Here's the video and I'll discuss a few of the more important and erroneous points presented afterward
Defining Truth And Redefining Islam
First Robin says that the intent of this particular series was to take a "true look at the faith and why there are so many questions about Islam" This segment presents these basic questions premises and makes the following assertions:
1- Robin, at the beginning of this story, expresses the first FALSE sentiment regarding Islam. She states that Islam has come under suspicion SINCE 9/11 and has been the target of anger and violence within America.
There is nothing further from the truth and more fanciful. First, Christians have not responded violently to Islam within America or anyplace else over the globe. The FACT is that the Islamic response to America has been filled and riddled with violence far before 9/11:
- 1979 Muslim students seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and hold 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
- 1979 U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was set on fire by Muslim fundamentalists.
- 1982, 37 Americans were taken hostage by Hezbollah in Lebanon last American to be freed from this incident was freed in 1991.
- 1983 at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut the U.S. and French military barracks was bombed by multiple suicide bombers killing 350 people including 241 U.S. Marines.
- 1985 Hezbollah hijacked a TWA jet to Beirut killing a U.S. Navy diver.
- 1988 an Islamic group was responsible for the murder of 259 passengers on board a Pam Am jetliner over Scotland.
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