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		<title>The &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; is Back in Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["These, of course, are fighting words to many faithful Muslims" ]]></description>
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<p>This was the movie that Obama tried to blame his intelligence failure on. This was the movie whose producer Hillary promised to send to jail. (And did.) It&#8217;s also the movie that Obama told Google to take down. Google to its credit refused. A Federal judge issued a bizarre ruling claiming that an actress in the movie could get it taken down because the movie was unprofessional. His<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Court-reconsiders-pulling-anti-Muslim-YouTube-film-5957189.php"> decision is now being challenged</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena will hear arguments Monday by Google, which owns YouTube, disputing the court&#8217;s decision to remove &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; from the popular video sharing service.</p>
<p>A divided three-judge panel ruled in February that actress Cindy Lee Garcia had a copyright claim to the 2012 video because she believed she was acting in a much different production than the one that appeared.</p>
<p>Garcia was paid $500 for a movie called &#8220;Desert Warrior&#8221; she believed had nothing to do with religion, but ended up in a five-second scene in which her voice was dubbed over so her character asked if Muhammad was a child molester.</p>
<p>&#8220;These, of course, are fighting words to many faithful Muslims and, after the film aired on Egyptian television, there were protests that generated worldwide news coverage,&#8221; Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in the 2-1 opinion. &#8220;While answering a casting call for a low-budget amateur film doesn&#8217;t often lead to stardom, it also rarely turns an aspiring actress into the subject of a fatwa.&#8221;</p>
<p>Google argued that the copyright was owned by filmmaker Mark Basseley Youssef, who wrote the script, managed the production and dubbed over Garcia&#8217;s dialogue.</p>
<p>A dissenting judge said Garcia played no creative role that would give her ownership rights.</p>
<p>Until the court order, YouTube had rejected calls by President Barack Obama and other world leaders to pull the video, arguing that it would amount to government censorship and violate free speech protections.</p>
<p>Google is supported in its appeal by an unusual alliance that includes filmmakers, Internet rivals such as Yahoo and prominent news media companies such as The New York Times that don&#8217;t want the court to infringe on First Amendment rights.</p></blockquote>
<p>The case is a no-brainer.</p>
<p>Kozinski made up his own law with no actual grounds. Meanwhile the Obama blame game has died down to such an extent that even the New York Times is willing to join in on the side of free speech. The appeals court will likely reverse. But the real issue is still the fact that a man was sent to jail for making a movie and that the administration actually told YouTube to take it down.</p>
<p>This is a topic we ought to be talking about, but the media refuses to have a serious discussion about the implications of it even if they have very belatedly now come out on the side of free speech.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s  Double Standard on Offending China and Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It sends a message and has a certain chilling effect."]]></description>
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<p>A while ago the Jimmy Kimmel Show had a kid roundtable that offended people in China. It offended them enough that it became a domestic and internal controversy complete with protests and <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/12/white-house-responds-to-petition-regarding-jimmy-kimmels-china-remarks/">a White House petition that passed</a> 100,000 signatures.</p>
<p>The White House responded to the petition by writing, &#8220;The Federal government cannot force ABC to remove this show. The First Amendment of the Constitution protects free speech, even if individuals might personally find it offensive or distasteful. It may be upsetting when people say things we might personally disagree with, but the principle of protected free speech is an important part of who we are as a nation.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all true, unfortunately it&#8217;s not the way that Obama does things. Not <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/09/14/Obama-YouTube-video-removal-investigation">when the people offended are Muslims</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The White House asked YouTube on Tuesday to review an anti-Muslim film posted to the site that has been blamed for igniting the violent protests this week in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, said the White House has &#8220;reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a roundabout request to remove a video. And while Obama can&#8217;t ask ABC to remove a video that offends China, his people can ask YouTube to remove a video that offends Muslims and then jail the director.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/09/activists-troubled-by-white-house-call-to-youtube-135618.html"> a clear and troubling double </a>standard here.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am actually kind of distressed by this,&#8221; said Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. &#8220;Even though there are all these great quotes from inside the White House saying they support free speech&#8230;.by calling YouTube from the White House, they were sending a message no matter how much they say we don&#8217;t want them to take it down, when the White House calls and asks you to review it, it sends a message and has a certain chilling effect.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>After that precedent, there&#8217;s every reason for China to expect Obama to do what they want and hiding behind the First Amendment won&#8217;t work because when you urge the removal of a video and jail the man behind it, you are clearly not committed to the Bill of Rights.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all a matter of priorities. Tender Muslim sensitivities come before those of everyone else.</p>
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		<title>New York Times Tries to Revive the Benghazi &#8220;YouTube Anger&#8221; Hoax</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major media outlets have a new disinformation tactic.]]></description>
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<p>Major media outlets have a new disinformation tactic. Instead of a fact-check, which used to be their old tactic, they drop a voluminous multi-part essay that claims to be the product of intensive reporting, but doesn&#8217;t really offer much of anything new, except an attempt at reviving a discredited liberal narrative, which its own reporting doesn&#8217;t support.</p>
<p>That was how the Boston Globe deployed its attempt at rebranding the Tsarnaev brothers from Islamic terrorists to a poor traumatized mentally ill duo. Now the New York Times&#8217; David Kirkpatrick is getting his &#8220;Ready for Hillary&#8221; tag on with another multi-part essay already being trumpeted by Media Matters for discrediting what its leader calls the &#8220;Benghazi Hoax&#8221;.</p>
<p>The two tangible claims made by David Kirkpatrick are that</p>
<p>1. Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the Benghazi attack</p>
<p>2. The attack was motivated by anger over a YouTube video</p>
<p>The actual reporting about the attack is surface and neither claim is really backed up. David Kirkpatrick claims that there is no proof that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attack. That&#8217;s because there is no definitive proof of who was responsible for the attack.</p>
<p>David Kirkpatrick and the New York Times choose to focus attention on Ahmed Abu Khattala, but their own story shows that virtually everyone in the Benghazi militias was collaborating to either allow the attack or cover for the perpetrators.</p>
<p>And their sole basis for the YouTube video claim is that some of the attackers supposedly mentioned the video to outsiders during the attack. That fails to support the New York Times&#8217; claim that the Benghazi attack &#8220;was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the timeline of the attack discredits the idea that a series of attacks across the region could have been done in two days.</p>
<blockquote><p>Then, on Sept. 8, a popular Islamist preacher lit the fuse by screening a clip of the video on the ultraconservative Egyptian satellite channel El Nas. American diplomats in Cairo raised the alarm in Washington about a growing backlash, including calls for a protest outside their embassy.</p></blockquote>
<p>The overall context for the September 11 attacks isn&#8217;t the YouTube video, it&#8217;s the wave of simultaneous attacks. If you believe Rice and the New York Times, these attacks were just spontaneous. But the Benghazi attack, which was the most organized, is the least plausible of these video attacks.</p>
<p>If you believe Obama and the New York Times&#8217; Benghazi YouTube hoax, the most severe wave of attacks against American targets in the Middle East in decades was thrown together on a whim by purely local organizations with no earlier planning or international coordination.</p>
<p>This is about as unlikely as WW2 beginning because Hitler had some bad kielbasa and suddenly decided to invade Poland.</p>
<p>Furthermore there were multiple prior attacks against foreign missions and personnel in Benghazi long before the YouTube video.</p>
<p>Back to Ahmed Abu Khattala and Ansar Al-Sharia and Al Qaeda, Kirkpatrick and the New York Times disprove nothing, as Media Matters claims they have.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda has multiple franchises that choose to hide or deny their affiliations. These include Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, a group that even the New York Times admits is Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Even the New York Times article admits that Ansar Al-Sharia is pro Al-Qaeda. Ansar Al-Sharia <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/10/ansar_al_sharia_libya_honors_a.php">has repeatedly made a point of aligning</a> itself with Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Kirkpatrick and the New York Times blast the US for focusing on Al Qaeda instead of local militias, worrying about ex-Gitmoite Abu Sufian bin Qumu, instead of Ahmed Abu Khattala. But older reports stated that<a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/aq-libya-loc.pdf"> Qumu was leading Ansar Al-Sharia</a>. Confusing matters is the roster of shifting names and affiliations, which make the situation occasionally impossible to decipher. Especially when there is more than one Ansar Al-Sharia and when groups appear to share names while remaining vague about their national and international affiliations.</p>
