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Innocence of Muslims [1] [2] is a 2012 anti-Islamic short film that was written and produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. [3] [4] Two versions of the 14-minute video were uploaded to YouTube in July 2012, under the titles "The Real Life of Muhammad" and "Muhammad Movie Trailer". [5] Videos dubbed in Arabic were uploaded during early September ...
The release of the anti-Islamic short film Innocence of Muslims triggered numerous demonstrations across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. [20] On September 11, 2012, dozens of protestors scaled the walls and entered the courtyard of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
According to the NY Times, the video is "then copied and viewed tens of thousands of times more" between September 4 and September 11. [7] Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian, contacts Cairo reporter Gamel Girgis from the newspaper Youm Al Sabaa , and emails him a link to the video. Says Girgis, "He told me he produced a movie last ...
After protests against Innocence of Muslims began on 11 September 2012, [35] a man who identified himself as "Sam Bacile", the YouTube poster of the videos, called the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal. [6] He claimed he had produced a movie titled Innocence of Muslims, which was being promoted on YouTube. He falsely claimed the ...
Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed is taking a stand against Muslim misrepresentation on screen.On June 10, the actor announced the launch of a brand-new...
Garcia v. Google, Inc., 786 F.3d 733 (9th Cir. 2015), is an ongoing dispute that arose when Cindy Lee Garcia sued Google and its video-sharing website, YouTube, to have the controversial film, Innocence of Muslims, taken down from the site.
Riz Ahmed still shakes his head at the way Muslims are portrayed onscreen. "The game right now is messed up. The game right now is rigged," Ahmed said in a new interview with news outlet Muslim .
On September 14, 2012, the U.S. consulate in Chennai, India, was attacked in response to a YouTube trailer for Innocence of Muslims as Muslim protesters threw stones and footwear at the building. This event was part of a series of attacks that carried on from September 11, 2012, through September 29, 2014, throughout worldwide Muslim communities.