Pennsylvania woman deeply offended to learn that there's a jihad against the U.S.A.

Reaction to Obsession DVD distribution shows many Americans clueless about jihad, Part 2: "DVD on radical Islam offends Lemoyne recipient," by Carrie Cassidy for The Patriot-News (Central Pennyslvania), September 11: Sally Lopez said she opened the mailbox at her Lemoyne home on Monday and found a DVD entitled "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West."
The independently released documentary showed scenes from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and other attacks in London, Madrid, Spain and Beslan, Russia.

Lopez said she was offended by the DVD.


Right on, sister. I'm offended by jihad violence too. The murders of innocent civilians in the Twin Towers, subways in Madrid, buses in London, and in school in Russia, all by jihadists -- these murders offend me deeply.

But of course, that wasn't what offended this good citizen. What offended her was hearing about it.

And after learning her daughter, who lives in York, also received a copy, Lopez said she wondered whether there was political motivation behind the mailing.
"My thing is, I'm not stupid. There are definitely radical Islamic cells all over the world, but we also have the Aryan Nation, the [Ku Klux Klan], all kinds of hate groups out there," Lopez said. "They're just instilling fear in us. I'm tired of living in fear."


Right. Best to ignore them all. Then they will just go away. And as for Ms. Lopez's casual moral equivalence, the Aryan Nations and the KKK haven't committed over 10,000 acts of violence around the world since 9/11 alone. They don't have international organizations stretching from Europe to Indonesia. But never mind. It's all just fearmongering.

A representative of the New York-based Clarion Fund said the mailing wasn't meant to sway voters to one presidential candidate or the other. Gregory Ross, the nonprofit organization's director of communications, said the 28 million copies being mailed nationwide throughout September are going out to raise awareness of the threat America still faces from terrorism.

Ross said the movie is not talking about all Muslims but what he called, as does the movie's title, "radical" Islamists.

Representatives from both presidential campaigns said they were not aware of the DVD mailing.

Ross said Clarion, formed in 2007, is nonpartisan and focused on educating the public about the importance of national security. On Wednesday, though, there was an article on the group's new Web site, www.radicalislam.org, that backed Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

The article discusses both candidates and concludes: "McCain's policies seek to confront radical Islamic extremism and terrorism and roll it back while [Barack] Obama's, although intending to do the same, could in fact make the situation facing the West even worse."

Ross said the article "crossed the line" into an endorsement of sorts and would be taken down. He added he had not been aware of the article on the site, which he said will be officially launched next week.

"I was completely appalled and taken by surprise at the article ... put on our Web site. It will be taken down immediately," Ross said. "If I had seen that article, it would never have gone up."

As for sending the DVD's in September, Ross said the tie-in with Sept. 11 is intentional.

"Yes, there is a relevance to that date. There is symbolism there," Ross said. "People are paying attention around this time."


Thanks Jihad Watch