An anti-Islamic video recently posted to YouTube has sparked widespread outcry, protests and even fatal violence in the Greater Middle East this week.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed along with three staff members in an attack against the U.S. Consolate in Benghazi.
The video in question is a nearly 14-minute-long trailer (below) for a film produced by Sam Bacile which critiques the life of the Prophet Mohammad.
Bacile, according to the Wall Street Journal, is an Israeli-American real estate developer living in California; he made the film to condemn Islam.
He has been quoted as saying “Islam is a cancer” and has gone into hiding following Tuesday’s protests for obvious reasons, according to Mashable.
Protests also occurred in Cairo, Egypt, where protestors scaled the U.S. embassy walls and replaced the U.S. flag with a flag depicting the Islamic faith.
In Afghanistan, the government blocked YouTube for a period of time in an apparent attempt to prevent outrage and violent protests from spreading.
Bacile uploaded the trailer two months ago, but it only went viral yesterday.
Jones, a Florida pastor, called the Bacile film an “American production, not designed to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam.”
Jones also declared Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, to be “International Judge Mohammad Day.”
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