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The
article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was
recently banned from blogging at the “Daily Kos” because he wrote
three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming
“Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” This article
first appeared in our Feb 7 issue and we have decided to rerun it due
to the massive interest and reaction it received. [FRONT
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As I looked at a
sea of Palestinian flags and college kids banging on drums I felt a
certain frustration – frustration based on a series of events that have
changed my world view.
In the Summer of 2010, having recently escaped
Hollywood, CA to take a much needed break from my profession as a film
maker, I was driving in my car listening to a story on NPR. It
seems the people in my new home of Murfreesboro, TN were up in arms
over the proposed construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque, to
be built in their small town in the middle of the American Bible Belt.
I listened carefully, to the sound bytes, of those who had shown up to
a town hall meeting to voice their opposition and, as someone who was
rather new to the South, I was surprised by what I was
hearing. “America is a Christian nation and there is only
one God and his name is not Allah and his son is Jesus Christ” and
“America is a Christian Nation” and “These Muslims do not share my
values and I don’t want them in my backyard”. Growing up in
Southern California, I had never heard anything like this before in my
life. And I started to follow the story with great interest.
[...]
Everything I have told you up until now – this
version of my story – is exactly how I was seeing things up until
something changed. I went home to Los Angeles ... [Full].
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