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“Innocence of Muslims”: Film and International Crisis (TAM article collection)

Sheila Musaji
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“Innocence of Muslims”: Film and International Crisis (TAM article collection)

compiled by Sheila Musaji

12 Essential points about the offensive film on the Prophet Muhammad, and the subsequent reactions in Libya & Egypt, Omid Safi http://www.religionnews.com/blogs/omid-safi/12-essential-points-about-the-offensive-film-on-the-prophet-muhammad-and-th

A Theologian’s Response to “Innocence of Muslims”, Karen Leslie-Hernandez http://www.onislam.net/english/back-to-religion/covering-religion/459082-a-theologians-response-to-innocence-of-muslims.html

ADL: Anti-Muslim Christian Activists Responsible For Inflammatory “Innocence of Muslims” Film http://blog.adl.org/

America’s ‘counter-jihadis’ fan flames of hatred across Middle East, Rory Carroll http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/16/americas-counter-jihadis-middle-east?newsfeed=true

Amid tensions in the Middle East, reject all voices of extremism, Nathan Lean http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/amid-tensions-in-the-middle-east-reject-all-voices-of-extremism/2012/09/14/6e0e97f6-febd-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_blog.html

Anti-Islam Film Linked to ‘Islamophobic Industry’ http://www.voanews.com/content/anti-islam-film-linked-to-islamophobic-industry-in-us/1507803.html

Anti-Islam Figures: Don’t Blame Us, Rosie Gray http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/anti-islam-figures-dont-blame-us

Arab Uprisings vs. Anti-Film Riots, Megan Reif http://sitemaker.umich.edu/megan.reif/arab_uprisings_vs._anti-film_riots&config=ccQVbeV4dWtbXYtIOV7bJ0

Behind the inflammatory video, a vast right-wing network, Susan Webb http://peoplesworld.org/behind-the-inflammatory-video-a-vast-right-wing-network/

Blasphemy riots: less about theology, more about power plays, Christa Case Bryant http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0912/Blasphemy-riots-less-about-theology-more-about-power-plays

Conservatives Fault All Muslims For The Murder Of U.S. Ambassador To Libya, Annie-Rose Strasser http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/09/12/834281/conservatives-fault-all-muslims/

Coptic Bishops blast Coptic Christians behind anti-Muslim film http://ncronline.org/news/people/bishops-blast-coptic-christians-behind-anti-muslim-film

Death By Fiction In The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Riots, Alyssa Rosenberg http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/09/12/837651/innocence-of-muslims-the-dark-knight-rises/

The Death of an Ambassador: Stupid Film Compromises American Security and Reputation, Paul Brandeis Raushenbush http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/libya-ambassador-killed_b_1877226.html

Domestic and foreign extremists behind the Cairo and Libya attacks, John L. Esposito http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201291510539957566.html

Extremists and leaders incite violent protests, Peter Bergen http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/13/opinion/bergen-embassy-incitement/index.html?

FREE SPEECH
Anti American Protest: Free Speech or Inciting a Riot? , James Turnage http://guardianlv.com/2012/09/anti-american-protest-free-speech-or-inciting-a-riot/
The burden of speech, Timothy Egan http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/egan-the-burden-of-speech/
Free speech and incitement http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/13/free-speech-and-incitement/
Free Speech: Conservatives, Democrats and the convenience of denouncing free speech, Glenn Greenwald http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/16/conservatives-democrats-free-speech-muslims
Free speech extends to anti-Muslim video, legal experts say http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/09/15/4262443/free-speech-extends-to-anti-muslim.html
Free speech in the real world http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-speech-romney-clinton-innocence-of-muslims-20120915,0,7746352.story
Free Speech Policies for Information Platforms Are Hard, Adam Thierer http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamthierer/2012/09/16/speech-policies-for-information-platforms-are-hard/
Free speech vs hate speech: Nothing Farcical About anti-Muhammad Film, Abbas Barzegar http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abbas-barzegar/nothing-farcical-about-an_b_1877007.html
Freedom of speech, as reaction to anti-Islam video trailer shows, doesn’t come without human toll, Charles Honey http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/09/post_28.html
Hate speech and free speech, Jeremy Waldron http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/hate-speech-and-free-speech-part-two/
Islamophobia as free speech—a notion that escapes many Muslims http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/jihadists-and-islamophobes-two-wrongs-that-dont-make-right.html
One Film That Put Free Speech In the Cross Hairs http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/09/15/one-film-that-put-free-speech-in-the-cross-hairs/
Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech, Dan Gilgoff http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/12/reaction-to-anti-islam-film-fuels-debate-on-free-speech-versus-hate-speech/
Should Americans Limit Their Speech for the Sake of the Arab Spring?, Patrick Cox http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/should-americans-limit-their-speech-for-the-sake-of-the-arab-spring/
When free speech costs human life, Qasim Rashid http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/when-free-speech-costs-human-life/2012/09/13/0e70911a-fdf9-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_blog.html
Why free speech is baffling to many http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/why-free-speech-is-baffling-to-many/
Why ‘Sam Bacile’ deserves arrest, Anthea Butler http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-09-12/Sam-Bacile-Anthea-Butler/57769732/1

