Posted on 09/12/2012 12:59:41 PM PDT by Nachum
Prize-winning journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic doubts the veracity of the reports that a film mocking Mohammed was made by an Israeli Jew named Sam Bacile. A long trailer for the film has sparked savage rioting in Arab countries.
Goldberg wrote Wednesday that he has spoken to a man named Steve Klein – "a self-described militant Christian activist in Riverside, California," who has been described in press accounts as a consultant to the film.
"Klein told me that Bacile, the producer of the film, is not Israeli, and most likely not Jewish, as has been reported, and that the name is, in fact, a pseudonym," reported Goldberg.
Klein said the man who identified himself as Bacile asked him to help make the anti-Mohammed film. "When I asked him to describe Bacile," wrote Goldberg, "he said: 'I don't know that much about him. I met him, I spoke to him for an hour. He's not Israeli, no. I can tell you this for sure, the State of Israel is not involved, Terry Jones (the radical Christian Quran-burning pastor) is not involved. His name is a pseudonym. All these Middle Eastern folks I work with have pseudonyms. I doubt he's Jewish. I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign.'"
"I asked him who he thought Sam Bacile was. He said that there are about 15 people associated with the making of the film, 'Nobody is anything but an active American citizen. They're from Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, they're some that are from Egypt. Some are Copts but the vast majority are Evangelical.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The plot thickens.
Wheres the video ? I need to see what set these neanderthals off.
Here’s one of the trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntgzoE7rU9A
There’s a second trailer, but that first one should give you a good idea of how poor the production is, so bad that there would be riots in US theaters if it ever made it that far.
Heh.
One Jew throwing another Jew under the bus.
How Obama-esque.
So it wasn’t the preacher’s video?
I M Bacile?
Oh, my goodness, the clip I saw last night is SOOOOOOOO bad.
Are we sure this is the one the nutsos are blaming for their actions?
Way to spoil a good “Two Minutes Hate”.
that youtube clip has just 100,000 views. That’s nothing by today’s standards. The sleeping puppy has far more.
Muslims killed Americans on 9/11 and the Obama regime scoured the internet to find something, anything to deflect the blame. Meanwhile, a few of the media types didn’t get the memo, they’re claiming *gasp* that the attack was actually pre-planned.
Hey that was great cinema compared to some of the stuff I’ve seen in theatres. It sorta has an nice campy mood to it.
Not much of a ‘director’ either. The movie sucks.
It looks like a will ferrell production.
Yes. It's just that NONE of the NUTSO'S have even seen the FILM. All they know is that they were given RPG's and GUY FAWKES masks by some women with fat ankles, and told to go invade the US Embassy.
Had they seen the ENTIRE film, they would have likely just killed themselves for the complete waste of time.
It looks like a will ferrell production.
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It makes “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” look like “Citizen Kane” or “The Godfather”.
Supposedly it took $5M to produce. If I were an investor I’d be looking for the remaining $4.99995M.
lol
I seriously doubt that the film was the cause of the riots on 9/11. The riots have been in planning for months and the only surprised ones were the Slow Joe types in our State Department. Every one else that has been watching the Mideast was fully aware that this was going to happen sooner or later. Once they realized that the “Arab Spring” was a bastard child of theirs, they frantically searched for someone or something to blame it on. When you deal with Satan (aka Muslim Brotherhood), you should expect a knife in the back.
$5 Million to produce???!!!! lol.
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