Posted on 09/14/2012 1:44:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The man suspected of producing a crude film lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has been placed under police protection after protests erupted around the world, a force spokesman said on Thursday.
Journalists gathered outside the home of a 55-year-old Coptic Christian, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, in the city's southern suburbs, after reports he had directed the movie that triggered protests in the Muslim world.
There was no sign at the house of Nakoula, who is thought to have uploaded a trailer for the movie to the YouTube video-sharing site under the pseudonym 'Sam Bacile', but police said he had asked for protections.
"We did receive the call and we did respond. We're providing public safety and we will continue to do so," said Steve Whitman, a spokesman for the county sheriff in Cerritos, 24 miles (40 kilometers) south of Los Angeles.
Little is known about Nakoula, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2010 for bank fraud. His family refused to speak to reporters at his home.
If he is the figure who has been posing as Sam Bacile, then he told two US media outlets that he was Israeli-American and Jewish, but an associate has now confirmed to AFP that he is a Christian American and not Israeli.
(Excerpt) Read more at deccanchronicle.com ...
"When I found out this movie had caused all this havoc, I called Sam and asked him why, what happened, why did he do this? I said, 'Why did you do this to us, to me and to us?' And he said, 'Tell the world that it wasn't you that did it, it was me, the one who wrote the script, because I'm tired of the radical Muslims running around killing everyone,'" she said.
Garcia said the director, who called himself Sam Bacile, told her then that he was Egyptian.
The man identifying himself as Bacile told the AP he was an Israeli-born, 56-year-old Jewish writer and director. But a Christian activist involved in the film project, Steve Klein, told the AP on Wednesday that Bacile was a pseudonym and that the man was Christian. Klein had told the AP on Tuesday that the filmmaker was an Israeli Jew who was concerned for family members who live in Egypt.
About 15 key players from the Middle East - people from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran, and a couple of Coptic Christians from Egypt - worked on the film, Klein said.
"Most of them won't tell me their real names because they're terrified," Klein said.
Bishop Serapion of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Los Angeles said Thursday that the church opposes the views expressed in the inflammatory movie, and, initially, none of his priests recognized Nakoula as a congregant. On Thursday morning, Nakoula called Serapion and said he had attended services at the church in Bellflower, Calif.
......The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said Klein is a former Marine and longtime religious-right activist who has helped train paramilitary militias at a California church. It described Klein as founder of Courageous Christians United, which conducts protests outside abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques.".........
What some say about Joe Klein (feel free to add your own information):
“......Klein is also closely affiliated with the Christian right in California, organizing resentment against all the usual targets — Muslims, homosexuals, feminists, and even Mormons. He is a board member and founder of a group called Courageous Christians United, which promotes anti-Mormon, anti-Catholic and anti-Muslim literature (including the work of Robert Spencer) on its website. In 2002, Klein ran for the California Insurance Commissioner under the American Independent Party, an extremist fringe party linked to the militia movement, garnering a piddling 2 percent of the vote.”.....
The American Independent Party of California nominates Tom Hoefling for President
Truly amazing that a man needs to be protected by the police for producing a film in America.
This is not progress and this is not America.
This IS living proof that Muslims don’t belong here - NONE of them. They should all be shipped out to North Africa or Saudi Arabia.
Only in the age of Obama would the military and media expose someone they way they have.
I can’t wait to leave this alternate universe of Obama we’re living in.
November can’t come soon enough.
I am very suspicious about this character and his true involvement. Why would these folks create a persona of a “film-maker” who says he is a “Jew” and “Israeli citizen”, who had a “budget of $5 million” (the film was obviously produced on a shoestring), “funded by contributions from 100 Jews” and who later turns out to be an ex-con for financial crimes? Was this film a setup by the Muslim Brotherhood as a pretext for rioting?
November can’t come soon enough.
Obama’s base is comprised of liberal women, “woosified” men, minorities, communists & Marxists, union goons, queers of all stripes, entities that receive government business and checks (intimidation of employees to vote for him), and the largest voting sector of all......bums and cheats on welfare.
That is his voting base and the sad fact that it is larger than the entire conservative voting block.
My radar is up too. It "reads" like Steve Klein set this man up and then outed him. There appears to be many threads to this.
It would appear we’re being pushed closer to a “Helter Skelter” scenario between races, cultures and ideology by more than one side.
The Obama administration (and their compliant, lap-dog media) are enthusiastically using this “film” to distract from their own complicity in the erupting Middle East.
Meanwhile Israel is exposed to annihilation, with the much “advertised” position of the U.S. president of turning his back on her.
A very strange story, with many strange characters.
All acting out their bit parts in the midst of the fog of war.
The “fog” seems to be lifting a bit EV.
A little.
CORRECTION on name in Post#2:
“What some say about STEVE [NOT Joe] Klein (feel free to add your own information):”.....
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Good question, particularly in light of the fact that the Arabic version was posted only last week, right before the 9/11 assassination of Ambassador Stevens.
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.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/12/world/la-fg-libya-filmmaker-20120913
I am not sure about it being a set up for rioting. The Muslims use any reason for rioting. They don’t need to spend time of money to justify killings. But I might be wrong.
“They don’t need to spend time of money to justify killings. But I might be wrong.”
No, you’re right.
>> This is not progress
This, ZULU, is indeed Progressivism.
>> Was this film a setup by the Muslim Brotherhood as a pretext for rioting?
Well, we know it served as a pretext to excuse terrorism. That is now a historical fact unless the official statements are amended very soon.
I hope that you and your friends have not done anything to jeopardize everyone who is a poster on this web site.
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