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Feds Question Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, AKA Sam Bacile, At LA Sheriff's Station
The probation department is reviewing the case of Nakoula, who pleaded no contest to bank fraud charges in 2010 and was banned from using computers or the Internet or using false identities as part of his sentence. Whitmore did not disclose other details about the interview.
Federal authorities have identified Nakoula, a self-described Coptic Christian, as the key figure behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Middle East.
Much of the film was shot inside the offices of Media for Christ, a nonprofit based in the Los Angeles-area city of Duarte. The charity raised more than $1 million last year "to glow Jesus' light" to the world.
The Riverside County man who was a script adviser to the film and who has a long history of anti-Islamic activism told the Press-Enterprise newspaper that he has received multiple death threats.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/15/feds-question-nakoula-basseley-nakoula-_n_1886492.html
I don't think Jesus would have approved of this as a way to spread His Gospel.......
(ps no kittehs this time)
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HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)They made this film to intentionally mock Islam and their prophet and create chaos in the Islamic world. I don't believe the official Romney campaign or the official Republican Party were in anyway behind this. I do believe the people who made this film and choose the time of its release on YouTube did so with an agenda which included attempting to influence the election assuming that chaos in the Middle East might bring down Obama.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)there is the thought that these extremists are trying to bring about Armageddon in their own special way, or so they hope.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)brings to mind
and is this girl in the film? just curious..
dimbear
(6,271 posts)financial scam artist.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)The group behind this found someone desparate enough to front as the writer/producer/director.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Diplomatic crisis at this point is more likely to create the don't-change-horses-in-midstream mindset.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But certainly done with the fact of a pending election, in mind.
Difference is, this one has resulted in real death and violence.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)chill_wind
(13,514 posts)and name connections to the charity (Media for Christ). And I think it will.
MSM won't pursue it nearly as much as some determined contingent in the left-leaning blogosphere will. There will be surely be more exposure. Wingers shouldn't underestimate the odds of it.