Every time something horrendous happens that nudges the American right toward deep indignation and threats of war -- like 9/11, one of the responses is usually this: the M----d was responsible for the whole damn thing. They organized it, they made sure it happened.
Even on 9/12/12, there are some suspicions that the awful (or so it's said by those who have seen clips) film that touched off the deaths in Benghazi and now the anti-American protests in Cairo and Sanaa -- that anti-Muslim film -- was financed by the M----d.
So here we go again. Incident. Violence. Search for causes. The Mossad. War. ...etc.
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A report on CNN's website has the following about a real estate investor in New York, smoked out by the Wall Street Journal, who apparently funded the film.
The Journal reported that, in its telephone interview with Bacile, he characterized his film as "a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam.""Islam is a cancer," he told the newspaper. "The movie is a political movie. It's not a religious movie."
CNN has not been able to contact Bacile and cannot verify that he made the movie. A CNN search of public records on Sam Bacile came up empty. ...CNN
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Sheesh! I feel as though I'm just waking up to this story. The joke about Mossad may not be a joke. Here's a report from the UK's Independent:
An interviewer from the Associated Press described him as a 56-year-old Israeli real-estate developer based in California. But there appears to be no record of his involvement in the region’s property market. Another, from the Wall Street Journal put his age at 52. The Times of Israel dubbed him a Jewish US citizen who is “familiar” with the Middle East.
Whatever Bacile’s provenance, it seems inconceivable that a two-hour film that appears so low-budget can have cost $5m, as he currently alleges. And did 100 Jewish donors really finance this eccentric project? He has yet to provide supporting evidence.
One thing that cannot be doubted about the mysterious Sam Bacile – if that’s his real name - is that he’s not apologetic. Asked if he’d learned anything from the affair, he told a reporter: “I feel the security system (at embassies) is no good. America should do something to change it.” ...Independent
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Can't get this feather off my sticky fingers. More on Mr. Bacile, the apparently fake person who stirred things up from North Africa right across to the Middle East. Jeffrey Goldberg plays with the last factoids.
Sam Bacile is apparently Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Coptic Christian in California, for what that's worth. Goldberg, a staunch supporter of Israel at The Atlantic, opines:
... If this is true, then a group of Christians, or at least one Christian, eager to slander Muslims have endangered Jews. How so? The story that "Sam Bacile" is an Israeli Jew, with "100 Jewish donors," has spread across the Middle East. It is not possible to withdraw such a story. The onus for violence is on the people who commit violence, of course. But if true, this fiction that the anti-Muhammad movie was a Jewish production is cowardly and despicable. Alas, "Sam Bacile" could not have spread the apparent fiction that Jews were behind this film without the help of the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal, which both reported, without independently checking, "Sam Bacile"s claim to be Israeli. ...The Atlantic
I started this whole post believing that some jerk out there wanted to stir up big trouble in the ongoing yammering and accusations thrown back and forth between Americans + Israel and Islam. The villains in the end are the warmongers on all sides, be they the Republican Guard in Iran or the Republican Guard in the US or the Likkud or an extremist Muslim sect. War makes people money. War gives select groups power. Sometimes all it takes is someone willing to fly a plane into a building or someone willing to make a really offensive movie.
A cui's particular bono this time?
