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[QUOTE=Mummy_bean;37035]By the way, that video trailer filled me total despair! To hollywood-ise this stuff in that way is just sickening and helps no one. If you home in on something closely enough you can pull this stuff together. I'm tired of movie makers messing with people's heads like that.

Now THAT in my opinion is manipulation - and you can bet there's fundamentalist Christians behind it!! Can't we just put them all in an arena and leave them too it?


Regarding the DVD "Obsession", it is importamt to get to who funded it and then what do the funders stand for: what do they represent?

Some of this is answered in an edited news article posted below from tbrnews.org.

The DVD is a blatant tool of fear and hate stirring from a Zionist-Neocon lobby group drawn from several groups in US/Israel.

One has to be discerning about propaganda and not be taken in by it. Even so, it does its damage by continuing a project of disinformation. By gradually sifting through truth and falsity, and by education, mind-haze will lift. The haze has been put in place for many centuries to keep you asleep.


From The Asia Times, WASHINGTON -
"A group of hardline United States neo-conservatives and former Israeli diplomats were behind the controversial, allegedly Islamaphobic DVD which was recently distributed in US swing states ahead of November's presidential elections.

"The 60-minute movie, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West , was an initiative of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), but produced by the Clarion Fund, an organization described as a "front" for Israeli group Aish Hatorah.

"The Clarion Fund is based at the same New York address as Aish Hatorah, a self-described "apolitical" group dedicated to educating Jews about their heritage. Its street address, as listed on the group's website and a DVD mailer for the film, is a "virtual address" that goes to a post office box in New York City.

"It seems that the Clarion Fund, from what we can tell, is just a virtual organization that is a front for Aish Hatorah," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). "They don't have staff, they don't have a physical address. Nothing."

"EMET takes a hardline position identified with Israel's right-wing Likud Party and the "Settler Lobby". EMET opposes any land concession to Palestinians.
A group of hardline United States neo-conservatives joined forces behind the DVD, distributed in US swing states ahead of November's presidential elections.

"While initial press reports about the mass distribution focused on the Clarion Fund's financing role, it was EMET that organized and oversaw the distribution, EMET's spokesman and a former press officer for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Ari Morgenstern, told Inter Press Service.

"Morgenstern said EMET was "partnered with the Clarion Fund" on what he called the "Obsession Project"... "an initiative of EMET". ... "It cost a great deal - it's a multi-million-dollar effort."

"Like hardline neo-conservatives, EMET opposes any land concessions to Palestinians and takes other hardline positions identified with Israel's right-wing Likud Party and the ''Settler Lobby'' there.

"Foreign nationals and companies, and domestic tax-exempt non-profit organizations, are prohibited by federal election law from attempting to sway US elections at any level through either contributions to campaigns or advocacy....the Washington-based CAIR has filed a complaint asking the Federal Election Commission to review the actions of the Clarion Fund both as a foreign entity and as a non-profit outfit.

"Morgenstern, the Endowment for Middle East Truth or EMET's spokesman, said that the DVD distribution only went to "swing states" because media attention was focused there, and EMET was hoping to spark a public debate about the threats posed by" radical Islam".

"Two weeks ago, EMET sponsored a seminar series on Capitol Hill for the controversial multi-billionaire casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Adelson, who is a major donor to right-wing Zionist organizations in the US, such as the far-right lobby group, Freedom's Watch and the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC).

"Notable members of the advisory board of the DVD include prominent hardline neo-conservatives include Center for Security Policy (CSP) president Frank Gaffney; former Central Intelligence Agency chief James Woolsey; and Heritage Foundation fellows Ariel Cohen and Nina Shea, who has served for years on the quasi-governmental US Commission for International Religious Freedom.

Source: TBRNews.org Article: A Dangerous Obsession.

Please note: Zionism and Shiites have little to nothing in common.

What is radical Islam? Radical is from late Latin radicalis, from Latin radix, radic- "root".

In truth all people ought to become radical when it means to go back to their own roots. Forget placing attention on "radical Islam" for the moment.

The shift to truth at this moment in history by many Westerners, pushed there by an uncertain future thanks to greed, power and control megolamania, is part and parcel of a "radicalization" process and we are all in it the moment we begin to wake up from a deep civilizational sleep.

Just as "jihad" can be taken negatively, as a movement to destroy what is seen as the evil in others; the proper and root meaning of the word, is to root out the evil in oneself.