Isabel MacDonald 20/10/2008

English Radio correspondent Mehran Derakhshandeh has interviewed Isabel MacDonald, communications director with the media watch group, FAIR (Fairness Accuracy In Reporting), on the distribution of 28 million copies of the anti-Muslim propaganda film, Obsession , to newspaper subscribers in swing states in the US. QUESTION: Apparently, there's an anti-Muslim smearing campaign going on in the United States at the moment connected with the presidential elections which is due to less than three weeks from now. There are reports that millions of copies of an anti-Muslim propaganda film, Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West have apparently been delivered to doorstep in swing states in the United States. Can you tell us what this is about and more about the details what's been going on since past weeks and months? ANSWER: Actually Fairness Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) just came out with a report looking at the state of Islamophobia in the US media, so I think it's worth taking step back from the DVD Obsession that has just been distributed and looking at the wider contacts. Last year one of the highest literary prices was nearly offered to an explicitly Islamophobic book, Ruth Bawer's While Europe... Visit this link to read more: Isabel MacDonald 20/10/2008