the DVD was timed to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001. He said it is "purely coincidental" that this September also is the holy month of Ramadan.

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Its aim is to liken radical Islam to Nazism and to promote the state of Israel, said Omid Safi, a professor of Islamic Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, who has seen the film several times.

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The DVD has already been inserted into copies of The New York Times distributed in midwestern states. This weekend and next, it is slated to be distributed in many newspapers in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and Colorado, in addition to North Carolina.



Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1217021.html

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I note it is being distributed in battleground states of this election. Daniel Pipes is in the fim.

I suppose, one good thing about it being distributed in news papers is that subscriptions are down.. People cut off the subscriptions first when they are trying to buy milk and gas.

Maybe someone will fund a counter-distribution. You know.. One with some actual fact-y facts in it.

That is the return address on the disc.

anyway, from the articles comment section;

Haven't seen it. can't comment on it.


but this group has sounded off about the Clarion Fund and docudrama;
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/13/81947/1029

this week. We live in PA. My husband sorted the mail, and attached a note to it "? freepers". We have not watched it. I am wondering if we should write refused on it and put it back in the mail. Any suggestions?

on edit: ours did NOT come in a newspaper subscription. It came as regular mail, addressed to my husband.

and sending a note to the editor.

It has "Non Profit Org. US Postage PAID Permit No 49 Freeport NY 11520" on it. :shrug:

in battleground states that way. When it comes bundled with newspapers, it puts a psychological legitimacy with it with some people.

and they'll have to pay return postage...

suck their money dry. the bankroll can't last forever.

they are so obviously rethug, and i have the
misfortune to live in florida...

well, they're just a-okay, right Mr. Ross? :eyes:

to influence them

alas...it's a sure bet....easier to sway people with their prejudices than it is with reason

They don't know they are being manipulated.

-Hoot

Maybe some prefer the easy way out being manipulated buys them? They don't have to think for themselves. They don't have to change. Well nurtured ignorance gives them a sense of security perhaps? You can just exist instead of actively living and nothing is expected from you. So maybe some do know they are being manipulated but since it gives them something in return they don't care?

I'll have to ponder on this some more...

Course, some people truly are ignorant and really don't know any better...I'm just not sure it's a question of all

and before I make a decision on it I will watch it...remember the old adage "know thy enemy"? understanding their future talking points allows you to formulate counterarguments.

in battleground states?

but it won't stop me from seeing it. better to not go into battle armed than go in unarmed.

can you pull yourself away from hate radio and Fox "News" long enough to watch the film?

and the paper happened to have a front page story on how controversial it was

propaganda.

And so what the world doesn't need right now - more hate.

in the same papers, to show what a Palin style presidency could bring.

Didn't he do something similar in 2000 in the bible belt? Things get dim earlier than last week but I think there was something like this in Bush's Brain.

last Sunday's Cincinnati Enquirer. The card on which it was shrink-wrapped has the list of papers in which it was inserted; listed as a "paid advertising supplement" in over 60, including the NYT and WSJ! Papers in OH, IN, MI, PA, CO, IA, FL, WI, NV, NH. Reading who's in it, I'd say it's a neocon-AIPAC&pals propaganda piece to stir up the fear-and-hate gene in "the base." Disgusting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7054722

I hate stuff like this.

MPK

Source: Editor & Publisher

The arrival of tens of millions of DVDs of a controversial DVD on doorsteps around the nation -- but almost exclusively in election "swing states" -- via newspaper home delivery continues this weekend, with explanatory articles and subscriber feedback appearing on some of the papers' Web sites.

The DVDs of the 60-minute film, made in 2005, and titled "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," arrived today with, among other papers, the Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer in Raleigh, with delivery with the Miami Herald and other papers set for Sunday.

... It was shown on Fox News just before the 2006 mid-term elections, and conservative activist David Horowitz screened the film on college campuses during 2007. An article at the group's site, www.radicalislam.org, endorsed John McCain as the strongest candidate this past week, then was pulled down.

An article at the site of the Morning-Call in Allentown, Pa. today reveals that it will be inserted in the Sunday paper there tomorrow. It continues: "A call to Clarion wasn't returned, but the nonprofit's spokesman, Gregory Ross, told the Harrisburg Patriot-News this week that 28 million copies of the DVD are being distributed nationwide throughout September. He said the intent is not to sway voters' opinions about the presidential candidates."

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003849746

:wtf:

Paranoia? To revive Faux News' sagging ratings?

"All we have to fear is fear itself. " - FDR

"Fear: Aside from that . we got nothing. " The fucking GOP

:sarcasm:

and paint this as another neocon trick to make Americans fearful so they would happily die for Israel's cause. He can boldly ask how many would be willing to die to fight for Israeli supremacy?

These newspapers are dying, and we can certainly see one more reason here!

I didn't think of the swing-state thing-- I freaked a bit and thought that */Cheney are readying us for another invasion.

Generally the New-Observer isn't a paper that would back stunts like this.

I see a poster already gave the Clarion site, so I'll just include the packaging:





Reverse side:

and didn't seem to sway the vote...my thoughts are it will just piss off more people because it will remind them of the war...


Side note: I usually throw stuff away that comes with the paper because I figure it's just advertising...

