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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's not just Terry Jones. Anti-Islam Filmmaker in Hiding After Protests
Anti-Islam Filmmaker in Hiding After Protestssnip:
Speaking by phone Tuesday from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that the 56-year-old intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.
Protesters angered over Bacile's film opened fire on and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Libyan officials said Wednesday that Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob firing machine guns and rocket propelled grenades.
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"This is a political movie," said Bacile. "The U.S. lost a lot of money and a lot of people in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we're fighting with ideas."
Bacile, a California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam's flaws to the world.
more at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/09/12/us/ap-us-egypt-filmmaker.html?_r=1&hp
The above is bolded by me. This is disgusting. I'm happy that the POTUS has a calm hand in this matter unlike Romney and his neocons.
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It's not just Terry Jones. Anti-Islam Filmmaker in Hiding After Protests (Original Post)
DippyDem
Sep 2012
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. Others also promoted it and posted it on the web
Protesters condemned a video clip that depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a series of humiliating scenes. A controversial Cairo television host, Sheikh Khaled Abdallah, aired clips from the video on an Islamic-focused television station on Saturday, and the same video clips were posted to YouTube on Monday.
Organizers at the embassy protest told the Associated Press that theyd begun planning the protest last week when a controversial Egyptian Christian activist who lives in the United States, Morris Sadek, started promoting Baciles film. ....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/egyptian-protesters-scale-wall-of-us-embassy-in-cairo-pull-down-american-flag/2012/09/11/59312502-fc41-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html
Organizers at the embassy protest told the Associated Press that theyd begun planning the protest last week when a controversial Egyptian Christian activist who lives in the United States, Morris Sadek, started promoting Baciles film. ....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/egyptian-protesters-scale-wall-of-us-embassy-in-cairo-pull-down-american-flag/2012/09/11/59312502-fc41-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html
d_r
(6,907 posts)3. OK I just went to youtube
I watched a few minutes of the 13 minute trailer before I had to give up. Is it supposed to be a comedy?