Sam Bacile, 56, the movie’s writer and director, has gone into hiding following the violent reaction to his film. An Israeli, Bacile lives in California and works in real estate development. While filmmaking isn’t his main source of income, he put together the inflammatory movie in an effort to expose negative attributes that he believes come from and are associated with the Islamic faith.
The self-described Israeli Jew told the Associated Press, from an undisclosed location, that Islam is a cancer and that the film was intended to make a political statement, while condemning Islam on the whole. The English-language movie spans two hours and is entitled, “Innocence of Muslims.” Bacile claims that more than 100 Jewish donors helped put up the $5 million to make the film, which has reached no measurable level of success, possible.
“This is a political movie,” Bacile told the AP. “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.”
I did not mean to accuse Islam of being a violent religion. Only to say that there is an extreme element among Muslims that espouses violent response to any statement they consider blasphemous. It's precisely Jones's condemnation of the entire religion because of the actions of extremists that I was commenting on, as you were good enough to recognize.jsteele wrote:You might want to rephrase that because it sort of overshadows the more important point you are trying to make.Anonymous wrote:The Muslim tendency toward violence is horrific, and I don't want anyone to think I am defending what happened in Lybia or Egypt, but I think Terry Jones is not exercising free speech so much as deliberately fomenting violence, and deserves a major share of the blame.
Anonymous wrote:Netanyahu even has the audacity to claim that a nation has the right to decide where their capital city is without approval from the UN or Barack Obama. He is way out of line.
Anonymous wrote:The Muslim tendency toward violence is horrific, and I don't want anyone to think I am defending what happened in Lybia or Egypt, but I think Terry Jones is not exercising free speech so much as deliberately fomenting violence, and deserves a major share of the blame.
Anonymous wrote:Where were the Egyptian and Libyan governments in all this? Why did they not protect our embassies? Where was our security in the embassies?
This is horrific.
Anonymous wrote:May be Mr. Nobel Peace Prize can convince Bibi to not go to war. But he can't cancel with David Letterman...