Losing Our Sons (2012)

Losing Our Sons is a 2012 American documentary film produced by Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based education non-profit company. A.R. Maezav is its executive producer, director and co-writer; and Ilya I Feoktistov is its producer, co-director, and co-writer. The film was edited by Brian Keith. Losing Our Sons tells of two American families whose lives intersected through a shattering act of violence.

Losing Our Sons was created as an educational tool for the public, meant to expose the threat to American civil society posed by Islamic extremism and the failure of American leadership to protect the public from this threat.

Synopsis

Two fathers have lost their sons to a radical Islamist movement whose growth is enabled by naïve and misguided political correctness, willful ignorance, and simple cowardice. Carlos Bledsoe, born and raised in an African American Baptist family, firebombed a rabbi's house and then killed Pvt. Andy Long outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas. Carlos becomes a jihadist through his connections to radical mosques and Imams in Nashville, as part of a problem that is being ignored—or facilitated—by local civic and religious leaders and the media; whose politically correct views blind Americans to a truth that few dare engage.