Thursday, September 13, 2012

American Coptic Christian filmmaker behind film used to cover Libya ambassador assasination


check this out from 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Innocence_of_Muslims

Real identity of filmmaker Sam Bacile - California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes

"The AP located Bacile after obtaining his cell phone number from Morris Sadek, a conservative Coptic Christian in the U.S. who had promoted the anti-Muslim film in recent days on his website."http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifWYKzUPaqJJsJ5aj-58K0JCL1Fg?docId=91c9d18979f24144ba8ea358237f046f Merrybrit (talk) 01:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2012/09/12/anti-islam-filmmaker-in-hiding-after-protests is a more reliable link for the same news article. —Cupco 02:09, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
  • More nitty gritty (company name, copy of the casting call) at [9]. Wnt (talk) 03:53, 13 September 2012 


Nakoula Basseley Nakoula

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (born c. 1957), also known as Mark Basseley Youssef, Yousseff M. Basseley,Nicola Bacily, Erwin Salameh, Ahmad Hamdy, and Malid Ahlawi, is an American Coptic Christianfilmmaker who serves as manager for the company that produced the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims.[1][2][3]

[edit]Life and career

Nakoula pleaded no contest in 2010 to federal bank fraud charges in California and was ordered to pay $794,701 in restitution. He was also sentenced to 21 months in federal prison. Following his release in June 2011,[4] he was ordered not to use computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer.[1]
Although Nakoula has denied being the film's pseudonymous director Sam Bacile of the controversialInnocence of Muslims film, the Associated Press reported that the cellphone number Bacile used for an interview matched Nakoula's address.[5][6][7]

[edit]References

  1. ^ a b Flaccus, Gillian (September 12, 2012).California man confirms role in anti-Islam film.Associated Press
  2. ^ Nissbaum, Dion; Oberman, James; Orden, Erica (September 12, 2012). Behind Video, a Web of Questions. Wall Street Journal
  3. ^ Smiley, Brett (September 13, 2012). Mystery Man Behind the Anti-Islam Film May Have Been Identified. New York
  4. ^ "Locate a Federal Inmate: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula". Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  5. ^ Carroll, Rory (September 12, 2012). Anti-islamic film search leads to coptic Christian in California.The Guardian
  6. ^ Peralta, Eyder (September 12, 2012). What We Know About 'Sam Bacile,' The Man Behind The Muhammad Movie. NPR
  7. ^ Gazzar, Brenda; Scauzillo, Steve (September 12, 2012). Movie that set off violence in Middle East produced by Duarte nonprofit. San Gabriel Valley Tribune

[edit]External links

Why not highlighting more data on the film makers?

I wonder why the names of the film makers have not been highlighted in red to start pages on them as
After putting internal inks to wikipedia i found that the fisrt 4 names already have pages. Please put them linked internaly to this page.--Ashashyou (talk) 06:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Sam Bacile is currently a redirect here so should not be linked in this article. Prior to that, it linked to Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, but the connection to the two remains unproven so that is inappropriate for BLP reasons. Nil Einne (talk) 07:09, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Nicola Bacily is currently a redirect to Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. This doesn't appear to be disputed or controversial so I won't change it but clearly a link to both of them in this article doesn't make sense as long as that remains the case. Nil Einne (talk) 07:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Steve Klein goes to a disambiguation page, the primary target being Steven Klein. It is not clear to me whether this photographer is the guy involved or not, in fact my impression is that it is unlikely that he is the guy involved with this film. Under the circumstances it should not be linked, as being associated with the film incorrectly could have consequences for the person concerned. -- Q Chris (talk) 09:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
What about the rest of the names? should not they be in red?? Also the original pages on wikipedia should not link to those name as long as they are debateable? I mean as long as the pages on the wikipedia have been approved even with redirects, then we can put them in the article. Or we can put the names in red according to the neutral point of view.--Ashashyou(talk) 12:42, 13 September 2012 (UTC)



‘It Makes Me Sick’: Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam

‘It Makes Me Sick’: Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam
The story of the Muhammed movie which sparked deadly protests in Libya gets weirder. The actors who appeared in it had no idea they were starring in anti-Islam propaganda which depicts Muhammed as a child molester and thug. They were deceived by the film's director, believing they were appearing in a film about the life of a generic Egyptian 2,000 years ago.
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress from Bakersfield, Calif., has a small role in the Muhammed movie as a woman whose young daughter is given to Muhammed to marry. But in a phone interview this afternoon, Garcia told us she had no idea she was participating in an offensive spoof on the life of Muhammed when she answered a casting call through an agency last summer and got the part.
[copyvio elided —Cupco 23:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)]
"I called Sam and said, 'Why did you do this?' and he said, 'I'm tired of radical Islamists killing each other. Let other actors know it's not their fault.'"
Garcia isn't satisfied simply knowing it wasn't her fault.
"I'm going to sue his butt off."
Update: The entire 80-member cast and crew of the film have released a statement saying they were misled. Via CNN:
The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer. We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose. We are shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.


Commentary (conservative jewish magazine)


Who is “Sam Bacile”?

| @alanagoodma

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/12/who-is-sam-bacile/

here’s basically no evidence that “Sam Bacile” even exists. The closest person who fits that description (at least electronically) is a self-proclaimed Egyptian “movie-maker” in California, who calls himself “Sam Bassel” on Facebook. Bassel has been registered on Facebook since 2010, and has posted regularly about the movies he supposedly produces, including the one that was used as a pretext for the Egyptian riots.
“Hello, I am a producer in a America and I live in Hollywood California,” he wrote in a July 15 post, well before the controversy erupted in Egypt. “I recently produced a movie that I believe to be one of the most historically important movie of our times. It is a 2 hour long movie about the entire life of the Prophet Muhammad from start to finish. Everything that is depicted in the movie is very true and well documented in all historical books that are found and taught in all Islamic countries.”
Bassel has posted about the film often over the past few months. According to one post, the movie took Bassel 12 years to complete and “blames America for the wars that occurred recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
UPDATE: The Facebook page belonging to “Sam Bassel” was apparently taken down a few hours after I posted this, but PolicyMic published some screenshots. Hold on, though, the story gets weirder. PolicyMic also flags an AP article that suggests Bacile/Bassel may actually be a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who claims to be a “manager” for the company that produced the film, as well as a Coptic Christian. Nakoula denied that he posed as Bacile, but the details dug up by the AP sure sound suspicious:


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