I watched the Obsession movie and I agree 110 percent. The radical islamic groups are forcing their belifes on the whole islamic world. They have declared war on all kuffar (those who arent muslim). They are trainning and teaching their youth to hate Americans, and western society. People do not hate for the sake of it they are taught to hate. These same practices were exicuted by Adolf Hitler in world war two. They hated the Jews and wanted to wipe out their race and culture as well as all those who supported the Jews. It is funny how history repeats itself like that. World war 2 came about when europe ignored what was happening in Germany. Soon after Germany invaded Poland the rest of europe was taken as well. When the United States and Great Britian stepped in they began policing Germany for there terrible acts in know way did either country attempt conquor land. Today in the Islamic world The United States and Great Britain stepped in to help those islamics being killed and tortured for beliving in a different kind of islam. We have freeded those who were prosicuted by Saddam Hussien and other Radical Islamics a like. America needs to wake up and start beliving that terrorism is a threat to western culture. One thing i wish the movie would have protrayed a little better would be those Islamics that have come to Western life and follow their rules. It did show a little of a sterotype on Muslims by not covering it more because all muslims are not terrorists it is the Radical Islamics who wish to die for Allah.

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The idea of the US invading Iraq to end the persecution of Muslims is a jingoistic fantasy. It's as far from reality as the myth that the US entered WWII to end Hitler's persecution of the Jews. This is a fabrication perpetuated in high school history textbooks and ingrained in the national consciousness. To shed some light on this issue, here's a bit of info from Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States:

"... the United States had done little about Hitler's policies of persecution. Indeed, it had joined England and France in appeasing Hitler throughout the thirties. Roosevelt and his Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, were hesitant to criticize publicly Hitler's anti-Semitic policies; when a resolution was introduced in the Senate in January 1934 asking the Senate and the President to express 'surprise and pain' at what the Germans were doing to the Jews, and to ask restoration of Jewish rights, the State Department 'caused this resolution to be burried in committee,' according to Arnold Offner (American Appeasement)." [p. 409]

- Jesse Nevel