Top U.S. Military Officer Calls Pastor Terry Jones on film on Religion of Peace

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Top U.S. Military Officer Calls Pastor Over Film



(Reuters) - General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with Pastor Terry Jones by phone on Wednesday and asked him to withdraw his support for a film whose portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad has sparked violent protests - including one that ended with the death of America's envoy to Libya. "In the brief call, Gen. Dempsey expressed his concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause," Dempsey's spokesman, Colonel Dave Lapan, told Reuters. "He asked Mr. Jones to consider withdrawing his support for the film." U.S. military officials are concerned that the film could inflame tensions in Afghanistan, where 74,000 U.S. troops are fighting. The Taliban earlier on Wednesday called on Afghans to prepare for a fight against Americans and urged insurgents to "take revenge" on U.S. soldiers over the film.
 
(Reporting by Phil Stewart and David Adams)

[Soul Crusher]

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[Fury]

Why should he? Fuck these third-world simpletons.

By kowtowing to these scumbags you only affirm the notion that violence will get them what they want.

[Kazan]

Why give the dumbass pastor anymore press? freedom of speach isn't about stuff you like, it's about stuff you hate. And I'll be damned to Hell before I tolerate MY rights restricted because it upsets the middle east retards.

[Hugo Chavez]

He wasn't ordered to withdraw his support.  He was asked.  I don't see anything wrong with that.  It's not remotely close to the first time citizens and the media have been asked to watch what they say and do in wartime.

[a_ahmed]

So now there is a refutal that the producer aside from redneck pastor terry jones was an israeli american jew

Anti-Islam Film's Jewish Tie

Film's Creator Claims Israeli 'Producer' Doesn't Exist

Plot Thickens: Initial reports identified the maker of the anti-Islam film, ‘Innocence of Muslims’ as an Israeli living in California. That story is falling apart.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/162727/anti-islam-films-jewish-tie-crumbles/#ixzz26I8S5PSm

By Nathan Guttman

WASHINGTON — An alleged tie between Jews, Israelis, and a film that sparked violence in the Arab world by insulting the prophet Mohammed, has put Jewish activists on alert following the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans during riots against the film.
Jewish activists feared a widely reported role of Jews in funding and producing the film, which contains crude attacks on Islam, could stain the community as a whole as anti-Muslim.
But a frantic search for a person presenting himself as responsible for the film who said his name was “Sam Bacile” led to a dead end. Eventually, another man involved in making the movie admitted Bacile’s name was a pseudonym and said that the alleged producer of the film is not Israeli and is probably not Jewish.


The claim that Jewish money was behind the film also lost ground as the partner, California Christian anti-Muslim activist Steve Klein, stated the movie was a low-budget project which he himself described as a “bad fifth grade production.”
An actress who appears in the film said she was duped and never knew it was about Islam or the prophet Mohammed.
The movie, titled “The Innocence of Muslims,” was made a year ago and a 14-minute trailer was published online in July. It gained attention in the Muslim world after being translated to Arabic and uploaded to YouTube by Morris Sadek, head of the U.S.-based National Coptic Assembly, an anti-Muslim organization presenting itself as speaking on behalf of the Christian Coptic minority in Egypt. (In Egypt, Coptic leaders have denounced the film).
The release of the Arabic language YouTube trailer led to a series of protests at the U.S. embassy in Cairo during which a few protesters breached the embassy wall and hoisted a black Islamic flag in place of the U.S. flag. More seriously, unknown individuals killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans when they attacked the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, using a rocket propelled grenade.
Initially, a person using the name of Sam Bacile assumed responsibility for producing the film. In an interview with the Associated Press, the person said he was a California real estate developer with dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship, that he was Jewish and that the film was produced at the cost of $5 million which he raised from 100 Jewish donors. Israeli officials made clear no such name exists on Israel’s population registration. The name “Sam Bacile” also showed up nowhere on California business registries. Jewish activists in California and nationwide said they had never encountered the person.
As the dust settled, it became clear that Jewish donors and activists are not involved in the project. Steve Klein, who heads a small California organization known as Citizens for the First Amendment came out as a consultant to the film and confirmed there was no Jewish connection.
According to Adina Holtzman, assistant director of research at the Anti Defamation League, “Klein was involved in the past in anti-Muslim efforts” that included passing out flyers warning against Islamic teaching in public schools. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 TV, Klein acknowledged the movie was meant to be a provocation, aimed at Muslims living in California.
Klein, with partners he did not name, wanted to have area Muslims come watch the movie, thinking it was praising Islam, and then watch two hours of a hateful attack on prophet Mohammed. “We needed to get the truth to them about Mohammed,” he said.
For the filmmaker provocateurs, presenting the film as a Jewish-Israeli endeavor “served to set up the dichotomy between good and evil, between Israel, on the one hand, and the Islam on the other,” said the ADL’s Holzman.
Meanwhile, actress Cindy Garcia, who says she appears in the movie, posted a bitter denounciation of the film’s creators in an online post.
“When the movie was … there was no mention of Mohammad,” Garcia wrote in a YouTube user profile. “There was nothing evil in my role. I have not even seen the whole movie, so i was deceived.”
With Seth Berkman


