Sunday, December 15, 2002 2:30:31 PM EST

PBS is planning a special series of 'documentaries' designed to 'counter negative images' of Islam in America. In other words, pro-Islam propaganda. The following was originally an Omega Letter Intelligence Digest Special Subscriber's Report, but we feel more people need to know what is being done by your government in your name using your money.

Special Report: PBS To Set Record Straight on Islam

The Public Broadcasting System, paid for by taxpayer funds, grants from private foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation, and 'from viewers like you' plans to run a two-hour apologetic for the prophet Mohammed as part of an effort to 'counter negative images' of Muslims, according to its creators.

The documentary, according to producer Alex Kronemer, an American convert to Islam with a master's degree in theology from Harvard University, sets out to prove that "every Muslim is not Osama bin Laden".

Sounds reasonable enough, until you think that through for a second. Do YOU think that every Muslim is Osama bin Laden? No? Me neither.

If there are six billion people on earth and 2 billion of them are Muslim, if every Muslim were Osama bin Laden, the entire planet would be engaged in hand-to-hand combat at this second.

So what is the real purpose of the documentary? Kronemer explains that, "Americans get most of their images about Islam and Muslims from the headlines. Demonstrations and shouting in the streets makes the news, and those images are repeated."

Kronemer, a Muslim, wants to show the 'other side' of Islam - the side of Islam that Kronemer admits can't be seen by the casual observer -- you know, the REAL Islam.

The examples he cites of 'demonstrations and shouting in the streets' isn't REAL Islam, as everybody from the White House to this taxpayer funded religious 'documentary' would have us believe. The real Islam, nay, the VAST MAJORITY of Islam -- isn't like that.

Let's individualize this for a second and see how it sounds. Admittedly, the analogy isn't perfect, but it DOES provide a basis for comparison.

Let's pretend that Islam is a guy named Fred. Fred prays six times a day. Whenever you see him, he is either praying, or he is fighting with his neighbors. Every time one of his neighbors does something that offends him, he beats up one of his neighbor's kids.

If the parents object, he burns down their house. If they call the police, he kills one of his neighbors at random in retaliation. Everybody in the neighborhood is terrified of Fred.

After a while, Fred gets arrested. His lawyer tells the court that what they see isn't the REAL Fred. The REAL Fred is the guy who prays for his neighbors six times a day. It's the BAD Fred that then goes out and kills them.

The PROSECUTOR introduces a video of Fred produced BY Fred with money extorted from his neighbors showing Fred praying FOR his neighbors. No other witnesses are allowed to testify about the bad Fred.

The DEFENSE says Fred is misunderstood. The PROSECUTOR 'counters' that Fred is really a peaceful guy who is basically misjudged based on 'incorrect perceptions' of what Fred's neighbors observed.

And while the trial is going on, neighborhood houses keep going up in flames, neighbors keep dropping like flies, and the jury judges Fred based on the 'evidence'.

If that doesn't qualify as a fair trial for an individual, how then does a taxpayer-funded apologetic for Islam produced by a Muslim who says up front it is propaganda designed 'to counter negative images' (translation: negative public observations) qualify as a 'documentary'?

Answer: It doesn't. It qualifies as taxpayer-funded religious proselytizing MASQUERADING as a 'documentary'.

Now, I am not just tilting at windmills, here. Can you imagine a taxpayer-funded documentary produced by Jerry Falwell airing on PBS dedicated to proselytizing Christianity?

There are such programs -- they are called 'religious broadcasts' and it is illegal to use a single dollar of federal money in their production or distribution under the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution.

(Or else it wouldn't be illegal to pledge 'One America under God' in public).

But "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" will air on most of the 349 PBS affiliates nationwide Dec. 18. The Washington DC PBS station will broadcast the program Dec. 26.

PBS also plans to rebroadcast "Muslims," a two-hour "Frontline" special, on Dec. 19. (Merry Christmas)

This is the equivalent to a PBS broadcast on the success of Christianity entitled, "Jesus, Legacy of the Son of God", except you will never see that on PBS. It's illegal.

