Dear Publisher/Editor,

Thank you for including a copy of the film ‘Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West' in your newspaper. I appreciate that you stood up against those who would have you suppress freedom of speech. ‘Obsession' was very educational, providing me access to what the radical Islamists say, in their own words.

In particular, it was good how the film made a clear distinction between the radicals, who are the minority, and law-abiding Muslim citizens, who are the majority.

Actually, I am not sure why the Muslim community is so upset about the film. I would think that they would be the first to denounce the radical Islamists who tarnish the name of Islam.
 
They should be speaking out against the radicals instead of condemning the film.

Again, thank you for sending the DVD and doing the right thing.

David Sweet, writing for Raw Story, characterizes the Clarion Fund as a “shadowy group” distributing a 60-minute DVD, titled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West.” The DVD “is being distributed in millions of newspapers across the country this week primarily in swing states,” including Indiana, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New Mexico, and elsewhere in order to “ensure we can all make an informed vote in November,” that is to say vote for the neocon candidate, John McCain. Distributing 145,000 DVDs is a last ditch attempt to keep the neocons in the driver’s seat and stretch out the “clash of civilizations” into the indeterminable future.

(UPDATE 9/13 - 70 newspapers in swing states have been paid to distribute Obsession this weekend and next, which means not all the DVDs have been delivered yet. Check the list at the end of this post to see if your newspaper is one of them, and let them know how you feel about their participation in this shameless propaganda campaign.)

This week, 28 million copies of a right-wing, terror propaganda DVD are being mailed and bundled in newspaper deliveries to voters in swing states. The 60-minute DVDs, titled Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, are landing on doorsteps in a campaign coinciding with the 7th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a shadowy outfit whose financial backers are unclear.

A 2007 Zogby poll discovered that 76 percent of young ArabAmericans report experiencing discrimination. A CNN poll from the same year found that 53 percent of Americans believe conflict between Islam and Christianity is "inevitable," up from 45 percent in 2003.

More than 100 Muslim workers were fired from a Greeley slaughterhouse Wednesday after refusing to report for work a day earlier in protest of the company's refusal to allow a prayer break during the work shift.
 

Another 120 workers — most of them Somalis — broke ranks with the protesters, went back to work Tuesday and kept their jobs, JBS Swift & Co. officials said in a statement.
 

"This action is a direct violation of our collective-bargaining agreement," Swift said of the walkout in a statement. "Employees were told . . . failure to report to work when recalled would result in their immediate termination."