Just weeks before the election, there are questions about a controversial insert published in The Orlando Sentinel. The insert on radical Islam included a 60-minute DVD.
Over 300,000 copies of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West” went out to Orlando residents as an insert in Sunday’s Sentinel. Twenty-eight million copies will go out in swing states nationwide by the end of the week.
The Clarion Fund paid millions of dollars to get the DVD out. It’s a non-profit organization that claims to focus on national security. Eyewitness News asked the New York-based group and they would not say exactly how many millions they receive or who their donors are.
An article at the group’s site, www.radicalislam.org, all but endorsed John McCain this past week, then was pulled down. As a nonprofit, it is illegal for the Clarion Fund to support any political candidate. If it did, then the State of New York should investigate it and level appropriate penalties against it.
CAIR-FL: Obsession DVD Raises Concerns Over Propaganda
Altaf Ali was shocked when he opened his Sunday paper and found a copy of the DVD. He is the director of the Florida Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. “That’s not what a newspaper is about,” Ali said, “A newspaper should never be about promoting propaganda.”
Scott
September 24, 2008
We got this in Sunday’s Tampa Tribune and a copy came in the mail addressed to my wife late last week. I set it aside, but I do not see myself watching this anytime soon.