Anti-Muslim Hate Film Incites Violence:
Post-9/11, Washington declared war on Islam
17 September 2012By Stephen
Lendman
Post-9/11, Washington declared war on Islam.
Islamophobia facilitates war on terror policy. Muslims
became public enemy number one. Imperial wars
followed. Endless direct and proxy ones continue.
Others are planned.
Dehumanizing Islam violates core US beliefs about
religious freedom and respecting all faiths equally.
America only respects money power and imperial
dominance.
It targets anyone challenging its quest for global
hegemony. Millions of corpses attest to its resolve.
They're strewn across North Africa, the Middle East,
Central Asia, and other parts of the world without
end. Their numbers increase daily.
The business of America is war, imperial dominance,
and corporate empowerment. Ravaging one country after
another follows. Fear is created and manipulated to
facilitate what should be condemned. Where it ends who
knows. Perhaps a mushroom-shaped cloud future awaits.
Muslims know America's dark side best. It victimizes
them daily. Millions died since Gulf War mass killings
ignited nearly 22 years of genocidal slaughter.
They've been mercilessly targeted for praying to the
wrong God. They're used for political advantage.
They're pretexts for permanent wars. They're ongoing
with no end in sight.
Media scoundrels misreport or ignore them. Attacks on
US Cairo and Benghazi diplomatic missions made
headlines and ignited rage. Capitol Hill flags were
ordered lowered to half mast. US Libyan ambassador
Chris Stevens and three members of his staff were
killed. Millions of dead Muslims go unnoticed.
Stevens previously was Obama's representative to
America's puppet Libyan National Transition Council.
It helped Washington and NATO partners ravage the
country mercilessly.
They're responsible for killing tens of thousands of
civilians, causing widespread destruction, leaving
countless numbers homeless, displaced, and
impoverished, as well as ending cherished social
programs Gaddafi instituted.
According to a New York Times editorial headlined
"Murder in Benghazi," Libya's "pro-democracy
revolution had no better friend than" Stevens.
The Times not only spurned truth, it blasphemed it.
Stevens like all US ambassadors and officials serve
imperial Washington's interests. They're contemptuous
of democracy and rule of law principles.
"The worst thing now would be for the United States to
turn away from its commitments to work with Libya (and
help it) build (a) stable new societ(y)."
America's interest is plunder, exploitation and
dominance. It won't tolerate democracy or anything
resembling it. It doesn't at home or anywhere abroad.
A blasphemous anti-Muslim film incited violence. It
killed Stevens and others. An Israeli/American
filmmaker made it. He calls himself Sam Bacile.
According to the Los Angeles Times, public record
searches, "including court, voting, telephone or
property databases - show no one" by that name in
California.
AP said Nakoula Basseley Nakoula uses the alias Nicola
Bacily. He acknowledged managing the company that
produced the film. He claims Bacile is real and
directed it. Federal court papers revealed Nakoula
aliases include Bacily, Erwin Salameh, and others.
"Bacile," or whatever his name is, stands by his
filth. Over 100 Jewish donors funded him.
Perhaps Romney supporter/billionaire Sheldon Adelson
was one. Perhaps Netanyahu, other Israeli hardliners,
and Mossad either supported it or were involved. It
bears classic Israeli fingerprints.
"Bacile" claims he wrote, directed and produced it. He
calls Islam "a cancer." Weeks earlier, the film was
shown in Los Angeles. It runs two hours. It attracted
little attention.
On 9/11 eve, he released an Arabic 13 minute trailer.
It's titled "Innocence of Muslims." Facebook was used
to promote it. It circulated via You Tube. Violence
followed.
He calls Mohammad a baffoon, a donkey, a philanderer,
an opportunist, a pedophile, homosexual, and religious
fraud. One scene depicts him having sex. Muslims and
responsible critics denounced him.
In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten
published blasphemous caricatures. They depicted the
Prophet Mohammad irreverently. One showed him wearing
a turban throwing a bomb. Riots followed in many
Muslim countries. Deaths occurred in Afghanistan,
India, Libya, and perhaps elsewhere.
In 2011, the Center for American Progress produced a
report titled "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the
Islamophobia Network in America." It revealed that
seven US-based pro-Israeli organizations spent over
$40 million from 2001 - 2009 spreading anti-Islamic
hate.
