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Zionism 2012-09-15 |
"The production organization that received the permit for the movie now known as "Innocence of Muslims" is Media for Christ [which] 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...
Nasralla has spoken at rallies organized by Pamela Geller [Jewish] and Robert Spencer [Catholic] and has partnered in projects with Steve Klein... Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of David Horowitz's Freedom Center. Spencer and Geller founded the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)...the sponsor of anti-Muslim advertisements on buses in Manhattan and San Francisco. Spencer and Geller describe their inflammatory activism as being "pro-Israel"...
-- Rachel Tabachnick article
"The idea for just such a movie as 'Innocence' showed up on Geller's blog in February, in a post entitled "A Movie About Muhammad: An Idea Whose Time Has Come." Ali Sina, an ex-Muslim and board member of Geller and Spencer's "Stop the Islamization of Nations" (SION) exhorted Geller's readers to support his movie project..."
Even as the predictable rioting was taking place, Geller and Spencer (the elders of SION) hosted a conference in New York boasting of their "free speech" agitation, without acknowledging their connection to the production of this crude and provocative anti-Islamic video:
"[The conference] also coincidentally took place while Islamic savages in Egypt were storming the U.S. Embassy and Libyan murderers were killing American diplomats over the very issue Geller, Spencer, and others were gathered to discuss: freedom of speech...
In light of the repeated demonstrations of vicious hatred directed at Americans over criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, this time in an internet film [sic]...it is quite fitting for Americans to be addressing the pressing issue of how individual freedoms and rights in a democratic society are being suppressed...
Ms. Geller passionately spoke to the audience about the 'war to control words' going on in the name of Islam..."