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Sunday, 22 May 2011 Shelbyville Times Gazette: Film is "disappointing and intellectually dishonest" by Jerry Gordon http://www.newenglishreview.org/images/clear.gif Somali Muslim woman at Pledge of allegiance ceremony- a scene from Welcome from Shelbyville An <http://www.t-g.com/story/1729821.html> editorial in the Sunday edition of the Shelbyville Times Gazette, "Spotlight on Shelbyville may cast shadow on city," cited the PBS documentary, <http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/welcome-to-shelbyville/credits.html> Welcome to Shelbyville as being " disappointing and intellectually dishonest". It noted the patent distortions in this production that our State Department selected to be shown in 38 legations around the world. The film endeavors to portray the problems of 1,100 Somali Muslim emigre workers hired by giant Tyson Foods at its poultry processing plant in this middle Tennesse community of 18,000. The film attirbutes the lack of reception to 'racism and bigotry' rather than the obvious; the cultural conflicts that arose from these un-assimiliable fundamentalist Muslims endeavoring to impose their Sharia Islamic obligations on the core Western Judeo-Christian cultural values of their fellow non-Muslim workers and the community's resident population. Note these comments from the Shelbyville Times Gazette editorial: The filmmakers omitted key events in the film, such as the Eid al Fitr/Labor Day controversy in 2008 and the federal immigration raid in 2001 - events that provide more context as to the feelings and comments of many local residents. Also, many of the "meetings" were scheduled expressly for the filming. We believe viewers should watch with a critical eye -- not the individuals featured, but the narrative and editing of the subject matter. With a filmmaker who drops in from New York City and believes Bedford County is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest (it is not), wording on the film's original Web site that Shelbyville is just a stone's throw from Pulaski, birthplace of the KKK and, in the screening we saw, shows in the early minutes of the film hooded KKK marching down a "Main Street" (not Shelbyville), an objective person must view the film Tuesday with skepticism. An educated view of modern-day integration and assimilation both from native residents and the newcomers is tainted with a "southern racist" overlay. This is disappointing and intellectually dishonest. Filmmaking is storytelling -- it's just what story you're wanting to tell. We hope the final version of the film shown on PBS tells a better, balanced story. Our colleague Ann Corcoran at Refugee Resettlement Watch (RRW) sent out a blast email this morning drawing attention to a media campaign orchestrated by our State Department boosting the controversial documentary, Welcome to Shelbyville . <http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/welcome-to-shelbyville/credits.html> The State Department campaign is timed to coincide with the nationwide release Tuesday evening, May 24th of the film on the PBS Independent Lens series. Corcoran has a background <http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/shelbyville-tn-and -the-truth-behind-the-making-of-a-propaganda-film/> post on the controversial propaganda film on the RRW website. Corcoran noted what we disclosed in our <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/35041> post Friday, "Welcome to Shelbyville?" about links of the production sponsors to Islamic advocacy and voluntary agencies benefitting from the multi-billion dollar State Department refugee resettlement program. We also revealed the Soros and other major foundation funding of immigration advocacy group, Welcoming America, a spinoff of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) that drove the message for this film funded and distributed by our government. Then there is <http://www.newenglishreview.org/Jerry_Gordon/Somalis,_Shelbyville_and_Sever e_Culture_Shock/> AP-award winning Shelybille Times-Gazette reporter, Brian Mosely's indictment of the distortions based on his own experience with the film's team detailed in a lenghty <http://www.t-g.com/blogs/brianmosely/entry/41599/> post, "About Welcome to Shelbyville" on the newspaper's blog, that we put up yesterday, Everyone! [We] need help getting the Shelbyville, TN issue exposed. Briefly, a Soros-funded filmmaking team went to Shelbyville in 2008 in the wake of the Tysons/Somali controversy. They have made a propaganda film that will be released widely in the US this week depicting what they say is a racist town that has now seen the light about Somalis. The US State Department is even promoting the film in a conference call to reporters Tuesday. Yesterday, the Shelbyville reporter, Brian Mosely at the Times-Gazette, revealed the lies the film makers tell about the town and Mosely (who is the films villain). Please help get the Times-Gazette story out. It is really important, Soros and the State Department want to use this film to shame any town that might have problems with a huge influx of third-worlders like the Somalis. Tags: <http://technorati.com/tag/Brian+Mosely> Brian Mosely, <http://technorati.com/tag/+About+Welcome+to+Shelbyville> About Welcome to Shelbyville, <http://technorati.com/tag/+Shelbyville+Times-Gazette+blog+and+editorial> Shelbyville Times-Gazette blog and editorial, <http://technorati.com/tag/+Ann+Corcoran> Ann Corcoran, <http://technorati.com/tag/+Refugee+Resettlement+Watch> Refugee Resettlement Watch, <http://technorati.com/tag/+PBS+Independent+lens+series> PBS Independent lens series, <http://technorati.com/tag/+State+department+refugee+resettlement+program> State department refugee resettlement program, <http://technorati.com/tag/+NER> NER, <http://technorati.com/tag/+The+Iconoclast> The Iconoclast, <http://technorati.com/tag/+Somali+Muslim+emigres> Somali Muslim emigres, <http://technorati.com/tag/+Tyson+Foods> Tyson Foods, <http://technorati.com/tag/+middle+Tennessee+> middle Tennessee http://www.newenglishreview.org/images/clear.gif <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_comment.cfm/blog_id/35094> Submit Your Comment Posted on 05/22/2011 8:08 AM by Jerry Gordon [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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