Who is behind innocence of islam

One activist from Riverside County said the film was produced by naturalized Americans who came from Arab countries.

And the idea was to locate … those folks who believed Osama bin Laden was a great guy and to try to get them to come to the movie. Klein said the movie was filmed this year, but he would not reveal the shooting location or the names of the producers.

One said that the movie was notable for its terrible acting but did not seem anti-Muslim. The scenes in the trailer portrayed the prophet Muhammad as a buffoon, suicidal, gay, lascivious and condoning of pedophilia. A statement released on behalf of the cast and crew deplored the movie and the deaths of the four Americans in Libya. It said those involved were duped. The trailer posted in July appears to have attracted little notice.

But last week, a second version of the trailer was posted — this time in Arabic. Subsequently Al-Nas, an Egyptian television channel, began broadcasting clips. Pastor Terry Jones from Florida, whose anti-Muslim actions have included burning Korans, said he had been in touch with a Mr Bacile over promotion of the film, but had not met him and could not identify him.

His promotion of the movie brought inquiries into the involvement of Coptic Christian groups. The Copts make up a sizeable Christian minority in Egypt and some have raised concern about their religious freedom in the new Egypt under a Muslim Brotherhood president. The Associated Press news agency, which had interviewed the man claiming to be Sam Bacile on the telephone, then followed a trail to a Californian called Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, who told AP he was a Coptic Christian and admitted he was involved in logistics and management of the film's production.

He denied being the director or posing as Sam Bacile, but AP said reporters had traced the phone number to an address near where they found Mr Nakoula. The exact origin of the movie and the internet clip, and the motivation behind its production, remains a mystery, but it appears not to be linked to an Israeli film-maker as was earlier widely reported, including by the BBC.

It was the film's translation into Arabic and broadcast on Arab TV stations and talk shows which sparked the violence - although investigations are now under way in Washington to establish whether the worst of the violence was not spontaneous. The religious Egyptian TV channel al-Nas showed clips from the video, dubbed into Arabic, and scenes posted online have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

US envoy killed in Libya attack. Innocence of Muslims, a thoroughly nasty piece of work, has caused something worse than this, and was intended to.

But like Kony, it was almost certainly timed for the American election, in this case to incite Muslim communities and then provoke macho responses from the presidential candidates. There is naturally a great deal of ultra-dodgy stuff out there on the web, with no gatekeepers to enforce levels of technical competence or ideological good taste. All sorts of murky videos can be accessed. Throughout both east and west, a whole generation is disenchanted with conventional media and looks to the web, with its plethora of user-generated content, for explanations.

Well, crackpot as these theories undoubtedly are, our British and American governments brought them on themselves with their mendacious claims about WMD. This is what has brought Innocence of Muslims into being. Even discussing it in these terms plays into its authors' hands. Here's hoping Muslim communities can be persuaded to treat it with the contempt it deserves and that the US president and his challenger can keep their nerve.

Nakoula says that he has been opposed to Muslim extremism for year, but "became even more upset and enraged" after the Fort Hood massacre, perpetrated by a Muslim soldier on a U. Army base in The second, is the tremendous about of lies and misinformation that seem to surround all of Nakoula's life. Sources seem to agree that he was born in Egypt and is a member of the Coptic Church, but he told federal authorities that he came to the U. His first attempt to film the movie—originally called "Desert Warriors"—was put off after he told the crew he had cancer.