Jasser Calls the Mainstream Media Facilitators for Radical Islamists

M. Zuhdi Jassar, former U.S. Naval Officer and president of AIFD, has authored an excellent article criticizing MSM generally for enabling Islamists. His main emphasis is PBS's recent decision to censor a story on how moderate Muslims who support Western society are under fire from Wahhabi / Salafi Islamists in their midst:

I have previously discussed the harm of our government’s enabling of Islamists (like CAIR, MPAC, MAS, MSA, or ISNA) in the United States and how the governmental endorsement of Islamists publicly empowers them and allows them to dodge their responsibility of countering Islamism as an ideology. This order of magnitude is greater in impact when it concerns the media’s inability to wage the debate of the “struggle for the soul of Islam”. Stories about Islam and Muslims have been more and more ubiquitous since 9-11 and now are actually commonplace. Yet, the actual debate within the Muslim community has barely begun. Where’s the disconnect? Look no further than the Islamist enablers in the media.

When so many ask across the nation, “where are the moderate voices of Islam?”, one cannot help lately but exclaim that they are being suffocated by misguided political correctness and by Islamist influence within mainstream media and government. The PBS censorship of the documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, highlights one of the best examples to date of the symbiosis of both government complicity and media complicity with the Islamist ideology.

Read the entire article here. It is very good. And if you have not let PBS and your representatives in government how you feel, please by all means do so. You can find contact information at the bottom of the post here.