Dear zaman-gm,
Thanks for your brotherly advice, and āmīn to your invocation.
Pornography does not aim to inform such as a documentary about the war or about the situation of prisoners in America and Israel does. I'm not saying that the end justifies the means, on the contrary, I mean to say that it is essential to ensure a correct information about what actually happens, and at the same time it is essential to reject evil by the heart, hand and tongue, according to the person's ability, and not suffer it passively. One who watch a pornographic video is because he is satisfied with it, if he is not forced. While who watches a documentary is because he wants to inform himself on a particular issue, and this does not imply satisfaction. A well-known Islamic base states that satisfaction with disbelief is disbelief. Now let me ask you, if someone watches a Islamophobic video (such a video of the Coptic priest Zakaria Botros) with the intent to refute it, where's the satisfaction? Where is the sin in his action? And Allāh knows best. Unfortunately, people in the West are accustomed to regard violence as the norm, and to think about the cruelty with indifference, especially because they are constantly bombarded with images of violence in news reports, television shows, movies, and other media. So I think sometimes you need to convey a strong message to reawaken people's sleeping minds. For example, if you recommended people to read a book which is not a best seller you can be sure that very few of them will read it. And as said the Western thinker George Orwell, "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." May Allah strengthen all of us to spread the Truth and guide us to His obedience.