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DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:25 PM Sep 2012

Was the release of the anti-Islamic YouTube video a craven plot to create a crisis for the President?

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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Was the release of the anti-Islamic YouTube video a craven plot to create a crisis for the President? (Original Post) DainBramaged Sep 2012 OP
Or to drive up oil prices. HooptieWagon Sep 2012 #1
Media for Christ did not make this film to encourage Muslims to accept Jesus Christ as their savior Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 #2
Those are my feelings to a great degree DainBramaged Sep 2012 #6
the quality of the film Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #9
I would guess a scam to make money, given this guy's history as a meth dealer and dimbear Sep 2012 #3
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is a Patsy Junkdrawer Sep 2012 #4
I think we have to look at all his phone records before drawing a conclusion Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #5
Maybe, but it won't work treestar Sep 2012 #7
1980 liberal N proud Sep 2012 #8
It was a "plot" like "backwards B girl" was a plot. Low budg and lame. Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #10
more here DainBramaged Sep 2012 #11
Waiting for everything to come out on the so-called donors chill_wind Sep 2012 #12

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
2. Media for Christ did not make this film to encourage Muslims to accept Jesus Christ as their savior
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:42 PM
Sep 2012

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)
6. Those are my feelings to a great degree
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:59 PM
Sep 2012

there is the thought that these extremists are trying to bring about Armageddon in their own special way, or so they hope.

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
3. I would guess a scam to make money, given this guy's history as a meth dealer and
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:48 PM
Sep 2012

financial scam artist.

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
4. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is a Patsy
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:50 PM
Sep 2012

The group behind this found someone desparate enough to front as the writer/producer/director.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. Maybe, but it won't work
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:59 PM
Sep 2012

Diplomatic crisis at this point is more likely to create the don't-change-horses-in-midstream mindset.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
10. It was a "plot" like "backwards B girl" was a plot. Low budg and lame.
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 09:02 PM
Sep 2012

But certainly done with the fact of a pending election, in mind.

Difference is, this one has resulted in real death and violence.

chill_wind

(13,514 posts)
12. Waiting for everything to come out on the so-called donors
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 03:05 AM
Sep 2012

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.

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