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Years ago I used to know about an ex-Muslim called Ali Sina and his website faithfreedom.org. That was my first exposure to this group of people who have taken hate speech against Islam and Muslims as their profession. Then I found out that Daniel Pipes was connected with their effort. The more recent events such as the movie Innocence of Muslims, the mass killings by Anders Breivik and their connection with well known Islamophobes Pam Geller, Robert Spencer et al have been uncovered. What is not well known is that how the recent bloodshed of around 150 people against an atheist led movement called Shahbag movement is connected to this Islamophobia Industry. The key to this puzzle is this website:
Mukto-mona (???????? ) : A Secular site for Bengali humanists & freethinkers
Now I will post some material that will make the link crystal clear:
The American Muslim (TAM)
Who are the real players behind anti-Muslim films?
Posted Sep 30, 2012
by Sheila Musaji
As I was updating the articles Extremist Christians Produce Anti-Muslim Film Blame Jews and The tragic consequences of extremism about the tragic murders of our Ambassador and embassy staff in Libya, and the protests around the world, and the anti-Muslim film that seemed to have sparked much of the unrest, there were a couple of statements and oddities about the film and its producers that bothered me. At the back of my mind was an idea that something about this film sounded familiar.
What sometimes makes it difficult to remember particular connections, and to then research the sources, is that the individuals and organizations, and events of the Islamophobia industry are called by different names. Many of the individuals use various pseudonyms, the organizations frequently change their names, etc.
Here is a passage from my article on the film. It is long, but necessary to see all of the connections:
Based on all of the reports that have come out in the last few days, here is a summary of what we now know about the film and its producers. (see The Tragic Consequences of Extremism for details, references, links to sources, etc.)
The film called “Innocence of Muslims” (after having been called “Desert Warrior” and “Innocence of bin Laden”
was originally identified by AP as produced by Sam Basile. AP interviewed him by telephone. The person identifying himself as Sam Basile claimed to be an Israeli American and Jewish,and to have raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors to make the film. He said that the trailer of the film available on YouTube was part of a 2-hour film. He said that he made the film “to help his native land by exposing Islam’s flaws to the world”, and he called Islam “a cancer”. After the terrible events in Egypt and Libya, and after the story about the film became a news item internationally, he was reported to have gone into hiding in fear for his life.
It appears that Sam Basile was invented to cover the activities of at least four individuals - Steve Klein, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Morris Sadek, and Joseph Nasralla Abdelmasih. Klein is an extremist Evangelical, and Nakoula, Nasrallah, and Sadek are extremist Copts. So, extremists Christian Islamophobes engaged in an elaborate subterfuge, creating a non-existent Sam Basile and providing Basile with a biography that falsely represented him as an Israeli Jew whose film was financed by 100 other Jews to help Israel against the “cancer of Islam.” The film was produced by Media for Christ at the Blue Cloud studios in California.
The problem is that they made a hateful anti-Muslim film designed to provoke a response, promoted it in English and Arabic, and then engaged in a hateful scheme to blame their handiwork on Jews. Egyptian political extremists used the film to stir up the masses to promote their political agenda. The extremist political organization Al Qaeda used the film as a pretext for their terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya, as well as using the film as further “proof” of their propaganda effort to say that the U.S. is at war with all Muslims to gain support for their cause.
The identity of Sam Basile is clearly Klein/Nakoula/Sadek/Nasrallah*
.........
The Islamophobia Manifesto referred to above is Overselling the Meme produced by Edward May aka Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna (referred to by Pamela Geller as “one of my favorite bloggers” claims to be a practical step-by-step guide for “counter Jihadists”. It was published in January of 2011. Here are a few key points:
He discusses particular memes that “activists in the CounterJihad cause” might want to promote, and defines their aim as being “propagandists” to “move multiple memes”. He says they must proceed “more stealthily” and “insert many, many memelets into common discourse”. Some of the memes he suggests: “Mohammed the pedophile”, and “Islam is not a religion”. He says “As a propagandist, my task is to spread the meme and not to sweat the nuances. Nuances can be argued about and nailed down by scholars in the centuries after Islam — as a culture, a political ideology, and a religion — is totally destroyed. We don’t have the luxury for such finicky scholasticism right now.”
