"Sheik Khaled Abdalla
Egyptian TV host on the Islamist satellite TV channel al-Nas, Abdalla is reported to have set off the outrage when he broadcast a clip of the movie trailer that showed the man playing Muhammad."
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/13/friends-of-sam-bacile-a-whos-who-of-the-innocence-of-muslims-film-project/#ixzz26TrrkfH0

This is his ongoing schtick, 'threats to Islam' panic broadcasting, he's a Halal Hannity.

malaise

(269,004 posts)

8. Halal Hannity

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:20 PM

Sep 2012

OK ...pause for laughter

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

5. In Egypt, it was broadcast on TV. nt

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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:15 PM

Sep 2012

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

13. IIRC, the show it appeared on is the equivalent of a Glenn Beck "Outrage Generator"

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:29 PM

Sep 2012

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)

3. What language do you suppose is most common among Egyptian Christians?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:14 PM

Sep 2012

Do you have some reason to assume that only muslims can read Arabic in a nation that has had Arabic as its official language since the 1300s?

Do you have some reason to assume that translating the film into, say, Coptic would have made it widely readable to non-Muslims in the Arabic world?

Anything is possible, of course. But assuming that a film probably funded by Egyptian Christians could not plausibly be translated into Arabic for their consumption seems to assume a lot.

That doesn't make it the case, but one should not be too eager to assume whatever would please them the most.

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Bragi

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6. Could it be AQ?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:19 PM

Sep 2012

One wonders. It sure helped them pull off a bang-up Sept. 11 commemorative event, their best ever.

Did they spot it some time back, then got it translated and then posted it onto YouTube in time for broadcast by a friendly Egyptian Bill OReilly type TV character, right before Sept. 11

Hmmmm....

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Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)

10. Morris Sadek "promot(ed) the video on his website and on certain TV stations"...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:22 PM

Sep 2012

...

Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Christian in the United States known for his anti-Islam views, told the AP from Washington that he was promoting the video on his website and on certain TV stations, which he did not identify. Early reports suggested Sadek had made the film, but this no longer appears to be the case.

Both depicted the film as showing how Coptic Christians are oppressed in Egypt, though it goes well beyond that to ridicule Muhammad — a reflection of their contention that Islam as a religion is inherently oppressive.

....

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/11/13807579-american-killed-in-libya-during-protests-about-prophet-muhammad-video?lite

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)

11. That is the question, all right...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:23 PM

Sep 2012

...here's hoping that our esteemed law enforcement and/or intelligence services have the sense to ask that question and to follow up.

abumbyanyothername

(2,711 posts)

12. If a video or a cartoon touches off riots and murder

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:27 PM

Sep 2012

then maybe we need to examine the conditions that exist. And which, given that the US is the enforcer of world hegemony, we allow to exist.

They are not rioting about the video. They are rioting because their lives are miserable.

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