<p>Militia leaders go by non-de plumes. Militias fragment and then reconnect. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, the original definitive militia, switched its allegiance from Al Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/aq-libya-loc.pdf">The report stated</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The name Ansar al-Sharia is also being used by al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in so-called liberated areas of Yemen and by Salafist groups in Tunisia. The Facebook sites of Ansar al-Sharia in Libya and the group in Tunisia appear similar in design and content and also share contacts, suggesting coordination between the groups.</p></blockquote>
<p>What the New York Times has done is simply chosen not to investigate any such links, declaring instead that there is no proof. That&#8217;s an easy cop-out that disproves nothing.</p>
<p>There are bits of relevant information buried in the rubble of the New York Times&#8217; disinformation essay.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We thought we were sufficiently close to them,” said one Western diplomat who was in Benghazi not long before the attack. “We all thought that if anything threatening was happening, that they would tip us off.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s probably the only significant paragraph in the whole essay.</p>
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		<title>Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Locked Up by Obama/Hillary Vows to Finish Movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who really needs to talk about Liu Xiaobo or Chen Guangcheng? Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is America's Chen Guangcheng. ]]></description>
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<p>This is not a story from the People&#8217;s Republic of China or the USSR circa 1972. No, this is the new American reality in which we have a man who has been locked up for making a movie vowing to finish the movie.</p>
<p>Who really needs to talk about Liu Xiaobo or Chen Guangcheng? Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, for all his faults, is America&#8217;s Chen Guangcheng.</p>
<p>Promising to finish the movie is a dangerous move, because assuming the White House is paying attention, they may give the nod to find another excuse for locking him up. Not hard to do when you&#8217;re already in prison.</p>
<p>Still <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/10/exclusive-jailed-filmmaker-vows-to-finish-film-wrongly-blamed-for-benghazi/?cmpid=twitter_fn">he is backing away somewhat</a> from his assessment of Islam. Or being more nuanced about it.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is not [a] religion movie,” he said. “I have a lot of Muslim friends and not all the Muslims believe in the terrorism culture. Some of them believe in this culture. That’s why we need to fight [against] the culture, not the Muslims. My enemy is the terrorism culture; this is my enemy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Of course I&#8217;m proud of it. If I could go back, I would do it again,” said Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian born in Egypt who came to the United States in 1984. “Everybody gets hurt in this culture. We need the world free of this culture. We have to fight it.”</p>
<p>“I am the blood voice for everybody who gets killed, or hurt, in this culture,” he continued. “I dedicate my life to fight with this culture … I’m never afraid.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And he&#8217;s making it clear that he has nothing against the government because he, somewhat mistakenly, views America in terms of Egypt, where attacking Mubarak was more dangerous than attacking any single idea.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yet, Nakoula, who must serve four years of supervised release following his prison term, refused to criticize the Obama administration. “Who am I to criticize the commander in chief?&#8221; Nakoula said. &#8220;Who am I?  He knows more than me.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s the right attitude for Egypt. But the wrong one for America. Obama doesn&#8217;t view Nakoula as a critic, but used him as a counter to appease Muslims. He didn&#8217;t try to silence dissent, but to intimidate critics of Islam.</p>
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		<title>Allowing Muslim Violence to Determine Permissible Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "Innocence of Muslims" case marked the first time in the United States in nearly a century that a man was imprisoned over the hostile reaction to his speech. The precedent for that had already been set with the Koran burnings and the Mohammed cartoons, but for the first time the United States acted on the concept that the outcome of speech determines its protected nature.]]></description>
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<p>The &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; case marked the first time in the United States in nearly a century that a man was imprisoned over the hostile reaction to his speech. The precedent for that had already been set with the Koran burnings and the Mohammed cartoons, but for the first time the United States acted on the concept that the outcome of speech determines its protected nature.</p>
<p>That is the important point that Nathaniel Sugarman makes <a href="http://www.legal-project.org/3648/fatal-attraction-us-flirts-with-international">in his article on the UN assault on the American Bill of Rights</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Resolution 16/18 calls for criminalization of &#8220;incitement to imminent violence based on religion or belief,&#8221; and it &#8220;condemns&#8230; any advocacy of religious hatred against individuals that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.&#8221; At first glance, this language does not seem restrictive; even in the U.S., incitement is not a protected form of speech. The issue is the respective ways in which the U.S. and the OIC define &#8220;incitement.&#8221; U.S. Courts use a content-based test to determine whether speech is incitement.</p>
<p>Brandenburg, which is still the law, ruled that in order for speech to be unprotected as incitement, the speech must (1) intend to produce imminent lawless action, and must be (2) likely to produce such action. In other words, there is both a subjective and objective prong, both concerning the speech itself. By contrast, the OIC endorses a &#8220;test of consequences,&#8221; which punishes speech based not on its content, but based on the result. This is a completely subjective test, and fails to consider the words uttered by the speaker, focusing only on the reaction of others. How would this play out in practice? Violence claimed to be in response to cartoons of Muhammad, could, under the OIC&#8217;s definition, retroactively define the cartoons as incitement.</p></blockquote>
<p>What this really does is make Muslim violence into the arbiters of what legal and illegal speech is, retroactively. Hate crimes have already moved us all too close to adopting a standard in which the perception of speech determines its legality, but the Islamic effort moves us beyond mere perception into consequence, acting as a kind of Felony Murder rule for speech in which the actions of a hostile third party in antagonism to that speech, rather than in cooperation with it, determines its legality. And all that is needed to suppress any speech is for a hostile and violent reaction to take place in its aftermath.</p>
<p>Speech then becomes subject to mob rule and terrorism becomes the determinant of permissible and impermissible speech.</p>
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		<title>Egypt Sentences Mo Filmmaker to Death, Obama Sentenced Him to Only One Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we conceive of any other Muslim leader showing such generosity and tolerance as to sentence a man who offended his faith to only one year in prison, without any additional beheadings or mutilations?]]></description>
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<p>Truly we live in a <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/28/15509101-us-based-anti-islam-filmmaker-6-others-sentenced-to-death-by-egypt-court?lite">moderate Muslim country</a>. One year in the Federal pen for insulting Islam is pretty mild compared to a death sentence. I just hope Obama doesn&#8217;t become too radicalized by his association with his good friend Mohammed Morsi and begin handing out death sentences for Mohammed cartoons.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet,&#8221; Egyptian Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said Wednesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>Or as Obama said, &#8220;The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The charges in Egypt included &#8220;intentionally committing acts to harm the unity of the country and peace of its land;&#8221; &#8220;calling to divide the country into small states on a sectarian basis and harming national unity;&#8221; and &#8220;using religion to promote extremist ideas resulting in religious division and disrespect [of] heavenly religion.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Also known as the official program of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Sure we criticize Obama a lot and often justly. But it&#8217;s important that we also show our appreciation for living in a country that Obama described as &#8220;<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/">one of the largest Muslim nations in the world</a>&#8221; where people who offend Islamic theocracy get sentenced to a mere one year in prison.</p>
<p>Can we conceive of any other Muslim leader showing such generosity and tolerance as to sentence a man who offended his faith to only one year in prison, without any additional beheadings or mutilations?</p>
