Gunmen attacks US consulate in Benghazi, Libya over US film

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

When my husband heard the name of the film maker he said that it wasn't an Israeli name and that is could be Egyptian so that's weird in the article that he told the actors he was Egyptian.

Also the US Embassy in Cairo has announced:

No visa services at Embassy Cairo Sept 13

all appointments cancelled, Emergency services only offered to American Citizens

Edited September 12, 2012 by Dr. A ♥ O

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

When my husband heard the name of the film maker he said that it wasn't an Israeli name and that is could be Egyptian so that's weird in the article that he told the actors he was Egyptian.

Also the US Embassy in Cairo has announced:

He also told AP he was Israeli. Obviously, he has attempted to muddy the waters as much as possible.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

He also told AP he was Israeli. Obviously, he has attempted to muddy the waters as much as possible.

Whoever this film maker is will be exposed eventually. We just have to wait.

In other news Egypt has arrested 4 people already for breaching the walls of the US Embassy. They should be able to identify enough people with all the video footage that was taken of the event and posted online.

[Rae Anne 44]

My heart goes out to the families of those lost. A lot of facts are still murky in this tragedy, and thus I usually abstain from jumping to conclusions. But I believe it is safe for me to say that such a brutal and vicious crime is not justifiable in any religion. Unfortunately, extremists like the mobs in Libya and Egypt and the so-called "filmmaker" in the US exist in every society. All of them cause turmoil and try to sow seeds of hatred and violence. The best way to combat them is to drown out their bile with calls for love and understanding. That's why I've been involved in interfaith activities and peace activism for so many years. Never forget Rev. Martin Luther King's words "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Maybe I'm just an optimist. Maybe the world needs more optimists.

[Rae Anne 44]

He also told AP he was Israeli. Obviously, he has attempted to muddy the waters as much as possible.

Wife_of_Mahmoud: props on the photo in your signature. Rae has much distaste for crazy bag ladies pamela geller and ayn rand.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

My heart goes out to the families of those lost. A lot of facts are still murky in this tragedy, and thus I usually abstain from jumping to conclusions. But I believe it is safe for me to say that such a brutal and vicious crime is not justifiable in any religion. Unfortunately, extremists like the mobs in Libya and Egypt and the so-called "filmmaker" in the US exist in every society. All of them cause turmoil and try to sow seeds of hatred and violence. The best way to combat them is to drown out their bile with calls for love and understanding. That's why I've been involved in interfaith activities and peace activism for so many years. Never forget Rev. Martin Luther King's words "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Maybe I'm just an optimist. Maybe the world needs more optimists.

You are a very sweet and good-hearted person. More people should take a page from your book.

Wife_of_Mahmoud: props on the photo in your signature. Rae has much distaste for crazy bag ladies pamela geller and ayn rand.

crazy bag ladies

[NY_BX 397]

http://maxblumenthal.com/2012/09/meet-the-right-wing-extremist-behind-anti-muslim-film-that-sparked-deadly-riots/

Meet The Right-Wing Extremist Behind Anti-Muslim Film That Sparked Deadly Riots

On 09.12.12, By Max

"Innocence of Muslims" consultant Steve Klein is a veteran anti-Muslim organizer with close ties to the Christian right in California

The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three US diplomats were killed in attacks and rioting provoked by an obscure, low-budget anti-Muslim film called “The Innocence of Muslims.” The producer of the film is a real estate developer supposedly named “Sam Bacile” who claims to be an Israeli Jew. Bacile told the AP the film was made with $5 million raised from “100 Jewish donors.” He said he was motivated to help his native country, Israel, by exposing the evils of Islam.

While Bacile claims to be in hiding, and his identity remains murky, another character who has been publicly listed as a consultant on the film is a known anti-Muslim activist with ties to the extreme Christian right and the militia movement. He is Steve Klein, a Hemet, California based insurance salesman who claims to have led a “hunter-killer team” in Vietnam.”

Klein is a right-wing extremist who emerged from the same axis of Islamophobia that produced Anders Behring Breivik and which takes inspiration from the writings of Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and Daniel Pipes.

It appears Klein (or someone who shares his name and views) is an enthusiastic commenter on Geller’s website, Atlas Shrugged, where he recently complained about Mitt Romney’s “support for a Muslim state in Israel’s Heartland.” In July 2011, Spencer’s website, Jihad Watch, promoted a rally Klein organized alongside the anti-Muslim Coptic extremist Joseph Nasrallah to demand the firing of LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, whom they painted as a dupe for Hamas.

