'Radical Islam' video angers subscribers

A controversial DVD distributed to millions of Americans during the past week through direct mail and newspapers, including the Beacon Journal, Miami Herald and others,, has angered many Muslims.

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West is being packaged as an advertising insert by the Clarion Fund, a nonprofit organization that promotes ''national security through education.' The hour long preview of the documentary was send to 28 million households, many in election swing states such as Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, through next week.

The DVD includes montages of terrorist training camps and suicide bombers paired with narration by commentators such as Daniel Pipes, founder of the conservative Middle East Forum think tank. Many of the film's pundits are known for controversial views on Islam. In one part of the DVD, clips of Muslim children being recruited as suicide bombers are interspersed with images of Nazis.

''My cellphone has been ringing off the hook . . . We feel that it's going to incite more hate and bigotry against our community,'' said Altaf Ali, Florida chapter director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The DVD does not do enough to differentiate between terrorists and mainstream Muslims, he said.

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