Given the left-wing slant of much of their tax-funded programming, I’m not surprised. However, a documentary on moderate Islam is being denied airtime.
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.
“I was ordered to fire my two partners (who brought me into this project) on political grounds,” Burke said in a complaint letter to PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supplied funds for the films.
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.”
That’s funny. PBS and CPB never call for firing liberal producers “on political grounds”. They don’t seem to have a problem with taking tax dollars from conservatives, though.
What a crock. “Political grounds” sounds like “we’re afraid of offending pro-Islamist groups like CAIR” to me.
As a taxpayer whose hard-earned money goes to fund “public” television, I’m not taking this nonsense lying down. I finished firing off complaint messages to PBS, CPB, and WETA demanding them to broadcast ‘Islam vs. Islamists’ in its unedited, uncensored entirety — and I strongly encourage you to do the same.
Moderate Muslims who detest terrorism and hatred in their name MUST be heard; let the Thought Police be damned.
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