Im watching the coming home ceremony of the four that died. There are no words. If you didnt know it was airing, that is why I am posting this. Tune in if your interested.
That was a real knee-slapper - hehehehe!!!!!!!!
It was a joke.
I was waiting for someone from your team to take the bait, and start drawing lines between the film-maker and Romney!
Dag'nab'it... no takers I guess.
No, Coptic Christian.
( maybe you were joking:)
Did you guys hear?
The film-maker was Mormon!
California Man with Criminal Past ID’d as Key Figure Behind Anti-Islam Film
U.S. authorities have officially identified the key figure behind the anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims," that sparked the protests. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is a 55-year-old Southern California resident with a checkered past involving drug convictions and bank fraud. He was sentenced to nearly two years in prison in 2010 for financial crimes and is barred from using the Internet without approval under the terms of his supervised release. He told the Associated Press he was a Coptic Christian. Meanwhile, an actress who participated in the film said actors were deceived about the nature of the video and did not realize it was anti-Islam. Instead they were given a script entitled "Desert Warriors" that was purported to be about life in ancient Egypt, but words like Muhammad and other references to Islam were dubbed over their voices after the filming.
from: democracynow.org
It is a sin to even represent the prophet in form. And actually, they recognize Jesus as a prophet too. Mohammed is the final prophet, in the Islamic religion.
Before going to that part of the world, I read an English version of the koran as well as everything I could about the culture.
I remember some of it.
Well ya know, them thar folks over there dont bow to Jesus, they bow to Mahommad and they dont think like we do over here either. They dont have our freedoms to do anything other than believe. Think about that for a minute.
And as much as we have rights to say and do and produce what we want here in America, we must remember that they do not have those rights and privelege over there. Two completely different worlds and in their world, dissing their god means death to the disser or supporters of that disser.
Im not saying I agree, but a little understanding of the differences in cultures must be considered.
Jesus has been belittled and still is on a daily basis.
I hear google had the movie trailer taken off of u tube.
Like I said in a previous post, I think the movie was the tipping point.
They are tired of the US military occupation and of our drones killing civilians and this film just pushed them over the edge.
I don't condone their actions.
Any moron can post a film on youtube. It's all fiction in my view. I know what can be done with photoshop.
There are many fanatical Christians here who already are attacking Mosques. How do you think they'd react if they saw a film made in the mid-east which belittled Jesus ?
Fanatics are fanatics, no matter what religion, they believe in.
I think the movie was used as an excuse, which is a new tactic for extremist muslim terrorists, I have to say.
They usually don't NEED a reason, and just randomly act violently.
Unfortunately for muslims...
Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists seem to be muslim.
Why point fingers at the movie? I have to say this but who cares?
Neither staffer wanted to be identified for security reasons.
When CNN inquired about Sam Bassil, the U.S. attorney's office sent a copy of a 2009 indictment. Those court documents showed the bank fraud conviction for Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
Several other aliases -- Mark Basseley Youssef, Yousseff M. Basseley, Nicola Bacily and Malid Ahlawi -- were all listed as aliases in the indictment. Other court documents listed Thomas J. Tanas, Ahmad Hamdy and Erwin Salameh also as aliases.
Six things to know about the attack
In his interview with the Wall Street Journal, the filmmaker characterized his movie, now called "Innocence of Muslims," as "a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam."
"Islam is a cancer," he said. "The movie is a political movie. It's not a religious movie."
Cindy Garcia, an actress in the film, told CNN that the original script did not include a Prophet Mohammed character. She said she and other actors complained that their lines had been changed.
She said she spoke Wednesday with the producer.
"He said he wrote the script because he wants the Muslims to quit killing," Garcia said. "I had no idea he was doing all this."
Garcia described the movie's repercussions as a "nightmare," given the outrage and deaths, and she regretted having a role. She said she was angry and hurt by the lies.
The 79 other cast and crew members said they were "grossly misled" about the film's intent.
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"The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer," they said in a statement.
They said they were "shocked by the drastic rewrites of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred."
