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Islam: What the West Needs to Know
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Wikipedia article
'Islam: What the West Needs to Know' is a 2006 documentary 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.
Critical reception
While some reviewers have had a positive reception to the film,[https://web.archive.org/web/20061029222652/http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/15746693.htm 'Hot-button film should provoke discussions now' by Lawrence Toppman], The Charlotte Observer others have criticised the film as being inaccurate, simplistic, biased and propagandist against Islam.Dann Gire, "War and terrorism: What more could moviegoers want?", 'Chicago Daily Herald', 7 July 2006, p. 37.[http://www.suntimes.com/output/movies/wkp-news-arthouse07.html "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" **1/2] Chicago Sun-Times. 7 July 2006[http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-060707-movies-review-islam,0,7464425.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds 'Movie reviews: 'The War Tapes' and 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know' by Michael Phillips] , 'Chicago Tribune' The 'Chicago Tribune's reviewer, Michael Phillips, describes it as a "deadly dull anti-Islam propaganda piece". The 'Washington City Paper's reviewer, Louis Bayard, argues that "If [the directors] Davis and Daly had a little imagination, they might see that the devil theyre chasing isn't Islam but fundamentalism, which assumes many forms."
See also
* Islamophobia
* Criticism of Islam
* Islamic terrorism
* Propaganda Film
References
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