........
Because I have spent so many years countering Islamophobes, there are a lot of bits and pieces of information that sometimes take a little while to connect. I knew that in one of the profiles I had done for the Who’s Who in the Islamophobia/Arabophobia Industry, one of those individuals had mentioned planning a film about Prophet Muhammad. It took me awhile, and then I remembered that the individual was Ali Sina who runs Faith Freedom Int’l, and is a board member of the hate group SIOA which was founded by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.
In January of 2012 the formation of a new coalition was announced Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) joined together in a coalition called Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), and Ali Sina is named as one of the board members.
In February of 2012 Ali Sina had posted an article A Movie about Muhammad: an idea whose time has come. He also posted an article including an interview with himself done by the Citizen Times: Interview with Ali Sina about his planned Muhamma biopic.
.....
Here are relevant points from Ali Sina’s article:
... To get rid of Islam we need to reveal the truth about it. The Internet was godsend to critics of Islam. However, sites that are critical of Islam are blocked in Islamic countries and even if they were not, the great majority of Muslims don’t read. We need to get our message to the masses. ... If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the worth of a motion picture? We need to make a motion picture about Muhammad – a biopic that reveals the details of his life. ... The true story of Muhammad is untold. It is available in the books of Siras. But those are voluminous books. Combined, they are thousands of pages. I read them all and have condensed them in a script. ... The other good news is that I have been promised a substantial angel financing. .. The seed is now sown. Now it’s time to nurture it. What I need is an experienced executive producer, someone who shares my values, to make it happen with professionalism and missionary zeal. ... I am not thinking of a high budget movie, but given the subject matter, it can become one of the most seen motion pictures ever. ... I don’t think this movie will require much investment or promotion. People in the movie industry know that nearly half of the budget of a film is spent on advertising and on marketing. We won’t need any of that. We have an army of millions strong who will promote this movie for free. ... Just as the Internet allowed us to spread our message to millions of people, with this movie we can spread the same message to hundreds of millions. When the world discovers the truth about Muhammad, Islam’s days will be numbered.
... When I know about the budget and the legalities are in place, I will give a chance to those who might be interested, to invest in this project. If you have questions you can email me to faithfreedom2 at gmail.com. In the subject box please write Movie Investment. ...
.........
UPDATE 9/22/2012
Justin Raimondo has written an interesting article The ‘Pro-Israel’ Network Behind the Innocence Video noting many of the same points raised above and adding some interesting thoughts:
If someone had planned to upend US foreign policy — to utterly destroy the very basis [.pdf] of all our diplomats (and military personnel) have been working to achieve in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world — they couldn’t have done a better job of it than whoever put together Innocence of Muslims.
As violent protests spread, the consequences continue to roll in: the suspension of joint US-Afghan military operations, the suspension of US aid talks with Egypt, the rapid decline of US prestige in the region, and the growing influence of the radical Islamist movement US support for the “Arab Spring” was designed to counter. The Obama administration’s effort to split the Islamist upsurge and lend its support to “moderates” has been stopped cold.
Was the release of the video a random event, one of those unpredictables that can arise at any moment to foil the best-laid plans? Perhaps. Yet one is hard-pressed to explain what the makers of Innocence sought to accomplish, if not precisely what has occurred…
... The idea that these vermin, who deliberately set out to make a “movie” that would inflame the Muslim world, are “free speech” heroes is worse than nonsense: it is valorizing villains. We don’t yet know where the money, or the impetus to make the film, came from, but what we do know is this: the driving force behind Innocence was a desire to create an international incident that would bring discredit on the United States, and empower radical Islamists who hate America and everything it stands for. And the promoters of this garbage pose as “patriots”!
