Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism has, in the minds of many, taken the place once held by communism as the leading threat to the safety and security of the industrialized West. Filmmakers Wayne Kopping and Raphael Shore explore what they regard as the most dangerous force since the rise of Nazism in this documentary.
Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West features footage from Arab television outlets with interviews which are compared with newsreel images of terrorist actions staged by the PLO and other groups in an effort to show parallels between hate-based groups of the past and the current mood among Islamic extremists. Obsession also includes interviews with guerilla fighters, former Hitler Youth members, and terrorist operatives as they discuss the role and function of extremist political and religious groups.
Obsession is a film about the threat of Radical Islam to Western civilization. Using unique footage from Arab television, it reveals an ‘insider’s view’ of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. The film also traces the parallels between the Nazi movement of World War II, the Radicals of today, and the Western world’s response to both threats. Featuring interviews with Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, a former PLO terrorist, and a former Hitler Youth Commander.
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November 5th, 2007 at 22:44
I think that Islamic countries may take over the world one day. As Nostradamus explains, “A man wearing a blue turban will take over the world one day.” So as he explains his theories of the future and all the other things he has explained from his predictions have happened. If you don’t believe me go to this website to see what I am trying to explain. http://boisdarc.tamu-commerce.edu/www/w/willmc/nostra.htm Please go to this site and you will see what he is saying when he made this serious predictions and see how they have occured over the years and are still occuring. So how this Islams are saying We will take over [the] USA and we will take over [the] UK. This may happen one day in our lives or in the future of generations.
December 22nd, 2007 at 07:07
As if the media wasn’t biased enough and portraits the wrong image about Islam and muslims.
It’s more like the obsession of the west in intervening in the middle east and destabilizing it. Close to ONE MILLION innocent Iraqis have been killed because of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Stop your war-mongering and start
January 8th, 2008 at 21:57
Digust, you should watch this video before you determine that this video is bashing muslims. and I think you are the only person in the world who would ever say that the middle east is or was stable. In this video they say, many times, that most muslims are peaceful people, there is a very strong enphisis on this point. It clearly states that though the number or Jihad members are not known, it is estimated between 10-15 percent, but many more are anti-american. watch before you claim an opinion, but this was a very good, and powerful documentary.
September 9th, 2008 at 19:00
This film is lacking in its scholarship…severely. The argument that religion is the driving force in motivating international terrorism isn’t taken seriously in ANY real realm of terrorism expertise and for good reason. The extremist version of Islam these ppl are peddling is used as a tool to attract young ppl and to gain public support for their views. Their motivations are geopolitical and sociological. The world of internatinoal terrorism is so pathetically beyond the scope of what these film makers are pushing in this film it is shameful.
The CIA did a long study of the core al Qaeda group who flew planes into buildings 7 yrs ago and found that they weren’t particularly religious at all. They had no issues with sexual frustration either. They had no qualms with American liberties or freedoms either as is often peddled by the ignorant. Their issues are geopolitical and historical. Social and economic. They don’t appreciate the US meddling in Persian/MidEast affairs and redistributing the oil money to dictators only to invade their various nations a few yrs later and leave behind a trail of dead civillians as collateral damage.
will, don’t believe the hype. Go do a search on youtube to hear what the real world experts have to say. Look for Marc Sageman, Peter Bergen, Michael Scheuer, and Lawrence Wright to start with. These 4 guys know as much about the detailed motivations of al Qaeda as anyone on the planet. If you are serious about learning about this very serious issue, start with the experts.
And no, I’m not a muslim or a muslim sympathizer or an anti-American of some sort. I’m an atheist who doesn’t appreciate irrationality creeping into foreign policy, especially given the threat these worthless ideologues are spreading as propaganda. If you really care about the fate of America and her citizens, look at what the facts say and what the experts are saying and study up on some history. I assure you such efforts won’t lend themselves well to the conclusions of this film.
December 25th, 2008 at 16:17
this film is the best of its kind out there.
I TOTALLY disagree with TavishHill above – when you have Sir Martin Gilbert, Steve Emerson, and [former] Muslims blowing the whistle, so to speak, you get it straight from the horses mouth!!!!
Rodney
February 7th, 2009 at 22:15
This film, shows the reality but fails to acknowledge the root cause of this Radicalism…. its not the west who is living in this terror at the moment its is the Muslim world living in this terror. Islam has existed for more than 1400 yrs, but this extremism seemed to have appeared in last 2 decays…. reality of the matter is this radicalization is the result of American policies, especially in Palestine, supporting the Crupt leaders in the Muslim world, Middle East is the 2nd biggest lender of money to America and rate of poverty is much greater in Middle east . For past 60 yrs Palestinians have lost their loved ones, families, land, houses, farms and what not, that gave birth to radicalism….Google Palestine and look into the images, you get an idea what i m talking about. 60 yrs of blood shed kids who witnessed the death of their families in front of their eyes, what does the world expect them to become. In west ever TV program of film is required to mention if the program is non violent enough for the younger age group, but in the Middle East Kids see blood shed every day on the streets, any sane person would be able to understand the cause of the radicalization.
