fundamentalists and the fires of "freedom"

I will not offer my own comments.  Sometimes it is better to let people to making up their own minds - something they will do anyway.  Reception Theory.  One cannot  easily control what the audience will take away from their encounter with what they see. And they see what is in their already made up minds.

Read it to the end . Make up your own minds. This story started a long time ago . It will not end soon.  The fires that have been lit will burn a lot  longer. Far more fiercely.

They will kill more than just an American Ambassador .

Low-budget Muhammad film attempts to depict prophet as fraud

13-minute 'trailer', first posted on YouTube in July but recently dubbed into Arabic, appears amateurish and overtly insulting

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• Caroline Davies
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 September 2012 15.10 BST

The 13-minute English-language film, allegedly a trailer for an obscure two-hour movie entitled Innocence of Muslims, was first posted on YouTube in July.

But it was not until clips from it dubbed into Egyptian Arabic were posted on the internet and then broadcast on the Egyptian television channel al-Nas last week that it came to prominence, sparking violence in Cairo and Benghazi.

Clearly extremely low-budget and amateurish, the YouTube trailer depicts a buffoonish Prophet Muhammad and implies he was a fraud.

Against static backdrops, a small troupe of wooden actors portray demeaning caricatures delivering a script heavy with overtly insulting claims about Muhammad and the origins of Islam. The prophet is ridiculed and portrayed as a bisexual philanderer and hypocrite who approved of child sexual abuse.

Not all of this "trailer" has been broadcast on Egyptian television.

Scenes showing Muhammad anointing a donkey as "the first Muslim animal" were shown, as were scenes implying the Koran was not divinely inspired, but drafted from verses plagiarised from the New Testament and Torah. Scenes with sexual references were not shown.

Most of the clips circulating online are dubbed into Arabic.

The 13-minute English version has been strangely edited in places, with some of the words allegedly spoken by the actors not apparently tallying with the audio. There are also very obvious differences in the acoustics within some scenes.

The film was reportedly made by Sam Bacile, who is said to be an Israeli filmmaker based in California and a real-estate developer.

According to the Associated Press agency, he was in hiding on Wednesday. But, speaking to the agency by telephone, he was reported to be defiant, saying Islam was a cancer, and that he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.

He said the film cost $5m to make, and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors. He said it was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera. The full film has been shown once, to a mostly empty theatre in Hollywood earlier this year, Bacile was reported as saying.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/12/low-budget-muhammad-film-prophet?intcmp=239