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Monday, August 27 2007CNN's "God's Warriors": Hard on Jews, Soft on IslamChristiane Amanpour's six-hour documentary special creates controversy. View for yourself the bias, inaccuracies and false moral equivalence demonstrated by CNN's Chief International Correspondent and read Maurice Ostroff's thorough critique of the series at HonestReporting's latest communique: CNN's "God's Warriors": Hard on Jews, Soft on Islam
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference CNN's "God's Warriors": Hard on Jews, Soft on Islam : CommentsWhile I mostly agree with your review of "God's Warriors", I must correct you. The British UN representative when resolution 181 passed was Lord Carrington and not Lord Carradon as you mention in your review. If we are going to criticize someone, we must make sure of our facts too!!! Why are we suprised at this type of biased "documentary" from CNN....all I can say is dah? I tried to watch most of it, but I was so angry 30 minutes into the program....well all I can say is it's CNN not FOX cable. I thought the reporting was very fair indeed Suzanne Sapir the nice thing about her reporting is the OFF DIAL. the real truth about her version of truth, justice, and values is she and all of her ilk will with time be forgotten and Israel will remain forever I don't have cable so did not see the CNN presentation, but watching and reading the summary I was glad I was not a participant. We Jews are approaching our High Holidays and once again will pray for the peace we want so desperately. We can't do it alone and God does not seem to be hearing us!!! We don't need more antagonism such as this program seems to have provoked. Christiane Amanpour has ALWAYS been biased against Israel and ALWAYS for YEARS favored the "poor, downtrodden Palestinians" CNN is the very same anti-semitic network it always has been. I too, turned it off with revulsion. Those people, be they Jewish, Christian or Moslim, who believe they are right and all who do not believe as they do are wrong, are the problem and have been since the beginning of time. They are the extremists regardless of which religion they follow. Each thinks that God is on their side. How can contrary beliefs both be right? At best only one or none can be right. What did you expect.Amanpour is a BRIT. Britain is a country with the largest latent antisemitism. I should know--I grew up there---"Shevloff--that's a funny name" While all the criticisms of the show are true, they do not go nearly far enough. Without getting into the constant bias, and errors, no one has focused on the fact that the video associated with both Jews and Christians constantly showed them as out of control, violent, etc. All the clips of Muslims showed them as calm, reasonable, intelligent. No video of Muslim terror (even 9/11 was "shown" only with a still of a missing poster and a street scene) or Arab armies, but plenty of "blood thirsty" IDF soldiers and Jews. I watch both CNN and Fox News, and am amused at the remarks made by individual who favor one over the other. With out watching or reading both conservative or liberal media I do not feel that proper or what should be close to proper dissemination of news can be made. Perhaps she should read the PLO Charter of 1964 (website of the Permanenet Observer Mission of Palestien to the UN). Interesting that it's only in context of dhimmi Jews that the West Bank & Gaza become the "Palestinian Homeland" even the PLO here rejects the partition of 1948... Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the loss of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and its natural right to its homeland, and were in violation of the basic principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, foremost among which is the right to self-determination. Article 18: The Balfour Declaration, the Palestine Mandate System, and all that has been based on them are considered null and void. The claims of historic and spiritual ties between Jews and Palestine are not in agreement with the facts of history or with the true basis of sound statehood. Judaism, because it is a divine religion, is not a nationality with independent existence. Furthermore, the Jews are not one people with an independent personality because they are citizens to their states. Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. http://www.un.int/palestine/PLO/PNA2.html Daniel, the review was not HonestReporting's. They presented it as it was written in JPost. Therefore the mistake is not there's. God's warriors was a poor portrayal. This afganistan woman married to a Clinton administration Sec. Of the Treasury Paul Rubin, Jewish, better check the house for weapons. It is obvious that she hates the Jews even tho married to one. I feel Ted Turner used this show, to show his personal hatred of the jews. The moslems were portrayed as the vitims and suicide bombers as heroes. SURPRISE!!!! Who would have expected anything much different than pressure on Israel and those of the Tanakh faith wilst providing accomodation to the followers of Q'ran. I tuned into 'God's Warriors' and was furious at the message. I found this unfair, slanted in favor of anyone else except Israel and the Jewish people. In the first segment, she showed only violence, anger and destruction. At no time did she indicate the many times Israel and the people made efforts to make peace, the willingness to give land for peace, nor did she show the violence perpetrated by Palestinians against Israel. In the next segments, she showed non-violent and peace speaking people whose Bible told them to kill anyone who did not have their beliefs. This was so terribly slanted. I thought news was supposed to be evenhanded, but this definitely was not. It is right in line with the liberal agenda to make Christians and religious Jews look bad. I noticed that the Israel-supporting church segments were constructed to make Christians look like ignorant fanatics. Ms Amanpour is an Iranian Muslim. What else do we need to know? I think the documentary was excellent. To claim that extreme Judaism was 'equated' to extreme is Islam is as silly as saying that pumpkins are equated to tomatoes in a documentary on agriculture. Having no loyalty to either of the three religions, and thus being at least somewhat emotionally objective, I would say that Islam certainly came out in the harshest light. It is insulting to my intelligence that some of you are insinuating that the documentary was 'soft on Islam and hard on Jews'. This is, of course, because you no doubt do not feel yourself to be fooled by the bias, but rather you assume others, like me, who watch the documentary will place intolerant rhetoric on equal footing with intolerant violence (or perhaps you find me even more base, and feel that since both religions received two hours of air time I MUST conclude them to be equally 'bad'). What Christiane was trying to show was the equivalence in conviction amongst fundamentalists. I think this case was well presented. There are many inaccuracies and omissions in Amanpour's report. One that leapt out at me was her comment that Israel had a choice at the end of the '67 war: either peace or land. This is, of course, nonsense. Before Israel could even express its desire, the Arabs had convened and issued their famous serious of no's: no recognition, no negotiations, no peace. And, in Amanpour's report: no mention. What, really, could one expect from liberal blather and CNN?
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