Klein is also closely affiliated with the Christian right in California, organizing resentment against all the usual targets — Muslims, homosexuals, feminists, and even Mormons. He is a board member and founder of a group called Courageous Christians United, which promotes anti-Mormon, anti-Catholic and anti-Muslim literature (including the work of Robert Spencer) on its website. In 2002, Klein ran for the California Insurance Commissioner under the American Independent Party, an extremist fringe party linked to the militia movement, garnering a piddling 2 percent of the vote.

Klein has been closely affiliated with the Church at Kaweah, an extreme evangelical church located 70 miles southeast of Fresno that serves as a nexus of neo-Confederate, Christian Reconstructionist, and militia movement elements. The Southern Poverty Law Center produced a report on Kaweah this spring that noted Klein’s long record of activist against Muslims:

Over the past year, Johnson and the church militia have developed a relationship with Steve Klein, a longtime religious-right activist who brags about having led a “hunter killer” team as a Marine in Vietnam. Klein, who calls Islam a “#######-driven religion” and thinks Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca is a Muslim Brotherhood patsy, is allied with Christian activist groups across California. In 2011, as head of the Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, he worked with the Vista, Calif.-based Christian Anti-Defamation Commission on a campaign to “arm” students with the “truth about Islam and Muhammad” — mainly by leafleting high schools with literature depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a sex-crazed pedophile.

Klein, based in Hemet, Calif., has been active in extremist movements for decades. In 1977, he founded Courageous Christians United, which now conducts “respectful confrontations” outside of abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques. Klein also has ties to the Minuteman movement. In 2007, he sued the city of San Clemente for ordering him to stop leafleting cars with pamphlets opposing illegal immigration.

Like many other activists who fashion themselves as “counter-Jihadists,” Klein has organized against the construction of mosques in his area. While leafleting against a planned mosque in Temecula, California, which he claimed would herald the introduction of Shariah law to the quiet suburb, Klein remarked, “It all comes down to the first amendment. I don’t care if you disagree with me. Just don’t cut off my head.”

Klein appears to be allied with the National American Coptic Assembly, a radical Islamophobic group headed by Morris Sadik. Sadik claims to have discovered the film and began promoting it online. Once it went viral, the trailer was translated into Arabic, sparking outrage in the Middle East, and ultimately, to the deadly attacks carried out by Muslim extremists today.

Klein claims credit for inspiring “Sam Bacile” to produce “The Innocence of Muslims,” promising him he would be “the next Theo Van Gogh,” referring to the Dutch columnist who was murdered by a Muslim extremist. Of the attacks in Libya, Klein said, “We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen.”

Bull$h!t, five million dollars. The film is something a grade ten student in AV class could outdo. It's incredibly bad and amateurish; non-union nonetheless. To give you an idea: Hustle & Flow was done with $3.75M; The 6th Sense with $6M; Paranormal Activity with $750,000 and the latest indie hits Gun Hill Road less than $500,000 and Under My Nails for $68,000. You hear right, that film was made union with lot less than $100K.

$5M??? Never! Or someone stole $4.9M

[Rae Anne 44]

You are a very sweet and good-hearted person. More people should take a page from your book.

crazy bag ladies

Hahaha. I try, I try. But I've been even more motivated since meeting my fiance. I hope in some small way we can represent what is possible when people of different faiths come together with mutual understanding and respect. So many of the things we love about each other are because of, not in spite of, our respective faiths

[NY_BX 397]

Hahaha. I try, I try. But I've been even more motivated since meeting my fiance. I hope in some small way we can represent what is possible when people of different faiths come together with mutual understanding and respect. So many of the things we love about each other are because of, not in spite of, our respective faiths

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Hahaha. I try, I try. But I've been even more motivated since meeting my fiance. I hope in some small way we can represent what is possible when people of different faiths come together with mutual understanding and respect. So many of the things we love about each other are because of, not in spite of, our respective faiths

I think you are absolutely right - there are far more things in common between major religions than there are differences. (Out of reps for the day but will come back tomorrow to give you your due )

[kristen_maroc 126]

Hahaha. I try, I try. But I've been even more motivated since meeting my fiance. I hope in some small way we can represent what is possible when people of different faiths come together with mutual understanding and respect. So many of the things we love about each other are because of, not in spite of, our respective faiths

This statement is such a simple way of saying what I have felt over the last 2.5 years. Isn't it amazing how it can work and the power of interfaith dialogue, conversation, discussion, respectful debate and that relationships can be strong despite-- and sometimes because of it?