Evidently, the filmmaker didn’t finish on schedule. And I think PBS found that the subject matter was too close to another documentary they were airing in the same series – one that was much more sympathetic to the plight of regular Muslims.

As for the unabashed view of the cowing of moderate Muslims, I think that had a lot to do with not showing the film. Too much controversy from their base of liberal givers – the list of which they have sold to state Democratic parties before.

It was striking that PBS in its first meeting with the producers objected to a conservative. It’s pretty obvious they are screening out conservative thought. That’s OK if they want to do it on their own dime but it’s completely unacceptable for them to set up a lefty propaganda bureau with my tax bucks.

Of course, PBS should have broadcast this. Thank goodness for Fox News. I would like to see more documentaries that flesh out a point covered here, which is the Saudi campaign of financing mosques, recruiting, and radicalization as a means of conquering the US, and the West, for Islam.

I have spent over 20 years working in the media and I can absolutely assure you that this is BS. PBS, the Discovery Channel and most others have at least some of their programming picked up by entirely independant producers with no affiliation to the network except as a sales and distribution venue. Even if they felt it wasn’t up to standard, they could have done what many places often do: beef it up – a little re-cutting (as Fox apparently did, I didn’t see it), maybe a different narrator/narration, a more intense music score, some graphics, etc.

This lame, lame excuse really underscores what we expect: it just didn’t fit their agenda.

I really do think a legal case could be made using this as primary evidence, since PBS is taxpayer funded. If someone could compile a list of documentaries PBS has aired with an opposing viewpoint, then much hay could be made and fines imposed using this film – and PBS’ refusal to run it with such a pathetic excuse – as a significant piece of evidence of that prejudice against opposing viewpoints. How, it could be argued, is it in the public good to air only one point of view when a show good enough for Fox News was created which showed an opposing point-of-view? Someone well-placed to launch such a suit against PBS might well consider doing so on those grounds.

So PBS didn’t want it aired on their oh-so righteous stations, so now it’s been seen by thousands more people on FoxNews than on PBS. It was also a good move for Fox to postpone it until Sunday night, as so many viewers were fixated on the murder in Ohio.

One point I found revealing: the Danish
jihadist who said that they were “slaves” to Allah. What a difference between that view and those of us Christians and Jews: we are seen as children of God, Who loves us as His own.