<p>Obama may be a terrible leader by American standards, but compared to Assad, Erdogan, Morsi, Ahmadinejad and Karzai, he&#8217;s really not so bad.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s First Political Prisoner Begins One-Year Prison Sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom of Speech? Oh it's one of those we used to have in the old America. Like Freedom of Religion. Before the thing that couldn't happen here... happened here.]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross,&#8221; Sinclair Lewis wrote in, &#8220;It Can&#8217;t Happen Here.&#8221; But as it turns out, fascism came to America wearing an Obama 2012 photo, filtered through Instagram, and carrying a Koran.</p>
<p>Charles Woods, the father of the murdered SEAL left to die by Obama in Benghazi, reported that <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/white-house-ordered-prosecution-of-mohammed-filmmaker/">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told him</a>, that they were going to “arrest and prosecute” the man behind the Mohammed movie.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/political-prisoner-in-obamas-us-muhammad-filmmaker-gets-one-year-in-prison.html">Mission accomplished</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mark Basseley Youssef may be a scoundrel and a liar. His movie may be hideous and false. He may have violated his probation. But there are probation violators all over the country today, roaming free after getting a slap on the wrist for their probation violation. The probation violation is a pretext. Youssef&#8217;s imprisonment is for violating Sharia blasphemy laws. Obama is trying to appease the Muslims who rioted and killed over the video, and to do what he can against the freedom of speech now, until such time as he can get &#8220;hate speech&#8221; laws in place that will enable him to finish the job.</p></blockquote>
<p>Youssef <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/mo-filmmaker-targeted-by-top-federal-prosecutor/">had one of the top Federal prosecutors in California</a> sicced on him and the same media maggots who threw a hysterical fit when Ari Fleischer merely told Bill Maher to shut up, have nothing to say. Oh pardon me, they do have something to say. They assure us that this political prosecution has nothing to do with the movie.</p>
<blockquote><p>None of the violations had to do with the content of &#8220;Innocence of Muslims,&#8221; a film that depicts Mohammad as a religious fraud, pedophile and womanizer.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s according to the AP. But according to the Prosecutor actually handling the case&#8230; .</p>
<blockquote><p>However, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale argued Youseff&#8217;s lies about his identity have caused harm to others, including the film&#8217;s cast and crew. The movie sparked violence in the Middle East, killing dozens.</p></blockquote>
<p>So it&#8217;s not about the movie, except it&#8217;s about the movie. So Obama has his first political prisoner, probably not the last. Muslims get upset easily and it will take a lot of political prisoners to appease them.</p>
<p>Freedom of Speech? Oh it&#8217;s one of those we used to have in the old America. Like Freedom of Religion. Before the thing that couldn&#8217;t happen here&#8230; happened here.</p>
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		<title>White House Ordered Prosecution of Mohammed Filmmaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The father of Tyrone Woods, the ex-Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi, met with Obama and Clinton. And he reports that Clinton told him that they were going to "arrest and prosecute" the man behind the Mohammed movie.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clinton&#8217;s State Department botched Benghazi and the entire illegal Libyan War and when she met the father of the man who stood and <a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/10/boldly-into-breach-true-story-of-seals.html">fought against impossible odds</a>, facing down the killers who had been set loose by the Obama Administration&#8217;s illegal war, all that she could think to tell him was that the Bill of Rights and the Constitution that his son had sworn an oath to support and defend would be trashed to appease his son&#8217;s killers.</p>
<p>The father of Tyrone Woods, the ex-Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi, met with Obama and Clinton. And<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/10/25/Fallen-Seals-Father-Hillary-Told-M-Dont-Worry-Were-Going-To-Arrest-The-Man-That-Did-This?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BreitbartFeed+%28Breitbart+Feed%29"> he reports that Clinton told him </a>that they were going to &#8220;arrest and prosecute&#8221; the man behind the Mohammed movie.</p>
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<p>There would be no reason for Clinton to have that information unless the decision did not come from the level of the Federal prosecutor in California, thousands of miles away, but from the White House and the State Department. That makes this a political prosecution and a direct attack by the government on Freedom of Speech by Obama and Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>If this had been done under Bush, it would be a front page story. For 8 years liberals screamed that freedom was somehow <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/white-house-ordered-prosecution-of-mohammed-filmmaker/attachment/154016511/" rel="attachment wp-att-161051"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-161051" title="154016511" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/154016511.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="240" /></a>under attack. Now freedom really is under attack in the most literal way possible. And no one cares.</p>
<p>The media can no longer deny that <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/oct/24/picket-calif-us-attys-odd-handling-anti-muslim-fil/">the prosecution of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula</a>, aka Mark Basseley Youssef is political or that he is a political prisoner. To do that they have to call the father of a murdered SEAL a liar, and they aren&#8217;t willing to do that yet. What they will do is ignore the story and bury it.</p>
<p>There are scandals there are one note. One act of wrongdoing. And there&#8217;s the rotting mess of Benghazigate which turns up a new ugly angle every day.</p>
<p>Of all the ugliness of Benghazigate, its ugliest revelation may be that the Obama Administration has given us America&#8217;s first political prisoner.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a partial transcript <a href="http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/34316247880/fallen-seals-father-we-need-to-find-out-who-it-was">from Poor Richard&#8217;s News</a></p>
<blockquote><p>I could tell that something wasn’t right. I was back there at Andrews Air Force Base when the bodies were shipped in. We were in a room, a building, a little ways away from the hangar where the speech was given, and for about a half hour the President was there, the Vice President was there, Hillary was there, Colin Powell was there.  When the President…we had formed little pod areas for each one of the families…and when he came over to our little area, I could tell, he kind of just mumbled.  You know, “I’m sorry.” His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye.  And it was not a sincere, “I’m really sorry” you know “that your son died.” It was a totally insincere, more of a whining type, “I’m sorry.” And it was like shaking hands with a dead fish.  It just didn’t feel right. And now it’s coming out that apparently, the White House Situation Room was watching our people die.</p>
<p>Well, this is what Hillary did. She came over and, you know, she did the same thing, separately came over and talked with me.  I gave her a hug, shook her hand, and she did not appear to be one bit sincere at all.  She mentioned that thing about, “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video.” That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that.  And apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help.  This was my son, he wasn’t even there.  He was at a safe house about a mile away.  He got the distress call.  He heard them crying for help.  That’s why he and Glenn risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation.  And I’m sure that she wasn’t the only one that received that distress call: “Come save our lives.”</p>
<p>When I heard that there’s a very good chance that the White House as well as other members of the military knew what was going on, and obviously someone had to say, “Don’t go rescue them.” Because every person in the military, their first response is, “We’re going to go rescue them.” We need to find out who it was that gave that command.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Muslims Destroyed 10,000 Books in American School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a sucker punch; it wasn't about the video, this was about feeling disenfranchised, envious and the opportunity to loot and destroy what wasn't theirs. ]]></description>
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<p>Remember t<a href="http://middletown-ct.patch.com/articles/tunis-calling-local-shares-account-of-brutal-attack-by-muslim-extremists#photo-11510613">his is about a movie trailer</a>, it&#8217;s not about a destructive ideology that runs on hate. It&#8217;s about a movie. Just like the destruction of the Library of Alexandria was about a movie.</p>
<blockquote><p>This marks the second week since the devastating attacks on the US Embassy and the American Cooperative School of Tunis (ACST), Tunisia, where I teach art and drama here in North Africa. We are still holding our breath.</p>
<p>Nowhere in our dreams did we imagine, all of us holed up in our homes, that the “peaceful protest” would turn ugly and migrate to our school, which is located across the highway from the embassy.</p>
<p>Our only updates were from head of security at the school, describing the devastation, the looting and burning through Facebook posts and phone calls.  The news was heartbreaking and shocking; books, computers, toys, furniture, personal possessions and even the school buses, smashed, burned, vandalized and subsequently destroyed, all in the name of an amateur anti-Islamist movie, which none of us had even seen.</p>
<p>The Lower School library lost 10,000 books. The playgrounds were littered with shattered glass and melted plastic. Everywhere we looked, we saw hatred and anger. The acrid, smoky odor overpowered us. We were all brought to tears. This was a sucker punch; it wasn&#8217;t about the video, this was about feeling disenfranchised, envious and the opportunity to loot and destroy what wasn&#8217;t theirs. Little did these thieves and thugs realize, ACST employs many local Tunisians, and Tunisian children attend the school.</p>
