"The Innocence of Muslims"

[buttslinger]

Do you live in Syria now, Bashr? Have you ever lived in the West?

[bishr]

i live in syria now and i lived abroad for years but not in the west.

[notdrunk]

the video was like pouring acid in the eyes of every muslim that watched it regardless of his/her level of religious commitment or eduction or social class.

For centuries, people have shitted on other people's beliefs. It is old news.

Some Muslims (i.e, the violent protesting ones) need to realized that the video was edited to elicit a negative response. The clip is from a movie that wasn't about Mohammed but called Desert Warriors. The people financing the movie and the producer duped the cast and the director into thinking it was a Middle Eastern adventure. The movie was completed as Desert Warriors. The movie was re-dubbed into an anti-Muslim movie by a handful of people with an evil agenda.

http://www.mooncasting.com/us/castin...r-los-angeles/

Gawker.com really broke the story about the Desert Warriors connection.

[natina]

Iran: We Will Hunt Down Video Makers

Producer goes into hiding; actress posts 'scared' letter


A quasi-official religious foundation in Iran said this weekend it was boosting the bounty on author Salman Rushdie's head from $2.8 million to $3.3 million, the AP reports.

http://www.newser.com/story/154207/i..._medium=united

[natina]

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[onmyknees]

Obama Is Fighting Islamic Extremism By Building Mosques

September 16, 2012 | Filed under Arab Spring,Barack Obama,War On Terror | Posted by Doug Johnson

WASHINGTON, D.C — A Channel 2 Action News investigation found that the State Department is sending millions of dollars to save mosques overseas. This investment has received criticism as the United States makes an effort to slash nearly $4 trillion in government spending.Plenty of outrage following the announcement made Thursday afternoon by a government commission that suggested huge cuts to the budget, including eliminating the interest education for home mortgage. This juxtaposed with United States investing millions to refurbish mosques as a good-will effort in Muslim countries has upset many taxpayer groups.
The Channel 2 Action News investigation found a 1,300-year-old Egyptian mosque that was almost flooded by contaminated sewer water that is one of many ancient Cairo mosques and churches that were saved from destruction by the U.S. taxpayers.
This is part of a $770 million program to rebuild Cairo’s sewer system, paid for by the U.S. State Department’s USAID program.
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Millions more dollars have been sent to places like Cyprus. The State Department displays before and after pictures of mosques refurbished with U.S. tax dollars

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So maybe you knew this was happening; maybe you didn’t. I think we can all agree that it’s not particularly surprising. What is interesting is that someone at Hillary Clinton’s State Department actually detailed part of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy. It’s buried deeper in the article…

The State Department declined a Channel 2 Action News request for an interview. We wanted to ask why are we using tax dollars to refurbish religious buildings overseas. The State Department did send Channel Two Action News an e-mail saying that they are fighting Islamic extremism by building relationships with Islamic leaders


More Mid East policy Paying huge dividens

[Lovecox]

It's difficult to explain the concept of free speech to people who condone flogging a woman for wearing pants in public.

[Prospero]

[B]

More Mid East policy Paying huge dividens[/INDENT]

In the wake of a policy initiated by George Bush to bomb Muslims into submission. I wonder which is more likely to create a positive image of the US globally?

Oh and your friends such as Pastor Jones and his ilk - plus those who firebombed Mosque in the US - are better ambassadors for the US, than USAid? Hmmmmmmm

[Queens Guy]

To equate producing an insulting video with murdering US State Department personnel is beyond insane. This perverse notion of an eye for an eye will only add to anti-Muslim attitudes in America

'An eye for an eye' would be a welcome change from the Muslim world.

Some Coptic Christian makes a youtube video that insults Muslims, then the Muslims should make a youtube video that insults Jesus Christ.

This was 4 lives for an insult. Far worse than 'an eye for an eye'.

[buttslinger]

Let's check the numbers: Worldwide

1.Christianity: 2.1 billion
2.Islam: 1.5 billion
3.Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
4.Hinduism: 900 million
5.Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
6.Buddhism: 376 million
7.primal-indigenous: 300 million
8.African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
9.Sikhism: 23 million
10.Juche: 19 million
11.Spiritism: 15 million
12.Judaism: 14 million