When Are Canadians Going To Wake Up

"Why would PBS want to marginalize progressive Muslim voices?"

Rod Dreher:

"The US media, by and large, gives the leadership of the Muslim community in America largely uncritical treatment, and accepts their duplicitous words at face value. In 'Islam vs. Islamists,' we meet a French Muslim filmmaker living under government protection after having not once but twice gone undercover to document Islamist radicalism in Europe, including the 'double discourse' of Islamists saying one thing to a non-Muslim audience, and quite another when talking to Muslims. I've seen a related phenomenon in person on several occasions, in which Islamist leaders mouth soothing banalities about peace, love and tolerance, but get angry when you point out contradictions between their self-serving rhetoric and the reality of what they believe and advocate. Watching the film last night, I gasped at the grainy clip of several women being stoned to death -- aired after an Islamist imam in Canada said that adulterers should be stoned to death. I've heard the very same thing come out of the mouth of a Dallas lay Islamic leader, twice. (...)

"To be perfectly honest, the film does not give any indication of how widespread the more liberal interpretation of Islam put forth by Dr. Jasser, Sufi Sheikh Hisham Kabbani and others is. One of them interviewed, can't remember who now, said that the great majority of US Muslims just want to get on with their lives, and reject the violence espoused by a radical fringe. But -- and this is important -- he said that their political views are based on an Islamist perspective, which blames America and the West for everything wrong in the worldwide Muslim community, and which wallows in conspiracy theories."

The conflict within Islam is the conflict of our time

The most consequential international story, the one our media are failing to grasp, remains the conflict within Islam. The news is everywhere apparent. Sunnis and Shiites bloody each other in Iraq. The Taliban and al-Qaeda strike other Muslims in Afghanistan. Lebanese leaders are assassinated.. MORE.