Read more: http://forward.com/articles/162727/anti-islam-films-jewish-tie-crumbles/#ixzz26I9ke000

[Fury]

He wasn't ordered to withdraw his support.  He was asked.  I don't see anything wrong with that.  It's not remotely close to the first time citizens and the media have been asked to watch what they say and do in wartime.

There's this little thing called "freedom of speech". And given what comes out of the Muslim world (specifically: what their clerics say at their daily hate sessions), they can go fuck themselves.

[a_ahmed]

So looks  like your israeli friends are backstabbing Americans yet again and the idiot moron redneck pastor Terry Jones probably got a good bucket load of cash in spreading hate and misleading garbage against Muslims while he's at it.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4280316,00.html



American killed in Libya attack; Israeli filmmaker in hiding

Protesters angered over film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Mohammed shot dead an American official at US embassy in Benghazi; Jewish Israeli filmmaker goes into hiding

Associated Press
Published:    09.12.12, 08:43 / Israel News

Protesters in Egypt and Libya attacked US diplomatic missions on Tuesday in a spasm of violence that led to the death of a State Department officer at the consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi after fierce clashes at the compound.
 
The violence in Benghazi followed protests in neighboring Egypt where protesters scaled the walls of the Cairo embassy and tore down the American flag and burned it during protests over what demonstrators said was a US film that insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
 
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Following the spasm of attacks, the filmmaker, who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, has gone into hiding.
 
Writer and director Sam Bacile spoke on the phone Tuesday from an unidentified location. He remained defiant, saying Islam is "a cancer" and he wanted his film to make a political statement.



Protesters outside US embassy in Cairo
 
The 56-year-old says he believes his video will help his native land by exposing Islam's flaws to the world. Excerpts dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube.
 
Among other claims that have caused outrage, the film claims Mohammed was a philanderer who approved of child sexual abuse.
 
Bacile says he's sorry for the person who died, but blames lax embassy security.

The film that sparked riots
 
According to the Wall Street Journal, Bacile said he raised $5 million from about 100 Jewish donors, whom he declined to identify. Working with about 60 actors and 45 crew members, he said he made the two-hour movie in three months last year in California.
 
The film has been promoted by Dr. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose burning of Qurans previously sparked deadly riots around the world, who said Tuesday that he planned to show a 13-minute trailer that night at his church in Gainesville, Fla.
 
"It is an American production, not designed to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam," he said in a statement. "The movie further reveals in a satirical fashion the life of Muhammad."



Riots outside US embassy (Photo: AP)
 
Meanwhile, in wake of the attacks on US diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya, republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney harshly criticized the Obama administration for its response to the attacks.
 
In a statement Tuesday night, Romney says he's outraged by the attacks. But he calls it "disgraceful" that the Obama administration's first reaction wasn't to condemn the Tuesday attacks but, in Romney's words, "to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
 
Earlier in the day, the US Embassy in Cairo issued a statement condemning what it called "continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims," an apparent reference to the video.
 
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed the death of the US diplomat, who was not identified, and condemned the attack on the Benghazi consulate.

 
Clinton further expressed concern that the protests might spread to other countries. She said the US is working with "partner countries around the world to protect our personnel, our missions, and American citizens worldwide."
 
"Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet," Clinton said in a statement released by the State Department. "The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind."
 
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There's this little thing called "freedom of speech". And given what comes out of the Muslim world (specifically: what their clerics say at their daily hate sessions), they can go fuck themselves.

Only Muslims get this kind of special treatment. Apparently living in the middles ages, beheading people who party and the practise of a religion who steps on basic human rights has some benefits.

Imagine if the US did shit like this in the name of religion?