Farewell
Israel: Bush, Iran, and The Revolt of Islam
Director:
Joel Gilbert
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby. DVD-Video, NTSC
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Language: English
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Region: All Regions
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
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Number of disks: 1
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Rating: Not rated
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Studio: Highway 61 Entertainment
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Run Time: 145 minutes
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ASIN: B000VXUU6U
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,262 in DVD
Review on 21 October 2007 by Donald N. Anderson.
A version of this review is on Amazon.com under the title “By a wide margin,
the best video documentary about political Islam”
It contains the most historically accurate
depiction of the legal and political side of Islam that I have seen in video
form. By not employing taqiyya as
Muslims are wont to do when talking with Westerners, it carefully shows Islamic
thinking with respect to Jews, Christians and other infidels. It shows the
special tradeoffs of dihimmi status and the peace that is available under Dar
al-Islam.
Gilbert does a remarkable job of selecting
pieces of Islam’s historical record to give the viewer an excellent
appreciation for the thinking of Muslims about their relationship to god and
their earthly duties and opportunities.
He generally presents accurate information and
lets the viewer form his own opinion and recommended course of action. One
possible exception is the authors implication that if Israel had not been
formed, and had Bush not invaded the Middle East in retaliation for 9/11, the
coming war could have been avoided.
This film does an excellent job of showing how
the enemy thinks (and it's not just the few folks who are fighting in
Afghanistan and Iraq).
I was blown away by the quality and quantity of
information about political Islam contained in this 2.5 hour video. Joel
Gilbert has produced by far the best video documentary on the topic of Jihad
and Islam I have ever seen. It is probably about too serious and sensitive a
topic to receive a well deserved award for the best documentary of 2007. I
would not trade it for a half dozen of the books on fundamentalist Islam that I
have read.
Every American and everyone else in Dar al Harb
needs to see this film to appreciate the seriousness and duration of the
battles we are now fighting.