Muslim advocates and scholars are stepping up pressure on the Sept. 11 museum to edit or at least let more scholars see a documentary movie exhibit about al-Qaida before the museum's opening this month.
Now the Council on American-Islamic Relations' New York chapter has asked the public to send letters to officials urging the removal of any "anti-Islamic terminology." Meanwhile, about 400 history and religion scholars, professors and executives from other museums asked the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum to let a broad scholarly group evaluate the brief movie.
"Labels to describe organizations such as al-Qaeda are heavily disputed among academics, and in a public environment, without proper explanation and historical context, these terms could easily mislead and assign collective responsibility to Muslims and Islam," they wrote.
A museum spokesman had no immediate comment Monday, but Executive Director Joe Daniels has said the museum stands by the scholarship underlying the brief documentary, called "The Rise of Al Qaeda" and narrated by NBC anchor Brian Williams.
Daniels said museum officials were satisfied the film was "objectively telling the story of what happened."
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