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recurv11 25.04.14 - 07:57am
Muslims claim 9/11 memorial film on the rise of al Qaeda will 'greatly offend' Islam * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 07:58am
A film due to be screened at the 9/11 Memorial Museum has been blasted by a prominent Muslim cleric who claims it will 'greatly offend' Islam.Sheik Mostafa Elazabawy, the imam of Masjid Manhattan, said the seven-minute documentary, which is designed to explain to visitors the historical roots of the terrorist attacks, may confuse viewers about the difference between Al Qaeda and Muslims.The film, The Rise of Al Qaeda, refers to the terrorists as Islamists who viewed their mission as a jihad. * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 07:59am
Narrated by NBC news anchor Brian Williams, the film was shown to an interfaith advisory panel, which included Elazabawy. * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 07:59am
The panel asked for changes, but the museum declined and Elazabawy immediately resigned in March. He has written a letter to the museum's director:'The screening of this film in its present state would greatly offend our local Muslim believers as well as any foreign Muslim visitor to the museum.' * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 08:00am
Unsophisticated visitors who do not understand the difference between Al Qaeda and Muslims may come away with a prejudiced view of Islam, leading to antagonism and even confrontation toward Muslim believers near the site' Elazabawy wrote in his letter obtained byThe New York Times.In some scenes of the film the translations are voiced over by someone with a foreign accent - a decision the interfaith group bill as sensationalist. * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 08:01am
Reverend Ruth Yoder Wenger, of New York Disaster Interfaith Services toldCNN: 'We're concerned that the way this story is told equates Muslims in general with al Qaeda, and that people coming away from viewing the video will make that same association in their minds.' * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 08:01am
But museum officials are standing by the film which focuses on a 15-year span between Al Qaedas founding during the Soviet-Afghan War and the 9/11 attacks.'We have a very heavy responsibility to be true to the facts, to be objective, and in no way smear an entire religion when we are talking about a terrorist group,' Joseph Daniels, president of the nonprofit foundation that is overseeing the museum, told The New York Times. * +

recurv11 25.04.14 - 08:02am
Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the museum, said great efforts had been made to distinguish the terrorists from mainstream Muslims in the film which will be shown to visitors in a part of the museum next to a gallery with photographs of the 19 men who hijacked four planes.'This brief film, within the context of surrounding exhibits, focuses on the roots of Al Qaeda with the express purpose of helping visitors understand who perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks... * +

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