Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West - Contributors

Contributors

The following persons were interviewed in the movie:

  • Nonie Darwish – Egyptian-American human rights activist
  • Alan Dershowitz – American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator
  • Steven Emerson – American journalist and author
  • Brigitte Gabriel – Lebanese American journalist, author, and activist
  • Martin Gilbert – British historian and author
  • Caroline Glick – American-Israeli journalist
  • Alfons Heck – was interviewed as a former member of Hitler Youth
  • Glen Jenvey – British journalist
  • John Loftus – American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer
  • Salim Mansur – Indian-Canadian columnist
  • Itamar Marcus – Israeli political activist, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch
  • Daniel Pipes – American writer, and political blogger
  • Tashbih Sayyed – Pakistani-American scholar, journalist, and author
  • Walid Shoebat – Palestinian immigrant to the United States, interviewed as a former PLO militant
  • Khaled Abu Toameh – Israeli Arab journalist and documentary filmmaker
  • Robert Wistrich – professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Khaleel Mohammed

Khaleel Mohammed, an associate professor of religious studies at San Diego State University and the only Islamic Studies Professor interviewed discussed the meaning of jihad and its misuse by extremists. Mohammed later distanced himself and apologised for his participation claiming he had believed the film would be "used objectively, focusing on (the) fanatics who seek to spread violence" rather than Islam itself.

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