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HonestReporting.com pushes no small amount of DisingenuousPropaganda intended to fuel war between the West and the Middle East.

Now, they’ve released a propumentary film called “Obsession,” and it’s available on google video. If you have 80 minutes to devote to Inciting Hate 101, I highly recommend a viewing.

The film is appalling. While it opens with a cursory exemption of the peace-loving Muslim from its crosshairs, it repeatedly shows images like Muslim children celebrating 9/11 — images seemingly designed to ease the conscience about and pave the way for genocide.

At the 20:31 mark, the film addresses the radical liberal idea that we might have done something to provoke the hatred of huge swaths of people in the Middle East. Itamar Marcus, head of the Palestinian Media Watch, twice within a minute refers to “American academia and media” placing “the blame on American imperialism around the world.” They even show a picture of this Alternet article as one of the culprits.

He then dismisses the concept of accepting any blame as ludicrous. Marcus calls the notion of iquiring about our culpability “understandable” from “Western eyes,” but describes it as “unfortunate” because “it is distracting the population from the real source of the problem, which is an ideology which wants to destroy the West.”

So, to review, if you want to ask why someone might want to destroy the West, you’re distracting us from the idea that they want to destroy the West. Uh-huh. With double-speak like that, you’d think they were hiding something.

Actually, though, they do try to explain the cause of Western hatred from their perspective. Apparently, it’s selfish propaganda from Muslim leaders designed to strengthen their position.

Khaled Abu Toameh, described as a “Palestinian Journalist,” says, “Arab dictators, in order to survive, constantly incite their people against the West, the Jews, and the United States. This is how they survive, by telling their people they are all to blame except for us.”

John Loftus, a former Justice Dept Prosecutor, describes the motivations of these leaders. “We dictators aren’t the enemy. We’re like you, we’re Arabs. The real enemy is the Jews, the West, it is modernism. These are the things that are destroying the very fabric of our society.”

Itamar Marcus argues, “One of the main ways they get the people to be willing to fight and endanger their lives and to hate the West is to present the war as an act of self defense.”

Nonie Darwish, identified only as “the daughter of a Shahid (Martyr)” states, “So in order for you to do Jihad you have to find a good reason. The best reason is we’re defending ourselves. There is an an enemy out there who wants to get us.”

Doesn’t that sound… familiar? Where else have I heard of leaders distracting people from totalitarian misdeeds at home by waging war against a foreign enemy they’ve demonized while falsely describing attacks on them as acts of self-defense?

Oh yeah.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say there was an awful lot of good cop/bad cop being played here, wouldn’t you?