Radical Islam: Terror in Its Own Words
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Radical Islam: Terror in Its Own Words is a controversial 2007 documentary
on Radical Islam featuring commentary from counter-terrorism
experts Steven Emerson
and Walid Phares
and footage from the The Investigative Project and the Middle East Media Research Institute
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as well as a sample of mainstream media broadcasts in Islamic countries inciting violence against non-Muslims.
The documentary includes video footage of Islamists in the United States
predicting violence against Americans as they speak on the campus of the University of California at Irvine after 9/11, threatening "If you don't give us our share of America, we're gonna burn America down."
The documentary was broadcasted to large American viewing audience on the Fox network beginning in February 2006.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
on Radical Islam featuring commentary from counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...
experts Steven Emerson
Steven Emerson
Steven Emerson, is an American journalist and author, who writes about national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism.Emerson is the author of six books, and co-author of two more. His television documentary Jihad in America won the 1994 George Polk Award for best Television Documentary, and...
and Walid Phares
Walid Phares
Walid Phares an American scholar of Lebanese origins, he is a professor and commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security Departments, the United States Congress, the European Parliament,...
and footage from the The Investigative Project and the Middle East Media Research Institute
Middle East Media Research Institute
The Middle East Media Research Institute is a Middle Eastern not for profit press monitoring organization with headquarters located in Washington, DC. MEMRI was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born, American...
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Content
The program presents a survey of interviews with islamists and videos of suicide bombers as they launch their attacks to kill Americans in AfghanistanAfghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
as well as a sample of mainstream media broadcasts in Islamic countries inciting violence against non-Muslims.
The documentary includes video footage of Islamists in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
predicting violence against Americans as they speak on the campus of the University of California at Irvine after 9/11, threatening "If you don't give us our share of America, we're gonna burn America down."
The documentary was broadcasted to large American viewing audience on the Fox network beginning in February 2006.