Millions of dollars, funneled through shadowy front organizations, have also supported the distribution of anti-Islamic propaganda on a massive scale. Only weeks before the presidential election of 2008, 100 newspapers and magazines across the country distributed millions of DVDs of a documentary entitled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against the West,” in Sunday editions, and 28 million more DVDs were mailed directly to voters in swing states. The film has also been repeatedly shown on Fox News TV. In lurid and alarming scenes, the film (distributed by an otherwise unknown organization called the Clarion Fund, Inc.) bluntly intercut images of Muslims and Nazis to make the point that they are basically the same.

QUESTION: Who funded the Clarion Fund, and what was the direct electoral impact of this distribution timing?

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 30