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deutsey

(20,166 posts) Wed Sep 12, 2012, 02:42 PM Sep 2012

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

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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.

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Meet The Right-Wing Extremist Behind Anti-Muslim Film That Sparked Deadly Riots (Original Post) deutsey Sep 2012 OP

he sure looks sleazy.. n/t EC Sep 2012 #1

Was trying to decide whether he or Mitt look more like a used-car salesman. It's coalition_unwilling Sep 2012 #9

there is reasonable doubt that Bacile is even a real person. cali Sep 2012 #2

Bingo!! Supersedeas Sep 2012 #8

wow... bunnies Sep 2012 #3

So he just another hateful Mother-Fer kimbutgar Sep 2012 #5

In another thread, he said that he now thinks Sam Bacile is pseudonym, getting murky here... winstars Sep 2012 #4

Here's another ashling Sep 2012 #6

That's what I thought when I read that quote deutsey Sep 2012 #7

Steve Klein = Sam Bacile jsr Sep 2012 #10

I'm still wondering if anyone knows where James O'Keefe has been lately. randome Sep 2012 #11

Excellent point jsr Sep 2012 #12

After all, poorly produced video is his stock in trade. randome Sep 2012 #13

Very creepy company Bacile keeps Generic Other Sep 2012 #14

EC

(12,287 posts)

1. he sure looks sleazy.. n/t

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 02:43 PM

Sep 2012

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)

9. Was trying to decide whether he or Mitt look more like a used-car salesman. It's

Reply to EC (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:57 PM

Sep 2012

too close to call currently.

cali

(114,904 posts)

2. there is reasonable doubt that Bacile is even a real person.

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 02:45 PM

Sep 2012

Klein clams that he isn't.

Supersedeas

(20,630 posts)

8. Bingo!!

Reply to cali (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:55 PM

Sep 2012

bunnies

(15,859 posts)

3. wow...

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 02:49 PM

Sep 2012

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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.

emphasis mine.

kimbutgar

(21,224 posts)

5. So he just another hateful Mother-Fer

Reply to bunnies (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:12 PM

Sep 2012

winstars

(4,220 posts)

4. In another thread, he said that he now thinks Sam Bacile is pseudonym, getting murky here...

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 02:49 PM

Sep 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021327269

ashling

(25,771 posts)

6. Here's another

Reply to winstars (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:14 PM

Sep 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014227295

he said, he is a Vietnam veteran and an expert on uncovering al Qaeda cells in California. "After 9/11 I went out to look for terror cells in California and found them, piece of cake.

piece of cake? ..... fruit cake

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