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.
Critical reception While some reviewers have had a positive reception to the film, '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."Islam: What the West Needs to Know" **1/2 – Chicago Sun-Times. 7 July 2006'Movie reviews: 'The War Tapes' and 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know' by Michael Phillips , Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribunes reviewer, Michael Phillips, describes it as a "deadly dull anti-Islam propaganda piece". The Washington City Papers reviewer, Louis Bayard, argues that "If [the directors] 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." The film has been described as an "anti-Muslim documentary" in the context of the counter-jihad movement.
See also
Islamophobia Criticism of Islam Islamic terrorism
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