Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and "The Innocence of Muslims" Movie

Mr Nakoula is responsible for making a crappy film. There is no law against making crappy films in the U.S., nor is there likely to be one anywhere soon. Nor does the United States have laws against insulting people, nor are likely to pass any anytime soon. The only people responsible for the violence committed by people upset by Mr. Nakoula's disgusting movie is the people being committing their violence. No one forced them to be violent, they chose to be violent and that is on them and them alone.

This movie (if you can call it a movie) is a filthy provocation which ,I'm afraid, might turn into serious problems.Mocking Christianity was an easy thing to do, but it won't be the same with Islam.It's a different mentality.

I am really sad for the four US citizens killed in violence in Libya and the situation may worsen as there are news of US retaliation. I just wish the film maker had looked at the consequences before making such a film

The purpose of that film is All political not just religious bigotry, or rater political agenda used religious bigotry for its purpose, the president Obama is not hostile towards Muslims, and he tries to build good connections with the Muslim world, some people want Muslim world to raise up arms, they funded and produced the film with the intention to make trouble knowing the Muslim reaction in advance, they will highlight the reaction of Muslims in the Media, this is to make a notion that another Bush (a republican) is the best choice for America now, which is certainly not true. I hope that All liberated Americans understand this, and support Obama for world peace. New details emerge of anti-Islam film's mystery producer: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/13/world/anti-islam-filmmaker/index.html

Hello friend, One of the problems that develops in a country with as many freedoms as we have, is the freedom of expression in any manner we so choose. However, in this case, it would be in my opinion an act of terrorism. That is exactly what it accomplished. I would not be surprised if Mr. Nakoula didn't become subject to some of the laws imposed since 9-11. He is directly responsible for the attacks on American citizens. When you knowingly create something to insult people who are fragile at the least, namely Muslims, with the current politics in the world, you know what you are doing and you should be the one suffering the consequences of your actions not innocent American citizens who may or may not have even known of the film's existence. Because we live in a country that allows such freedoms of expression and speech, the blame has been placed on all of us, not the maker of the film. It is awful the tragic consequences that has been bestowed on all of America in the eyes of the Muslim world because of one person's indiscretion. I do believe that Mr. Nakoula should be held responsible in some manner and the Muslim world should be made aware of our intolerance of such behavior. Unfortunately, I believe we, as a nation, have interfered with so many other countries and their beliefs and government that we have lost their respect and confidence in us. As a nation, we seem to believe we have the right to force our beliefs in freedom and democracy on other countries in the world, whether that country has a problem with the way they govern or not. Perhaps we should learn to mind our own business more and allow other countries to have their own way of life whether it agrees with ours or not, and we need to respect it. In the case of Mr. Nakoula, his freedom of expression, is unacceptable to many in the world and basically is viewed as a religious attack in the Muslim world. Sad that the repercussions of his film will be felt for many years to come in the diplomatic community. There are many things in this world that do not need to placed in the comic, sarcastic, dramatic or fantasy world of film regardless of the quality of the material they use. A film like his which totally misrepresents the sacred beliefs of a religion should never be aired in my opinion. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to talk to a young man in Saudi Arabia. His mother had formed an opinion of America based on the film "American Pie." That opinion was blocking him from coming to America and getting an education. His mother was an educated doctor and she felt that our colleges and life on campus was exactly as represented by that film. So, the visual world has influence on the opinions about life in America whether it is factual or not; just like Mr. Nakoula's film has inflamed the opinions of the Muslim community. I do not know if the young man ever was able to convince his mother that all life on campus was not like the film or not, but it definitely was not his opinion. Our film industry needs to look at what they present to the world and how what they are presenting may affect others, but because of our freedoms, I doubt that will ever happen. I think if we were to ask many people in other countries what they think of America in general, I think we would be surprised by the answer and many of those opinions have been developed by our film industry. People need to think about what they post in places like youtube before they post it. Many need to be deleted or removed from the public eye and for that, I feel youtube needs to be held responsible also. Is it called censorship, well, yes, but it is the responsibility of organizations to set guidelines about an acceptable submission. Just think, however, would the problem with bullying ever have been revealed without youtube or facebook? Thanks for the discussion!

