Letter: 'Third Jihad' may be wake-up call
Ray Kelly Credit: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at a news conference earlier this week (Getty)
The New York City Police Department's showing of the documentary "The Third Jihad" has aroused the ire of Muslims throughout the city and beyond, and perhaps a fair share of non-Muslims as well ["Kelly won't resign over Muslim documentary," News, Jan. 28].
Critics claim the film depicts the followers of Islam and the religion itself in a bad light, that its contents are less than accurate and that it generates ill feelings and undue suspicion toward Muslims. Notwithstanding, the main spokesman in the film, a medical doctor and avowed dedicated Muslim, is the prime voice in making the case about the danger of Islamic extremism.
While I have no argument against the protesters crying out against the NYPD for alleged bias in showing the documentary to its officers -- after all, freedom of speech is part of our Constitution -- I wonder why they have not admitted that the many angry voices in the film are not actors but, rather, real people.
Shouldn't this film be a wake-up call to the good and decent believers in Islam that they should be in the forefront fighting against these madmen who perpetrate crimes in the name of Allah?
Vincent Ramirez, Mount Sinai
