Consultant on Provocative Islamophobic Film Spreads Lurid Rumors
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 at 11:07:33 PM EST
Steve Klein has been revealed as a consultant on the Islamophobic film "The Innocence of Muslims." The film has been tied to provoking a backlash that resulted in the assassination of US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other diplomats.

Klein has made at least two appearances on the Denice Gary-Pandol radio show online and also at 1410 AM radio. The radio show is archived at the website of Strategic Solutions for a New Middle East, which is also a sponsor of the program. On the program of 03-31-2012 Klein is described as a United States Marine Corps Officer. The blurb for the program claims that:


"political correctness has undermined the military's rules of engagement, (ROEs), and lead to the deaths of U.S. soldiers.  Find out what the Obama team has done to compromise our military's security, sacrificing the lives of U.S. servicemen and women in order to create a climate of accommodation with the locals in enemy territory, a place where terrorists do not don a military uniform."
Klein is introduced as having served as a translator in Vietnam hunting down cells of Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine. Klein congratulations the host for her views on the Middle East, and adds that "people don't understand this is a religious war." The host warned that you cannot tell civilians from combatants in the Middle East, just like in Vietnam.

"I'm going to throw a giant Molotov Cocktail in here," says Klein, who then states that "Forty Six Afghanistan pilots who are being trained in the United States" have gone missing, and have deserted. According to Klein, "these are supposed to be our allies...they are obviously members of the Taliban."

The idea that liberal "Political Correctness" is a form of "Cultural Marxism" designed to destroy Western Civilization and help install Islamic totalitarian rule--and that President Obama is part of the plot--is widespread among Islamophobes in the United States and Europe.

As I wrote here on July 23, 2011:

Anders Behring Breivik, charged in the terror attacks in Oslo, Norway, compiled a 1,500-page Manifesto under the name "Andrew Berwick" that cites to the U.S. Free Congress Foundation and LaRouchite publications. The manifesto states that "Political Correctness" should be called "Cultural Marxism" and is the reason for political leaders allowing mass Muslim migration into Europe.
Breivik's core thesis is borrowed from William S. Lind's Islamophobic conspiracy theory about "Cultural Marxism." Lind formerly was a chief ideologue at the Christian Right Free Congress Foundation in Washington, DC. Lind later wove his theory into antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish Marxists.

Later in the radio program, Klein claims that he and his sources are convinced there were four Muslims about the Seal Team Six helicopter involved in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, and that one of them detonated a suicide bomb causing the helicopter to crash.

The programs are archived here: http://tinyurl.com/klein-rap

DGP_Show_03-31-2012 (24.00 MB)


Hear United States Marine Corps Officer, Steve Klein on how political correctness has undermined the military's rules of engagement, (ROEs), and lead to the deaths of U.S. soldiers.  Find out what the Obama team has done to compromise our military's security, sacrificing the lives of U.S. servicemen and women in order to create a climate of accommodation with the locals in enemy territory, a place where terrorists do not don a military uniform.  

Learn of U.S. officials who have released information on Israel's national security interests and hear the latest on back channel communications between Iran and the United States.

Find out what is behind the current administration's betrayal of Israel's potential plans for a surgical military strike on Iran.  Learn of the administration's hard push to use your tax dollars to provide resources and funding for a terrorist organization in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority while Muslims engage in a violent "Global March on Jerusalem".

Hear what you can do to alert Congress, the White House, your local church or synagogue about American women and children, Christians and Jews, trapped and isolated in Muslim countries?  How can you help?  You can begin by letting Washington lawmakers know that American embassies need to provide a safe haven for American citizens and others living in Muslim countries who continue to suffer persecution, including Muslims who have left Islam and committed apostasy.  Jews, Christians, and former Muslims are in need of a way of escape.

DGP_Show_03-24-2012 (54.09 MB)


Hear United States Marine Corps Officer, Steve Klein on the Council of American Islamic Relations, (CAIR), and their activities in the United States.  Hear what Islamic leaders once affiliated with CAIR are doing today and where they are now residing.

A Muslim right's lobbying group, CAIR's founder, Omar M. Ahmad, stated at an Islamic conference in California, "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant.  The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."




Display:
Is, according to Loonwatch, Abenob Nakoula Bassely, an Egyptian Copt. This rotten film was presented to the actors as a 2000 year old desert drama, and they were instructed to refer to the heavy as "Mr. George". The whole script was later re-written and dubbed into Egyptian Arabic. It is generally agreed that Bassely posed as an Israeli with "100 rich Jewish backers" to provoke violence between Israel and her neighbors and against Jews of other nations wherever they might be travelling. Bassely appears to have quite a criminal past, including running a meth kitchen.

by Rey Mohammed on Thu Sep 13, 2012 at 09:45:03 PM EST


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