“Losing Our Sons”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Losing Our Sons is a 2012 American documentary film produced by Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based education non-profit company. A.R. Maezav is its executive producer, director and co-writer; and Ilya I Feoktistov is its producer, co-director, and co-writer. The film was edited by Brian Keith. Losing Our Sons tells of two American families whose lives intersected through a shattering act of violence.

Losing Our Sons was created as an educational tool for the public, meant to expose the threat to American civil society posed by Islamic extremism and the failure of American leadership to protect the public from this threat.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

Synopsis

Two fathers have lost their sons to a radical Islamist movement whose growth is enabled by naïve and misguided political correctness, willful ignorance, and simple cowardice. Carlos Bledsoe, born and raised in an African American Baptist family, firebombed a rabbi's house and then killed Pvt. Andy Long outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas. Carlos becomes a jihadist through his connections to radical mosques and Imams in Nashville{{cn|date=February 2019}}, as part of a problem that is being ignored—or facilitated—by local civic and religious leaders{{cn|date=February 2019}} and the media{{cn|date=February 2019}}; whose politically correct views blind Americans to a truth that few dare engage.{{cn|date=February 2019}}

The film documents the radical ideology preached in Nashville's universities and local mosques.{{cn|date=February 2019}} It contains actual sermons given by local Islamic leaders railing against Jews and Christians{{cn|date=February 2019}}, as well as against American democracy.{{cn|date=February 2019}} This vividly contrasts with scenes of local Jewish{{who?|date=February 2019}} and Christian{{who?|date=February 2019}} leaders embracing these very same radical Imams{{who?|date=February 2019}}, who pose as moderates but whose beliefs and teachings are unveiled for all to see.{{cn|date=February 2019}} The local newspaper, The Tennessean, which has been blinded by political correctness{{cn|date=February 2019}}, publishes{{who?|date=February 2019}} glowing reports about Islamic leaders{{who?|date=February 2019}} while ignoring their easily found hate sermons{{cn|date=February 2019}}, which are posted on the Internet for all to see.{{where?|date=February 2019}}

When Daris Long and Melvin Bledsoe try to explain to Congress what happened to their sons, they are met with a mix of hostility, indifference, and – from a few – sympathy{{who?|date=February 2019}}. Obama Administration officials{{who?|date=February 2019}} are shown ducking and denying the Islamist problem, officially

corrupting our language and terminology by restricting terminology describing radical Islam{{cn|date=February 2019}}, so that reality cannot be accurately conveyed{{cn|date=February 2019}} – all for the sake of not "offending" or inciting Muslims.{{cn|date=February 2019}} Melvin Bledsoe’s warning to congress pithily describes the Administration's confusion: "We're worried about stepping on their toes; and they’re talking about stamping us out."{{cn|date=February 2019}}

The film ends with a final warning to America from Melvin Bledsoe: "It happened to my son

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