It's pretty good at pointing out the main enemies, risks, and weaknesses:
- As I already commented in a previous post, Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia and the use of their petrodolars to indoctrinate moderate muslims in Western countries.
- The absolute incapacity of Western society to understand the problem, prefering to live in a state of self delusion.
- The faint hearted attitude of many Westerns (normal people and governments) that do not have the courage to say NO to the stupid requirements of some of the "new neighbours". Sure our culture has to change in many aspects, but it's evolution what it needs, not involving based on the "advice" of a medieval society
- Treacherous politicians that put their private businesses before the public ones (that is, the people who elected them). As their private businesses are in hands of the Saudi theocracy... we know what happens...
It also reveals some facts that were unknown to me:
- The cultural jihad is far more dangerous than the violent Jihad.
- Non muslims are not allowed to set foot on Mecca
- Saudis have given good amounts of money to Western universities to fund studies on "Arabic culture", "mutual understanding"... sounds good, but it's just pure and dirty proselytism...
- Many muslims in USA that claim to be moderate when in public, are not that moderate at all
I quite like that from the first moment it tries to make it clear that the problem is not Islam, but radical Islam, and it's nice to see a (very)moderate muslim narrating the documentary. But I'd like to add something with regards to this, as I think moderates could be not that harmless sometimes:
I have no problem with moderate religious people, whether they are Christians, Jews, Muslims... when these people live with other moderate or very moderate people. Problem is that when moderate people live with extremist people, the former can get infected, and much more when the extremists have money and power...
There are moments in the documentary that are absolutely revolting, like the demonstrations of radical muslims asking for punishmen for homosexuals, their intentions to apply Sharia in Europe, their absolute convintion of bearing a superior moral order...
but sure the worst moments are when some of the contributors assert that the battle against extremist Islam in Euope is already lost, and it's terrible to hear that because probably they're sadly right, just think that in some European countries muslims will surpass non muslims in less than 50 years...
I have to admit that there are a few things I don't agree with:
One of them is the title itself. The producers claim that there have been 2 other big Jihads previous to the current one, the first in the 8th century, when they conquered southern Italy and most of the Iberian Peninsula (but not my homeland, Asturies:-)), and the second in the 16th and 17ht centuries, when the Ottoman Empire conquered good part of Eastern Europe but hopefully was defeated twice at the doors of Vienna.
From my perspective none of these previous invasions can be considered as dangerous as the current one, the Islamic invaders at those two occasions were not at all as harmful as they are now, they brought a culture that was partially compatible with the European culture of the time, nothing to do with the Wahhabi medieval barbarism with which they try to replace Western 21st century civilization.
Another point I disagree with is their vision on Iran. I don't think Iran is such a threat, on the contrary I hope some day the Iranian people (much more moderate than many Westerns think) will manage to overthrow the theocratic government that they've been suffering for decades and become again the great society they once were.
Anyway this film is an absolute must, and if I've not managed to convince you yet, maybe this statement that opens the film will do.
"This is not a film about Islam. It is about the threat of Radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are radical. This film is about them."
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