You should be renamed IMbecile.
If you think being provocative is so revelatory, so helpful, then stand in front of your magnum opus.
Stand up and be counted, be seen, be known.
You are a coward who thinks it is a bright idea to get other people killed.
You are a coward who then blames the victim for what you did, for what you initiated, for the violence for which you are the catalyst of hatred.
Would you be so blase if it were Israelis who were killed, I wonder? Are you that big on identity politics that it is acceptable to you when others die, but not those with whom you identify.
Here's a revelation for you IMBECILE. It would have been as wrong and as offensive for Jews to be portrayed as you have portrayed Muslims, and you should be well aware that in the past JEWS HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED LIKE THIS, using the same damned pretext of showing what a cancer Judaism is, or variously Zionism.
Did you learn NOTHING from history? Apparently not, which is why I'm rechristening you Imbecile rather than Bacile. Here is a reminder of what inaccurately and derogatorily portraying another religion, especially fear mongering hatred for it, looked like when it was Jews who were targeted. Then ask yourself if you want to do that to other people, after looking at the images. If the answer is no, then the answer is no to promoting Islamophobia too.
Here's a helpful baker's dozen, reminding Bacile of all the U.S. 'Jews hate Jesus' bad old days, as well as many of the false notions about Jews that were circulated world wide that resemble the claims made about Muslims in this little film failure of yours IMBECILE. Just remember that jackasses like Terry Jones could as easily turn on you, claiming Jews hate Jesus as directing his hatred towards Islam.
We don't allow this kind of hate speech in this country anymore. We wouldn't allow this movie to be circulated to enrage people against Jews in this country, if the people portrayed in this film were Jews instead of Muslims. We wouldn't allow it if the people were black either, or Roman Catholic -- all groups that have been the targets of hateful suspicion and lies. So it is wrong for an Israeli to do this evil thing, and we should not protect it too far under the guise of freedom of speech.
But most of all we should not let some pissant real estate guy and his foolish, hateful friends do ANYTHING to manipulate us into acting contrary to our long range goals in our relationships with other countries. Rather we should consider his actions un-American in so far as they are inconsistent with American respect for freedom of relgion and freedom from hate speech. American Muslims should not be subjected to this kind of garbage, which directly affects THEIR freedom of religion, in so far as it gins up hatred and fear of them. We have already seen attempts to prevent Muslims, and in more than one case Sikhs, from free practice of their religion in safety. This is a significant part of what promotes that fear and hatred that makes it unsafe for them to be who they are and to worship freely. It is an assault on American civil rights, and it makes dual American Israeli citizens less safe as well.
From Haaretz and the AP:
Israeli filmmaker in hiding after anti-Islam movie sparks deadly Libya, Egypt protests
An Israeli filmmaker went into hiding on Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's Prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by Muslims on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and in Libya, where one American was killed.
If you think being provocative is so revelatory, so helpful, then stand in front of your magnum opus.
Stand up and be counted, be seen, be known.
You are a coward who thinks it is a bright idea to get other people killed.
You are a coward who then blames the victim for what you did, for what you initiated, for the violence for which you are the catalyst of hatred.
Would you be so blase if it were Israelis who were killed, I wonder? Are you that big on identity politics that it is acceptable to you when others die, but not those with whom you identify.
Here's a revelation for you IMBECILE. It would have been as wrong and as offensive for Jews to be portrayed as you have portrayed Muslims, and you should be well aware that in the past JEWS HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED LIKE THIS, using the same damned pretext of showing what a cancer Judaism is, or variously Zionism.
Did you learn NOTHING from history? Apparently not, which is why I'm rechristening you Imbecile rather than Bacile. Here is a reminder of what inaccurately and derogatorily portraying another religion, especially fear mongering hatred for it, looked like when it was Jews who were targeted. Then ask yourself if you want to do that to other people, after looking at the images. If the answer is no, then the answer is no to promoting Islamophobia too.
Here's a helpful baker's dozen, reminding Bacile of all the U.S. 'Jews hate Jesus' bad old days, as well as many of the false notions about Jews that were circulated world wide that resemble the claims made about Muslims in this little film failure of yours IMBECILE. Just remember that jackasses like Terry Jones could as easily turn on you, claiming Jews hate Jesus as directing his hatred towards Islam.
We don't allow this kind of hate speech in this country anymore. We wouldn't allow this movie to be circulated to enrage people against Jews in this country, if the people portrayed in this film were Jews instead of Muslims. We wouldn't allow it if the people were black either, or Roman Catholic -- all groups that have been the targets of hateful suspicion and lies. So it is wrong for an Israeli to do this evil thing, and we should not protect it too far under the guise of freedom of speech.
But most of all we should not let some pissant real estate guy and his foolish, hateful friends do ANYTHING to manipulate us into acting contrary to our long range goals in our relationships with other countries. Rather we should consider his actions un-American in so far as they are inconsistent with American respect for freedom of relgion and freedom from hate speech. American Muslims should not be subjected to this kind of garbage, which directly affects THEIR freedom of religion, in so far as it gins up hatred and fear of them. We have already seen attempts to prevent Muslims, and in more than one case Sikhs, from free practice of their religion in safety. This is a significant part of what promotes that fear and hatred that makes it unsafe for them to be who they are and to worship freely. It is an assault on American civil rights, and it makes dual American Israeli citizens less safe as well.
From Haaretz and the AP:
Israeli filmmaker in hiding after anti-Islam movie sparks deadly Libya, Egypt protests
Film by Sam Bacile, who self-identifies as an Israeli Jew, led to protests at the U.S. consulate in Libya and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo; one American staffer killed in clashes.
The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States September 11, 2012. Photo by Reuters
An Israeli filmmaker went into hiding on Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's Prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by Muslims on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and in Libya, where one American was killed.
Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.
Protesters angered over Bacile's film opened fire on and burned down the U.S.consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing an American State Department officer on Tuesday. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.
Bacile, a California real estate developer in his fifties who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam's flaws to the world. "
"Islam is a cancer, period," he repeatedly said in a solemn, accented tone.
The two-hour movie, "Innocence of Muslims," cost $5 million to make and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors, said Bacile, who wrote and directed it.
The film claims Muhammad was a fraud. An English-language 13-minute trailer on YouTube shows an amateur cast performing a wooden dialogue of insults disguised as revelations about Muhammad, whose obedient followers are presented as a cadre of goons.
It depicts Muhammad as a feckless philanderer who approved of child sexual abuse, among other overtly insulting claims that have caused outrage.
Muslims find it offensive to depict Muhammad in any manner, let alone insult the prophet. A Danish newspaper's 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet triggered riots in many Muslim countries.
Though Bacile was apologetic about the American who was killed as a result of the outrage over his film, he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence.
"I feel the security system (at the embassies) is no good," said Bacile.
"America should do something to change it."
"America should do something to change it."
The film was dubbed into Egyptian Arabic by someone Bacile doesn't know, but he speaks enough Arabic to confirm that the translation is accurate. It was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera.
The full film has been shown once, to a mostly empty theater in Hollywood earlier this year, said Bacile.
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