Racist Pastor Terry Jones heads the Gainesville,
FL-based Dove World Outreach Center. In 2010, he
cancelled plans to burn the Koran after then Afghan
commander David Petraeus said doing so would endanger
US forces.
In 2011, he incited rage over threats to "put the
Koran on trial" and burn it. Pleas by religious
leaders and US officials failed to dissuade him. His
assistant, Wayne Sapp, committed the sacrilege and
broadcast it online. He also burned an image of the
Prophet Mohammad.
In April 2012, he did it again. According to the
Gainesville Sun, his church was issued a citation for
violating city fire ordinances.
Analyst Gordon Duff calls Jones a CIA asset "run by
rogue handlers, and heavily promoted by Mossad
elements throughout the Middle East." His blasphemy
draws attention. He's used to incite Islamophobia.
He's linked to the anti-Islamic video. He promoted and
helped circulate it. He bears responsibility with
others for the violence it incited.
US soldiers involved in Koran burnings and other forms
of desecration provoked outrage when they happened.
Muslims believe the holy Koran is an exact record of
words revealed by God through the Angel Gabriel to
Muhammad. He taught them to others. Scribes passed
them on. Throughout centuries of Islamic history, its
114 chapters remained unchanged.
The Koran's the primary source of Muslim faith and
practice. It covers all human concerns, including
wisdom, beliefs, worship and law. It also focuses on
God's relationship with humanity, and provides
guidelines for a just society, proper relationships,
and just divisions of power.
It teaches love, not hate; peace, not violence;
charity, not selfishness; and tolerance, not
terrorism. Its five pillars include profession of
faith, prayer five times daily, fasting during
Ramadan, charity, and performing the Hajj pilgrimage
to Mecca at least once in a lifetime for those able to
afford it.
In February, clashes followed US Bagram Air Base
soldiers dumping Koran copies and other Islamic holy
materials in debris piles for burning.
Military officials lied. They claimed they contained
"extremist inscriptions" and were used to "facilitate
extremist communications." This incident followed
earlier ones and release of a January video showing
Marines urinating on Afghan corpses.
Protests erupted each time. Hollow apologies
heightened anger, especially after 11 years of brutal
war, occupation, daily killings, and extreme
deprivation in ravaged Afghanistan.
Western media reports claimed rockets fired at
Washington's Benghazi consulate killed Stevens and
three members of his staff. According to The New York
Times, "Islamist militants armed with antiaircraft
weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed" the
mission late Tuesday.
His body wasn't "located until Wednesday morning at
dawn, when he was found dead at a Benghazi hospital,
American and Libyan officials said." Libyan sources
said he died of asphyxiation caused by smoke from
ignited fires.
On September 12, the American Iranian Friendship
Committee published a different version of events.
Images reveal a rocket attack wasn't responsible.
Apparently, Stevens "was dragged through the streets
and tortured. They don't mind when it's Gaddafi or one
of your brown people, but not one of us."
The Mossad-connected DebkaFile said gunmen attacking
America's mission split in two groups. One fired
rockets at the consulate "on the assumption that
(Stevens') bodyguards would" whisk him out of harm's
way under secret service protection.
The second group spotted his "getaway vehicle and the
ambassador's armed escort and lay in wait to ambush
them." They killed him and his bodyguards "at point
blank range."
Washington responded its usual way. Obama promised
revenge. He ordered stepped up diplomatic mission
security. He sent in the marines. He dispatched two
guided missile destroyers. Pentagon spokesman called
these steps precautionary measures.
Washington spent more than two decades ravaging North
Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Tuesday's
attack suggests blowback. The suspiciously timed
anti-Islamic hate film suggests Israeli involvement.
Expect no official confirmation.
According to Haaretz, "Netanyahu has gone to war. Not
against Iran. Not yet, at least. But his bellicose
road to Tehran runs through Washington."
He picked "a very public fight with" Obama….(I)t's no
great secret. (He) wants him defeated" in November. He
wants Romney elected. He thinks he'll be quicker to
attack Iran.
Perhaps so. Perhaps not. Rhetoric and policy bear
little relationship to each other, especially during
electoral campaigns.
If Netanyahu's involved in or responsible for the
blasphemous film, violence it incited, and four
American deaths, perhaps rock solid US/Israeli
relations will suffer along with his own political
future. What follows bears watching.
Stephen Lendman lives in
Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is
titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized
Banking, Government Collusion and Class War"
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