Anti-U.S. outrage over video began with Christian activist’s phone call to a reporter

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/15/168613/anti-us-outrage-over-video-began.html

By Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail | McClatchy Newspapers

CAIRO — A crude video about the Prophet Muhammad that triggered an unprecedented outbreak of anti-American protest last week moved from being a YouTube obscurity in the United States to a touchstone for anger across the world through a phone call less than two weeks ago from a controversial U.S.-based anti-Islam activist to a reporter for an Egyptian newspaper.

Morris Sadek, a Coptic Christian who lives in suburban Washington, D.C., whose anti-Islam campaigning led to the revocation of his Egyptian citizenship earlier this year, had an exclusive story for Gamel Girgis, who covers Christian emigrants for al Youm al Sabaa, the Seventh Day, a daily newspaper here. Sadek had a movie clip he wanted Girgis to see; he e-mailed him a link.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/15/168613/anti-us-outrage-over-video-began.html#storylink=cpy

[HooptieWagon]

1. Follow the money.

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2. I hope this self proclaimed 'Christian' is happy that he has caused at least 9 deaths.

[Voice for Peace]

3. and beyond

http://www.juancole.com/

Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots

[summerschild]

5. This is in the juancole publication, and makes me more hopeful for the situation.

It also nails Romney GOOD.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/romney-jumps-the-shark-libya-egypt-and-the-butterfly-effect.html

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect
Posted on 09/13/2012 by Juan

[Voice for Peace]

6. excellent, thanks

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect

Posted on 09/13/2012 by Juan

The late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury authored a short story about time travelers. They were careful, when they went back to the Jurassic, not to change anything, but one of them stepped on a butterfly. When they got back to the present, the world was slightly different.

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So the Butterfly Effect set off by a low-budget bad propaganda film gotten up by two-bit frauds and Christian supremacists, and then promoted by two-bit Egyptian and Libyan fundamentalists, has provoked some squalls and cost the lives of four good men.

The storm provoked by this butterfly has revealed character on an international scale. The steely determination of an Obama to achieve justice, the embarrassing grandstanding of a Romney, the destructive hatred of a handful of extremists in Cairo and Benghazi, and the decency and warmth toward the US of the Libyan crowds, all were thrown into stark relief by the beating of the butterfly’s wings.

In the end, the violence and extremism of the hardliners on both sides is a phantasm of the past, not a harbinger of the future. The wave of democratic politics sweeping the region has left the haters behind, reducing them to desperate and senseless acts of violence that will gain them no good will, no popularity, no political credibility.

[Gin]

4. According to the article...he translated the movie..

The whole thing stinks.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/morris-sadek-the-maverick_n_1882931.html