Bannon as Representative of a US Islamophobic Network [Update]

Started as a reply to a query in a fp story …

CAIR Calls on GOP to Demand Dismissal of Trump Adviser Steve Bannon After Revelation of His Anti-Muslim Film Proposal

[NOTE: Bannon was the reported architect of the recent “Muslim ban” targeting seven Islamic nations. He is also reportedly behind a rumored soon-to-be-released presidential executive order to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, which Bannon vilified in his film proposal (see below), as a terrorist organization. Many Muslims and civil libertarians believe that designation is a prelude to a Trump administration “witch hunt” targeting American Muslim civil rights and advocacy organizations. CAIR itself is falsely labeled a “cultural jihadist” group in Bannon’s proposal.
Source: CAIR website]

The Obama administration used the states with large Muslim Brotherhood presence to overthrow leaders in the Arab Uprising.

○ The legislation that will be used to intimidate and imprison members of the Muslim community has been introduced | Mondoweiss |

More about Bannon’s Islamophobe film career here …

Steve Bannon’s Islamophobic film script just one example of anti-Muslim views | The Guardian |

The man who once imagined a ‘global war’ between ‘the Judeo-Christian west‘ and ‘jihadist Islamic fascism’ is now Trump’s top adviser. Here’s a selection of anti-Muslim remarks he has made in the past.

Steve Bannon’s Romance with Hollywood Islamophobia | Tikun Olam |

In the past few days, stories about two different Steve Bannon film projects, one of which was never produced and the second, which was screened at this summer’s Republican convention. The Washington Post reported on the first film, which Bannon was shopping around Hollywood in 2007. It was to be titled (somewhat awkwardly): Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Facism [sic] in America. The script outline circulated by Bannon offers even more explicit Muslim-hatred than Bannon’s 2014 Vatican speech, about which I posted a few days ago. Here is the Post’s portrayal of the film:

The flag fluttering above the U.S. Capitol is emblazoned with a crescent and star. Chants of “Allahu Akbar” rise from inside the building.

That’s the provocative opening scene of a documentary-style movie outlined 10 years ago by Stephen K. Bannon that envisioned radical Muslims taking over the country and remaking it into the “Islamic States of America…”

The outline shows how Bannon…sought to issue a warning about the threat posed by radical Muslims and their “enablers among us”…The outline says, institutions such as the media, the Jewish community and government agencies were appeasing jihadists aiming to create an Islamic republic.

○ How Steve Bannon captured America’s spirit of revolt | The Guardian – Opinion |

Islamophobic Geert Wilders aligned with his master Donald Trump – using Fake News

Pam Geller, Richard Spencer, Ayan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders, et all are quietly uplifted by Trump’s presence in the White House.

Today as Dutch election campaign starts off, Geert Wilders used a doctored photo of Saturday’sa protest march in The Hague to claim Liberal Party D’66 leader Alex Pechtold is one with Islam. Wilders specifically mentions the Hamas organisation in Gaza, a nemesis to Israel and its occupation of Palestinian territory, Of course, Hamas is linked to its donors in Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood nation. See also Tunisia and Erdogan’s Turkey. The Muslim Brotherhood in banned in the Gulf states of the Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Big promotor of Islamophobic events, literature, ‘education’.books and films is am organisation called “The Clarion Project“.

○ The Clarion Project – Cruz Proposes Bill to Label Brotherhood, CAIR as Terror Orgs. (Nov. 2015) [Cached page]
○ Another link here – Act for Canada

○ The “Clarion Project” – as described in articles @Tikun Olam

Britain’s alt-Right Going Global – Blaming Russia

UPDATE – more below the fold …
A sucker punch … when Dems keep looking towards Putin for election loss …

Britain’s extremist bloggers helping the ‘alt-right’ go global, report finds | The Guardian

Another Briton said to have had an influential intervention in the US elections is 52-year-old Jim Dowson, a Scottish Calvinist who founded the far right, anti-Muslim party Britain First. Dowson, from a hub in Hungary, set up a network of US-focused websites and Facebook groups with the intention of promoting Trump and denigrating his rival during the US election.

Dowson’s websites include Patriot News Agency– whose postings have been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times in the US – and whose articles on Friday include a critique of a new Netflix series which it accused of stoking anti-white racism. An investigation by the New York Times in December claimed that although a sizeable volume of US election fake news emanated from central and Eastern Europe, Dowson’s operation was the only obviously politically inspired intervention.

Hungary’s ruling party pledges to purge Soros Group from country | Blloomberg |

UK government hires M&C Saatchi to fight far-right threat

○ Americans aren’t as attached to democracy as you might think

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To oppose Trump, Jews must join the fight against fascism and Zionism | Mondoweiss |

In order to guarantee support of the American Jewish community for Israel, which manifests in unparalleled diplomatic and financial backing by the United States government, prominent figures within the American Jewish community have whitewashed and trivialized the contradiction between American Jewish liberal values and the discriminatory policies in Israel. Anyone, but especially Jews, who vocally criticize the injustices perpetuated by Israel against Palestinians or others are marginalized and viciously attacked by Zionist organizations and their members.

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Predictably, some of these same apologists are now protecting the new Trump administration. One such example is the lawyer Alan Dershowitz. For years Dershowitz carelessly used the pejorative “anti-Semite” to describe any critics/opponents to Zionism and the state of Israel, including Students for Justice in Palestine and the non-violent Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) organization.

When referring to Steve Bannon, however, he claimed that “you should not toss that phrase around casually” and that it is “not legitimate to call somebody an anti-Semite because you might disagree with their policies”. Dershowitz, a so-called guardian of civil liberties, also came out in defense of Trump himself after the recent debacle in which the President disrespectfully called Judge James L. Robart a “so-called judge” on Twitter. Dershowitz remained true to his Trumpophilia stating the President “shows respect for independent judiciary”.

Some claim that it is impossible for Jews or for gentiles who have Jewish friends or family (as in ‘some of my best friends are Black’) to be anti-Semites. In addition, according to Dershowitz and his ilk, those who support the goals of Zionism and the Israeli government are automatically friends of the Jewish people.