{"id":12511,"date":"2012-09-12T07:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12511"},"modified":"2012-09-12T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:48:55","slug":"western-freedom-of-expression-makes-production-of-offensive-movies-possible-privledge-not-always-tempered-with-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12511","title":{"rendered":"Western &#8216;freedom of expression&#8217; makes production of &#8216;offensive&#8217; movies possible &#8211; privledge not always tempered with responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anti-Islam movie directed, produced by Israeli-American: US media<\/strong><br \/>\nShia Post &#8211; 12 September, 2012<\/p>\n<p>The controversial movie that has sparked outrage in the Muslim world has been produced by an anti-Islam Israeli-American, US media say.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Israeli-American Sam Bacile has directed and produced the blasphemous movie. Bacile, 52, is a real-estate developer living in southern California and a sworn enemy of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He has assumed responsibility for the film, which he said was made thanks to Jewish donations totaling $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a staff member of the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi was killed and one security guard injured during clashes, triggered over the anti-Islam film, at the consulate building.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred following a massive demonstration held earlier in the day in neighboring Egypt to condemn a movie that insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Egyptians gathered in front of the US Embassy in Cairo to express their anger over the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters scaled the walls of the embassy, pulled down the US flag, and called for the expulsion of the US ambassador to Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>They also asked the US government to apologize to the Muslim world over the release of the movie.   <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/?p=6433\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D12511&amp;text=Western+%27freedom+of+expression%27+makes+production+of+%27offensive%27+movies+possible+-+privledge+not+always+tempered+with+responsibility&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Islam movie directed, produced by Israeli-American: US media Shia Post &#8211; 12 September, 2012 The controversial movie that has sparked outrage in the Muslim world has been produced by an anti-Islam Israeli-American, US media say. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Israeli-American Sam Bacile has directed and produced the blasphemous movie. Bacile, 52, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12511#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[349],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12512,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions\/12512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}