<p>We reluctantly re-entered the school on Monday, just the staff and teachers, dazed and confused.  We went through the motions of cheerfully cleaning up the campus, but this violation was irreparable. There was, and still is, a loss of trust for Tunisian officials and local neighbors, many of whom were seen carrying laptops and guitars from the school in the streets. No one showed up to help us, and that made us very vulnerable and still does.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s a dose of reality here, but not enough. The &#8220;thieves and thugs&#8221; clearly did realize it. They knew enough to make off with whatever they could while destroying what they couldn&#8217;t take. They had no reason not to do it because they knew that the silly American liberals would just replace all of it and then they can loot and pillage the school a second time. That&#8217;s how this game works.</p>
<p>The books? As a certain Caliph said of the Library of Alexandria, if the books contradict the Koran then they are blasphemous and should be destroyed. If they agree with it, then they are redundant and should be destroyed. But if they are Kindles then we should take them and sell them on eBay to fund the martyrs fighting in Chechnya, Gaza and Timbuktu.</p>
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		<title>Then They Came for the Mohammed Filmmakers and I Did Not Speak Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magistrate Judge Suzanne H. Segal ordered Nakoula detained, adding that he poses “some danger to the community.” He faces a maximum of three years in prison ]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;We can rejoice in the knowledge that the future belongs entirely to us!&#8221; Adolf Hitler</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href=" http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-the-future-must-not-belong-to-those-who-slander-the-prophet-of-islam/">The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam</a>.&#8221; Barack Hussein Obama</p></blockquote>
<p>Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind The Innocence of the Muslims, has been officially arrested. His official crime is breaking probation, his unofficial crime is making a movie. Had Nakoula made a movie four years ago denouncing Bush and been picked up afterward for probation violations, then the ACLU and every media outlet would be up in arms declaring that we now live in a police state.</p>
<p>And now after Muslims murdered four Americans and rioted across the world calling for Nakoula&#8217;s arrest, they got what they wanted and the media will cheer.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nakoula faces up to three years in federal prison after being arrested Thursday for alleged probation violations. Probation officials have recommended a 24-month term for him. He faces a maximum of three years in prison if found to have violated his parole.</p></blockquote>
<p>Congratulations America, we are now officially a moderate Muslim country. After all he&#8217;s only getting two-three years in prison for<del> violating probation</del> making a banned movie. In Morsi&#8217;s Egypt, a Coptic Christian just got seven years for a similar offense. So for the moment we are more moderate than Egypt. And we should be proud of that. Just imagine if Morsi were running things instead of a cheerful fellow like Barack Hussein.</p>
<blockquote><p>Magistrate Judge Suzanne H. Segal ordered Nakoula detained, citing a “lengthy pattern of deception” by the man, adding that he poses “some danger to the community.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What danger might we ask does Nakoula pose to the community? His convictions were for fraud. Is he going to spend the time until his trial tricking people into buying the Golden Gate Bridge?</p>
<blockquote><p>Nakoula’s attorney, Steven Seiden, asked that his client be released on $10,000 bond, saying that he was not a flight risk. He also said his client would be in danger at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center because of what he said was a large Muslim population at the lockup.</p>
<p>Prosecutors told Segal they have been assured that the detention center has protocols to house “inmates of notoriety,” and contended that Nakoula would possibly be safer in custody.</p></blockquote>
<p>No doubt. Safe as houses.</p>
<p>There was a poem that the left revived around the time of the Bush Administration. They meant to use it on behalf of Muslim terrorists, but perhaps we should start using on behalf of those who offend Muslims.</p>
<blockquote><p>First they came for the Cartoonists, and I did not speak out&#8211;<br />
Because I was not a Cartoonist.</p>
<p>Then they came for the Filmmakers, and I did not speak out&#8211;<br />
Because I was not a Filmmaker.</p>
<p>Then they came for the Writers, and I did not speak out&#8211;<br />
Because I was not a Writer.</p>
<p>Then they came for me&#8211;and there was no one left to speak for me.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/">If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we&#8217;d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world</a>&#8220;. Barack Hussein Obama</p>
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		<title>Surrendering to Sharia &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Brewster, Leon Weinstein and Dwight Schultz analyze the tragedy that is supposed to be Obama's foreign policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/arrest1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-146090" title="arrest" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/arrest1.jpg" alt="" width="361" height="203" /></a>On this week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em>, Josh Brewster, Leon Weinstein and Dwight Schultz gathered to discuss <em>Surrendering to Sharia.</em> The discussion took place in the first segment of a two part series analyzing the Obama administration&#8217;s foreign policy disaster in the Middle East. The second segment focused on<em> The Persecution of a Filmmaker</em>. Both parts of the two part series can be seen below.</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>Google Exec Arrested in Brazil Over Mohammed Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "Innocence of Muslims" ruling resulted from a lawsuit by a group representing Brazil's Muslim community, the National Union of Islamic Entities, which claimed the film violates the country's constitutional guarantee of religious freedom for all faiths.]]></description>
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<p>Sharia law&#8230; <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/27/brazil-detains-google-chief-over-anti-islam-youtube-clip/">it&#8217;s everywhere you want to be</a>. Even in Brazil.</p>
<blockquote><p>Brazilian authorities detained the country&#8217;s Google chief after the company failed to remove YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law despite a judges order.</p>
<p>The detention came as another court ordered YouTube to remove clips of an anti-Islam film that has been blamed for deadly protests by Muslims around the globe, both joining a spate of court-ordered content-removal cases against Google&#8217;s video-sharing website in Brazil.</p>
<p>The arrest of Google executive Fabio Jose Silva Coelho was announced in Säo Paulo. A press release issued by the federal police said he was not expected to remain in jail and should be released later in the day after signing a document promising to appear in court.</p></blockquote>
<p>How did this come about? Thank your local neighborhood Muslim Censorship franchise.</p>
<blockquote><p>Sao Paulo-based judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the site 10 days to remove video clips from &#8220;Innocence of Muslims,&#8221; which has angered many Muslims around the world by its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed and his followers as thugs. After the 10-day window, Google will face fines of $5,000 a day for every day the clips remain accessible in Brazil, according to the statement on the court&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; ruling resulted from a lawsuit by a group representing Brazil&#8217;s Muslim community, the National Union of Islamic Entities, which claimed the film violates the country&#8217;s constitutional guarantee of religious freedom for all faiths.</p>
<p>In a statement on the group&#8217;s website, Mohamad al Bukai, the head of religious matters for the Sao Paulo-based organization, hailed the ruling.</p>
<p>&#8220;Freedom of expression must not be confused with giving disproportionate and irresponsible offense, which can provoke serious consequences for society,&#8221; al Bukai said.</p></blockquote>
<p>But don&#8217;t worry, according to the judge this isn&#8217;t censorship.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This type of jurisprudence cannot be confused with censorship,&#8221; Miranda is quoted as writing. In the excerpts, the judge defines censorship as &#8220;the undue restriction of the civic consciousness.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Mohamad al Bukai is a Syrian export to Brazil. Here&#8217;s an actual quote from him on the success of Islam in Brazil. &#8220;The 9/11 attacks were key in arousing people&#8217;s curiosity towards Islam, now some 15 per cent of our community are non-Arabs.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Muslim &#8216;Offenses&#8217; Are About Power, Not Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fjordman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why, even if we removed all "offensive" cartoons and movies on the planet, members of the '"religion of peace" would still riot. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/child-behead-australiax325.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145880" title="child-behead-australiax325" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/child-behead-australiax325.gif" alt="" width="375" height="292" /></a>The historian Nils Rune Langeland, a Professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway, dared to <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/07/15/kultur/nils_rune_langeland/europa/islam/velferdsstaten/17321062/">make</a> some statements about possible <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/08/northern-europe-battleground-of-future.html">future conflicts</a> caused by Multiculturalism and mass immigration that the establishment, self-appointed guardians of Goodness, did not like. Frithjof Jacobsen, formerly the vocalist in a hard rock band and currently the leader of newspaper VG&#8217;s regular columnists, toyed in a column with the idea that maybe the security services should quietly search the flat of Mr. Langeland. He even suggested that the good Professor perhaps deserved to be &#8220;<a href="http://www.vg.no/vgpluss/article/o2JfVf">tarred</a> and feathered&#8221; for his views.</p>