February 9th, 2009 at 09:56
UATK,
You couldn’t be more wrong!!!
You mention that Islam has existed for more than 1400 years – and I’m so glad you did! And withing the first couple of hundred years of this religion starting, it swept across the Middle East and into Europe.
Pray tell, how did Islam spread across the globe?
Did they have massive lecture halls where they espoused the superior tenants of the nascent religion? No.
It was spread through the sword. AKA Jihad. Get it? Period.
And don’t try lie to us and tell us jihad means self-struggle blah, blah, blah!!!
The Quran, and the hadiths speak about the jihad as conquest – and that’s what this jihad is today – and that’s what Obsession shows ALL TOO WELL.
The radicals are using the Quarn as the basis for their jihad.
So, complain to them, not to us.
And stop being an apologist for the murderous regimes that are the Islamists.
Rodney.
February 9th, 2009 at 23:41
Rodney,
It is true that Islam was spread thou the sword at its beginning but so did Christianaty. At some periods such as in Spain Islam was very peaceful. To understand the violence we have to look why the US supports the Middle East regimes and go back to colonial rule in the middle east. It is tempting to use religion to understand the violence but at the end religion is just the tool for it, not the cause.
This video is good for people who have already some set ideas about Islam and its people but it does little to go to the root cause of the problem.
May 6th, 2009 at 18:37
I went to school with Wayne Kopping. I stumbled on this site while getting video footage of Shackleton, and gravitated to this film. I am a militant atheist, and have started to get interested in the threat of fundamentalism to the freedoms I enjoy. I saw his name in the credits, and got a frisson of joy from realising I know the film-maker. What a surprise.
May 13th, 2009 at 04:45
hmmm check out the vid at 17:00 you have a guy supposedly stood in front of a raging crowd of people …except you cant see another single person while he is in view. Then they show the raging crowd and you cant see him at all. I would suggest that it is fake. Though im not suggesting the guy who made the documentary faked it.
May 13th, 2009 at 05:03
Sorry im not believing this video. I think the Palestinians have more than enough to deal with for them to be mounting attacks on the west. This video is Jewish propaganda trying to make use hate the Palestinians so they can go on killing them and stealing their land. The Jews run the news media so finding random bits of video of Palestinians being shown in a bad light is very easy.
- more evidence of bad editing at 20:35
May 18th, 2009 at 01:48
This movie is a big f****** joke. I have seen a lot of b******* movies but this one just made me laugh.
The author is European and thinks!
p.a Don’t buy in to propaganda.
May 31st, 2009 at 01:37
This video is a glimpse of what is going on in the islamic world. It’s a known fact that it is every muslim’s holy duty to convert as many people to islam as possible and to spread islam as far as possible. It’s only a matter of time before Europe is islamised. Islam was dormant after the first wafe which they refer to as “the golden age”. There is a second wave on it’s way.
The cyber jihadis making their comments above need to look at their history. Their ancestors were also converted by the sword.
There is another good documentary called ‘Islam: what the west needs to know’
June 13th, 2009 at 22:35
This is obsurd. We can also make the same ridiculous documentary by replacing muslims with fundamentalist jews, christians, and hindus. I think anybody who has to go to such great lengths to make something like this has to be a EXTREME racist. You have to be nuts not to be able to see the humanitarian side of humans anywhere in the world.
This is propaganda at it’s worst, and to see it coming from europeans instead of Americans should make one shudder. European gov’ts have failed its muslim immigrants by ostrasizing them from day one. They did the same to the jews 100 years ago.
The west needs to take a look in the mirror and ask themselves how fundamenalists in the east have grown stronger. It has more to do with the constant state of war that the western gov’ts have placed on the mid-east nations since WWI all for some stupid black gold called oil. If the US were under a constant threat of war inside it’s border for 100 years you can certainly believe that white supremacist organizations would be far larger in size and much stronger than they are today. the rest of the world would be making a stupid documentary wondering WTF happened to the US and why.
June 26th, 2009 at 23:51
like this site for different points of view.
10-4 to bubba gump. found the doc disturbing, and most of the comments as well.
yet, valuable.
June 28th, 2009 at 19:32
This doc is factually incorrect. And some of the points others have made in the comments are very disturbing to say the least. It shows an extremism of another kind, Extreme Ignorance.
The supporting details are incomplete. The researchers fail to follow the big money trail with regard to the “Obsession” and do so at our own peril. It is propaganda such as this that destroys the inalienable rights of all peoples.
I am very disappointed to see that some do not know the differences between right and wrong. When people produce content such as this, it is not only upsetting, it is sorrowful. The right approach is to take all know facts and draw a conclusion. The wrong approach is to take all unknowns as use it as fact, to deceive and form adverse public opinion toward any group.
Joseph Gorbels would be proud of these film makers.