Here are a couple of quotes from the filmmaker which he made in 2013.
“We can see mosques everywhere all over the world but we cant see churches in Saudi Arabia, he wrote. [The Muslims] are saying it is holy land. I say also New York is a holy land. [Almost] 3,000 Americans get killed on this land. [Muslims] want to build an Islamic center on Ground Zero, no problem. But they wont let us build churches in Saudi Arabia. They even burn down the churches in other Islamic countries, like Egypt.
‘Nakoula gave repeated instances of Egyptian Christians who have been killed or attacked by Muslims in Egypt. Persecution of Copts has accelerated since the 2011 Arab spring.’
The filmmaker has been sentenced to death in Egypt:
‘American authorities were not the only ones who went after Nakoula. A court in Cairo tried and sentenced Nakoula and six other Egyptian Christians to death for participating in the filming of his movie. The court said the filmmakers insulted the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet.’