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A timely and powerful documentary presenting the danger posed to the free world by a nuclear Iran. The film exposes the radical Islamic ideology guiding Iran's leaders, and the destruction it causes.
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Copyright © 2012 Clarion Fund. All rights reserved.
Clarion Fund is a pro-Israel New York City-based nonprofit organization[1] founded in 2006 whose stated mission is "to educate Americans about issues of national security," with its main focus on what it calls "the most urgent threat of radical Islam."[2] The organization was founded by Canadian-Israeli[3] film producer Raphael Shore.[4]
Originally posted by Trolloks
Always do a quick check on who funded the documentary before you watch.
Clarion Fund is a pro-Israel New York City-based nonprofit organization[1] founded in 2006 whose stated mission is "to educate Americans about issues of national security," with its main focus on what it calls "the most urgent threat of radical Islam."[2] The organization was founded by Canadian-Israeli[3] film producer Raphael Shore.[4]
The Clarion Fund has collaborated with the pro-Israeli media watch organization HonestReporting in the production of its films. The Clarion Fund has also collaborated or had their films shown at venues such as the Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation, Library and Archives Canada, and Fox News Channel.[5]
The group has been involved in the production or distribution of documentaries such as Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, The Third Jihad, and Iranium.
Clarion Fund has been criticized for its close ties to Aish Hatorah, a Jewish educational organization. According to Clarion Fund's incorporation papers, it is based at the same address as Aish Hatorah, a religious organization.[7]
According to the International Relations Center, Eli Clifton said that the Clarion fund was attempting to “stir up a climate of fear in the United States.”[11]
In December 2010, the organization announced an advisory board including: Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and President of the Center for Security Policy Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum and founder of Campus Watch Dr. Harold Rhode, Former Foreign Affairs Specialist at the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment and Senior Advisor at the Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute is an American conservative[2][3] not for profit think tank founded in 1961, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation. The Institute is committed to innovative research and analysis that promotes ‘global security, prosperity and freedom’[4]. It promotes public policy change in accordance with its stated values of a "commitment to free markets and individual responsibility, confidence in the power of technology to assist progress, respect for the importance of culture and religion in human affairs, and determination to preserve America's national security."[5]
Campus Watch is a web-based project of the Middle East Forum, a think tank with its headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to its website, Campus Watch "reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them."[1] Critics of Campus Watch say that it is a pro-Israel lobbyist organization involved in harassing, blacklisting, or intimidating scholars critical of Israel.[2][3][4] Campus Watch was launched in 2002 by Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes. It is headed by Winfield Myers.[5]
The CSP's operations are organized into project areas that correspond to what it sees as the principal national security challenges facing the United States. Each project is designed to inform policymakers and the public about what the CSP sees as near and long range threats, devise appropriate actions, and then promote those ideas within the government, Capitol Hill, newspapers, radio, the internet, and television. The following is a partial list of the CSP's projects: Divest Terror - The primary objective of Divest Terror is to force governments to choose between their sponsorship of terrorism and critical partnerships with publicly traded firms. To achieve this goal, it aims at encouraging companies to divest from those regimes designated by the State Department as state sponsors of terrorism. The Strategic Defense and Deterrence Project - Through this project, the Center advocates the creation of a national missile defense system, the modernization of America's nuclear capabilities, and the abrogation of U.S. participation in arms control treaties. The War of Ideas Project - The War of Ideas project has the goal of educating policymakers about the political and ideological realms of international relations. It seeks to equip decision makers with the understanding they need to use the tools of influence of and persuasion to confront and defeat foreign ideological adversaries. Menges Hemispheric Security Project - The Hemispheric Security project focuses on threats to the Western Hemisphere. The Islamist Project - The Islamist Project is aimed at publicising what CSP sees as the growing influence of radical Islam within the United States, and highlighting the voices of moderate, non-violent Muslims. The Security and Democracy in Asia Project - This project is a reflection of the Center's belief that Asia has the potential to be an area of substantial geostrategic conflict in the 21st Century.