<p>This full-length essay was published in the country&#8217;s arguably most powerful newspaper and <a href="http://www.vg.no/vgpluss/article/o2JfVf">was illustrated</a> by a drawing made by respected illustrator Roar Hagen, showing the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) spying on a brain filled with ideas about an Islamic threat to Europe and the Western world. Columnist Jacobsen furthermore wrote that Anders Behring Breivik’s mass murder was simply the &#8220;natural product&#8221; of mudslingers on the Internet who tirelessly keep repeating the same otherworldly tales about a supposed Islamic threat to our societies. In his opinion, using Breivik’s atrocities to confront people harboring such opinions is &#8220;completely natural,&#8221; since their criticism of Islamic aggression and terrorism means that they &#8220;share opinions with terrorists and murderers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Frithjof Jacobsen suggested that one of these dangerous and extremist ideas that should be confronted and possibly lead to closer personal surveillance by the country&#8217;s security services is the use of the term &#8220;dhimmi.&#8221; Yet this is a <a href="http://www.dhimmitude.org/">perfectly acceptable</a> Arabic word that has been part and parcel of Islamic vocabulary <a href="http://www.dhimmi.com/">and mentality</a> for over a thousand years. Mr. Jacobsen thus first and foremost betrayed his own profound ignorance and mistook this for tolerance, which is a fairly common flaw for his kind of people.</p>
<p><em>Dhimmis</em> are non-Muslims under Islamic rule who are not just second-rate citizens in their own country but could almost be described as non-citizens, lacking basic rights and protection for themselves and their families in many situations. Dhimmis are supposed to be subservient and obedient to Muslims at all times and are required to forever pay them substantial amounts of protection money, <em>jizya</em>, in &#8220;willing submission&#8221; to Islamic rule.</p>
<p>Muslims love to portray themselves as innocent, blameless victims and predictably complain after nearly every Jihadist terror attack that all Muslims should not be punished for the actions of a few individuals. However, they carefully leave out the fact that this is precisely what their own Islamic law and logic dictates for non-Muslims.</p>
<p>If even one non-Muslim dhimmi says or does something that displeases a Muslim, this can and sometimes does trigger violent retribution against his entire community. In practice, a mere rumor falsely planted by a Muslim who holds a personal grudge against a specific non-Muslim can be enough to trigger riots, murder and mayhem. This means that non-Muslims in countries harboring sizable Muslim populations live under a constant shadow of fear of Muslim violence and abuse. If one of them at any given time says something critical of Islam or its founder, this can trigger violent attacks and murder against his entire clan, tribe or nation based on the flimsiest excuse.</p>
<p>What Western mass media have nearly universally failed to point out is that Muslims have now advanced to the point where they treat the entire Western world as dhimmis, hostages to Muslim abuse and threats of violence. On September 11th 2012, the anniversary of the 9/11 Jihadist attacks against the USA, Muslim mobs attacked several American embassies in the Middle East and killed the US Ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens. Evidence indicates that this attack had <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57511043/assault-on-u.s-consulate-in-benghazi-leaves-4-dead-including-u.s-ambassador-j-christopher-stevens/">been planned</a> in advance.</p>
<p>In multiple Middle Eastern cities, crowds shouted slogans in praise of Osama bin Laden, whose terror network al-Qaida killed thousands of Americans on September 11th 2001. The date was no doubt chosen to mock the USA and show continued support for Jihad against the West, yet the pretext for these attacks was an obscure movie made under unclear circumstances in the USA that was considered offensive to Muslims. Western media who present this movie, <em>Innocence of Muslims</em>, as the &#8220;cause&#8221; or direct trigger of these attacks fail to note that Muslims will pick up any pretext to riot. They have been known to make complaints and threats to hamburger stores or coffee shops because they claimed to have seen hidden references to the words Allah or Muhammed in their products. Muslims are skinless people in a sandpaper world, as one observer once put it. Their feelings would always be &#8220;hurt&#8221; by something even if we removed all offensive cartoons and movies on the planet. This is about power, fear, dominance and Islamic aggression.</p>
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		<title>The Film &#8216;Innocence of Muslims&#8217; &#8212; Made By Terrorists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walid Shoebat]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alarming new questions surrounding mysterious filmmaker. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/600_nakoula_basseley_nakoula_0915.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145736" title="600_nakoula_basseley_nakoula_0915" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/600_nakoula_basseley_nakoula_0915.gif" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>When it comes to the film <em>Innocence of Muslims</em>, our government and the media use a narrative mired in contradictions and false statements provided by the filmmaker, who himself is an untrustworthy source.</p>
<p>If we stick to what can be proven we might obtain the possibility that terror supporters produced the film. Muhammad Al Dura and Paliwood are two cases in point, showing the type of stunts used by Palestinian terrorists.</p>
<p>So lets examine <em>facts</em> instead of the filmmaker’s <em>fiction:</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/nakoula-transcript">Court documents reveal</a> that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the producer of the movie <em>Innocence of Muslims, </em>partnered in a scheme with Eiad Salameh, <em>my first cousin.</em></p>
<p>Eiad is a Muslim terror supporter and is not an Egyptian Copt.</p>
<p>He comes from Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and is well known by the FBI and the Arab community as a conduit for Middle Easterners who can obtain authentic, legitimate identifications, from passports to credit cards including many nationalities. He then places these identifications in the hands of dubious characters to use for fraudulent purposes.</p>
<p>In fact, I revealed Eiad Salameh way before this whole fiasco erupted—in <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Down_with_Antisemitism/message/26009">2008</a>, and the first knowledge of Eiad and Nakoula was <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/nakoula-cooperation-756920">revealed</a> on September 14, 2012 by the Smoking Gun, which provided court documents that prove these two connected in 2009 in a major financial scheme.</p>
<p>The narrative that circulates in the media fails to answer crucial questions behind the mystery of this film.</p>
<p>For example, to date, <em>no one has stepped forward</em> or can <em>confirm</em> for certain that whoever holds an identity by the name of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, is even that man. He, after all, held several identifications, including Muslim names. He could have easily presented a valid I.D. when he was arrested, yet he was likely not the man in that I.D.</p>
<p>Such a claim isn’t easily dismissed; if an Egyptian by the name of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is blamed for angering over a billion Muslims, it would not be that difficult to find the entire family in Egypt, including brothers, cousins, aunts, siblings, wife, wives, ex-wives, mistresses, pet names and all. Especially since Egypt sparked all the riots that spanned over 30 some nations.</p>
<p>In the Middle East you are known by your clan, yet Egypt cannot produce this man’s family and background?</p>
<p>Besides this, why would Nakoula, who claims to be a religious Coptic activist, have extensive connections with Eiad, a man who I know hates Copts and is well-known to be the best schemer the Middle East has produced and has contacts with terror networks?</p>
<p>This terror connection is not void of evidence. <em>The Daily Beast</em> reported regarding Nakoula’s arrest (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p>“The bust came around the time the feds were launching Operation Mountain Express, which would become a huge investigation into pseudoephedrine-dealing involving numerous people of a Middle Eastern background. The authorities initially insisted there were no links to terrorism, but <em>suddenly switched and decided that a chunk of the money was going to </em><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/05/hizbullah-if-israel-strikes-iran-will-hit-u-s-bases-in-gulf.html"><em>Hizbullah</em></a>.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The Eiad-Nakoula connection was likely terror related.</p>
<p>Nakoula first presented himself as an Israeli Jew, a thing Eiad also did for years. He fraudulently holds an authentic Israeli passport.</p>
<p>To date, no one has produced proof to authenticate Nakoula, yet evidence shows with <em>100%</em> <em>certainty</em> that both my cousin Eiad and Nakoula had multiple fraudulent identifications, as we showed in <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/2012/09/24/one-anti-muhammad-film-a-terrorist-financier-and-fbi-failures/">our detailed report</a>, which includes valid court records, a U.S. Trustee report, credit report and our correspondence with Canadian intelligence.</p>
<p>How is it possible that these two strange bedfellows would snuggle up together? On the one hand, we have an <em>Egyptian-Coptic-anti-Muslim-activist-fundamentalist-Christian</em> turned <em>Meth-dealer </em>and on the other hand, we have a <em>Muslim-Palestinian scam-artist-terrorist</em>.</p>
<p>Some might counter that these two only had a fling; after all, Nakoula was simply a <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/nakoula-cooperation-756920">runner</a> for Eiad in 2009.</p>
<p>What has never been disclosed until now is that <em>the two were linked for at least a decade</em> from the year 2000, and not only in an involvement in 2009.</p>
