Connecting The Dots

The recent exposing of the insertion of 28 million copies of the movie "Obsession" into the delivery of daily U.S. newspapers prompted me to watch the movie. I had heard of it, but never watched it because, from the words of people who had seen it, the piece was considered a bigoted film that had no merit as a scholarly or historical work. Three days ago, I watched it and was not disappointed: it depicted all the same stereotypical anti-Muslim hatred that is in vogue today in the U.S. The main difference between Obsession and the Geert Wilders’ film Fitna is the length. Wilders only put 17 minutes on film, where Obsession extends the bigoted diatribe to about 60 minutes.
I will give only a few lowlights of the movie. The "historical" proof shown could have been written by Walt Disney. For one, we hear the commentator speaking of the "Arab media." There was film of a crowd of angry Muslims chanting "Death to America." However, most people would not look at the small lettering at the top depicting the origin of the piece: Iranian Television. Unless things have changed of which I am not aware, Iran is not an Arab country.

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