But PBS points proudly to its record, saying it also produces documentaries about Christianity. For example, what about "From Jesus to Christ", for example?

That 'documentary' traces the 'transformation' of the 'real' Jesus from a Jewish carpenter to the Christ of Christian 'mythology'. There! Don't you feel better now?

Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and author of "Militant Islam Reaches America," said yesterday that he had only "seen advance materials" of the production.

"But all of this suggests that the American taxpayer is subsidizing an attempt to proselytize Islam in America," according to Pipes.

In the past two weeks, Pat Robertson took on President Bush, who visited a Washington mosque Dec. 5 and praised Muslims who "lead lives of honesty, integrity and morality."

In interviews with The Washington Times and ABC, Robertson called Islam "violent at its core," and said that President Bush should refrain from religious commentary, as he "is not elected as chief theologian."

ABC characterized the dust-up as "a theological dispute which is driving a political wedge between President Bush and some of his conservative Christian allies."

A 'THEOLOGICAL dispute'? Between what theologians? Is the president a secular politician or an Islamic theologian? ABC doesn't say.

(But you can bet Peter Jennings would question Bush's role as 'chief theologian' as loudly as Robertson did, had Bush said that Christianity "'draws the world's attention to it's basic tenets, its message of peace and tolerance, and also it's contribution to mankind' as he said of Islam at the conclusion of Ramadan)

Good grief! A 'theological dispute' that sparked World War Three with the deaths of three thousand Americans on September 11, 2001? THAT 'theological' dispute?

Meanwhile, representatives from PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) said yesterday that they have received NO negative responses from viewers about the new program, or its scheduled air time of Christmas week. (Who knows? Maybe YOU can be first. But you'll have to race me)

The project is funded by a veritable 'Who's Who' of special interest groups -- mostly Islamic. (In addition to your tax dollars)

The program has received money from CPB's Diversity Fund, which has granted $1.2 million to five other projects that create "a biography of American culture and society in the 21st century," according to CPB President Robert Coonrod.

Funds have also come from Arabian Bulk Trading Ltd., the El-Hibri Foundation, the Sabadia Family Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Irfan Kathwari Foundation, the Qureishi Family trust, and about 4,000 individuals, according to the Islam Project, a nonprofit group that publicizes Muslim issues here and abroad.

PBS will offer educational materials on Islam at its Web site, beginning this weekend, including a "virtual Hajj" - the pilgrimage to Mecca required of Muslims - interactive timelines, a discussion forum and "more information about Muhammad and women, violence, other religions, the Koran, the Jews of Medina and America."

The show has generated the interest of the National Council of International Visitors and the Interfaith Alliance, which plan to organize local community viewing and discussion groups, according to the State Department's Office of International Information Programs.

(No word on when the State Department plans to organize special community groups to watch a documentary on Christ funded by the Southern Baptist Conference, the National Organization of Evangelicals, Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, the International Christian Coalition and federal tax money and written by Hal Lindsey and Jack Kinsella - stay tuned)

Clearly, you will be waiting a long, long time to see any evangelical Christian group get a federally funded, Spirit-filled documentary of the theology of Christ and the legacy of Christianity onto PBS.

The PBS documentary is part of a federal effort to rehabilitate Islam and thereby appease Islam without appearing to appease Islam in the hope of avoiding all out war with the Islamic world.

Except for one detail. The Islamic world has ALREADY declared all-out war with the West, both in word and deed.

Still, promoting Islam in America is a federal effort, while the same federal government continues to do all it can to eradicate Jesus from the public discourse.

But the best efforts of the world to deny Jesus serve only to prove the accuracy of Scripture and reality of Jesus as Savior. Jesus explained this principle during His earthly ministry. It was Jesus Himself Who set the standard by which we would know the truth.

"I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." (John 5:43)

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2002