<p>Nakoula had used “P.J. Tobacco” and Eiad was linked to a tobacco smuggling operation into Syria in 2001 by using a fictitious name <em>A&amp;M Trading</em>, as revealed in the U.S. Trustee report in 2001. Nakoula used <em>M&amp;A Trading</em> in 2009 with his pseudoephedrine dealings.</p>
<p>He simply switched letters; A&amp;M became M&amp;A.</p>
<p>Nakoula used Eiad’s last name “Erwin Salameh” portraying himself as Eiad’s brother.</p>
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		<title>Embassy Telling Muslims That US is Taking Action Against Mo Moviemaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to him, during the meeting, the embassy official told them that his government is in the process of taking action against the producer of the film ]]></description>
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<p>The story comes to us second-hand from a Muslim who then retold it to a newspaper, and it&#8217;s possible that it was exaggerated along the way. And if we hadn&#8217;t seen the Obama Administration try to censor the film and if we hadn&#8217;t seen the filmmaker led away for questioning, then this would be easier to dismiss.</p>
<blockquote><p>Leaders of various Muslim organizations on Monday submitted a memorandum to US embassy in Kathmandu, in protest of a film produced in the US that ‘denigrates’ Islam´s Prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p>Talking to Republica Online, Gulam Rashid Miya, a delegation member, said they drew the US attention to the ‘offence’ caused by the film to the faith of Muslim fraternity in Nepal and all over the world.</p>
<p>According to him, during the meeting, the embassy official told them that the US government as well as 99 percent of US citizens is against the production of the film. He also informed that his government is in the process of taking action against the producer of the film</p></blockquote>
<p>This story can&#8217;t be proven or disproven, but it&#8217;s possible that the Nepal Embassy has been going rogue the way that the Cairo Embassy has. Or there is the darker possibility that Scott R. Sandford of the Nepal Embassy knows exactly what he&#8217;s talking about.</p>
<p>Here is <a href="http://www.nepalmountainnews.com/cms/2012/09/24/nepali-muslim-community-urges-us-embassy-take-action-against-blasphemy-filmmakers/">a similar and troubling version of this story</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Miya, the embassy officials told them that the US had no intention to hurt Muslim community and the US itself was starting process of bringing the guilty to book.</p></blockquote>
<p>Gulam Rasul Miya is the head of the Islamic Association of Nepal/Nepali Islamic Federation. The former Secretary General of the IAN or Islami Sangh Nepal was shot and killed and though Nepal is less than 5 percent Muslim,<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/nepal-muslims-demand-separate-identity-in-new-constitution-plan-nationwide-protests.html"> its Muslims are causing the usual problems</a>.</p>
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		<title>Mo Moviemaker Bounty Up to $200,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mufti Mohammad Yousuf Kasuri, chief of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Party, offered $105,000 "for the one who will hand exemplary punishment to the blasphemer" ]]></description>
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<p>Between <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/pakistani-cabinet-minister-offers-al-qaeda-100000-to-kill-mohammed-filmmaker/">Pakistan&#8217;s railways minister offering up $100,000 </a>and Mufti Mohammad Yousuf Kasuri, chief of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Party, offering $105,000 &#8220;for the one who will hand exemplary punishment to the blasphemer&#8221; that&#8217;s over 200,000 dollars for the man&#8217;s head, but it&#8217;s not really that impressive.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/">Eric Allen Bell&#8217;s bounty</a> of 10 million rupees comes out to about 187,000 dollars, which isn&#8217;t that far off. And the Muslim Murder Bounty on Salman Rushdie was raised to 3.3 million dollars.</p>
<p>Compared to that 200,000 bucks is pocket change. Maybe those mad Muslims really aren&#8217;t all that mad about Mo after all.</p>
<p>The Jamiat Ahle Hadith Party is straight up Jihadist and this may be its way of competing with its leftist rivals as represented by Pakistan&#8217;s dimwitted railways minister. And &#8220;hand exemplary punishment to the blasphemer&#8221; probably calls for more vicious violence than just a shooting.</p>
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		<title>When The First Amendment Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Allen Bell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam, free speech and double standards.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/statue-of-liberty-crying.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145642 alignleft" title="statue-of-liberty-crying" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/statue-of-liberty-crying.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="330" /></a>First of all I just want to give a big shout out to the savage sadists, who <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/"><strong>put a bounty on my head</strong></a> for insulting their precious little “prophet.”  You’re going to be hearing a lot more from me in these days.  So, get used to it, because my free speech and I are not going anywhere and you fascist fanatic freaks will be hunted down and prosecuted, Insha’Allah.</p>
<p>Now then, with all of the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>death threats directed at me</strong></a> and others, who are simply <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/"><strong>telling the truth</strong></a> about Islam, one has to wonder, what are the leaders in Islam trying to hide?  It’s a belief system and we should be allowed to question it, criticize it, to question it and even mock it.  In fact, come to think of it, we are allowed to do all of those things.  This is America, land of the free and home of the brave – also home of the First Amendment, a freedom which keeps the rest of the free world free.  And free is how we intend to remain, no matter what the cost.</p>
<p>But if America is a free country then why is a New Jersey Islamic cleric, Mohammad Qatanani, leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County (<a href="http://icpc.com/" target="_blank"><strong>ICPC</strong></a>) <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/free-speech-that-mocks-islam-is-national-security-threat-for-u-s-prominent-nj-imam-tells-theblaze/"><strong>saying this</strong></a>? “Americans, have to put limits on freedom of speech,” and “Americans may <em>have</em> the freedom to speak their mind, ultimately, they have no <em>right</em> to talk about Muslim holy issues” and things of that nature.  Has he forgotten where he is?  Or is he in America to try to change things for the benefit of Islam?</p>
<p>Moronic Muslim messages such as this one, here in America, are in no short supply.  In fact lately, Islamist leaders and many so-called “moderate Muslims” seem to be <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>feeling somewhat emboldened</strong></a> by the recent wave of global fascist fist shaking and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>showing their true colors</strong></a>, at last.</p>
<p>It’s probably worth mentioning that the Department of Homeland Security charges that this enemy of free speech, Imam Mohammad Qatanani, in applying for a green card, failed to disclose that in 1993 he was arrested in Israel and<a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225"><strong> convicted of aiding Hamas</strong></a>.  Qatani also has admitted to being a <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225"><strong>member of the Muslim Brotherhood</strong></a> which is the parent organization of Hamas.  How Islamophobic of me really though to even bring this up.  There must be some kind of a misunderstanding actually because <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/chris-christies-friend-new-jersey-imam-mohammed-qatanani-wants-sharia-blasphemy-laws-criminalizing-c.html"><strong>New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie</strong></a> keeps calling this terrorist-tied enemy of the American Constitution his “friend”.</p>
<p>Speaking of people and organizations that are here to change America to accommodate Islam &#8211; I could not help but notice that CAIR, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations#Criticism"><strong>Council on American Islamic Relations</strong></a>, was using social media in a rather irresponsible way.  Recently, “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational"><strong>CAIR National</strong></a>” a Hamas front group, decided to distribute an article, which tries to connect me to the making of a film that I clearly did not make:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/e1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145635 aligncenter" title="e1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/e1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>This <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/eric-allen-bell1/0019374"><strong>article</strong></a> also seems to imply that the threats are probably made up, and even if they are real, <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/eric-allen-bell1/0019374"><strong>I probably have it coming, given what I wrote on this last 9/11</strong></a> day of remembrance.  The continuous advancement, of <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a-curious-connection/0019357"><strong>this concocted rumor</strong></a>, has resulted in a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/"><strong>bounty of 10 million Rupees being placed on my head</strong></a> by Islamic terrorists.  Someone seems to have a lot invested in fanning the flames and keeping this “misunderstanding” alive in the Pakistani press and the online Islamo-blogosphere – also known as the “Islamosphere” or “<em>the place where so-called Islamophobia researchers signal to Jihadists whom they should target for death threats and/or assassination</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eric1_edited-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145636 aligncenter" title="eric1_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eric1_edited-1.jpg" alt="" width="357" height="403" /></a><em>Pictured Above: An Islamic bounty on my head of 10 million Rupees.<br />