I'm disgusted by this business! Everybody is blaming Nakoula or whoever made the movie and very few people are standing up for freedom of speech. I strongly believe that Islam is an inherently evil religion which promotes violence, religious intollerance (exspecially against Jews and Christians), sexim, homophobia and pedophilia and needs to be strongly opposed. Unfortunately it responds to even peaceful oposition with violence and lawfair (using questionable legal means to silence critics, e.g. filing a hate speech suit against somebody for saying, correctly, that the Koran is badly written). It's necessary to send a very strong message to Muslims that they have no right to censor Western media or to special protection that's not also given to other religions but this is exactly what is NOT happening. Instead everybody is acting as if criticizing Islam is inherently wrong. Nobody is paying much attention to what the movie really claims, which, as far as I can tell, is true or at least based on some evidence. I think part of the makers' motivation is to oppose persecution of Christians by Muslims in Egypt but this aspect is hardly mentioned. The world's non-Muslims need to have the rose tinted glasses torn off their faces so they can see how dreadful Islam is and that means that people need to be able to tell the truth about it. Telling the truth about Islam is pretty much the same as insulting it.

I agree that it's a disgrace for anyone to make a movie like this (I only know about it from hearsay), we need to put the blame where it belongs. Part of it belongs to the movie maker, but part of it belongs to the radicals who reacted so severely. There was no reason for that except that they wanted an excuse to terrorize. Other religions have endured far worse and have not murdered and rampaged as a result of it.

Hi bostonphil, I too am very saddened by the deaths of those four innocent Americans. It is sad that there are people in the world who have nothing better to do than stir up trouble and this movie was clearly made with that intention. Blessings.

Everything about the film just doe not sound RIGHT! 1. The Producer From Sam Bacile to Nakoula Basseley, no one actually know who is the real producer of this movie. Sam Bacile is just a pen name and as for Nakoula, he is a former criminal who looks like he is too good to be a Coptic christian. I don't believe a Coptic christian would give this movie such a good name. The title to me is sentimental to Islam. 2. Film Production It is mentioned that the finance for the film by Jew donors amounted to U$5 million. Then, how is it that the film could appear to be some cheap grade F flick where the dubbing could be tampered with and not even released to the cinemas but through the worldwide web? It is even more questionable when the casts were being LIED to that the film is about the history of Egypt. I say lied to because I am sure these actors and actresses would be educated enough to reject the offer had they know otherwise. So far all these do not seem to add up at all and since the film is being released on the web, how is it that Egypt got the first wind of the movie and not America? Unbelievable right?

send Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to Egypt.. He is trouble maker for all world not only for USA... He should apologize to the world because of his stupid action and especially he should apologize the impact of protest because of his stupid movies (the victim of the movies are 4 USA diplomatic)... nakoula basseley nakoula must be punished sooner..

I have not watched the movie but clearly the killings are terrible and sad. if indeed Basseley is not a jew then he has clearly made this to cause incitment and for that he needs to be thrown in jail. i feel the attack in libya may of been co-incidental as the date is too close to 911. Either way, Basseley and the killers in Libya need to be bought to justice.

The motives of making this film are clearly political. The subject matter and the timing of its release was designed to get a reaction. I do not understand why anyone would bother watching this kind of slop. I think it is wrong to insult someone else's religious belief in this manner. On the other hand I think it is even more wrong to start murdering people who had nothing to do with it as a response. There are people there who are stirring up trouble. I do not understand why some very poorly made movie by some unknown that isn't even released through the normal channels would be or any real interest or concern to anyone. I don't even understand why anyone would want the guy who made it executed. Let him live the shame of producing such a piece of trash.