American Diplomats Paid The Price With Their Lives
American diplomats paid the price with their lives For Israeli Jewish film producer’s crime
By Latheef Farook –September 17, 2012
Latheef Farook
The United States Ambassador in Libya J Christopher Stevens, together with three other US citizens, all employees of US consulate in the Libyan city Benghazi, had paid the price for a crime committed by an American- Israeli Jewish film maker Sam Bacile. Stevens, a career diplomat who assumed office as U.S. ambassador to Libya last May had previously worked in Libya including Benghazi during last year’s uprising.
Christopher Stevens was killed following California based Sam Bacile’s blasphemous film called “Innocence of Muslims” insulting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the most despicable manner. Inflaming the situation Bacile who described this as a political movie to help Israel, also boasted that he wanted exactly the type of backlash to further demonize Islam.
In the summer of 2011 Bacile, together with an American based Egyptian Coptic Christian, wrote, directed and produced this two hour film involving 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera at a cost of five million dollars, financed by more than 100 Jewish donors. It appears most actors and others involved were not aware of the theme of the film.
Muslims worldwide love their final Prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), more than their lives in the same way they love earlier Prophets such as Jesus, Moses, Ibrahim and all others. Thus ridiculing other religions and hurting the feelings of their followers have never been part of Islamic culture throughout its more than fourteen century history.
On the other hand calculated provocations of Muslim are not something new. For example a Danish newspaper’s publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in 2005 triggered riots in many Muslim countries. The journalist behind the cartoons was a Ukrainian Jew, operating under the name of “Fleming Rose” with close working relations with the Israel’s far right forces.
In another incident “Van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker, was killed in 2004 after making a film insulting Islam. Columnists James Petras and Robin Eastman pointed out that ‘the center piece of the explosive confrontation between the Muslim world and the US and Western European regimes are rooted in Israeli efforts to polarize the world in its favor.
