An Israeli filmmaker based in California went into hiding after a YouTube trailer of his movie insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sparked angry assaults by ultra-conservative Muslims on US missions in Egypt and Libya. Speaking by phone Tuesday from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that the 56-year-old intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.
“This is a political movie,” said Bacile. “The US lost a lot of money and a lot of people in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re fighting with ideas.” Bacile, a California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam’s flaws to the world. “Islam is a cancer, period,” he said repeatedly, his solemn voice thickly accented.
The two-hour movie, “Innocence of Muslims,” cost $5 million to make and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors, said Bacile, who wrote and directed it. Though Bacile was apologetic about the Americans who were killed as a result of the outrage over his film, he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence. “I feel the security system (at the embassies) is no good,” said Bacile. “America should do something to change it.”
i am ashamed to see that the news paper of such a stature in its own article instead of condeming the movie and its makers writes muslims as ultra – conservatives . if we will not respond in the way people of liyba have done we stand allined with movie makers yes i am conservative my life and life of my family belongs to PROPHET PBUH we all should be protesting against this or any other kind of blasphing by any body and reply with force .we must make all out efforts to stop it by force
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