"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.”.....
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?