{"id":12561,"date":"2012-09-13T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:09:37","slug":"americas-forest-gump-moment-stupid-is-as-stupid-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12561","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s &#8216;Forest Gump&#8217; Moment &#8211; &#8216;Stupid is as Stupid Does&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it were not so tragic it would be laughable that US foreign policy can be blown like a leaf in the wind by a fanatical Zionist-Christian Pastor and Moronic movie producer.  Really?  they managed to push US foreign policy to the &#8216;tipping point&#8217; for an entire region with a &#8216;no-budget&#8217; movie.  Do Blasphemers and Apostates start &#8216;unholy wars&#8217;.  Phlipn &#8211; out.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones promotes anti-Islam film<\/strong><br \/>\nVoltaire Network &#8211; 13 September, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Terry Jones, whose Quran-torching escapade in 2011 brought him hatred in the Islamic world, has reportedly promoted Innocence of Muslims, a controversial low-budget movie that sparked anti-American protests in Libya and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Innocence of Muslims\u2019 director Sam Bacile said he had received some $5 million from a \u201chundred of Jews\u201d to shoot the film and called Islam \u201ca cancer.\u201d However, he denounced allegations that his movie was religious, saying it was a political one.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Terry Jones announced he was going to show an Innocence of Muslims fragment during a prayer service.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Pastor Jones rose to prominence after staging several public Quran burnings. The first of these dubious events ran off in March 2011, triggering a wave of unrest in Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of more than a hundred people.<\/p>\n<p>Mass protests erupted Tuesday in Egypt\u2019s capital of Cairo and in Libya\u2019s Benghazi. In Cairo, demonstrators climbed the wall of the US Embassy to then shred and burn the American flag. In Benghazi, several armed men assailed the US Consulate, killing the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/Quran-burning-Pastor-Terry-Jones\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/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%3D12561&amp;text=America%27s+%27Forest+Gump%27+Moment+-+%27Stupid+is+as+Stupid+Does%27+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it were not so tragic it would be laughable that US foreign policy can be blown like a leaf in the wind by a fanatical Zionist-Christian Pastor and Moronic movie producer. Really? they managed to push US foreign policy to the &#8216;tipping point&#8217; for an entire region with a &#8216;no-budget&#8217; movie. Do Blasphemers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12561#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":[2024],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561"}],"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=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12563,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}