Jerusalem – The Israeli government is distancing itself from a filmmaker whose movie ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sparked a deadly riot at an American consulate in Libya, but says it will be “vigilant” at its diplomatic offices overseas.
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The movie, “Innocence of Muslims,” was produced by Sam Bacile, a 56-year-old California real estate developer who has said he’s both Israeli and American. The film depicts Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and madman.
Protesters offended by the movie stormed the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi late Tuesday, killing the ambassador and three other Americans.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Wednesday the film “has nothing to do whatsoever with Israel.” Still, he said Israel will “have to be vigilant.”
He would not say whether any extra precautions were taken.
I thought this was a Jewish web-sight and you talk about “the Prophet Muhammad”?? Never read about him in Nach. In my opinion you should have wrote the Navi Sheker Muhammad or leave the word prophet out.
They were smart to disassciate themselves immediately from a movie that clearly was designed to provoke a violent reaction in the muslim world and the bloodshed is already apparent. If we want yidden and yiddeshkeit to be respected and protected around the world, we must avoid advocating what would be regarded as blatant “apikorsus” against other religions, whether Islam or any other and treat them with the respect we demand for ourselves.
anonymous:
while I don’t think this movie is in best taste. Your hashkafos are so so so off that nebach on you and your generations. Firstly, the only reason we might search for respect from nations or the world is to be mekadesh shem shamayim; not for impressing them in itself. And about “blatant apikorsus”?????????? what in the world are you saying? there’s a reason why yishmael and hagar were sent away from avraham’s home. Read up on it and you’ll understand the concept of “yishmael/perah adam” a bit better.
I think what # 1 is referring to, is the very cautious tone the media take in addressing arabs and muslims, where no such reverence is offered to christians or Jews.
did the film spark the riots?
or did the riots spark the film?