Congresswoman headlines CAN documentary
As editing progresses, CAN president Martin Mawyer said Congresswoman Sue Myrick, [R-NC] headlines “Homegrown terrorism” documentary trailer.
Christian Action Network staff and volunteers poured over editing details this week as work on a vital documentary moves forward in the process of piecing together.
CAN president Martin Mawyer said conservative political leaders in Washington DC this weekend, Feb. 7-9, will see a trailer presented to thousands at the annual C-PAC conference.
Headlining the trailer, and with a prominent role in the documentary, is Congresswoman Sue Myrick, [R-NC] a leader in preparing against Islamist jihad, particularly homegrown terrorism.
The trailer, completed after earlier detailed alterations from an original take, received high marks from a test-market viewing Tuesday, Feb. 5, before dozens in the Lynchburg, Virginia area.
One recurrent theme from viewers was the desire to see more. “”This should relate to everybody, let’s name all the camps – where they are,” Forest area resident Scott Brooks said.
“Lets show everybody these camps are in their backyards, everywhere,” he added.
Mawyer said the trailer is intended to whet appetites for more information – that the subject needs more than a ten-minute exposé, but if the trailer approaches that length, many viewers may incorrectly assume they’ve seen enough.
“Everything I do is meticulously documented, and thoroughly explained – that’s my dedication as a journalist,” Mawyer said. “Well, I can’t do that for the subject of homegrown terrorism in a few, or ten minutes.
“That’s just not enough, that’s why I am absolutely convinced a feature-length documentary is so decisively needed,” he added. “This trailer is just to scratch the surface and communicate to a popular TV audience, hey – you need to look into this issue.”
Congresswoman Sue Myrick interviewed by CAN
In an exclusive interview with North Carolina Republican Congresswoman Sue Myrick, who helped form the bipartisan Congressional Anti-Terrorism/Jihad Caucus, the threat of homegrown terrorism came up as a paramount concern for America’s survival.
The war on terror, “is a misnomer,” Myrick said. “We aren’t fighting terrorism, we are fighting a radical ideology, and the more we know about it, the more we can educate the public to what it is.
“The more they are aware, the more concerned they are going to be about the dangers to their freedoms, and against our U.S. Constitution,” she added.
“The enemy has been very bold in telling us what they want to do: they literally want to take over our country. They want to take over Western Europe first, then us.”
Myrick leveled specifics, and named names: “They’ve laid it out, bin Laden has said it, others have said it,” she said. “Are we going to pay attention or are we going to pretend it doesn’t exist?”
Myrick said the most emergent need for Americans now is to realize the threat, and be fully informed so an effective response is possible, without panic.
“I really believe it is important that we understand what they’re about, and understand how they have radicalized their form of Islam,” Myrick said.
The extremism is to the point: “where everybody, whether you’re [moderate] Muslim or any other faith, everyone is an ‘infidel’ if you don’t believe exactly how they do,” she added.
“Shari’a law is a very strict religious law that some countries, particularly in the Middle East, abide by; they literally want us all to live under Shari’a law.”
To Myrick, the concept of Shari’a insurrection is clear. “These are some of the things we’re trying to tell the American people – you need to know these things are going on here in your country,” she said.
“We have always had freedom of religion,” she added. “We also need to be aware that there are people who don’t want us to have those freedoms; their idea is to take those freedoms away.”
How deep is the threat? “Foreign born terrorists are definitely infiltrating us, we have proof of that – we have arrested a lot of them,” Myrick said.
“We know they come across both borders…that’s why many of us have been saying all along that we need to secure our border,” she added.
“The bigger problem is with our national security and who is coming in that we don’t know…it’s a very big concern.”