Not for nothing but Max Blumenthal's sources have him very sure that this film was a provocation done purposely to incite Muslim violence with Evangelical Christians with a certain independent extremist movement of Egyptian Copt Christians. The AP identified the fraud filmmaker under the name Sam Bacile (who never signed a permit to film because he does not exist in either the US or Israel as he claimed) is actually convicted fraudster Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Copt Christian living in the US (who did a really terrible job covering his tracks, the AP just had to trace the phone # of the Sam Bacile they met before he went into hiding).
Now the Libya one is separate. Some people are speculating terrorists groups were waiting for a certain moment to piggy-back and then attack the Embassy and consulates.
Given the man has such a shady track-record, there's got to be fraud to hit him on so nobody is crying infringement of freedom of speech when he surely going to have a day in court. He managed to offend the Islamic, Jewish (made brief media rounds claiming 100 Jewish backers to a $5 million film that looked more like a public-access show), and Christian religions while also putting all three in danger on different sides of the world. I do not even buy this movie playing at a theater. Nobody makes a 14 minute trailer. That work was overdubbed to offend and set off a reaction.
This may explain how he also swindled the cast to participate as well.
Updated On: 9/13/12 at 02:02 AM
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