Byline: Matea Gold

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," according to a document describing the project obtained by The Washington Post.

The outline shows how Bannon -- years before he became a strategist for President Trump and helped draft last week's order restricting travel from seven mostly Muslim countries -- sought to issue a warning about the threat posed by radical Muslims and their "enablers among us." Although driven by the "best intentions," the outline says, institutions such as the media, the Jewish community and government agencies were appeasing jihadists aiming to create an Islamic republic.

The eight-page draft, written in 2007 during Bannon's stint as a Hollywood filmmaker, proposes a three-part movie that would trace "the culture of intolerance" behind sharia law, examine the "Fifth Column" made up of "Islamic front groups" and identify the American enablers paving "the road to this unique hell on earth."

The outline, titled "Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Facism [sic] in America," lists Bannon as the movie's director, as well as its co-writer with his longtime writing partner Julia Jones. The title page includes the line "A Film by Stephen K. Bannon" in capital letters.

Jones, reached by The Post, declined to discuss the contents of the document in detail but confirmed its authenticity. She added that it was essentially Bannon's product.

"It was all his words," Jones said.

A White House spokeswoman declined to comment. Bannon did not respond to several requests for comment.

The film proposal includes as possible on-air experts two analysts who went on to advise Trump, although their names are misspelled in the document: Walid Phares, a Lebanese-born Maronite Christian who has warned that jihadists are posing as civil rights advocates, and Heritage Foundation security expert James Jay Carafano, who has defended Trump's executive order.

Phares said he did not recall any discussions about the film. A Heritage spokesman said Carafano was not familiar with the project.

The outline offers an early glimpse of Bannon's belief that the West and "supremacist" Islam are headed for a "fundamental clash of civilizations," as the outline says. Bannon later expressed this view publicly as chief...