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Lawmakers Want PBS to Air Spiked Film on Islam
Fred Lucas
Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) - Members of Congress are weighing in on public broadcasting executives' decision to shelve a documentary on the struggles moderate Muslims in the West face at the hands of radicals.

A special screening of the film "Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center" for members of Congress was sponsored Wednesday evening by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.). The screening drew about 150 people, said Martyn Burke, one of the producers.

"People came up to us afterward asking 'how can we help,'" Burke told Cybercast News Service. On Thursday, Franks drafted a letter, which he hopes other members of Congress will sign, urging the Public Broadcasting Service to air the documentary that it chose to keep out of the series "America at Crossroads."

The letter won't be critical of PBS but will urge the station to air the documentary, said Franks' spokesman, Bethany Barker.

The film - co-produced by Burke, a Hollywood producer, and Frank Gaffney and Alex Alexiev of the Center for Security Policy - deals with the experiences of moderate Muslims who have fallen foul of Islamists.

It also reveals an Islamist agenda including a push to build "parallel societies" in the West governed by Islamic law.

Burke, Gaffney and Alexiev have said PBS decided to shelve the documentary - which cost $675,000 in taxpayers' money to produce - because of censorship.

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Pertinent Links:

1) Lawmakers Want PBS to Air Spiked Film on Islam

2) PBS at a Crossroads - Why is a film on moderate Islam being suppressed?

3) The film PBS doesn't want you to see