Radical Islam documentary to be screened at library

The 2005 documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” will be shown at the Joyner-Green Valley Library, Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 2 p.m. Sponsored by a group of Green Valley residents, the screening is free and open to the public. It movie runs approximately 75 minutes followed by a question and answer session.

“Obsession” is a movie about Islamist teachings and goals that uses extensive Arab and Iranian television footage. It compares the threat of Islamism with that of Nazism before World War II. It is the sequel to the documentary Relentless: “The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East.”

“Obsession” examines the origins of contemporary radical Islam and traces it back to the alliance between Islamists and the Nazi Party during World War II, specifically the relationship of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem with Adolf Hitler as an inspiration for radical Islamic movements in the Middle East today.

The film features expert analysis by notable counterterrorism figures such as Nonie Darwish (the daughter of a Fedayeen terrorist), Alan M. Dershowitz, Steven Emerson, Brigitte Gabriel, Martin Gilbert, Caroline Glick, Alfons Heck, Glen Jenvey, John Loftus, Salim Mansur, Itamar Marcus, Khaleel Mohammed, Daniel Pipes, Tashbih Sayyed, Walid Shoebat, Khaled Abu Toameh, Robert Wistrich and interviews with Israeli officials and a former PLO terrorist.

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