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The Third Jihad (2008)

The Third Jihad poster
Directed by
Erik Werth
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary argues that radical Islamists have a plan to undermine American society from within. It uses a document from a terrorism trial to support its claims. The film was shown to some police recruits and generated controversy.

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What happens

The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision For America is a 2008 documentary style film directed by Wayne Kopping of South Africa and Erik Werth. It was produced by Werth and Raphael Shore, a Canadian-Israeli, with financing from the Clarion Project, an organization described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim group. The film dwells on the idea of an alleged threat to the United States by radical Islam using a Muslim Brotherhood document accepted as evidence in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development terror financing trial. Based on the document, the filmmakers contend that radical Islamists are engaging in a "multifaceted strategy to overcome the western world," waging a "cultural jihad" to "infiltrate and undermine our society from within". The film is narrated by Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a controversial Muslim American. The film later created widespread controversy when media discovered that it was being shown to New York Police Department recruits purportedly as a training video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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