And on the heels of that, comes this from tonguetied.us.
Members of the Muslim community in the Czech Republic are decrying as racist and xenophobic a documentary which aired on public television last fall showing undercover video footage of mosque-goers praising suicide bombers and supporting the imposition of sharia law in the country, according to the Prague Post.
The documentary, titled I, Muslim and first shown last fall on the T2 network, is getting complaints from Arab ambassadors and comparisons to the infamous Danish Motoons. Members of the Muslim community claim the program was biased, provoked fear and manipulated footage to promote false stereotypes.
The film shows a reporter pretending to be someone interested in converting to Islam. He conducts several conversations with members of a Czech mosque about Islam, Europe, terrorism and the role of women. One interviewee said the death penalty should be imposed in the Czech Republic and another compared Islamic terrorists to Jan Palach, the Czech student who committed suicide by setting himself on fire in protest of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Critics of the show were especially critical of editing that interspersed footage of the mosque with images of terrorist attacks.