Dan Gainor uses a Jan. 31 MRC Culture & Media Institute article to go on a tirade against the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University for helping to expose the New York Police Department’s use of a rabidly anti-Muslim film, “The Third Jihad,” to train police officers. But he can’t identify anything the Brennan Center actually did wrong.
Gainor complained that the New York Times highlighted how the Brennan Center played a role on “gaining police documents” on the the police department’s use of the film, adding, “Nowhere in any of the reporting, did the paper mention that the Brennan Center has received $7,591,129 from the George Soros-run Open Society Foundations.”
Gainor didn’t explain why the Soros funding is at all relevant to the Brennan Center’s work on exposing “The Third Jihad,” beyond claiming that “Soros foundations have advocated for Islamic causes.” The fact that Soros money may have helped gain the release of those police documents doesn’t make those documents any less true.
Gainor also misleadingly describes “The Third Jihad” as being about “the dangers of radical Islam.” As the Times reported, the film “casts a broad shadow over American Muslims. Few Muslim leaders, it states, can be trusted.” Gainor does not dispute the Times’ characterization of the film.