Re: PBS and Islam

rich hammett <bubbarichau@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
olisi pitänyt tietää KUKA SINÄ OLET, Ralph Kennedy:

Did the controversy between FOX and PBS finally
get settled? I was watching TV last night when suddenly
this show called "Voices of Islam" came on. It seemed
to be the show that PBS previously had refused to put
on, but I don't know for sure. All I can say is that
I was very impressed with it, it wasn't mamby-pamby at
all, and painted a very hostile picture of radical Islam,
making it very clear that they are a bunch of murderous
bums out to silence by force any moderate, law-abiding
Muslim who dares to speak out against them.

I was also shocked to see that a good 10 minutes
or so of the program was dedicated to the sinister
Imams at the Tempe mosque that is only a few blocks
away from me as I type. I'd had no idea that that
particular mosque was in any way controversial.

I suspect Fox was mad because it left out the fact
that Jesus is going to laugh at Muslims as they are
sent to hell.

Not addressed to you in particular, but by the way,
I'm not sure if it could be inferred anyway, but I didn't
make it crystal clear that last night I was watching PBS
(I just said "TV," which is vague) and saw *their*
documentary. I already saw a lot of the FOX one a few
weeks ago, where every commercial some dizty broad came
on to gush on and on about how FOX was showing it because
PBS refused to. They were making a bigger deal over dissing
PBS than the actual Muslim extremist threat.

--Ralph Kennedy {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
{allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
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-xyzzy, 2/16/07
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