Does the head shot on the right make me look fat?</em></p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll cycle back to the issue of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaan-qurban-sipah-e-sahaba-dera-ismail-khan/189445077783153"><strong>Islamic terrorists calling for my assassination</strong></a> in a moment. But first I want to expose, once and for all, the followers of Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>“Jesus Christ” is a recurring character on Fox’s hit comedy series, “Family Guy”.  In the now legendary episode called, “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jesus#Reception"><strong>I Dream of Jesus</strong></a>” Peter discovers Jesus working at a record store and tries to help him make a comeback, by booking Jesus on the Jay Leno Show.  The character of Jesus then skyrockets to fame, goes on tour, blinged out in gold chains and designer sunglasses, while backed by a band of bikini-clad back-up singers.  He calls his act “Jesus Christ and the Pussy Cat Dolls”.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-145637" title="4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="301" /></a><em>Pictured Above: The most-watched episode of “Family Guy” in America called “I Dream of Jesus”</em></p>
<p>Strangely however, I don’t see followers of Jesus Christ storming embassies, burning flags, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-tapson/the-sexual-pathology-of-the-libyan-attackers/"><strong>gang raping an Ambassador</strong></a>, rioting in the streets chanting “death to America!” or putting a bounty on anybody’s head.  I’m not a follower of Jesus Christ personally, but I did grow up in a family that was a big part of his fan club.  And I do recall from years of Sunday school that Jesus did teach something about forgiveness and loving your neighbor.  Come to think of it, he set bar pretty high, because he said to love your neighbor as yourself.  And unlike the illiterate, blood-thirsty savage Muhammad, he never said to “<a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/023-violence.htm"><strong>strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers</strong></a>”.  And what holy man would utter such belligerent nonsense unless he was riddled with insecurities and scared to death of being found out for being a con artist, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha#Age_at_marriage"><strong>child rapist</strong></a> and a thief?</p>
<p>So why are the followers of Muhammad so touchy?  Do they suffer from the same insecurities that Muhammad did?  Why do their fragile feelings get hurt so easily?  Why do so many of Muhammad’s deeply delusional followers demand we respect their imaginary “prophet” or else face death threats, rioting, violence and destruction?  Why are we expected to pretend that this self-proclaimed “prophet” is beyond criticism and to roll over when his followers attack our First Amendment right to free speech?</p>
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<p>What is it about Islam that makes it so opposed to free speech, and why do its leaders keep telling us that Islamic Law (also known as Sharia Law) is compatible with our Constitution?  If <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/the-threat-of-sharia-and-the-leadership-of-america-s-two-parties-"><strong>Sharia Law</strong></a> denies the right to free speech, then clearly it is not compatible with the Constitution. Why all <a href="http://ca.cair.com/losangeles/event/banquet"><strong>the lies</strong></a> and double standards?</p>
<p>Could it be that <a href="http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/islam_unbelievers.html"><strong>Islam commands that it is superior</strong></a>?  It’s hard to believe that a severely indoctrinated culture, suffering from such insufferable insecurity could expect us to believe something so absurd, but actually they do.  In the muddied minds of the Muslim masses this is not a double standard at all.  In fact this is central to the belief system of Islam – that Islam is superior and that the whole world must submit to the laws of Islam.</p>
<p>In the best-selling fictional thriller, “The Hoy Quran,” poorly ghost-written by an illiterate desert filthy old man, using the pen name “Allah,” the character “Muhammad” arrogantly gives everyone who does not follow his delusional ideology three options: either you convert, subjugate or be killed.  Furthermore, the Islamic scriptures command that Mohammad is the highest moral example in Islam – the man to be followed and imitated.  <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/mohammed/"><strong>According to Islamic Scholar and author, Dr. Bill Warner</strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The importance of studying Muhammad is found in the Koran itself. Over 30 times the Koran says that every human being is supposed to do everything in their life patterned after Muhammad. Then it turns around and says over 40 times that if you don&#8217;t do everything like Mohammed did it, you will go to hell. Everything has to be done the way Muhammad did. Muhammad is the perfect pattern of life for all peoples for all time.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>1,400 years of following the horrific example of “The Prophet” has created a culture of fear, violence, Jew hatred, women hatred, homicide of homosexuals, prohibition of critical thinking and endless wars, tyranny and an absolute intolerance for free speech.  It grows like a giant wicked beast, which reaches out its poisonous tentacles into numerous climate regions of the planet and brainwashes the minds of the most frightened, least educated, poorest people, the ones who are most vulnerable, promising them paradise and scaring them into submission with the threat of hell, making them all the “slaves of Allah”.  Its tyranny must end.  But other than that, Islam is peace.</p>
<p>At least, that is what we are told by our Petroleum-compromised past President, our Islamist appeasing current Commander and Chief, Mullahs, Muftis, clerics and Imams around the world and the Council on American Islamic Relations.</p>
<p>So, if Islam is peace, then why did an Islamic cleric place a Fatwa on Salman Rushdie to be assassinated after the publication of the award-winning novel, “The Satanic Verses”?  Why did the Danish Cartoonist, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Westergaard#2010_attack"><strong>Kurt Westergaard wake up to a Somali Muslim, armed</strong></a> with an axe and a knife, who had broken into his home to murder him for drawing “the prophet” Muhammad?  Why is it that the filmmaker of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submission_(2004_film)"><strong>the 11 minute film “Submission”</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)"><strong>Theo van Gogh</strong></a>, was shot several times in broad daylight, and then had a sword rammed into his heart with a note to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali"><strong>his co-filmmaker</strong></a> (causing her to go into hiding), denouncing the “mocking of the prophet”?</p>
<p>What do these artists and many others like them have in common?  They have used the arts to lampoon Muhammad.  So, given that Muhammad is the “highest moral example” to his followers, what would Mohammed have done?  According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%ABra"><strong>Islamic scriptures</strong></a>, Mohammed did find out about some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_%27Afak#Ibn_Sa.27d.27s_account"><strong>poets who were lampooning him</strong></a> and he had all of them murdered for it.  Those who seek the death of artists who lampoon Muhammad are simply being devout Muslims, by following the numerous commands which state that Muhammad is the highest moral example in Islam.  The word Islam literally means “submission” and those violent deranged individuals who carry out violence in the name of Allah (Jihad) are merely submitting to Islam.  Islam is a mental illness, it’s contagious and its only remedy is truth.</p>
<p>As I mentioned earlier, I was recently accused of being the filmmaker behind the hit YouTube Islamo-Comedy “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmodVun16Q4"><strong>The Innocence of Muslims.</strong></a>” I haven’t seen a movie this bad since, “He’s Just Not that Into You.”  However, <strong>I did not make “The Innocence of Muslims”.  I had nothing to do with the making of “The Innocence of Muslims”.  I am not the filmmaker</strong>.  Here, I’ll print it in Arabic:</p>
<p align="right"><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>جعل</strong><strong> </strong><strong>فيلم</strong><strong> &#8220;</strong><strong>براءة</strong><strong> </strong><strong>المسلمين</strong><strong>&#8220;. </strong><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>يكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لدي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>علاقة</strong><strong> </strong><strong>مع</strong><strong> </strong><strong>هذا</strong><strong> </strong><strong>الفيلم</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>يكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لدي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>اتصال</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لهذا</strong><strong> </strong><strong>الفيلم</strong><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately, an estimated 2/3 of Musims cannot read.  And as for those who can, so far 3 Pakistani newspapers name me as “the filmmaker” (<a href="http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/18/sikh-body-condemns-anti-islam-film-51.asp"><strong>here</strong></a> and <a href="http://kashmirmonitor.org/09182012-ND-sikhs-condemn-blasphemous-film-33818.aspx"><strong>here</strong></a> and <a href="http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/13909/enemies-of-pakistan-now-on-facebook/"><strong>here</strong></a>).</p>
<p>And now a Pakistani government official <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/22/Pakistan-minister-offers-bounty-for-anti-Islam-film-maker" target="_self"><strong>put a bounty on the head of “the filmmaker</strong></a>” without naming anyone in particular.  Soon after, a <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/437494/anti-islam-film-amid-protests-rs10-million-bounty-offered-for-filmmaker/"><strong>Pakistani Islamic cleric put a bounty of “10 million Rupees</strong></a>” (where have I heard that before?) on “the filmmaker” without naming anyone by name.   It’s as if this were to insure that there be no future filmmakers who create YouTube videos which “mock the prophet”.</p>
