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| Low-budget Muhammad film attempts to depict prophet as fraud | Low-budget Muhammad film attempts to depict prophet as fraud |
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| The 13-minute English-language film, allegedly a trailer for an obscure two-hour movie entitled Innocence of Muslims, was first posted on YouTube in July. | The 13-minute English-language film, allegedly a trailer for an obscure two-hour movie entitled Innocence of Muslims, was first posted on YouTube in July. |
| But it was not until clips from it dubbed into Egyptian Arabic were posted on the internet and then broadcast on the Egyptian television channel al-Nas last week that it came to prominence, sparking violence in Cairo and Benghazi. | But it was not until clips from it dubbed into Egyptian Arabic were posted on the internet and then broadcast on the Egyptian television channel al-Nas last week that it came to prominence, sparking violence in Cairo and Benghazi. |
| Clearly extremely low-budget and amateurish, the YouTube trailer depicts a buffoonish Prophet Muhammad and implies he was a fraud. | Clearly extremely low-budget and amateurish, the YouTube trailer depicts a buffoonish Prophet Muhammad and implies he was a fraud. |
| Against static backdrops, a small troupe of wooden actors portray demeaning caricatures delivering a script heavy with overtly insulting claims about Muhammad and the origins of Islam. The prophet is ridiculed and portrayed as a bisexual philanderer and hypocrite who approved of child sexual abuse. | Against static backdrops, a small troupe of wooden actors portray demeaning caricatures delivering a script heavy with overtly insulting claims about Muhammad and the origins of Islam. The prophet is ridiculed and portrayed as a bisexual philanderer and hypocrite who approved of child sexual abuse. |
| Not all of this "trailer" has been broadcast on Egyptian television. | Not all of this "trailer" has been broadcast on Egyptian television. |
| Scenes showing Muhammad anointing a donkey as "the first Muslim animal" were shown, as were scenes implying the Koran was not divinely inspired, but drafted from verses plagiarised from the New Testament and Torah. Scenes with sexual references were not shown. | Scenes showing Muhammad anointing a donkey as "the first Muslim animal" were shown, as were scenes implying the Koran was not divinely inspired, but drafted from verses plagiarised from the New Testament and Torah. Scenes with sexual references were not shown. |
| Most of the clips circulating online are dubbed into Arabic. | Most of the clips circulating online are dubbed into Arabic. |
| The 13-minute English version has been strangely edited in places, with some of the words allegedly spoken by the actors not apparently tallying with the audio. There are also very obvious differences in the acoustics within some scenes. | The 13-minute English version has been strangely edited in places, with some of the words allegedly spoken by the actors not apparently tallying with the audio. There are also very obvious differences in the acoustics within some scenes. |
| The film was reportedly made by Sam Bacile, who is said to be an Israeli filmmaker based in California and a real-estate developer. | The film was reportedly made by Sam Bacile, who is said to be an Israeli filmmaker based in California and a real-estate developer. |
| According to the Associated Press agency, he was in hiding on Wednesday. But, speaking to the agency by telephone, he was reported to be defiant, saying Islam was a cancer, and that he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion. | According to the Associated Press agency, he was in hiding on Wednesday. But, speaking to the agency by telephone, he was reported to be defiant, saying Islam was a cancer, and that he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion. |
| He said the film cost $5m to make, and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors. He said it was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera. The full film has been shown once, to a mostly empty theatre in Hollywood earlier this year, Bacile was reported as saying. | He said the film cost $5m to make, and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors. He said it was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera. The full film has been shown once, to a mostly empty theatre in Hollywood earlier this year, Bacile was reported as saying. |
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