PBS: Wrong About Islam

PBS has decided to kill a film, financed by your federal tax dollars, because there isn't sufficient pro-Islamic influence:

The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.

Key portions of the documentary focus on Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix and his American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a non-profit organization of Muslim Americans who advocate patriotism, constitutional democracy and a separation of church and state. Martyn Burke says that the Public Broadcasting Service and project managers at station WETA in Washington, D.C., excluded his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, from the series America at a Crossroads after he refused to fire two co-producers affiliated with a conservative think tank.

Concerning on its face, but read more:

Burke wrote that his documentary depicts the plight of moderate Muslims who are silenced by Islamic extremists, adding, "Now it appears to be PBS and CPB who are silencing them." A Jan. 30 news release by the corporation listed Islam vs. Islamists as one of eight films to be presented in the opening series.

And therein is the Large Deal: the perspective of the film -- because it seeks to portray "moderate Muslims" who are "silenced" by Muslim extremists.

Because PBS, as we must know, cannot even remotely envision such a thing as an "extremist" Muslim -- that would, after all, be judgmental.

Hypocrisy at its best -- and your tax dollars used to fund the film -- then not allowed to run? Whom are PBS deluding?

Another reason to know why we are taking steps down the same road as Europe with regard to Islam.

Please read my Monday post.

POSTSCRIPT:

1. It has been announced that Fred Thompson has cancer.

2. Note to aggrieved blacks in re Don Imus: people will respect you when you respect yourself culturally. You figure it out (and that's about all the space in my blog this issue deserves).

BZ