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In reply to the discussion: What ABOUT that anti-Muslim video that supposedly triggered the murders in Benghazi? [View all]Mme. Defarge
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Ok, Ive been obsessed with the idea that the release of The Innocence of Muslims film a couple of months before the election was meant to be the catalyst for a Republican facilitated October Surprise, planned to stoke the flames of unrest in the Muslim world and embarrass President Obama by making him look weak and ineffective on foreign policy - one of his strengths. So, yes, an important question is who was involved in the production and financial support of the film? Here is what I have discovered so far:
The film was made around September 2011.
A copy of the film was dubbed in Arabic and sent to an Egyptian journalist on 9/6/12 by Coptic rights activist Morris Sadek.
The producer of the film was Joseph Nassarala Abdelmasih of Media for Christ - a non-profit organization that sponsors The Way TV, a Coptic Christian tv channel
The film was made someone using the name of Nakoula or Sam Bacile (the same person), who may have been an informant of kind.
Steve Klein, a member of a Christian Militia group located in Los Angeles, and anti-Islam crusader, served as a consultant for the project.
The film was promoted by Pastor Terry Jones of Gainsville, Florida (theres that Florida connection I was trying to find). Terry Jones had previously threatened to burn Korans in protest of the decision to build a mosque in lower Manhattan. On 9/12/12, General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asks Jones to withdraw his support from the film.
Pamela Geller is a right-wing Jewish blogger on her website Atlas Shrugs, which published a solicitation for funds to produce an anti-Mohammed movie in February 2012. She is an anti-Islamic activist who helped organize the June 6, 2010 protest of the plans for a Mosque in lower Manhattan, collaborating with Pastor Terry Jones in this effort. In her solicitation for funds to make an anti-Mohammed film (not necessarily The Innocence of Muslims, which was actually made 6 months earlier, she lists Ali Sina, ex-Muslim and founder of Faithfreedom.org as a partner. Mr. Sina is noted for his comparisons of President Obama to Hitler. She also has been associated with another anti-Muslim activist and author, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. Both Geller and Robert Spencer were both closely allied with John Bolton and the Romney campaign.
Robert Spencer is a Melkite Greek Catholic - rite of the Roman Catholic church whose adherents are mostly found in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Turkey. It is probably a coincidence, but Jill Kelley and her twin sister, Natalie Khawan, are Maronite Catholic Christians from Lebanon. I actually went off on this entire tangent in an effort to see if I could find a link between between the twins and the making of the film in question. Nothing so far.
None of this proves anything, but will keep digging. Meanwhile, here are some links that might be of interest.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/14/was-innocence-of-muslims-director-also-an-informant.html
http://www2.tbo.com/lifestyles/breaking-news/2012/sep/12/3/gainesville-pastor-terry-jones-indirectly-tied-to-ar-495749/
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/9/16/12752/9534
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41048_Mitt__Romney_Pamela_Geller_EDLs_Tommy_Robinson_Robert_Spencer_and_John_Bolton.