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According to the New York Times, the Press-Telegram of Long Beach, California, and MercuryNews.com in Silicon Valley, the production organization that received the permit for the movie now known as "Innocence of Muslims" is Media for Christ. Media for Christ (website offline at posting) was founded and is led by Joseph Nasralla Abdelmasih, an Egyptian Coptic Christian who has been promoted by many of the country's most vocal anti-Muslim agitators.
The video embedded below is from the Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller-sponsored 911 Freedom Rally in 2011 and posted by Geller's Atlas Shrugged. Spencer introduces Nasralla as "coming from California, where he operates The Way, a Christian satellite TV station."
Klein, Nasralla, and Gary Cass are partners in an anti-Muslim student outreach effort titled 911 Defend Our Students, which has included handing out fliers to students as they leave their schools. A Christian Newswire press release describes the program in the words of Cass,
"Muslims are trying to convert and radicalize our young people. By telling them the truth about the dangerous doctrines of Islam and the and wicked practices of Mohammad we are protecting our children."
Cass co-founded the Christian Anti-Defamation Coalition with General William S. Hollis. Projects have included a series of videos titled "Seven Reasons Barack Obama is not a Christian." The advisory board includes Matt Staver, Rick Scarborough, Lou Sheldon, Dick Bott, Ted Baehr, Don Wildmon, Leslee Unruh, and other Religious Right luminaries.
Update: The LA Times describes the movie as the product of Joseph Nasralla and Nakoula Nakoula.
Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, the president of the Duarte-based charity Media for Christ, and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a convicted felon from Cerritos, emerged Thursday as forces behind "Innocence of Muslims."
...Media for Christ, whose stated mission is to "glow Jesus' light" to the world, obtained permits to shoot the movie in August 2011, and Nakoula provided his home as a set and paid the actors, according to government officials and those involved in the production.
Also see Mondoweiss and Pamela Geller's response to that post.
On this general topic, also see The Public Eye's report Manufacturing the Muslim Menace.
PRA Report Exposes Islamophobic Counterterrorism Training Industry
When the virus of Islamophobia is spread in courses and conferences for police
and intelligence officers, as the report reveals, this does not bode well for
cooperation and a relationship of trust between law enforcement and American
Muslim communities. Most disconcerting is the revelation that those events are
sponsored or condoned by federal and local agencies and that participant fees
are paid by taxpayers.
Brigitte Nacos
Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University
Sorry Barb... People who have any brains aren't buying the Film caused lunacy nonsense... Please try again.
It intended to cause trouble, and it succeeded in doing so.
Sorry Barb... People who have any brains aren't buying the Film caused lunacy nonsense... Please try again.
It intended to cause trouble, and it succeeded in doing so.
No... Obama thought that aiding and abetting the Muslim Brotherhood with OUR Tax dollars was a good thing... Boy, was he WRONG.
