A coordinated 28-million-DVD smear campaign targeted swing-state voters in 2008.

Evidence

Weeks before the 2008 presidential elections, a well-organized campaign by the Clarion Fund distributed 28 million copies of the propaganda film, Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, to voters in swing states. Obsession was chock-full of images of Arabs and Muslims engaged in violence. And again, Islam was compared to Nazism. The cover of the DVD declared, “The threat of radical Islam is the most important issue facing us today.” It was no coincidence that the timing of the campaign followed months of allegations that Obama is a Muslim. Although the Clarion Fund and its Islamophobic supporters ultimately failed to prevent Obama’s election, labeling him a Muslim as a proxy for anti-Black racism demonstrated the extent to which Muslim identity was treated as a race. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 836

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone studying organized propaganda distribution logistics — the 28-million-copy swing-state targeting is a striking operational detail.
• XREF: connects to: Twenty-eight million swing-state voters received an anti-Islam DVD in 2008. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766