Why a Liberal Film Maker Changed His Mind About Islam

Eric Allen Bell

Please read this article and share it with your multiculturalist friends: The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam. It is a documentary film maker, Eric Allen Bell, sharing his story about how he changed his mind about the counterjihad movement, and about how his efforts to share what he learned with his colleagues was completely thwarted by their unwillingness to listen to anything he said. His story is worth reading and worth sharing broadly.

Near the end of his story he makes it clear he is not a conservative. Bell writes, "I still oppose the invasion of Iraq. I still feel that all wars should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. I still think that George W. Bush was one of the worst things to happen to America in my lifetime."

And yet in almost the same breath, he writes something that will fry the brains of many liberals who read it. And I believe that while the brain is frying, perhaps the mind may open. Bell writes:

Where do I stand on Islam? Let’s look at its founder — a man who raped a 9 year old girl, a slave owner, a leader who ordered people to be tortured, for adulterers to be stoned, for countless nonbelievers to be beheaded, a killer, a warmonger who spread his “religion of peace” by the sword, a man who suffered from hallucinations of voices telling him to do violent things, a tyrant, a homicidal maniac perhaps the equivalent of 100,000 Osama Bin Ladens. And this sadistic lunatic is considered to be the “ideal man” in Islam. What more needs to be said about Islam than that?

So in this climate where innocent people are killed when Korans are burned, when there are riots and bomb threats and killings over cartoons that offend Muslims, when a novelist such as Salman Rushdie is advised by Indian intelligence authorities that it is unsafe for him to enter the country to attend the world’s largest literary festival, when Muslims outside the festival threaten violence such that the festival organizers decide to cancel even patching in a video of Rushdie for the conference, in a world where a man, Theo Van Gough, was shot a couple dozen times in broad daylight, then stabbed, then had a sword rammed into his heart on the sidewalk of a European street simply for making a 10 minute film about the mistreatment of Muslim women — in such a world that is constantly terrorized by Islamic militants whose insanity is co-opted by an army of Liberal bloggers who make excuses for them — who tell us that 911 was probably our fault — what will become of my documentary when I finish it?  

Read the whole article here.

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Liberals Against Orthodox Islam

The counterjihad movement just keeps getting better. Here is a 115-page informative PDF document entitled, "Why All Democrats Need to Start Speaking Out Against Islamic Indoctrination and Supremacist Islam." Here's the table of contents:

1. Manifesto against totalitarianism
2. Islam, orthodox Islam and Islamism
3. Getting a better understanding of Islam
4. Online resources used in this document
5. The incompatibility of Islamic doctrines with fundamental Western values
6. Major concerns related to the indoctrination pandemic
7. The unrestricted export of Islamic doctrine to the free world
8. Why conservative Islam critics need to welcome liberals into the movement
9. Developing strategies to counter Islamic indoctrination and protect human rights

Check it out and share it with your liberal-leaning friends and family: PDF Document.

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Self-Pointing

Not all people who are against Islamic expansion unfairly overgeneralize. But someone who thinks so is overgeneralizing.

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Stockholm Pro-Freedom Rally Distorted in Mainstream Media

An injured policeman is helped to an ambulance after being
hit in the face by missiles thrown by orthodox Muslims
and their supporters.

The following was written by Elsa Schieder (read more about her here):

There has been a first — a meeting, a rally, in Stockholm of many major anti-jihad groups. People like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller were there, flew from the States to be there.

And then ...

Sometimes something just pushes my buttons — like the utter intentional misreporting of the Stockholm pro-freedom anti-jihad rally by the mainstream media.

The rally was smeared as "far right" (not once, but 4 times, in a short article). That the rally was counter-jihad was mentioned, but put in quotes ("counter-jihad") — as if that's not what we're really about, as if we only pretend to be anti-jihad.

Then of course there was the reference to "anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people," but of course no reference to the many more killed by Islamic fanatics, like the more than 3000 in the little incident in New York involving 2 airplanes and a couple of buildings. Of course, as well, there was no mention of the fact that Anders himself claims to have been inspired by ... Al-Qaeda.

On and on and on  —  a mass of lies and distortions. So the police, in the mainstream report, had to keep the "far right" group and another group apart. Why? Nothing is mentioned in the article. But it's obvious — the other side (positively designated as anti-racist, more than once) was violent. Several people in fact had to be arrested.

To find out why, I had to turn to very non-mainstream media (anti-jihad media, in fact) — Robert Spencer's JihadWatch and Pamela Geller's AtlasShrugs. It's also only there that I learned that a policeman may lose an eye — due to the screaming, raging "anti-racist" group, not the supposedly far right one.

For accurate information, turn to:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Aug 5 news

http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Aug 5 news

What do the distortions let us know? What powerful forces we're up against.

All the best to all of us who care to preserve Western freedoms,

Elsa


PS. This makes it all the more important to hear about us as people, as in the teleseminar sseries I'm putting together.
http://worldtruthsummit.com/

PPS. For the mainstream version of the event, here are a couple of sources:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/sweden-counter-jihad-rally-outnumbered-anti-racists-181302639.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/04/us-sweden-farright-idUSBRE8730IF20120804

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Quotable Quote From a British Writer

“This is what makes people in this country wary of Islam in many of its forms, in one place or another: the centrality and inescapability of religion, the loss of freedom of thought and expression, the harshness of sharia (Islamic law), the patriarchal suppression of women, including their inequality under sharia, the medieval punishments for apostasy, adultery and even theft, the insistence on a cruel form of animal slaughter, the violence and anti-Semitism of many sacred texts, the disinclination to integrate with the host culture and finally one can argue the incompatibility of theocratic Islam with democracy. To find all those things alarming as possibilities is not to be Islamophobic or racist. It is to be reasonable from a western point of view.”

- Minette Marrin

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