Following last-minute cries of protest from Muslim leaders last week, a Public Broadcasting Service affiliate in Dallas canceled the premiere of a documentary on the roots of Islamic terrorism.

"The Roots of War: The Road to Peace" was scheduled to air on KERA-TV on Sunday, January 29, but the premiere was postponed by the station's managers after a local Muslim group alleged that the program contains inaccuracies and anti-Muslim bias. The documentary's producers, Niki and Dennis McCuistion, have defended their work; they have refused to make changes...

..."There's a real danger in this," American Jewish Congress general counsel Marc Stern said in an interview with the Forward. "Whatever the legalities, you take all this together, and you have the Muslim world saying, 'You can't criticize us.' It's one thing for them to say, 'You can't come to Saudi Arabia and criticize us,' but to say, 'You can't criticize us in Denmark, and you can't criticize us in the United States' — even the excess and extremism in some parts of the Muslim world — that's a rather glum and ominous state of affairs."...

...Mohamed Elibiary, president of the Dallas-based Muslim advocacy group The Freedom and Justice Foundation, raised concerns after viewing the film at an advance screening.

"I was expecting them to break new ground, to take not a pro the other side [view], but take a close look at the other side and take a more critical look at our side here, and see, does the other side have any story to tell, have anything to say," Elibiary told the Forward. "Unfortunately, they failed in that regard."...