Garcia said that the character of Mohammed in the movie was named George when it was shot, and that after production wrapped she returned and read other lines that may have been dubbed into the piece.
A member of the production staff who worked on the film and has a copy of the original script corroborated the woman's account. There was no mention of Mohammed or Islam, the crew member said.
The filmmaker told the Wall Street Journal Jewish donors contributed $5 million to make the film. Based on the trailer, however, the amateurish movie appears to have been produced on a low budget.
Anti-Muslim activist Steve Klein, who said he was a script consultant for the movie, said the filmmaker told him his idea was to make a film that would reveal "facts, evidence and proof" about the Prophet Mohammed to people he perceived as radical Muslims.
Klein said the movie was called "Innocence of Bin Laden."
"Our intent was to reach out to the small minority of very dangerous people in California and try to shock them into understanding how dangerous Islam is," Klein said.
"We knew that it was going to cause some friction, if anybody paid attention to it," he said.
But when Klein went to the screening in the Los Angeles theater, no one was there.
"It was a bust, a wash," he said.
Killing shines light on Muslim sensitivities around Prophet Mohammed
But a while later, the trailers were online. They were segments focusing on the Prophet Mohammed and posted under the title, "Innocence of Mohammed."
The trailers were translated into Egyptian dialects of Arabic, the New York Times reported. Egyptian television aired certain segments.
And the fury erupted.
Klein told CNN Wednesday that the filmmaker, whom he called Sam Bacile, was in hiding.
"He's very depressed, and he's upset," Klein said. "I talked to him this morning, and he said that he was very concerned for what happened to the ambassador."
The Atlantic later quoted Klein as saying that Sam Bacile was a pseudonym. He said he did not know Bacile's real name.
Klein is known in Southern California for his vocal opposition to the construction of a mosque in Temecula, southeast of Los Angeles, in 2010. He heads up Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, a group that contends Islam is a threat to American freedom.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, says Klein, a former Marine and Vietnam veteran, helped train militant Christian fundamentalists prepare for war.
On Thursday, a Los Angeles County official denied a CNN's request to view a copy of the film permit filed for the production of "Innocence of Muslims."
"While these permits are typically made available to the public, online, this particular permit has been temporarily removed at the specific request of Federal authorities, who have cited public safety concerns," county Assistant Chief Executive Officer Ryan J. Alsop told CNN in an e-mail.
Alsop later revised his statement to say that the permit "is not being made available to the public at this time due to public safety concerns raised by the U.S. State Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The Federal government has not issued an official request to the County of Los Angeles to remove the permit."
A permit is required when filming is done outside of a certified soundstage or studio backlot, which could involve cameras in public spaces, according to Film L.A. Inc., the private nonprofit group set up by the city and county of Los Angeles to process film permits.
The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a joint intelligence bulletin about how the film poses "security concerns to U.S. interests at home and abroad," according to the bulletin obtained by CNN.
"Although there has been no violent reaction to the film in the Homeland thus far, the risk of violence could increase both at home and abroad as the film continues to gain attention. Additionally, we judge that violent extremist groups in the United States could exploit anger over the film to advance their recruitment efforts," the bulletin says.
The movie got even more notice after it was promoted by anti-Islam activists, including Egyptian-born Coptic Christian Morris Sadek and Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose Quran-burning last year sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan.
Jones said he had been contacted to help distribute the film.
"The film is not intended to insult the Muslim community, but it is intended to reveal truths about Mohammed that are possibly not widely known," Jones said in a statement.
"It is very clear that God did not influence him (Mohammed) in the writings of the Quran," said Jones, who went on to blame Muslims' fear of criticism for the protests, rather than the film.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Jones to ask him to withdraw his support for the film, said Col. David Lapan, Dempsey's spokesman.
"Jones' support of the film risks causing more violence and death," Lapan said.
That fear mounted as anger raged in the Muslim world and especially as Friday, Islam's day of religious observance, fast approached.
Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech
CNN's Jennifer Wolfe, Miguel Marquez, Brian Todd, Chelsea J. Carter, Tom Watkins, Jack Hannah, Carol Cratty and Michael Martinez contributed to this report.
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