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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Innocence Of Muslims' Filmmaker Is Heading To Federal Prison
http://www.businessinsider.com/innocence-of-muslims-filmmaker-prison-sentence-2012-11The man responsible for an anti-Muslim film that was once blamed for terrorist attacks is going to be spending a year behind bars.
Mark Bassely Youssef, who's known by a myriad of aliases, was arrested in September on charges of probation violation.
He was convicted in 2010 of bank fraud and was ordered not to own or use devices with access to the Internet, a condition prosecutors believe he violated when he uploaded his movie to the Internet.
Youssef admitted in open court Wednesday that he had violated his probation and was immediately sentenced to one year in federal prison, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.
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'Innocence Of Muslims' Filmmaker Is Heading To Federal Prison (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2012
OP
win win... he gets to stay alive, and we get to show the Muslim world that we hate him too.
Schema Thing
Nov 2012
#1
Calling him a 'filmmaker' is like calling the guy who spray paints 'Fuck You' on a wall
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2012
#2
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)1. win win... he gets to stay alive, and we get to show the Muslim world that we hate him too.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)2. Calling him a 'filmmaker' is like calling the guy who spray paints 'Fuck You' on a wall
a poet.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)3. Bank fraud? How very, very Republican
Republican family "values" are -- as they demonstrate once again -- dredged up from the bottom of the moral cesspool.