A crap film is the cause of two attacks on American embassies in Libya and Eygpt. Followers of an ultra-traditionalist approach to Islam are very pissed about a video called the “The Innocence of Muslims” that not only portrays the prophet Mohammed, but ridicules him as a homosexual, an advocate of paedophilia, and shows him having sex.

Last night in the Libyan city of Benghazi the American consulate was attacked and an American official died; another occurred earlier on Tuesday at the American embassy in Cairo. No one is reported to have been injured, but an American flag was torn up and replaced by a black flag used by Islamist radicals.

It has since been reported that the US ambassador to Libya is amongst US embassy staff killed in a rocket attack in the Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday.

Above is the 15 min trailer of the two hour film which is believed to be the reason for the attacks. It is being reported as costing $5 million and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors. No one is quite sure where the money has gone as it obviously did not go toward writing, acting or directing. The film is horrific before the content is even considered. The writer and director of this absurd piece of cinema, Sam Bacile, (now in hiding) has repeatedly said that “Islam is a cancer, period.” What a tool.

The incredibly misguided and hateful Bacile, a California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam’s flaws to the world. The film has also been backed by Terry Jones, the moronic fundamentalist pastor who previously threatened to hold public burnings of the Koran. You know, nice sane guys.

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 earlier this year in a theatre in Hollywood. Bacile said it was mostly empty. Hardly surprising.

A version of the film, which is in English, has been dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and shown on the website of an Egyptian Coptic Christian businessman based in America. From there the Muslim world started hearing about the film. Radical Islamic movements like the Salafis have responded violently to the film.

The Telegraph reports:

In Cairo, the protests started on Tuesday afternoon, with hundreds of Salafists attacking and some climbing the fortress-like walls of the embassy. They did not enter the building itself, but one man managed to bring down the Stars and Stripes flag and replace it with a black flag with the Islamic inscription “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is His Prophet”.

The attack in Benghazi . . . took place later in the evening.

The mob there was armed and sprayed the Libyan security forces defending the building with gunfire, and even shot rocket-propelled grenades. Overwhelming the defences, they then proceeded to hurl small home-made bombs at the buildings, loot it and then set it on fire.

As the video has been made by a lunatic with no artistic credibility, backed by another complete moron who thinks burning others’ religious texts is a good idea, the American State Department while condemning the violent attacks also condemned:

the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims, as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.

This makes perfect sense, a rational response. But nothing is rational in American politics, especially with an election around the corner. Mitt Romney immediately jumped up, all indignant and hot under the collar saying:

It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.

Suggesting that Bacile, Jones and whoever else was involved in this ridiculous film may have simply been hateful, is quite different from sympathising with the attackers. But that’s politics for you.

Bacile, of course, is adament that he has done nothing wrong and though apologetic about the American who was killed as a result of the outrage over his film, he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence.

“I feel the security system (at the embassies) is no good,” said Bacile. “America should do something to change it.”

[Source: The Telegraph, The Evening Sun]