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From Man Who Insulted Muhammad, No Regret
New York Times ^ | 11/26/2012 | SERGE F. KOVALESKI and BROOKS BARNES

Posted on 11/26/2012 7:51:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind

LOS ANGELES — Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making “Innocence of Muslims,” his crude YouTube movie trailer depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty, philandering thug.

Does Mr. Nakoula now regret the footage? After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world and led the unlikely filmmaker to his own arrest for violating his supervised release on a fraud conviction.

Not at all. In his first public comments since his incarceration soon after the video gained international attention in September, Mr. Nakoula told The New York Times that he would go to great lengths to convey what he called “the actual truth” about Muhammad. “I thought, before I wrote this script,” he said, “that I should burn myself in a public square to let the American people and the people of the world know this message that I believe in.”

In explaining his reasons for the film, Mr. Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian born in Egypt, cited the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Tex., as a prime example of the violence committed “under the sign of Allah.” His anger seemed so intense over the years that even from a federal prison in 2010, he followed the protests against the building of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero in New York as he continued to work on his movie script.

Until now, only the barest details were known about the making of the film that inspired international outrage. Initial reports made it seem as if the film had been thrown together in about a year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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1 posted on 11/26/2012 7:51:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Until now, only the barest details were known about the making of the film that inspired international outrage.

The NY Slimes still continues pushing the big lie. Even the regime has sort of moved past this lie.

2 posted on 11/26/2012 7:55:00 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: SeekAndFind

After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world

OUT and OUT LIE and they know it, no need to read any further, just more propaganda.


3 posted on 11/26/2012 7:57:06 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind
. . . has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making “Innocence of Muslims,” his crude YouTube movie trailer depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty, philandering thug.

IOW, spot on accurately.

4 posted on 11/26/2012 7:59:41 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SeekAndFind

If his film instigated ANY violence then certainly “Zero Dark Thirty” MUST be shut down immediately! Just think of the worldwide outage that will happen when America proudly displays on film the murder of one of Islam’s superheroes.


5 posted on 11/26/2012 8:01:29 AM PST by ne1410s ("We will not tolerate your intolerance!!!" ...huh?)
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To: SeekAndFind

They never arrested the maker of the film Batman that caused the death of many in Colorado.


6 posted on 11/26/2012 8:02:38 AM PST by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The guy is in jail ostensibly for a probation violation, but the NYT headline convicts the guy of a sharia-crime.


7 posted on 11/26/2012 8:03:25 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: SeekAndFind
The "Prophet" Muhammad was a bloodthirsty, philandering thug.
8 posted on 11/26/2012 8:05:13 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world...”

And there, ladies and gentlemen, is proof positive (as if we needed it) of the total sleeze of the NYT.

A more blatant stinking pile of bull Obama does not exist.

Oh wait, I forgot about the White House press releases and the Hillabeast vocal emissions.


9 posted on 11/26/2012 8:07:09 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: eyeamok; All
OUT and OUT LIE and they know it, no need
to read any further, just more propaganda.
Yhea..read no more; NYT(slimes), the official..(the moronic)..
stenographer to the White Hut Marxist and the Establishment.

10 posted on 11/26/2012 8:09:31 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
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To: Da Coyote

Our press demonizes a person who points out the inconsistencies of Islamic fundamentalism as hateful, but promotes anti-Israeli militant activity and decapitation of Christians who simply share their knowledge of God with others.

Reads as though the worldly press tends to be more demonically influenced than those they observe.


11 posted on 11/26/2012 8:11:26 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Da Coyote

There are many things in this world that I dislike, despise and have a wish to have removed, But unlike the irrational and all to common response of isalamic peoples I ague my case and make attemtps to educate or sway by reason not blood shed. The islamic nations that support an and encourage this behavior would be well served to always hope that the peoples of the West continue to act as I do, and not as they do.


12 posted on 11/26/2012 8:13:19 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: eyeamok

“After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world”

Obviously it didn’t, but if it did it would only be an indication of how crazy the Islamic world is.


13 posted on 11/26/2012 8:19:40 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: YankeeReb
NYT needs to understand this......

1400 years – 270 MILLION innocents murdered by “the prophet" followers!!!

Why Should We Fear Islam? Dr. Bill Warner

The whole administration is stocked with islamic sympatizers!!!

14 posted on 11/26/2012 8:19:54 AM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: ne1410s

An islam ‘superhero’ is one who enjoys lying down with children, sodomy, sex with animals and murdering innocents.

Quite a religion the grizzled old pedophile founded.


15 posted on 11/26/2012 8:21:21 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Does Mr. Nakoula now regret the footage? After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world and led the unlikely filmmaker to his own arrest for violating his supervised release on a fraud conviction.

GAH! Even when Obama ADMITTING IT WAS NOT THE MOVIE, the NY Slimes still cannot stop pushing that lie.

Idiots, the lot of them!


16 posted on 11/26/2012 8:22:30 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world and led the unlikely filmmaker to his own arrest for violating his supervised release on a fraud conviction.

Still pushing that Slimes? Really. And good for him for not backing down.

17 posted on 11/26/2012 8:29:32 AM PST by mykroar (BAD-ANON: One Game At A Time)
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To: wesagain

Thanks for posting link to that video. Anybody who hasn’t seen it should take the time to watch it. Also Warner’s other videos.


18 posted on 11/26/2012 8:35:02 AM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“it fueled deadly protests”
A sneaky way of saying that the film CAUSED the deaths.
Normal people know what the word CAUSE means. For the left, there is no such thing as a cause and effect relationship, unless it’s something they can use against a Republican.


19 posted on 11/26/2012 8:37:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism comes from an incurable mental illness.)
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To: wesagain

The British foreign office and its clone, the American state Department have always been pro-Arab. It’s those “dirty Jews,” you know. /s. Despite the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate administration sought to prevent Jewish immigration into Palestiine, even as Arabs flooded into the Mandate from every direction.


20 posted on 11/26/2012 8:42:29 AM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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