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This is probably a longer post than most we see on Facebook, but for the sake of civility and truth, I ask that you read it if you have enough time. The issue of the Embassy assassination, the offensive film and protests is far too important for me to continue ignoring the media lies and distortions.

Shocking and offensive pictures aside, I would like to take a moment and Address the issue of the US embassy bombing and outrage around North Africa and the Middle east in a more objective manner. Most people [in the USA] seem to believe that this is just some "Barbaric Muslim bloodcraze". This is really absolutely and utterly degrading. No matter how technologically backwards or dogmatic they are, the followers of Islam are our fellow human beings and share this pale blue dot with us.

Let me begin by quickly summarizing the nature of the film "Innocence of Muslims". The Film was directed by one "Sam Bacile ", I use quotes because this of course is not his true identity. Sam Bacile identifies as an Israeli Jew, but this is a farce. The man's true name is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Coptic Christian, NOT an Israeli Jew.

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According to the Associated press:
"Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced "Innocence of Muslims," which mocked Muslims and the prophet Muhammad and may have caused inflamed mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya. He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film.

Nakoula denied he directed the film and said he knew the self-described filmmaker, Sam Bacile. But the cellphone number that AP contacted Tuesday to reach the filmmaker who identified himself as Sam Bacile traced to the same address near Los Angeles where AP found Nakoula. Federal court papers said Nakoula's aliases included Nicola Bacily, Erwin Salameh and others...

Nakoula denied he had posed as Bacile. During a conversation outside his home, he offered his driver's license to show his identity but kept his thumb over his middle name, Basseley. Records checks by the AP subsequently found it and other connections to the Bacile persona."
- http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... 58237f046f
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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. This is EXACTLY the reaction that Basseley wanted. He has in the past also been found to produce a variety of other xenophobic and anti-islamic propaganda, and during the making of this film even the actors did not know what the film was about as they were misled and filmed many scenes which were never included.

The entire story of the creation of this film was /designed/ to provoke anger and outrage. But to what end? Why would this man think that he could accomplish anything with a D-rated piece of shit film?

Let's step back and evaluate the facts .

Since the 1980s, when the US funded Islamic freedom fighters in the middle east to resist Soviet influence, the US has consistently kept its creeping tentacles in the so-called "Muslim world" of the middle east and northern Africa. Hundreds of covert operations, financing of different opposing terrorist cells and the governments of those countries, bribery in weapons and food to prop up dictators and leaders who catered to the interests of American foreign policy, etc. This has been very apparent and is no secret, Even Al Qaeda [which is admittedly a very small group] was propped up by us in its infancy out of fear of communism.

following the Events of September 11th, 2001, eleven years ago, America Invaded Iraq, Then Afghanistan in a supposed "War on Terror". During this war on terror, estimates place between 150,000 and 200,000 civilian casualties -- that is, people who were not terrorists or attacking soldiers. It is now the situation that in regions of active combat in Afghanistan, almost everybody has lost friends and family to American bombs and bullets. These people, in turn, join groups to fight America. Not to take the fight to us for 72 virgins and martyrdom, but to repel the American invaders and defend their families and their towns and villages from a hostile occupying force [America].

Beyond Political interference in nations in the Muslim world, we also have another distinguishing impact. The state of Israel, which only exists because of the influence of the USA, and is for practical considerations an American proxy state. Since its inception, the UN has come to a consensus over 50 times to reprimand, punish, and sanction Israel for their actions, and many times moved to recognize Palestine. Every single time, America has used its security council veto power to override the will of the other nations and shield Israel from the fallout of their foreign policy, which includes occupation of Palestinian territories and the murder of the current occupants.

Why do I go into this brief history lesson? Because it is relevant and important. Anybody who genuinely believes that the outrage against the Us in the last days is solely due to an obscene, overrated pathetic excuse of a film is absolutely mad. The film was a trigger, it was the detonator that allowed an immediate justification to express the Anger and frustration with America that has been building in so many of these countries. People have been angry for a long time, but this gives the excuse. This gives the justification, and while there are many honest, sincerely peaceful Muslims in these countries, the notion that the violent Muslims are an insignificant tiny percentage of the population is a fiction today, and it is as much the fault of America as it is the locals'. [For actual statistics, please see: http://pastebin.com/HiPKF68s ]; not because modern Muslims are inherently violent by their religion, but because we have been systematically meddling in their affairs, defending those who kill their kin, and killing their kin for over a decade with impunity.

The film wasn't just offensive, it wasn't even just designed to offend. I do not think it is any coincidence that this film released so close to September 11th, nor do I feel that it was an unplanned burst of outrage that killed the American Ambassador in Libya. The attackers had RPGs, Armoured vehicles, machine guns, explosives, and a plan. This was something that was in planning for quite some time before. It was quick, it was well executed, and it was effective. There was also internal collaboration within the embassy, because the safehouse for those who made it out of the Embassy was also attacked hours later.

I propose this: That Bassely released this film near 9/11 intentionally, knowing that when it provoked outrage in the Muslim world, that Americans would still have fresh in their minds the memory of the September 11th attacks when violence broke out. I propose, that the embassy attacks were planned long in advance of the film's release, and that it was an executed assassination using the film as justification to mask the attack as a popular uprising.

I propose that both of these entities, independently, sought to create an environment of conflict between the Western world and Islam, and intentionally misled both spheres of civilization with misinformation. These are not barbaric bloodthirsty Muslims on the streets, these are people who see in the film a Jewish attack on Islam Defended by America, who has so long been interfering in their affairs and in their eyes, oppressing them. The Embassy killing was just the perfect topping, a strong insult to America which could provoke emotional outrage in the highly sensitive and proud Americans, the kind of outrage that would demand their leader send Warships near Libya, an act which would heighten tensions even more, in turn provoking more outrage.

Dear Muslims and Americans alike, you are both being manipulated, by Nakoula Basseley, By the American and local Arabic Media, and by insurgent groups in Muslim countries who want to see your countries at War with or in open defiance of America so that they can seize power. America, while I cannot condone its actions, nor will I try to, is a very powerful military power. A war against America is folly which will only serve to hurt whoever america fights in terms of bodies, and further expand the scope of America's interventionist foreign policy and deepen the International economic problems of the world. If you are a Muslim who believes Islam is the religion of peace, or an American who does not want to be responsible for further bloodshed and needless war, I ask that you help your peers, In America, North Africa, and the middle east to understand this. Please tell them what is really happening, dispel the lies and misinformation they have been fed. There is no need to be in conflict, and we ought not be moved so easily toward violence against each other. War is the most terrible game of all that men have invented, a game where the only winning move is not to play.

War is the most terrible game of all that men have invented, a game where the only winning move is not to play.

Rick Astley pra cima deles