The Connection between 'Innocence of Muslims' Riot and Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda's new second in command Said Ali al-Shihri was killed on September 10th 2012 after a
drone strike in
Yemen, three months after their successful drone strike in North Waziristan killed their previous number 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi. The problem was
al-Shihri was sent to Saudi Arabia on November 9th, 2007 for repatriation into society after 6 years in Guantanamo; after a seemingly successful year he escaped and became a much more prominent member in Al Qaeda.
After his death
Al Qaeda conducted an attack on the US Embassy in Libya and killed four Americans, two of which were
SEALs (not from team 6) and one of which was the
Ambassador,
Christopher Stevens; the attacks were a planned and executed at the time when other Muslims were protesting in Afghanistan,Iraq,Yemen (4 killed),Palestine,Indonesia,India,Morocco,Tunisia (4 killed),Niger,Somalia,Egypt,Sudan and Australia against a film called '
The Innocence of Muslims'. Originally called 'Desert Warrior' and produced by
Alan Roberts, a man with softcore pornography as part of his portfolio of work, it was redubbed by
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a
Coptic Egyptian to insult Islam and Prophet Muhammed by labelling him as a violent adulterer,pedophile and homosexual with the Qu'ran being a mixture of nonsensical verses from the Torah and New Testament. Al Qaeda struck at the 'right' time. As well as this, Iran increased the bounty on Salman Rushdie's head from
$500,000 to $3.3 million (even though he and 'The Satanic Verses' were nothing to do with this) ,in a mall and Lebanese Muslims burnt down American food joints KFC;Hardee's and Krispy Kreme.
Actors in the
original cut of the film have considered
suing Nakoula while one of the actresss,
Cindy Lee Garcia, has been forced into hiding due to
death threats.
Indeed this movie should be banned for being hateful and Nakoula fined and imprisoned for starting riots resulting in at least eight dead, but those protesting should learn better than to blame an entire country for one man's actions, especially when that man's not even American.
The fifteen minutes of the movie are available on youtube.
A similar situation occured in 2010 when
Comedy Central censored two
South Park episodes for basing a story around showing Muhammed uncensored; they said Trey Parker and Matt Stone had indeed drew Muhammed in the two episodes but the censoring of his name in the second episode was intentional. Comedy Central censored the images for their own safety although an episode in 2001 was not censored.
