Islam: What the West Needs to Know

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Movie
German title Islam: What the West Needs to Know
Original title Islam: What the West Needs to Know
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Gregory M. Davis
production Quixotic Media ,

Islam: What the West Needs to Know is a documentary from 2006. According to the producers, the film examines Islam and Islamic violence against non-Muslims. The production company is Quixotic Media. The film shows discussions about religious texts and interviews with Robert Spencer (American writer and religious scholar), Srđa Trifković , Bat Ye'or (British author, warns of the Islamization of Europe ), Abdullah Al-Araby and Walid Shoebat (according to their own statements a former PLO activist and now a critic of Islam).

The film premiered at the American Film Renaissance Festival in Hollywood on January 15, 2006, and had limited release in Chicago, Washington DC, and Atlanta in the summer of 2006.

The film argues that Islam is a violent religion that seeks world domination.

Synopsis

The documentation uses material from the Islamic scriptures as a source and is presented in six parts:

1. There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet : In the first part the commentators state that what they call Islamic violence is based on the teachings of Muhammad and that the Koran prescribes and sanctions violence against unbelievers.
2. The fight: In the second part defines Walid Shoebat the jihad as a struggle to bring the will of Allah over the world. This leads to a holy war being waged against the non-Muslim world in order to bring them under Islamic rule.
3. Expansion: In the third part, Bat Ye'or describes the expansion of Islam through conquest and presents historical evidence of the enslavement and massacre of non-Muslims by Muslims.
4. War is deception: In the fourth part Robert Spencer , Walid Shoebat and Abdullah Al-Araby explain their view of the Islamic concept of Taqiyya . This is sanctioned lying to spread the religion of Islam.
5. More than a religion: The fifth part explains that Islam is totalitarian and regulates every area of ​​life. This is just like it is with communism .
6. The House of War: The last part is about the Islamic division of the world into the House of War and the House of Islam . According to the film, Muslims would submit the House of War and incorporate it into the House of Islam.

Reviews

Lawrence Toppman of the Charlotte Observer described the film as thought-provoking and important. Without affirming or denying the central thesis of the film, Toppmann declared: "If your central thesis is true and worth thinking about, then this is the most terrifying film of the 21st century so far."

The Gwinnett Daily Post said it was " mind-blowing ".

Others criticized the film as flawed, overly simplistic and biased and even propagandistic against Islam. Michael Phillips describes it in the Chicago Tribune as a mind-numbing anti-Islamic propaganda work.

In the Washington City Paper, Louis Bayard argues that if the directors “David and Daly had a tiny bit of imagination, they might be able to see that the devil they are hunting is not Islam, but fundamentalism, the takes many forms. Even documentaries. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 'Hot-button film should provoke discussions now' by Lawrence Toppman ( Memento October 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), The Charlotte Observer
  2. ↑ Message of 'Islam' bogged down by boring delivery ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gwinnett Daily Post . 7 July 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gwinnettdailypost.com
  3. ^ Then Gire, "War and terrorism: What more could moviegoers want?", Chicago Daily Herald , July 7, 2006, p. 37.
  4. ^ "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" ** 1/2 - Chicago Sun-Times . 7 July 2006
  5. ↑ 'Movie reviews:' The War Tapes' and 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know' by Michael Phillips ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Chicago Tribune  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / metromix.chicagotribune.com
  6. ↑ Movie reviews: 'The War Tapes' and 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know'  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : " Another war-related documentary out this week is eminently censure-worthy, but I believe in a free country, where even deadly dull anti-Islam propaganda pieces can book a theater and try to attract an audience. " In German: "Eine Another war documentary published this week is particularly worthy of censorship, but I believe in a free country in which even mind-numbing anti-Islamic propaganda works can book a cinema and try to attract viewers. "@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.chicagotribune.com  
  7. ↑ Islam: What the West Needs to Know : " If Davis and Daly had a little imagination, they might see that the devil they're chasing isn't Islam but fundamentalism, which assumes many forms. Even documentaries. "