I've already noted that the individuals behind the foul anti-Muslim film The Innocence of Muslims appear to be far right Christians. Now, not surprisingly and as my fellow Bilerico Project contributor Karen Ocamb reports, at least one of the individuals involved in the video and the intentional fomenting of violence is also anti-gay and anti-Mormon. As I said before, today's far right Christians are synonymous with hate, bigotry and efforts to engender violence against others. They are a pox on the world. Here are highlights from Karen's post:
The Riverside Press-Enterprise also reported extensively on Klein's background and the two groups he started - Courageous Christians United and Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment - which resulted in Klein being on the Southern Poverty Law Center's watch list. The newspaper reported:
But he and other members of Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment distributed leaflets on Islam in high schools across Southern California, including in Temecula, Corona, Murrieta, Norco and Menifee.Klein said he has written on other issues as well, targeting illegal immigration, gays and lesbians serving in the military and Mormonism. But he said he has not attended or organized demonstrations on those issues.The Southern Poverty Law Center on Wednesday put out a dossier on Klein. The center quotes him from his Facebook page in 2011 as saying Muslims "are a cancer that WILL attack us and KILL as many as they can to further the Islamic doctrine of Sharia law . . . Beware, there IS a holy war coming."The Southern Poverty Law Center described Klein as a Marine veteran who brags about having led a "hunter-killer" team in Vietnam. He also is associated with the Church of Kaweah in Central California.
The Church of Kaweah, which the [SPLC] center lists as a hate group, is described as "a secretive cohort of militant Christian fundamentalists in California who are preparing for war and who believe that churches should avoid government regulation and answer only to God." It is located near the village of Three Rivers in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The church has its own militia, the center said.
"When he's not busy spreading fear and hate among America's youth, Klein conducts outreach and encourages militancy among Christians from the Middle East and northern Africa," the center said in its online report.
Interestingly, much of the attention on his Courageous Christians United website seems directed at Mormons, as well as Muslims. "As Evangelical Christians, we also desire to convert Mormons and the state of Utah in particular to the real Jesus Christ," they say on their MormonInfo.org website.
On the Courageous Christians United website, they have a list of videos, including this category:
SEXUAL PERVERSION (No Porn Viewable)
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