Islamic documentary matinee inside the DOJ on May 19

Posted By Christian Adams On May 9, 2011 @ 6:27 pm In Politics | 1 Comment
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Patrick Poole has been reporting extensively here
<http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/did-obama-and-holder-scuttle-terror-finance-pr
osecutions/>  at Pajamas on the Justice Department scuttling terrorist
prosecutions against "Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
co-founder Omar Ahmad."  Poole reported
<http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pjm-exclusive-holders-doj-scuttled-more-terror
-related-prosecutions/>  a "high-placed DOJ source told me the case was
nixed to prevent embarrassment to the Obama administration and to avoid
inflaming the Muslim community."

Sources at the DOJ tell me that Thursday May 19 will be Islamic movie day at
the DOJ.  A 1pm matinee is scheduled.  Specifically, Civil Rights Division
employees at the DOJ have been invited to take off work, and trek across
town to the 7th floor conference center at Main Justice to view the
documentary film "Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think."  No word on
whether the DOJ will host a sequel called "What the Other 570,000,000
<http://pewforum.org/Mapping-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx>  Muslims
Think."

The invitation says: DOJ staff "are cordially invited to attend a discussion
of the documentary film Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,
based on a major study by the Gallup organization of Muslim public opinion.
The program, hosted by the Civil Rights Division and the Executive Office
for United States Attorneys, will include excerpts from the film, a
presentation by its producers, and an interactive discussion."

The Investigative Project on Terrorism has a pretty thorough description of
one producer of the study/film, Dalia Mogahed
<http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gall
up-or-islamist> .  Hopefully some DOJ lawyers will read it and have the
courage to ask some probing questions at the event. 

The Investigative Project notes this flaw in the methodology of the film:

One huge problem, as Robert Satloff of the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy observed in May 2008, is that Mogahed and Esposito appear to
have arrived at the 7 percent figure by understating by almost half the
percentage of those who believe 9/11 was completely justified. And the pair
completely ignored the additional 23.5 percent who believe 9/11 was
partially justified.

When Satloff looked at their numbers more closely, he found that the
percentage justifying 9/11 was closer to 36 percent, or more than 450
million people. That's about a third of the world's Muslim population.

I don't suspect Eric Holder will be hosting screenings of Islam: What the
West Needs to Know <http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/view_trailer.asp>
anytime soon.

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