... Defense of the Jewish state is a major theme of the Islamophobe network: they use it as a shield to deflect criticism. A key leader of this network is former New Leftist and Black Panther groupie David Horowitz: his “David Horowitz Freedom Center” (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), sponsors Spencer’s “Jihad Watch.” Horowitz’s “Frontpage” site — ablaze with stories decrying the “betrayal” of Israel by the American government and the perfidy of all things Islamic — recently speculatedInnocence was created by the very Salafists now leading the protests. Since the video sprang from the same bigoted milieu of which Frontpage is the online Jerusalem, this “theory” isn’t merely ironic — it’s a moral obscenity.
........
All of this adds credence to Justin Raimondo’s speculation about an Israeli connection behind at least some of these films.
SEE ALSO:
“Innocence of Muslims”: Film and International Crisis (TAM article collection) The American Muslim (TAM) for an extensive collection of articles on this crisis
First published 9/15/12 8:37 a.m.
The American Muslim (TAM)
A Who’s Who of the Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab/Islamophobia Industry - updated 10/15/12
Sheila Musaji
Posted Oct 15, 2012 •Permalink • Printer-Friendly Version
A Who’s Who of the Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab/Islamophobia Industry
by Sheila Musaji
The American Muslim (TAM) has collected information about these individuals in this easy to use format. Just click on the links provided to go to in-depth articles and backgrounders on these individuals. There are a number of other individuals who should be included here, and they will be added, and this will be updated as time permits.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - see TAM Responses collection
Al-Mutarajjam aka Al-Mutarjim and Translating Jihad *
American Enterprise Institute **
Zachariah Anani *
David Barton *
Glenn Beck (media) - see TAM Responses collection
Eliana Benador *
Rev. Flip Benham and Operation Save America *
Bonni Benstock-Intall and Bare Naked Islam *
Baron Boddisey (aka Ned May, aka Edward May) of Gates of Vienna: Islamophobia Manifesto Clearly Lays Out Plot Against Muslims **
Ret. Gen. William Boykin **
Ergun Mehmet Caner *
Capitol Congressional Ministries **
David Caton and the Florida Family Association **
Aubrey & Joyce Chernick and the Fairbrook Foundation (financier) *****
Phyllis Chesler *
The Clarion Fund ***
Ann Coulter (media) - see TAM Responses collection
Nonie Darwish (aka Nahid Hyde) and Former Muslims United *
Rev. Maury Davis and the Cornerstone Church *
Alan Dershowitz - see TAM Responses collection
......
Mukto-mona (???????? ) : A Secular site for Bengali humanists & freethinkers
Now I will post some material that will make the link crystal clear:
The American Muslim (TAM)
Who are the real players behind anti-Muslim films?
Posted Sep 30, 2012
by Sheila Musaji
As I was updating the articles Extremist Christians Produce Anti-Muslim Film Blame Jews and The tragic consequences of extremism about the tragic murders of our Ambassador and embassy staff in Libya, and the protests around the world, and the anti-Muslim film that seemed to have sparked much of the unrest, there were a couple of statements and oddities about the film and its producers that bothered me. At the back of my mind was an idea that something about this film sounded familiar.
What sometimes makes it difficult to remember particular connections, and to then research the sources, is that the individuals and organizations, and events of the Islamophobia industry are called by different names. Many of the individuals use various pseudonyms, the organizations frequently change their names, etc.
Here is a passage from my article on the film. It is long, but necessary to see all of the connections:
Based on all of the reports that have come out in the last few days, here is a summary of what we now know about the film and its producers. (see The Tragic Consequences of Extremism for details, references, links to sources, etc.)
The film called “Innocence of Muslims” (after having been called “Desert Warrior” and “Innocence of bin Laden”
was originally identified by AP as produced by Sam Basile. AP interviewed him by telephone. The person identifying himself as Sam Basile claimed to be an Israeli American and Jewish,and to have raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors to make the film. He said that the trailer of the film available on YouTube was part of a 2-hour film. He said that he made the film “to help his native land by exposing Islam’s flaws to the world”, and he called Islam “a cancer”. After the terrible events in Egypt and Libya, and after the story about the film became a news item internationally, he was reported to have gone into hiding in fear for his life.It appears that Sam Basile was invented to cover the activities of at least four individuals - Steve Klein, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Morris Sadek, and Joseph Nasralla Abdelmasih. Klein is an extremist Evangelical, and Nakoula, Nasrallah, and Sadek are extremist Copts. So, extremists Christian Islamophobes engaged in an elaborate subterfuge, creating a non-existent Sam Basile and providing Basile with a biography that falsely represented him as an Israeli Jew whose film was financed by 100 other Jews to help Israel against the “cancer of Islam.” The film was produced by Media for Christ at the Blue Cloud studios in California.
