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.
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I think people are getting confused.
9/11 in Libya had nothing to do with the video, but, the film did inspire international outrage. Especially, in Egypt, but also around the world.
Yes, people are idiots for getting upset and protesting a film, but you just can’t pretend the protests never happened.
9/11 in Libya had nothing to do with the video, but, the film did inspire international outrage. Especially, in Egypt, but also around the world.
Yes, people are idiots for getting upset and protesting a film, but you just can’t pretend the protests never happened.
I think you are confused. No one pretends that the idiots do not riot -we simply give the riots no legitimacy. There is NO excuse to perpetrate such evil as that which the Islamists do in the name of their perverted religion.
This is correct. Especially after U.S. Government served as the enabler to make sure the world knew about it.
Yankee Reb, we live in a world of fiction which the Nazis
and Communists, Alice in Wonderland (”whatever I say three times is true”) and the great George Orwell could only dream about. The objective truth about ANYTHING has receded into the mists deep within the forest, and gets harder and harder to locate, and the world is full of even MORE people who don’t have the tools or inclination to venture into the forest.The reason the NYT continues to push the lie of the video is clear to me—they are pushing the same lie they helped “validate” 10 weeks ago precisely BECAUSE the Administration has moved past it.In a sense the Old Gray Lady
considers herself to have more “face” to lose even than the Administration if she can’t fess us to the “changing realities” of this Bemghazi affair.
Yankee Reb, we live in a world of fiction which the Nazis
and Communists, Alice in Wonderland (”whatever I say three times is true”) and the great George Orwell could only dream about. The objective truth about ANYTHING has receded into the mists deep within the forest, and gets harder and harder to locate, and the world is full of even MORE people who don’t have the tools or inclination to venture into the forest.The reason the NYT continues to push the lie of the video is clear to me—they are pushing the same lie they helped “validate” 10 weeks ago precisely BECAUSE the Administration has moved past it.In a sense the Old Gray Lady
considers herself to have more “face” to lose even than the Administration if she can’t fess us to the “changing realities” of this Bemghazi affair.
Is practicing his freedom of speech a violation of that supervised release?
BTW: (no thread yet for the following article)--- [Mark Basseley Youssef]
Egypt court sentences 8 to death over prophet film
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