The Clarion Fund is a nonprofit organization linked to U.S. and Israeli right-wing groups that produces and distributes alarmist films aimed at alerting “Americans about the threat of Radical Islam.” The group claims to achieve its mission by conveying the “reality of radical Islam” in documentary films it produces and distributes, as well as through outreach efforts on the Internet and on college campuses.[1]
Clarion was founded in 2006 by Raphael Shore, a conservative Israeli rabbi. Clarion’s advisory board has included a number of neoconservatives and other militarist policy advocates, including Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy; Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum; Ilan Sharon of Minnesotans against Terrorism; Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and narrator of the Clarion Fund’s Third Jihad documentary; Clare Lopez, executive director of the Iran Policy Committee; Harold Rhode, a former staffer under Douglas Feith in the Donald Rumsfeld Pentagon who serves as an adviser to the Hudson Institute; and Sarah Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), which has assisted in the distribution of Clarion films.[2]
Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to post by CALGARIAN
Watched this ages ago when it was first released
Of course you wont.
Documentaries that satisfy your political palette are "unity" - by some swedish dude.....You like that stuff, I'm sure.
I cannot understand how a moderator could be so mind numbingly prejudiced. What miniatus wrote - that everyone should be in the habit of fact checking - is incontrovertibly true.
People who prejudge and take the tone you take - either have a wily political agenda that can't be upset by factoids like Iran being led by a Islamist Shi'ite government, and therefore, should NEVER in a million freaking years be granted the right given to real democratic countries in making use of nuclear energy. This is common freaking sense. So why don't people like you get it?? Why do you mindlessly ignore such facts as these?? Do you not see how that provokes suspicion?
Israel is threatened by this radical government. Just today Ahmadinejad invited Israel to attack Iran -to give Iran the pretext to destroy it. NO COUNTRY that spews such ridiculous bellicose rhetoric has peaceful intentions with nuclear energy - not when they are so straightforward, despite the pressure upon them, in their disdain for the Jewish state.
It is frightening. I literally think people like you would like to see Israel blown to smithereens. If not, answer that question. Why do you ignore the religious-theocratic foundations of their government? The fact that everything is regulated by the Guardian council - which regulates politics in this so-called "parliamentarian democracy", ratifying who can and who cannot run for political offices - should be more than enough proof that religion is the final authority in Iranian policies.
That's it. That is it, and the end of it. Any rational person who doesn't get this - is either not rational, and therefore dangerous, or complicit with the prospect of Israel's destruction - which is sick, twisted, sadistic, and so incredibly unjust.
Secondly, I am not prejudiced against information concerning Iran, I am prejudice to propaganda films.
Films that are made by groups that have a vested interest in seeing conflict within Iran, or have a morality/religious motivation.
According to Moojan Momen, among the most commonly reported signs that presage the advent of the Mahdi in Shia Islam are the following:
The vast majority of people who profess to be Muslim will be so only in name despite their practice of Islamic rites and it will be they who make war with the Mahdi
Before his coming will come the red death and the white death, killing two thirds of the world's population. The red death signifies violence and the white death is plague. One third of the world's population will die from the red death and the other third from the white death.
Several figures will appear: the one-eyed Antichrist (Masih ad-Dajjal), the Al-Harth, Al-Mansur, Shuaib bin Saleh and the Sufyani.
There will be a great conflict in the land of Syria, until it is destroyed.
Death and fear will afflict the people of Baghdad and Iraq. A fire will appear in the sky and a redness will cover them.
Link
... is an appointed and constitutionally-mandated 12-member council that wields considerable power and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Council favors military candidates at the expense of reform candidates. This ensures that the ideological Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (separate from the Iranian army) holds a commanding influence over the political, economic, and cultural life of Iran.[11] Link
Arbitrarily disqualifies candidates from elections
This unelected Council frequently vetoes bills passed by the popularly-elected legislature.[32] It repeatedly vetoes bills in favor of women’s rights, electoral reform, the prohibition of torture and ratification of international human rights treaties.[31]
Link for all 3
TEHRAN: A senior Iranian commander said a possible Israeli airstrike against his country's nuclear facilities is "welcome" because it would give Tehran a reason to retaliate and "get rid of" the Jewish state "forever".
Hizbollah also separately warned Israel of a catastrophic strike if Iran is attacked.
The remarks by General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guard's air force, were reported by the official IRNA news agency.
Hajizadeh said in the event of an Israeli strike, Iran's response would be "swift, decisive and destructive".
Gulf Daily News
I wonder why the rest of the world has no interest in other dictators who have been in place and caused FAR more hurt than Iran
So either I am against Iran, or I'm crazy and want the destruction of Israel?
I know about about the history of Iran to know that they don't need to be playing with nukes..
And first and foremost, it's religious beliefs and metaphysical outlook?
Originally posted by miniatus
I know about about the history of Iran to know that they don't need to be playing with nukes..