Fox to air “Inside Islam: Faith vs. Fanatics”
This was a documentary produced for PBS’ “America at a Crossroads” series. But then PBS didn’t like the conservative partners nor the substance of the documentary so they refused to air it.
“Inside Islam: Faith vs. Fanatics,” hosted by E.D. Hill, airs at 9 p.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 20, on the FOX News Channel.
FOX To Air Controversial Documentary on Islam
The film, also produced by Islamism expert Alex Alexiev, follows the stories of moderates at the flashpoints of jihadism: politician Naser Khader in Denmark, filmmaker Mohammed Sifaoui in France, talk-show host Tarek Fatah in Canada, former Nation of Islam member Edmond Abdul Hafeez in Chicago and Sheikh Kabbani, a Flint, Mich., imam who warned State Department officials of Usama bin Laden’s terrorism influence three years before the Sept. 11 attacks.“The cancer that is within our community is I don’t believe the majority,” said Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Wisconsin-born Muslim who lives in Arizona, in the film. “I think it’s a minority, it’s a minor, minor, minor, minority that are radicalized or violent but the majority I believe look at the lens of politics through an Islamist lens.
“If we give them and let them handle the mantle of religion that they seek to exploit for their own geo-political issues all over the globe, then we are really going to lose this war.”
After viewing the film PBS executives in charge of the “America at a Crossroads” series told the filmmakers that it was “alarmist” and “overreaching” and that PBS would not run it.
Burke and Gaffney, a former Reagan administration official, said that they made a series of changes to accommodate PBS. Ultimately, however, they concluded the problem wasn’t their film, but liberal bias at PBS.
In an interview with FOX News, Burke makes explosives charges about the PBS executives he dealt with, Jeff Bieber and Leo Eaton.
“In the first meeting, they said to me, ‘Fire your partners.’” Burke said. “And I said ‘Why?’ They said, ‘Because they are conservatives.’”Burke said the PBS executives most forcefully objected to Gaffney’s involvement, asking, “‘Don’t you check into the politics of the people you work with?’ I said ‘No. I never have and I never will.’
“I had done a film on the Hollywood 10 on blacklisting in Hollywood where the leftwing was blacklisted and now it was the left trying to blacklist the right,” he added. “I thought I was living in an Alice in Wonderland mirror image.”
Way to go Fox. Isn’t it wonderful that taxpayer dollars go to the censorship channel - PBS!


















I’m so glad that FOX is showing this!
And no, I do not appreciate my tax dollars going to PBS.
(But then I’m not happy with where a lot of my taxes go.)
Comment by yankeemom — October 20, 2007 @ 10:26 am
My thanks to Fox News !
Has PBS offered an explanation ?
Comment by Alan Bernson — October 20, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
PBS’s explanation, “We don’t air shit!” Sounds good enough for me.
LOL!
Comment by MPA — October 22, 2007 @ 5:55 am