Nakoula
Basseley Nakoula’s online video was blamed by President Obama for an
international terror episode in Benghazi that killed four Americans, and
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised he would be arrested and
prosecuted, and he, in fact, was the only person to end up in jail after the
attack by Islamists that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
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But on
his last full day in custody – not for anything to do with his “Innocence of
Muslims” or Benghazi but for parole violations under his probation in a fraud
case – Nakoula told WND he made the video, and now is promoting his book “Innocence,” as a warning to America against the
violence of jihadists.
His book is described as “The
Original Script and Storyboard for Innocence of Muslims.”
“We don’t need Sept. 11 again,” he
told WND. “We don’t need Nidal Hasan again.”
He said there are other travesties
against human rights, too, involving the massacre of Christians in Egypt, and
Americans need to fight back against such attacks.
He dedicates his book to Stevens
and the three other Americans killed by Islamists in a firefight that developed
in Benghazi Sept. 11, 2012. They are Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith.
His video, a trailer for a longer
movie project he says is finished and locked away in a bank vault, garnered
global attention because Obama blamed it for upsetting Muslims in Benghazi, who
then attacked the Americans.
It was Hillary
Clinton who promised the father of one of the Americans killed that she
would see to it that the person who made the video was arrested and prosecuted.
That claim came from Joe Woods, the father of slain Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who
spoke with Clinton when the body of his son arrived in the U.S. from Benghazi.
But evidence has suggested the
White House knew immediately it was an organized terror strike, not a random
act of violence by an out-of-control mob of Muslims as top Obama officials
claimed even weeks after the fact.
When interviewed by WND, Nakoula
was preparing to be discharged from custody in Texas. He’s been living in a
type of halfway house recently to serve the term for the probation violation.
The Associated Press reported the
man behind the video had violated a probation order and acquired a driver’s
license under a false name. The prison time came on the order of U.S. District
Court Judge Christina Snyder.
Nakoula told WND his project is
political, but not religious.
“I like to warn this country about
terror. My movie is a political movie, not a religion movie,” he said. “The
U.S. gives me a lot. I live in this country. We’re living in this country.”
He said he didn’t intend for his
work to hurt anyone.
“I want to apologize for any
inconvenience or misunderstanding about my movie,” he told WND.
And he said he appreciates Muslims
and has Muslim friends, and not all Muslims are for terror.
“It made be very upset when I heard
about Nidal Hasan [an Army officer radicalized into Islam who shot and killed
13 at Fort Hood]. He came from his country, and the U.S. gave him education,
gave him life, a position in the Army, everything.
“It hurts my feelings that he says
‘allahu akbar’ and kills these people.”
But Nakoula said that’s the
“culture” of terror, where jihadists want to “go to heaven right away.”
He said when the controversy over
the video, based on inaccurate claims by the White House, developed, he was not
paying attention. Therefore, he said he didn’t know that Clinton had promised
the filmmaker would be jailed.
“I never heard it, believe it or
not. I didn’t watch that much TV.”
He said the full movie was “put in
my bank.”
“When the right time comes, I will
invite the whole media to watch my movie,” he said, noting he’s now hunting for
a distributor.
He said his plans after his
release, scheduled Thursday, are to move to a location in California where a
church has agreed to help him out at least temporarily with housing.
He also said he has a looming court
appearance because of the conditions he will have to meet as a free man.
The
New York Times called the video “crude” and said it depicted Muhammad as “a
bloodthirsty, philandering thug.”
Nakoula, 55, was described as “a
Coptic Christian born in Egypt.”
The Obama administration clung for
weeks to the story that it was Muslims upset over the video who spontaneously
rioted in Benghazi, killing Stevens and three others. U.N. Ambassador Susan
Rice made the claim on five morning news shows the Sunday after the attack.
But the claim was contradicted
right away by Mohammed Magariaf, president of Libya’s National Assembly, who
said it had “nothing to do” with the attack. Evidence has mounted ever since
that it was an organized attack on the U.S. by a group affiliated with
al-Qaida.
In the introduction to his book,
Nakoula writes he was born in Egypt, but came to America and decided to write
the book to remember the four Americans killed.
“And second, I want to let the
world know that I am not afraid,” he wrote.
“This book is the script for my
film, ‘Innocence of Muslims.’ In the days and weeks following the attack on an
American consular facility in Libya by a jihadist militia, this film was
incorrectly blamed for the violence and the killing. Once representatives of
the U.S. government – including the president and the secretary of state –
focused blame on my film, Islamic clerics the world over declared Days of Rage.
In fear of the riots that followed through the Muslim world, governments,
commentators and politicians worldwide both condemned and looked to prohibit
the kind of free expression that is our right in America.”
He said the film “is a true story.
I based it on classical Islamic literature about that religion’s prophet,
Mohammed – including the Quran, hadiths, and the ‘Sirat Rasul Allah,’ his first
biography.”
Nakoula said the situations in the
script “are taken from stories actually told about Mohammed, found in books
revered by Muslim scholars.”
“‘Innocence of Muslims’ is about
how much the world will suffer if we don’t stop the culture of death and
terrorism as soon as we can,” he said.
“What is this culture of death and
terror? It is nothing but a set of beliefs. This believer craves the afterlife
that has been cynically promised him: he wants to drink wine and embrace 72
virgins – if only he dies while fighting jihad in Allah’s cause against Islam’s
enemies. They believe that a river of women, wine, milk and honey awaits them
once they have accomplished the task, we know, of slaughtering innocent
people.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/filmmaker-blamed-for-benghazi-out-of-jail-and-talking/#aLO6bdda9hGBqmE5.99
But on his last full day in custody – not for anything to do with his “Innocence of Muslims” or Benghazi but for parole violations under his probation in a fraud case – Nakoula told WND he made the video, and now is promoting his book “Innocence,” as a warning to America against the violence of jihadists.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/filmmaker-blamed-for-benghazi-out-of-jail-and-talking/#aLO6bdda9hGBqmE5.99
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