via Solomonia.
CAIR is fighting the distribution of Obsession by filing a complaint with the FEC, which leads Robert Spencer to observe:
This is a very revealing action for CAIR to take. It reveals in particular two key aspects of CAIR’s mindset:
1. It shows that CAIR is fully aware that the jihad against Israel is an integral part of the global jihad, and is not just a struggle to recover Palestinian “stolen land.” Thus a film that reveals the nature and goals of that global jihad — Obsession — benefits Israel.
2. It also shows that CAIR believes that John McCain will fight against the global jihad in a way that Barack Obama will not — and that it believes therefore the distribution of an anti-jihad film, which in a sane world would be welcomed by both the Left and the Right since the global jihad wishes to destroy and remake the West utterly, must be some partisan plot.
CAIR’s complaint echoed here is that the video is encouraging people to support McCain. (via memeorandum)
If it does, it’s clearly not doing it openly. However Seth Leibsohn makes a point about the bipartisanship shown on “Obsession.”
But not all newspapers are accepting the advertisement. And in the quest to keep the DVD out of the hands of too many Americans, some journalists are betraying their own ignorance. Take Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. Olbermann recently said Obsession is “neocon pornography.†I can only imagine what Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz must have thought of this comment, he being one of the most prominently featured experts in the documentary. Professor Alan Dershowitz, a supporter of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama, and an opponent of the Iraq war, would be just about the last person to think of himself as a neoconservative.
Maybe ask Dershowitz if he thinks this is campaigning? My guess is that if he thought it was, he’d have objected up front.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
