"The Innocence of Muslims," ​​the film that ignited the powder

Actors in "costumes" grossly encrusted desert landscapes on replay, in a studio low end, the life of the Prophet Muhammad: the film lover bad bill, called Innocence of Muslims ("innocent Muslims") had everything, technically, to go to the dustbin of the history of cinema . And yet, in twenty-four hours, he toured the Web and ignited the Egypt and Libya , causing violence causing the death of the ambassador and three other members of the U.S. embassy in Libya . Far from stopping at the poor quality of the film, thousands of people in the Arab world have offended this firebrand anti- Islam . The trailer for 13 minutes in English on YouTube opens  on a scene where the Egyptian security forces remain stoic while Muslims looted and burned houses Egyptian Copts. The story then takes us to the time of Prophet Muhammad, where it appears to turn round like a bastard child, irresponsible womanizer, a homosexual, a pedophile and a thief thirsty and greedy. With the Egyptian Muslim followers of the strong New York accent, who are particularly amoral and violent against Copts. 

5 MILLION, THREE MONTHS OF SHOOTING

This pamphlet was produced and directed by an unknown who appeared in the American press as the identity of Bacile Sat , developer real estate Israeli-American 54 year old native of Southern California. A pseudonym as its consultant for the film, Steve Klein, and an identity that could have been built from scratch. After having given some telephone interviews Wednesday to the press, from an unknown location, the director has disappeared. He hides, said Steve Klein, as well as other members of his family in Egypt. The film, which lasts two full hours, was produced with $ 5 million raised from a hundred Jewish donors, Sam Bacile declined to identify. During three months in summer 2011, 59 players and a team of 45 people worked in California onInnocence of Muslims . But Sam Bacile showed greater ambitions: "I plan to do a series of 200 hours " on the subject. In a telephone interview with the Wall Street Journal , the director justifies his approach with a terse: "Islam is a cancer . " Sat Bacile said to have wanted to help Israel , his country of origin, showing the world the faults Islam. " This film is political . religious No , he defends himself yet. The main problem is that I am the first to put someone on the screen representing the Prophet Muhammad. It's crazy , s' Sat Bacile is forbidden. however we open the floodgates. After September 11, everyone should be judged, even Jesus, even Mohammed , he added. The United States has lost a lot of money and people their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , but we are struggling with ideas " , he told the Sacramento Bee.

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Sat Bacile he expect to receive much attention surrounding this film? The film was screened only once at the beginning of the year in a Hollywood movie, the United States, before a sparse audience, said the director. Until now, the trailer in English, available on YouTube since July, had not really buzz. This was without counting the support of American personalities known for their anti-Islam position as the controversial pastor Terry Jones . It has attracted much criticism in the past, especially for having burned a copy of the Koran and have resolutely opposed to the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York.On the occasion of the International Day of Judgment Muhammad , he organizes every September 11, the pastor announced that it would broadcast this clip from the film in his church in Gainesville, Florida. "It's an American production, which does not aim to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam " , said the pastor in a statement released by the Wall Street Journal . The film was also broadcast live on the website of the movement of the American pastor . The work of Sam Bacile has also received support from the United States of conservative members of the Coptic community, like Morris Sadek , head of a small group called " The National Assembly Coptic American " . This Egyptian Coptic itself well known in the United States for his anti-Islam, said he also promoted the film on its website and to some television channels. " The violence caused in Egypt is further proof of how religion and people are violent in Egypt, and proof that the film shows only facts " , it is bounded to comment after the events of 11 - September. According to Terry Jones and Morris Sadek, the movie shows that the repression effect Copts face in Egypt. 

A TRAIL OF ARABIC POWDER ON THE WEB

Ignored in the United States, the film has finally found its audience in the Arab world. Translated by anonymous Egyptian dialect, the Arabic version was circulated in recent days on the micro-blogging site Twitter and on news channels Arab and Egyptian particular. For several days, the media Egyptian aired excerpts of the film and invited representatives ultraconservative Muslims who have denounced it. Morris Sadek has been accused of being the instigator. In the excerpt below, the television channel Al-Mokhales receives Sheikh Abdullah Khaled - known for his vehement attacks against the Iran , such as "Iran is more dangerous to us than the Jews" - which presents the film as a Coptic-American conspiracy. While the controversy swelled in Egypt, the Coptic Church and the U.S. Embassy in Egypt has formally condemned the film, as reported by the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm , even before the outbreak of violence.These convictions were not enough to appease the Arab street. Violent protests erupted in Cairo in the evening, then in Benghazi, Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other members of the embassy were killed in the attack on the consulate. Although confused by this epilogue murderer, Sat Bacile least did not blame the lack of security of the U.S. embassy in Libya and the instigators of the violence. "I think the security system is not good" , he said to the Sacramento Bee . "America should do something to improve it. "  Steve Klein, a consultant for the film, however, provides that the director is upset.When he was made ​​aware of the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, "he collapsed" , he said. The director was aware of the risks he - him - to make this film, he said the Sacramento Bee. His consultant would have warned: "You will be the next Theo Van Gogh." the Dutch filmmaker was killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004 after having made ​​a film seen as insulting to Islam. "It was launched in this film knowing that it could happen," said Steve Klein. And certainly also in mind the violent protests had led in 2005 to the dissemination of the Mohammed cartoons in Denmark .