The problem is that they made a hateful anti-Muslim film designed to provoke a response, promoted it in English and Arabic, and then engaged in a hateful scheme to blame their handiwork on Jews. Egyptian political extremists used the film to stir up the masses to promote their political agenda. The extremist political organization Al Qaeda used the film as a pretext for their terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya, as well as using the film as further “proof” of their propaganda effort to say that the U.S. is at war with all Muslims to gain support for their cause.
The identity of Sam Basile is clearly Klein/Nakoula/Sadek/Nasrallah*
.........
The Islamophobia Manifesto referred to above is Overselling the Meme produced by Edward May aka Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna (referred to by Pamela Geller as “one of my favorite bloggers”
claims to be a practical step-by-step guide for “counter Jihadists”. It was published in January of 2011. Here are a few key points:He discusses particular memes that “activists in the CounterJihad cause” might want to promote, and defines their aim as being “propagandists” to “move multiple memes”. He says they must proceed “more stealthily” and “insert many, many memelets into common discourse”. Some of the memes he suggests: “Mohammed the pedophile”, and “Islam is not a religion”. He says “As a propagandist, my task is to spread the meme and not to sweat the nuances. Nuances can be argued about and nailed down by scholars in the centuries after Islam — as a culture, a political ideology, and a religion — is totally destroyed. We don’t have the luxury for such finicky scholasticism right now.”
........
Because I have spent so many years countering Islamophobes, there are a lot of bits and pieces of information that sometimes take a little while to connect. I knew that in one of the profiles I had done for the Who’s Who in the Islamophobia/Arabophobia Industry, one of those individuals had mentioned planning a film about Prophet Muhammad. It took me awhile, and then I remembered that the individual was Ali Sina who runs Faith Freedom Int’l, and is a board member of the hate group SIOA which was founded by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.
In January of 2012 the formation of a new coalition was announced Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) joined together in a coalition called Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), and Ali Sina is named as one of the board members.
In February of 2012 Ali Sina had posted an article A Movie about Muhammad: an idea whose time has come. He also posted an article including an interview with himself done by the Citizen Times: Interview with Ali Sina about his planned Muhamma biopic.
.....
Here are relevant points from Ali Sina’s article:
... To get rid of Islam we need to reveal the truth about it. The Internet was godsend to critics of Islam. However, sites that are critical of Islam are blocked in Islamic countries and even if they were not, the great majority of Muslims don’t read. We need to get our message to the masses. ... If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the worth of a motion picture? We need to make a motion picture about Muhammad – a biopic that reveals the details of his life. ... The true story of Muhammad is untold. It is available in the books of Siras. But those are voluminous books. Combined, they are thousands of pages. I read them all and have condensed them in a script. ... The other good news is that I have been promised a substantial angel financing. .. The seed is now sown. Now it’s time to nurture it. What I need is an experienced executive producer, someone who shares my values, to make it happen with professionalism and missionary zeal. ... I am not thinking of a high budget movie, but given the subject matter, it can become one of the most seen motion pictures ever. ... I don’t think this movie will require much investment or promotion. People in the movie industry know that nearly half of the budget of a film is spent on advertising and on marketing. We won’t need any of that. We have an army of millions strong who will promote this movie for free. ... Just as the Internet allowed us to spread our message to millions of people, with this movie we can spread the same message to hundreds of millions. When the world discovers the truth about Muhammad, Islam’s days will be numbered.
