US Muslims in their own words

So, is a misplaced deference to multiculturalism encouraging extremism in Britain, as a thinktank tells us? Or is the government guilty of "moral duplicity" as one clergyman alleges, in relation to plans to increase detention without trial for terrorist suspects? Or, again, are extreme interrogation techniques used by the US on terrorist suspects saving lives as George Bush tells us?

Into this debate comes a short film competition from a not-for-profit US TV channel. The One Nation Many Voices contest offers a prize of $20,000 to the best film about Muslims in America. The entrants range from slightly ropey "comedies" to more documentary pieces, and even a cartoon "dispelling some myths about Islam" and answering questions about Muslim women, chiefly: "Aren't you hot under that scarf?"

The flavour is undeniably partisan, but I liked this clip, mainly for the excerpts from mainstream American media. When a trial collapses of five men accused of aiding terrorists through a charity which they say only helped the Palestinian poor, Fox News calls it "a stunning defeat for the government's war on terror".

The Guardian

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