By Andrew L. Jaffee

PBS is at it again, promoting Muslim extremists instead of moderates (normal people). Why? The PBS apparatchiks are afraid — very afraid. They believe they can save themselves from Islamist terrorism by appeasing the terrorists. History has proven this tactic wrong. Investor’s Business Daily catalogs the latest attempt by PBS at politically-correct sanitization, concluding, “PBS’ documentary whitewashes the Islamist threat inside the country. It could have just as easily been scripted by CAIR propagandists:”

Islamofascism: PBS just aired a “documentary” intended to chronicle “the diversity of Muslim life in America.” So why does it give so much face time to anti-American Islamists?

Secular Muslims who want to reform Islam are nowhere to be found in producer Robert MacNeil’s film, “The Muslim Americans,” part of a PBS series called “America at a Crossroads.” Instead, extremists masquerading as moderates are lionized.

Take Sheik Hamza Yusuf, who has a starring role. According to MacNeil, the California imam preaches “tolerance” and “peace,” and even hiply incorporates the “Super Bowl” into his sermons. This, we are told, is the progressive face of Islam in America.

To prove Yusuf’s bona fides as a moderate and a patriot, MacNeil notes that he was one of the Muslim clerics invited to the White House after 9/11. But he leaves out the fact that just two days before the attacks, the same imam suggested in a speech to Muslims that America deserved severe punishment. …

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Related: Islam, War Against Islamo-fascism, Political Correctness, Media/Blogsphere

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