Because everybody has done so well?

supposedly many saw it. It got rave reviews and awards in France but it failed to sway the voters.

Somebody offered the newspaper $ to stuff the paper with that bit of media. The dinosaur print media types can't afford to turn down $ even at the risk of losing more readers..
as if they can survive for another decade as things are today

Americans are already so ignorant about Islam. It's totally irresponsible to be disseminating this view of radical Islam. The NYTimes needs to stop this.

"There is no such thing as bad publicity" an old marketing saying, it's pure propaganda but at the same time it promotes Islam even to those who do not own DVD players. 28 million DVDs offering one view on Islam and there are 1,000s of sites, DVDs and books about Islam, including the Koran, that offer other views.

>>it is slated to be distributed in many newspapers in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and Colorado,
>>in addition to North Carolina.
The small town imams in France and Germany have been complaining these last few years of the big increases in the number of converts to Islam because it is very hard to build larger mosques there - they blame the propaganda for both the increase in new Muslims and their inability to build larger mosques. If I am right about this then the smaller mosques in those states will have the same problem soon.

saw it in the mail bin...i couldn't tell if it came as a part of the latest "Chronicle of Higher Education", or if it just got jumbled in the paper...

When they're showing soundbites from Flush and Insanity, I could see the disque couldn't be salvaged even as a shiny coaster. Religious agitprop. The rape of Belgium nuns tripe. Strange that it would be a slip-in in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Source: Editor&Publisher

Bundled into my Charlotte Observer on this Saturday morning, and this week into approximately 100 newspapers located overwhelmingly in battleground states across the country, there is a kind of 527-fund contribution to the presidential campaign of John McCain.

Under the cloak of an advertising supplement, a one-hour edition of a DVD entitled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” had been attractively packaged and inserted into some 200,000 copies of the McClatchy-owned newspaper. The same happened at the other major McClatchy paper in North Carolina, the Raleigh News & Observer.

Dozens of local newspapers from Altoona to Las Vegas and selected regional editions of the New York Times have been paid to distribute a film designed to spread fear about our national security.

Anyone can see an electoral vote pattern to the targeted areas, with almost all of the battleground or “swing” states represented. (The daily newspapers in only one such state appear to have refused the ad, Minnesota.) These papers have allowed themselves to be caught up in a “neo-con” propaganda scam in the context of the presidential campaign, and during 9/11 week.

As of Saturday, September 13, the rationalizations of the publishers and ad personnel at the two N.C. newspapers were either beggarly excuses for new sources of revenue, or politically naïve in the extreme....

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All in all, the propaganda campaign is a shameful episode for the Fourth Estate.

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003849752

really a bad place to live...and if they steal this election our country will be no more...

Don't know if you are old enough to remember the Old Time Maazine ads, the ones run during the 1980 campaign cycle. There would be this haunting ballad of "You cry and Time is there, You suffer and Time will share," or some such insipid-ness.

Then the TV footage would roll images of various thing - Neil Armstrong planting his foot on the moon, Reagan looking Presidential, Carter looking spooked as he waves a canoe oar at some rabbit or other woodland creature attacking him.

There were always many more shots of Reagan that Carter, and while Reagan was looking his best, Carter was either fighting off the rabbit or looking very weary.

Not only that but you could get a year's subscription to Time magazine for only $ 9.97. And the subscription gave you a radio alarm clock as its gift offer.

Whenever I saw those ads, and the cheap subscription price, and the gift, I thought about how at that time there was about $ 26 bilion a year slated for black op activities, and I always figured that Time magazine was one of them.

It looked like some awful right-wing thing, so I threw it out. Can't say what my neighbors did with theirs, though.

I sent an email that if it showed up in my paper next week I would immediately cancel my subscription...that is beyond the pale!!!

I throw them away ... so will everyone else.

instills fear in the populace helps McPalin.

It's been sitting on my kitchen island like a big fat turd. Haven't had the patience to watch it yet.

...went straight to the trash. :thumbsup:

. . . this was actually inserted into copies of the Chronicle of Higher Education. If you think The New York Times is liberal, the Chronicle is positively socialist. And I do mean positively, being one myself.

Just google The Clarion Fund (the group who put out the dvd) and John McCain and you'll find the link. The truth is The Clarion Fund supports and endorses John McCain. I found it surprising at first but soon realized its a sort of scare tactic. I guess they are trying to scare us into voting for John McCain. The Clarion Fund is a non-profit org who supports John McCain, google them yourself!!

... for all our problems. All the great and evil propagandists of the 20th century did that -- I think I needn't go into details. More than a workaday scare tactic, apparently this film is designed to whip up hate against a certain group -- fill in the blanks. How sad and horrible that it should be here in our country.

Hekate

I've only ever heard it used with the term clarion angels although the dictionary says calrion is self is the sound of a trumpet. There are also clarion angel fish which obviously derrived their named from the clarion angels.

For those of you who get the Columbus Ohio Dispatch, here is the contact information for Phil Pikelny, Chief Marketing VP:

Office Phone Number: 614 461-5222
Email: PPikelny@Dispatch.com

I encourage each of you to contact him and let him know how you view the Dispatch distributing this hate material.