... When I know about the budget and the legalities are in place, I will give a chance to those who might be interested, to invest in this project. If you have questions you can email me to faithfreedom2 at gmail.com. In the subject box please write Movie Investment. ...
.........
UPDATE 9/22/2012
Justin Raimondo has written an interesting article The ‘Pro-Israel’ Network Behind the Innocence Video noting many of the same points raised above and adding some interesting thoughts:
If someone had planned to upend US foreign policy — to utterly destroy the very basis [.pdf] of all our diplomats (and military personnel) have been working to achieve in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world — they couldn’t have done a better job of it than whoever put together Innocence of Muslims.
As violent protests spread, the consequences continue to roll in: the suspension of joint US-Afghan military operations, the suspension of US aid talks with Egypt, the rapid decline of US prestige in the region, and the growing influence of the radical Islamist movement US support for the “Arab Spring” was designed to counter. The Obama administration’s effort to split the Islamist upsurge and lend its support to “moderates” has been stopped cold.
Was the release of the video a random event, one of those unpredictables that can arise at any moment to foil the best-laid plans? Perhaps. Yet one is hard-pressed to explain what the makers of Innocence sought to accomplish, if not precisely what has occurred…
... The idea that these vermin, who deliberately set out to make a “movie” that would inflame the Muslim world, are “free speech” heroes is worse than nonsense: it is valorizing villains. We don’t yet know where the money, or the impetus to make the film, came from, but what we do know is this: the driving force behind Innocence was a desire to create an international incident that would bring discredit on the United States, and empower radical Islamists who hate America and everything it stands for. And the promoters of this garbage pose as “patriots”!
... Defense of the Jewish state is a major theme of the Islamophobe network: they use it as a shield to deflect criticism. A key leader of this network is former New Leftist and Black Panther groupie David Horowitz: his “David Horowitz Freedom Center” (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), sponsors Spencer’s “Jihad Watch.” Horowitz’s “Frontpage” site — ablaze with stories decrying the “betrayal” of Israel by the American government and the perfidy of all things Islamic — recently speculatedInnocence was created by the very Salafists now leading the protests. Since the video sprang from the same bigoted milieu of which Frontpage is the online Jerusalem, this “theory” isn’t merely ironic — it’s a moral obscenity.
........
All of this adds credence to Justin Raimondo’s speculation about an Israeli connection behind at least some of these films.
SEE ALSO:
“Innocence of Muslims”: Film and International Crisis (TAM article collection) The American Muslim (TAM) for an extensive collection of articles on this crisis
First published 9/15/12 8:37 a.m.
The American Muslim (TAM)
A Who’s Who of the Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab/Islamophobia Industry - updated 10/15/12
Sheila Musaji
Posted Oct 15, 2012 •Permalink • Printer-Friendly Version
A Who’s Who of the Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab/Islamophobia Industry
by Sheila Musaji
The American Muslim (TAM) has collected information about these individuals in this easy to use format. Just click on the links provided to go to in-depth articles and backgrounders on these individuals. There are a number of other individuals who should be included here, and they will be added, and this will be updated as time permits.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - see TAM Responses collection
Al-Mutarajjam aka Al-Mutarjim and Translating Jihad *
American Enterprise Institute **
Zachariah Anani *
David Barton *
Glenn Beck (media) - see TAM Responses collection
Eliana Benador *
Rev. Flip Benham and Operation Save America *
Bonni Benstock-Intall and Bare Naked Islam *
Baron Boddisey (aka Ned May, aka Edward May) of Gates of Vienna: Islamophobia Manifesto Clearly Lays Out Plot Against Muslims **
Ret. Gen. William Boykin **
Ergun Mehmet Caner *
Capitol Congressional Ministries **
David Caton and the Florida Family Association **
Aubrey & Joyce Chernick and the Fairbrook Foundation (financier) *****
Phyllis Chesler *
The Clarion Fund ***
Ann Coulter (media) - see TAM Responses collection
Nonie Darwish (aka Nahid Hyde) and Former Muslims United *
Rev. Maury Davis and the Cornerstone Church *
Alan Dershowitz - see TAM Responses collection
......
