URGENT TO ALL in the US – We need your help -- urgent -- next 24 hours Please contact your Senator or Representative and ask them or their staff to attend a special showing and take action. Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 6:30 pm in Room 2247 Rayburn House Office building This is of the documentary “Islam vs the Islamistsâ€. It is about the struggle by moderate Muslims against Islamist extremists. This is the documentary that PBS has blacklisted and that liberals and CAIR are trying to keep from EVER being shown on any network. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has not released distribution rights to the producers, and they are under great pressure from Islamist groups to ban the documentary from ever being shown. The producers are able to do small showings such as this one tomorrow in Congress, and if you can convince your representatives or their staff to attend, CPB may release distribution rights so this excellent documentary can be seen around the world. We all ask why the voices of moderate Muslims are silenced by the extremists, and this documentary answers that question. We cannot permit far left bureaucrats in PBS and the Islamist Lobby groups in Washington DC to silence all voices. Below is some sample language for an email, fax or phone call to your representative. You can find your Congressional representatives’ contact information here: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ The following is a sample letter you can send Dear Congressman/Senator X: I want to bring your attention to an important event on April 25, at 6:30 pm, for you and your staff. The documentary “Islam vs the Islamists,†banned by PBS, will be shown Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in Room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building at 6:30 p.m. This taxpayer-financed documentary, on the struggles by moderate Muslims against Islamist extremism, was dropped for left-wing political reasons from a television series that aired last week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide. Please do not permit PBS to blacklist this documentary on moderate Muslims in the U.S. and overseas. Moderate Muslims are the very people we are trying to protect and encourage. The film itself has been viewed by numerous film professionals and their reviews are uniformly extremely positive. Based on what I’ve read and heard about the documentary, I hope that you and your staff will find it educational and eye-opening. The producers of the film, ABG Films, are trying to obtain distribution rights from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Please direct CPB to release the distribution rights. As a U.S. taxpayer who helped fund this documentary, I would like to be able to see it and to let others worldwide see it. Please do not let PBS stand in the way freedom of speech and journalistic integrity. Event: Showing of CPB-funded, PBS-banned documentary: “Islam vs. the Islamists†Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 – 6:30 pm Place: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building Regards, Your Name Congressional District Contact info
Islamist terrorism is terrorism done to further Islam as believed by its supporters and practitioners; the neologism Islamism is often used in the West to describe the political goals of the phenomenon. Fred Halliday, a British academic specialist on the Middle East, argues that most Muslims consider these acts to be egregious violations of Islam's laws[1] Where such terrorists seek to establish an Islamic theocracy and impose rule of sharia it is sometimes termed 'Islamist. Another widely used expression is Islamic terrorism,[citation needed] and frequently Islamic extremism is also discussed relative to the concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist_terrorism
You really can't censor the English language that way. English is a language of consensual agreement. All of us, individually and together, form the language constantly. Your desired for Islamist not to exist is irrelevant. I might wish that Democrats didn't exist, but I can't solve anything by removing the word "Democrat" from the English language. Here, go spam Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist Islamism is a term used to denote a set of political ideologies holding that Islam is not solely a religion, but also a political system. Islamism holds that Islamic law, or sharia, must be the basis for all statutory laws of society; that Muslims must return to the original teachings and the early models of Islam; and that western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influence on the Muslim world is against Islam. This usage is controversial. Those labeled Islamists usually, if not always, oppose use of the term, maintaining they are simply Muslims, and that their beliefs are a straightforward expression of Islam as a way of life. Some Muslims find it troublesome that a word derived from “Islam†is applied to organizations they consider radical and extreme.