The filmmaker, on the other hand, is a dirtbag, who went to jail for a batch of crimes and is still on probation, which includes a court order to repay $700,000 to the victims of his frauds. If he raised money using an alias, and used that money to make the film instead of making his restitution payments, he is in violation of a whole batch of probation orders and is going to be in a world of legal trouble.
If we had an honest government, I wouldn’t worry. There are many problems with the film itself, and I would hope this would get to the root of it.
Nakoula apparently thought that he was making an entirely different film, and the character who was later referred to as Mohammed was originally a character known as the Terrorist George or the Terrorist B, because his last name was supposedly Brown.
Muslims used to refer to George Bush as the Terrorist Bush. So I think that perhaps Nakoula believed he had been hired by somebody (who?) to make a film (originally named Desert Warrior) critical of Bush and not related in any way to Mohammed. The references to Mohammed were dubbed in later (by whom?) and Nakoula says that he knew nothing about this.
There is some suspicion that this whole film was something staged by the Iranian secret services precisely with the intention of inflaming the easily inflamed Muslims, and that the new government of Egypt, where it was first shown on state television, then became involved in promoting it. The fact that Nakoula first tried to pin the “blame” on a mysterious coalition of Jews, and then tried to shift it to the Copts, who are the archenemies of the Muslims in Egypt, makes it look pretty suspicious.
And that of course the fact that Obama and his regime tried to focus on Terry Jones, a rural Southern preacher who would’ve been totally obscure except for the efforts of the US government to promote him, indicates that this was perhaps an elaborate propaganda attack by a Muslim group that may have been supported by Obama and possibly got out of hand. Fortunately for Obama, because the press has been busy covering for him, I don’t think much the public assigns any blame to him or to Hillary and in fact most of the public probably doesn’t even know about it.
As I say, if we had an honest government, there might be some possibility of getting to the truth of the matter.
Try explaining that to all the Muslims calling for his head. They see the crackdown and the pictures, and come away with an entirely different message.
The consequences of selectively enforcing the law on this one man will only encourage a series of much wider, ever more violent responses by a million crazed Muslims, and is placing the lives of tens of thousands of expats living overseas in jeopardy.