<p>Someone <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>purposefully planted the false story that I made the film</strong></a>, even though the real filmmaker has clearly been identified.  Again, if I ever do make a film which “mocks the prophet” I will stand behind it.  Whoever is behind this plot, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>planting this story</strong></a> and trying to fan the flames to get me assassinated, is trying to exact revenge, to silence me.  Given the number of Islamists I have exposed, for their terrorist ties, in my articles online, figuring out “who done it” is like something right out of an Agatha Christie novel, if Agatha Christie was wearing a burka and the property of some Muslim man.  So why is that?  Have I hit a nerve?  Who would have the resources, the connections and the drive to keep this false rumor alive?</p>
<p>Whoever is behind this plot to silence or kill me, it doesn’t matter.  Because I will not be silenced.  I will not submit – and neither should you.  I will continue to share information which exposes Muhammad for the vile, disgusting, pedophile, rapist, homicidal sadistic maniac, blood thirsty tyrant, hiding a desperately fragile ego – and so should you.</p>
<p>Islam’s dirty little secret regarding the truth about Muhammad must be exposed consistently.  Now is not the time to recoil, dazed in a state of shock, paralyzed with fear, just because you see savages rioting on your TV screen.  I speak to the FBI several times a day, from the confines of a safe house, where I have been advised not to walk next to any windows.  And I am not afraid.  And neither should you be afraid.  For Islam is just a scared little man &#8211; a scared little man whom we can and must defeat.</p>
<p>This is our time.  The time is now.  The time has come.  Islam is making a major move, a power grab – not as a sign of confidence, but because in fact Islam is a dying idea, desperately clawing at anything to survive.  But it cannot.  Islam cannot survive the information age.  Islam cannot stand up to critical thought, to reason, to factual analysis, to being outnumbered by rational sane and civilized people willing to speak up.  If you are suffering from the delusion that you are a Muslim, seek psychiatric attention from a trained professional immediately.  But if you are a lover of liberty than now is the time – now more than ever – this is your time and my time and our time to stand up and say ENOUGH.  Truth is the enemy of Islamic brutality.  Spread it.  Spread it like Napalm.</p>
<p>Peace,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell" target="_blank"><strong>Eric Allen Bell</strong></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>&#8216;Hasa Diga Eebowai&#8221; is the hit number in Broadway&#8217;s hit musical &#8220;The Book of Mormon,&#8221; which won nine Tony awards last year. What does the phrase mean? I can&#8217;t tell you, because it&#8217;s unprintable in a family newspaper.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you can afford to shell out several hundred bucks for a seat, then you can watch a Mormon missionary get his holy book stuffed—well, I can&#8217;t tell you about that, either. Let&#8217;s just say it has New York City audiences roaring with laughter.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Book of Mormon&#8221;—a performance of which Hillary Clinton attended last year, without registering a complaint—comes to mind as the administration falls over itself denouncing &#8220;Innocence of Muslims.&#8221; This is a film that may or may not exist; whose makers are likely not who they say they are; whose actors claim to have known neither the plot nor purpose of the film; and which has never been seen by any member of the public except as a video clip on the Internet.</p>
<p>No matter. The film, the administration says, is &#8220;hateful and offensive&#8221; (Susan Rice), &#8220;reprehensible and disgusting&#8221; (Jay Carney) and, in a twist, &#8220;disgusting and reprehensible&#8221; (Hillary Clinton). Mr. Carney, the White House spokesman, also lays sole blame on the film for inciting the riots that have swept the Muslim world and claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff in Libya.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444450004578002010241044712.html">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Hezbollah Threatens America over Mo Movie Release</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The world must realize that our rage will not subside.... They need to realize that on behalf of Mohammed, we will spill our blood."]]></description>
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<p>No one had been paying attention to Nasrallah lately, and with all the Sunni terrorist groups clotting up the headlines, the leader of the biggest Shiite terrorist group in the world had to do his part <a href="http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/two-die-in-pakistan-as-film-violence-spreads/story-fnd12peo-1226476153201">to remind the world of why </a>he needs a visit from a friendly flying drone.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;O Prophet, we die for you, my soul and my blood are for you,&#8221; he said, urging the crowd to repeat the words after him for the whole world to hear.</p>
<p>Nasrallah, whose Lebanese movement is blacklisted in the United States as a terrorist group, has called for a week of protests across the country over the film, describing it as the &#8220;worst attack ever on Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hezbollah supporters wave flags and shout slogans during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide.</p>
<p>&#8220;America must understand&#8230; the US must understand that releasing the entire film will have dangerous, very dangerous, repercussions around the world,&#8221; he told yesterday&#8217;s rally.</p></blockquote>
<p>We probably shouldn&#8217;t worry though, because according to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/the-bds-nazis-are-back-in-berlin/">prominent academic and bigot, Judith Butler</a>, Hezbollah is actually a progressive member of the left, whose threats of dangerous, very dangerous repercussions, don&#8217;t involve bombs, but some slamming small poetry.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-prophet-s-defender.premium-1.466085">But wait</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The world must realize that our rage will not subside. This is just the start of a wave of global protest sponsored by all the Muslim peoples. The aim will be to defend the Prophet Mohammed&#8217;s name,&#8221; Nasrallah told the masses, who marched through Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut.</p>
<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t understand,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;that the way they depicted the Prophet would insult us. They need to realize that on behalf of Mohammed, we will spill our blood.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, that&#8217;s definitely very progressive.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Muslim Apology Tour Heads to Pakistan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aim of the campaign is to convince the Muslim world that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton hate the Innocence of Muslims film as much as they do. To do that Obama will have to pose with a burning American flag while Hillary Clinton climbs over an embassy wall with a dagger between her teeth.]]></description>
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<p>The aim of the campaign is<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/state-department-spending-70000-on-pakistan-ads-denouncing-muhammad-video.html"> to convince the Muslim world that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton hate the Innocence of Muslims film </a>as much as Muslims do. But good luck selling that one until Obama poses with a burning American flag and Hillary Clinton climbs over an embassy wall with a dagger between her teeth.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s only real diplomacy mode is to apologize on behalf of America and mirror the responses of his Muslim audience. That&#8217;s an annoying tactic when it&#8217;s practiced by customer service representatives, but it&#8217;s positively degrading for the leader of a great power to act like the customer service rep for AT&amp;T. &#8220;Yes, I understand that you&#8217;re upset by the Innocence of Muslims. Let me say that we are equally upset by this movie and we apologize for your poor experience trying to murder our people in Yemen and Tunisia.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The American Embassy in Islamabad, in a bid to tamp down public rage over the anti-Islam film produced in the U.S., is spending $70,000 to air an ad on Pakistani television that features President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton denouncing the video.</p>
<p>The State Department said Thursday the embassy had compiled brief clips of Obama and Clinton rejecting the contents of the movie and extolling American tolerance for all religions into a 30-second public service announcement that is running on seven Pakistani networks. Obama and Clinton&#8217;s comments, which are from previous public events in Washington, are in English but subtitled in Urdu, the main Pakistani language.</p>
<p>Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the aim was to get the messages to the widest possible audience in Pakistan, where tens of thousands of protestors angry about the film tried to reach the U.S. embassy before being turned back by Pakistani police. She said embassy staffers had decided the ads were the best way to spread the word. The seven networks have a potential audience of 90 million people, she added.</p></blockquote>
<p>The video is once again another demonstration of how American liberals just do not understand the Muslim world.</p>
<p>1. From the American diplomatic perspective the video explains everything. From the Muslim perspective, it fails to explain why the filmmaker isn&#8217;t in jail and facing blasphemy charges. The ad fails because it also fails to explain free speech to Muslims. Instead of explaining American values, it apologizes for them and fails at that too.</p>
<p>2. Airing a loud denial of involvement with manufacturing the video looks like a cover-up to Muslims. Dedicating the bulk of the video to such a denial looks like an admission of guilt.</p>
<p>3. The video makes it look like Obama and Clinton are broadcasting an apology to Pakistan. Such a show of weakness will only lead to more terrorist attacks as the protesters, rather than being pacified, will go on demanding the death penalty for everyone involved with, &#8220;The Innocence of Muslims.&#8221;</p>
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