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Islam: What the West Needs to Know (2006)

Islam: What the West Needs to Know poster
Directed by
Gregory M. Davis, Bryan Daly
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary collects interviews with several commentators who discuss passages from Islamic texts. The commentators argue that these texts promote violence and intolerance.

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What happens

Islam: What the West Needs to Know is a 2006 propaganda film produced by Quixotic Media. It features discussions using passages from religious texts and includes commentaries by Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Bat Ye'or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and Walid Shoebat. The film premiered at the American Film Renaissance Festival in Hollywood on January 15, 2006, and had a limited theatrical release in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta in summer 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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