Analysis: Film at heart of Libya attack may be Fake (Mystery Deepens)

Jerusalem Post ^ | September 13, 2012 | J Post Staff

[Arec Barrwin]

Analysis: Film at heart of Libya attack may be fake By JPOST.COM STAFF

09/13/2012 03:57

Offensive references to Islam sloppily inserted in post-production; film's cast and crew say original plot unrelated to religion.

Details casting doubt on the authenticity of the controversial film Innocence of Muslims, which sparked protests in Cairo and spurred the Libya attack that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, mounted on Wednesday. A series of facts brought to light by online media such as Gawker, Buzzfeed and blogs on CNN, The Atlantic, and The Christian Science Monitor paint the picture of a possible hoax.

In the film's 14-minute trailer (below), which set off the crisis after it was posted to YouTube, the name Muhammad and anti-Islam remarks are clearly dubbed over the original words, clashing with the film's visual cues. The sloppy editing calls into question whether the Hollywood film was, in fact, really created as an anti-Muslim screed, or simply edited to look that way. Despite an alleged $5 million budget, the production quality of the film is very low.

Those involved in making the film, originally entitled Desert Warrior instead of Innocence of Muslims, denied that the film was meant to have anything to do with Islam, saying they were unaware of any such intentions during the film's production. According to CNN, a statement released by the film's 80-strong cast and crew said they were "grossly misled about its intent and purpose," and were "shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved."

One of the film's actresses, Cindy Lee Garcia, told Gawker that, as far as she knew, the film was going to be "based on how things were 2,000 years ago," a time period that predates Islam by some 600 years.

"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," Garcia told Gawker. According to Garcia, the character portrayed as Muhammed was called "Master George" in the script.

Then comes the identity of the allegedly Jewish, Israeli-born director/scriptwriter, Sam Bacile.

As The Jerusalem Post reported, a high-ranking Israeli official in Los Angeles said that after numerous inquiries, it appeared that no one in the Hollywood film industry or in the local Israeli community had ever heard of him.

Steve Klein, a "a self-described militant Christian activist in Riverside, California" who was involved with the film, told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg that Bacile was not the director's real name, and that he was not Israeli and probably not Jewish either. "I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign," Klein said.

The mounting evidence seems to suggest that the trailer was either a poorly-edited, wild rewrite of the film's original script or a flat out hoax, though no evidence has yet emerged confirming the possibility.

[reasonisfaith]

The video is a red herring, as Palin said. This is so obvious. There’s no mystery here.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS.

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers. Thanks for the ping!

[gleeaikin]

If none or almost none of this happens will you be willing to admit that perhaps you are wrong. This is not to say that I don’t believe that there was some master plot regarding the doctoring of the movie in question. I just happen to think it was Al Qaeda and Zawahiri. Of course, there is always the wild possibility that Zawahiri was in cahoots with Obama to get bin Laden out of his way. ;-)

[stevie_d_64]

If you go back and watch the state departments activities during all of the conflicts (recent, from the 1980’s onward) Israel has been in...You might be able to find that the communications, and activities of the US military assets in the area have been utilized in a stasnd off-ish manner, to lessen our percieved involvement in those “efforts”...When Israel pushed into Lebanon, they were told to stop short of Beruit, less receive little in the way of armaments and parts for their military from us...

They did, but from my direct observations of that particular time, I recall that the Israelis did something rather ingenious in my opinion...

They did comply with that request from our Government, but, instead of bombing and invading the city, they commenced a series of super sonic runs over that city that resembled bomb runs that the effect of the sonic booms was enough to have the commanders of the forces defending that city to evacuate, thinking they were being pummelled by Israeli forces...It lasted for about 2, almost 3 days (and nights) of boom and zooms over that area and not a shot was ever fired by Israel...But it was enough to get their enemies out of that strategic position...

I just thought that was brilliant...But you’d never hear of such ingenuity in our new services, or other sources if I recall correctly...

The bottom line is this...Isael WILL do what it has to do to protect its land and people, they have given us plenty of opportunities to join in and help out over that time...They have done so again...

When they do take care of this latest threat, they will do so alone, and deal with the consequences alone...Especially with the political atmosphere and occupants of D.C. now...

If the Arab world chooses to retaliate...They do so at their own risk...I do not believe there will be much patience if they choose to make that very poor decision...

Just my opinion...

[Irish Eyes]

This is probably the website you are thing about.

http://theulstermanreport.com/

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I love how O’s first press release is to take the terrorists’ side of it—then have underlings tell us later that it’s “taken out of context” if you have a problem with it. It’s the ole wink-and-nod that liberals are famous for.

[potlatch]

Thanks FARS. I think we’ve all had suspicions about the happenings and the messed up manner in which they try or don’t try to explain it away. God help us if we don’t get rid of Obama.

[Candor7]

THANKS! ( Its verbotten on FR). The mods call him: “he who should not be named.”

[Fred Nerks]

Not different, there were a number of mohammad cartoons that were published as the result of a competition - and then there were a number of cartoons that were inflitrated into the collection by some fanatic, a Danish Imam, one included the image of a dog, another was a photograph of a man in France who had won a contest for making pig-snorting noises, the prize for which was a false pig nose. They scanned that coloured photograph in black and white and presented it as an illustration of their 'prophet' and that's when the riots started. The dubbed trailer shows exactly the same MO.

The illustrations posted by AFTENPOSTEN obviously were not worthy of a riot:

[Fred Nerks]

The original pig squealing contest story...I guess the winner was lucky the secret police didn’t come and pick him up during the middle of the night...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820/ns/world_news-weird_news/t/duo-hogs-top-prize-pig-squealing-contest/

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1139377860.comments.html

Danish ‘cartoon’ discussion - who what when where why and how.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you - will check them out in a bit. I am too busy to read everything that I want (which is probably a good thing....).

Have you seen this? I can’t watch the videos as my techincal knowledge is zilch, but the discussion is interesting. Maybe it’s all nutcase-ism but who knows. It is clear that the movie stinks (will read the article posted on this thread later, just too busy at the minute.)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2934205/posts?page=76#17

Proof Positive - In My Opinion (who created Innocence of Muslims)(Obama)
Youtube ^ | Sept. 20, 2012 | Montagraph

[Fred Nerks]

Makes sense, N.A.S.A. is for muslim outreach, Homeland Security prepares plagiarized film sequence to create chaos.