When was innocence of muslims posted

The scenes in the trailer portrayed the prophet Muhammad as a buffoon, suicidal, gay, lascivious and condoning of pedophilia. A statement released on behalf of the cast and crew deplored the movie and the deaths of the four Americans in Libya. It said those involved were duped. 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. Subsequently Al-Nas, an Egyptian television channel, began broadcasting clips. Protests in Egypt and Libya quickly followed and became violent. He described himself as an Israeli Jew and a California real estate developer.

Searches of public records — including court, voting, telephone or property databases — showed no one named Sam Bacile in California. The Associated Press reported Wednesday afternoon that a Coptic Christian man who uses the alias Nicola Bacily had acknowledged managing a company that produced the movie. Perhaps the most comparable example is Kony , the powerful viral video calling for the arrest of Ugandan cult leader Joseph Kony which in March this year exploded uncontrollably in popularity and resulted in its director suffering a temporary emotional breakdown.

Innocence of Muslims, a thoroughly nasty piece of work, has caused something worse than this, and was intended to. But like Kony, it was almost certainly timed for the American election, in this case to incite Muslim communities and then provoke macho responses from the presidential candidates. There is naturally a great deal of ultra-dodgy stuff out there on the web, with no gatekeepers to enforce levels of technical competence or ideological good taste.

All sorts of murky videos can be accessed. Throughout both east and west, a whole generation is disenchanted with conventional media and looks to the web, with its plethora of user-generated content, for explanations. Well, crackpot as these theories undoubtedly are, our British and American governments brought them on themselves with their mendacious claims about WMD.

This is what has brought Innocence of Muslims into being. Even discussing it in these terms plays into its authors' hands. This post has been updated throughout.

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Other than that, the video is mostly non-narrative. Muhammad is portrayed as a drunk, a child molester, and a homosexual. Its director, Tommy Wiseau, is also an enigmatic man with a shadowy past.