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Ultraconservative Muslims are outraged by the Israeli-made movie 'Innocence of Muslims', which mocked the prophet Muhammad. US missions in Egypt and Libya were attacked, and the American ambassador to Libya and 3 others were killed by an armed mob.

The films’ writer and director, Sam Bacile is now in hiding but told the Associated Press by phone that "Islam is a cancer, period." A California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, Bacile added that his film was meant as a provocative political statement “condemning Islam”.

The two-hour movie, financed by over 100 Jewish donors, basically claims Muhammad was a fraud, portraying Islam's prophet as a philanderer who approved child sexual abuse, among other sins.

56-year-old Bacile said he believes ‘Innocence of Muslims’, which reportedly cost $5 million to make, “will expose Islam's flaws to the world”.

More like it was meant to incite violence.

I'm sure the Muslim haters, "freedom marchers" and "rights activists" and those that claim "the truth hurts" will come out for this one.

Bora Bora wrote: I guess it's a matter of time when more innocent people, especially in Israel, become targets because of this man's foolish need to publish his hate.

Bora Bora wrote:
I'm sure the Muslim haters, "freedom marchers" and "rights activists" and those that claim "the truth hurts" will come out for this one.

rayznack wrote:The film does not incite violence since that would mean the film producers/director/writers were in a public area and directly speaking to a crowd.There's no such thing as incitement to violence in the past tense, four thousand miles away or with a YouTube video.

A consultant on the film, Steve Klein, said the filmmaker is concerned for family members who live in Egypt. Bacile declined to confirm.

Klein said he vowed to help Bacile make the movie but warned him that "you're going to be the next Theo van Gogh." Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004 after making a film that was perceived as insulting to Islam.

"We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen," Klein said

Klein told me that Bacile, the producer of the film, is not Israeli, and most likely not Jewish, as has been reported, and that the name is, in fact, a pseudonym. He said he did not know "Bacile"'s real name. He said Bacile contacted him because he leads anti-Islam protests outside of mosques and schools, and because, he said, he is a Vietnam veteran and an expert on uncovering al Qaeda cells in California. "After 9/11 I went out to look for terror cells in California and found them, piece of cake. Sam found out about me. The Middle East Christian and Jewish communities trust me."He said the man who identified himself as Bacile asked him to help make the anti-Muhammad film.

When I asked him to describe Bacile, he said: "I don't know that much about him. I met him, I spoke to him for an hour. He's not Israeli, no. I can tell you this for sure, the State of Israel is not involved, Terry Jones (the radical Christian Quran-burning pastor) is not involved. His name is a pseudonym. All these Middle Eastern folks I work with have pseudonyms. I doubt he's Jewish. I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign."

I asked him who he thought Sam Bacile was. He said that there are about 15 people associated with the making of the film, "Nobody is anything but an active American citizen. They're from Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, they're some that are from Egypt. Some are Copts but the vast majority are Evangelical."

Maybe Iran should do modern day remakes of Jud Suss and Der Ewige Jude ? And it not be held responsible of any of the consequences, freedom of speech and all that jazz !

What are you talking about? Do you know the meaning of "intent"?

Geert Wilders' film failed to generate much controversy in Iran although the government did express its outrage on the day of its release and conservative websites complained about it for a while. By and large, Fitna elicited indifference among the general public. There was an anti-Fitna demonstration, but just 30 people turned up and they were carrying signs that had nothing to do with the film

Although the attack on the US consulate has been linked to the US film, Libya experts have also suggested a different reason.

"This was a precision attack," said Mr Joffe. "One that would have required a degree of planning. It may well have been inspired by the call by al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri to avenge the killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi."

Al-Libi was a Libyan-born al-Qaeda commander killed in June by a US drone strike in the North Waziristan-Afghan borderlands.

Bora Bora wrote:Aren't Copts related to Christianity?

The story of the Muhammed movie which sparked deadly protests in Libya gets weirder. The actors who appeared in it had no idea they were starring in anti-Islam propaganda which depicts Muhammed as a child molester and thug. They were deceived by the film’s director, believing they were appearing in a film about the life of a generic Egyptian 2,000 years ago.
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress from Bakersfield, Calif., has a small role in the Muhammed movie as a woman whose young daughter is given to Muhammed to marry. But in a phone interview this afternoon, Garcia told us she had no idea she was participating in an offensive spoof on the life of Muhammed when she answered a casting call through an agency last summer and got the part.

The script she was given was titled simply Desert Warriors.

“It was going to be a film based on how things were 2,000 years ago,” Garcia said. “It wasn’t based on anything to do with religion, it was just on how things were run in Egypt. There wasn’t anything about Muhammed or Muslims or anything.”
In the script and during the shooting, nothing indicated the controversial nature of the final product. Muhammed wasn’t even called Muhammed; he was “Master George,” Garcia said. The words Muhammed were dubbed over in post-production, as were essentially all other offensive references to Islam and Muhammed.

A statement released on the behalf of the 80 cast and crew members of “Innocence of Muslims,” a film that reportedly prompted Tuesday protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, indicates that they are not happy with the film and were misled by the producer.

“The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer. We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose,” the statement says. “We are shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.”