From your info … film director was Alan Roberts from DeVere Films. Inc. Sarasota, Florida. [Link to Laura and Alan Roberts Realty Inc.; Lauroa Roberts is also a filmmaker] Alan Roberts has a link to the film Desert Warrior via actress who has scrubbed film from her career resumé here and cached version. We all know what happened on the streets of Amsterdam to filmmaket Theo van Gogh.
ATTENTION: Desert Warrior was the original film version in English. The “Innocence of Mohammad” has been redubbed with new texts and perhaps edited and voiced over in the Arabic language. No one knows who is to blame for that, perhaps Steve Klein, film consultant knows more.
Analysis: Film at heart of Libya attack may be fake
Excuses to Marie2, while I was editing my diary to delete a wrong reference, I goofed and hit the delete button. Do you still have your comments?
Please post them again, it supplied in steps the direction leading to completing the puzzle of the Islamophobic film.
Mondoweiss Confirms
With link to Morris Sadek of Coptic Organization and Geller of Jihad Watch.
Great stuff Marie2 !!! Thanks for your work and links.
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Joseph Nasralla Abdelmasih, on the far right, is the head of Media Christ, the organization
behind the anti-Muslim film that sparked protests in the Middle East. To his left is Morris Sadek,
an Egyptian-American anti-Muslim activist. (Photo: http://nacopts1.blogspot.com/)Movie that set off violence in Middle East produced by Duarte nonprofit
Sorry Oui, posted those comments directly and doubt I can even remember them. A key link would be the SGVtribune article Desert Warrior Film Permit.
That gave us:
Media for Christ
The Way TV
that are run by Joseph Abdelmasih
CA SOS record on M4C gave us: Joseph Nasralla Abdelmasih. On his activities with Jihad Watch and Geller, he goes by Joseph Nasralla.
The Way TV website supplies an explanation for the Arabic translation:
Still sense that there was something of a scam going on in all this. Easier to see that there could have been Jewish financial backers for the movie. Jimmy Israel could be the Israeli-American. Klein should be made to ID the person he met and knew as Bacile.
If I think of anything else that I’ve forgotten and seems relevant, will post.
What is disturbing/troubling is that given the difficulties Christian Copts are experiencing today in Egypt, they really don’t need this sort of propaganda garbage being made by Christian Copts in the US or anywhere else. That leads me to suspect that that we’re not close to knowing the full story yet.
As I postulated in one of the lost comments, Roberts is about as real as Bacile. As reported at HuffPo:
That description of “Roberts” would fit “Jimmy Israel” whose Linkedin page is probably mostly fictional.
Interview with Jimmy Israel at the bottom of this article. Yet another person like Klein, the actress, and Terry Jones that claim to have had recent phone contact with “Sam Bacile.” Too disjointed and panicky sounding to rely on what he said, but it has the tone and feel of someone eager to pass along a cover-up that is being concocted on the fly.
Max Blumenthal provides a good run-down on what is currently known. But do wonder if he can source the claim that it was an “all volunteer cast.”
Gawker interview with one of the actors. This stands out as weird:
Why would an “actor” that worked for three days over a year ago on a film have the phone number of this “Sam Bacile” director/producer?
Seems strange that this story would die before much has been learned. Guess Nakoula did his job well.