By Justin Elliott - November 10, 2008, 4:56PM
Joe Lieberman, who is locked in a fight to hold onto his Senate Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, is lending his name to a lurid sequel of the documentary
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West. That film, which was
distributed through newspaper inserts and mass mailings to 28 million swing-state households during the campaign, was
denounced by religious leaders for painting all Muslims with the same broad brush and for its cartoonish portrayal of Islamic terrorism.
The new documentary, called
The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision For America,
focuses on the "hidden war against the freedom and values we all take for granted" being waged by radical Islamists trying to take down America from within. Among other things, the film warns of the "subtle dangers of non-violent cultural jihad and its influence in America's universities."
The Third Jihad's backers plan to disseminate the film through TV licensing, free screenings, and DVD distribution,
The Jewish Week of New York
reported.
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Senator Lieberman is
pictured as a "Major Player" on the featured interviews page of
The Third Jihad Web site, along with
National Review writer Mark Steyn, Jim Woolsey, and Walid Phares of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Beginning at around the 9-minute mark in
this preview of the film, Lieberman appears. "It is definitely here," he says. "I don't want to overstate the problem, but there is a danger of understating the problem of homegrown Islamist terrorism. And the fact is that we have now had a series of cases that have thankfully been broken."
Strip him, he has no business chairing Homeland Security. I hope Reid stands his ground.
edited extra word.