Pamela Geller’s Blog Solicited Funds For anti-Muhammad Film http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/16/1132429/—Pamela-Geller-s-Blog-Solicited-Funds-For-anti-Muhammad-Movie

George Washington University experts analyze protests and violence http://fairfaxnews.com/2012/09/gw-experts-analyze-violence-protests-in-muslim-world/

How the ‘Muhammed’ Video Went Viral

Humiliation and Rage in Libya, Vijay Prashad http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/12/humiliation-and-rage-in-libya/

‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Shot On Hollywood Set, Film Permit Connected To Christian Charity http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/innocence-of-muslims-film-filmmaker-sam-bacile-permit-christian-charity_n_1883792.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D205527

Inside the strange Hollywood scam that spread chaos across the Middle East, Max Blumenthal http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/13/egypt-libya-hollywood-film

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other, Mark Juergensmeyer http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/6389/kindred_hatemongers%3A_why_american_islamophobes_and_muslim_protestors_need_each_other_

Steve Klein’s anti-Muslim Crusade, Leah Nelson SPLC http://www.salon.com/2012/09/14/steve_kleins_anti_muslim_crusade/

L.A. Blogger Alerted City Council To Anti-Islam Film (and possible anti-Semitism of promoters) In June, Eric Lach http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/blogger_alerted_film_innocence_of_bin_laden.php

Many questions arise about anti-Islam filmmaker http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57511637/many-questions-arise-about-anti-islam-filmmaker/

Media for Christ, Company Allegedly Behind ‘Innocence of Muslims’ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/14/media-for-christ-company-allegedly-behind-innocence-of-muslims.html

Meet The Right-Wing Extremist Behind Anti-Muslim Film That Sparked Deadly Riots, Max Blumenthal http://maxblumenthal.com/2012/09/meet-the-right-wing-extremist-behind-anti-muslim-film-that-sparked-deadly-riots/

Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage, Brian Murphy http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120917/NEWS05/120919715/multiple-personalities-of-the-muslim-rage

Muslim Anger, American Response, Carl Medearis http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-medearis/muslim-anger-american-response_b_1880967.html

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other , Mark Juergensmeyer http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/6389/kindred_hatemongers%3A_why_american_islamophobes_and_muslim_protesters_need_each_other_

The Links Between The anti-”Ground Zero” Mosque Movement & Innocence of Muslims http://theflowerthrowers.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/the-links-between-the-anti-ground-zero-mosque-movement-innocence-of-muslims/

My Take: It’s time for Islamophobic evangelicals to choose, Brian McLlaren http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/15/my-take-its-time-for-islamophobic-evangelicals-to-choose/?hpt=hp_c1

Nakoula just a fall guy. Keyman: Joseph Nassralla http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/13/1131422/-Nakoula-just-a-fall-guy-Keyman-Joseph-Nassralla

NEWSWEEK “Muslim Rage” Cover
Newsweek Goes for Broke with ‘Muslim Rage’, Alexander Abad-Santos http://www.theatlanticwire.com/authors/alexander-abad-santos/
Newsweek Publishes Islamophobic ‘Muslim Rage’ Cover and Ayaan Hirsi Ali cover story In Response To Embassy Attacks, Ben Armbruster http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/17/857611/newsweek-muslim-rage-islamophobic/
Newsweek’s Muslim Rage cover, Dylan Byers http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/tina-brown-strikes-again-135729.html

One big fraud? Questions over whether ‘$5million’ film that portrayed Mohammed as a pedophile and womanizer AND the producer behind it are fake http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202080/Who-Sam-Bacile-Identity-man-anti-Mohammed-film-crumbles-records-found.html#ixzz26IJu9kXf

Pope calls for Christians and Muslims to unite against violence http://al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/newsbriefs/2012/09/19/newsbrief-01

Pro-al Qaeda group seen behind deadly Benghazi attack http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/libya-attack-jihadists/index.html

Rabbi says media must answer if reports that Jews made anti-Muslim film aren’t true http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-bacile-anti-muslim-innocence-of-muslims-369884

Remarks on the Deaths of American Personnel in Benghazi, Libya, Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/09/197654.htm

Tom Ridge, Bush Homeland Security Secretary Disagrees With Romney’s Remarks On Libya, Scott Keyes http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/12/837841/tom-ridge-obama-libya/

Romney Accuses Obama Of Sympathizing With Attackers Who Killed U.S. Ambassador http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/12/833301/romney-obama-sympathize-attackers-libya-egypt/

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect, Juan Cole http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/romney-jumps-the-shark-libya-egypt-and-the-butterfly-effect.html

Mr. Romney’s rhetoric on embassy attacks is a discredit to his campaign http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-death-of-an-ambassador/2012/09/12/ed3b719e-fcfa-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html

Amb. Christopher Stevens appears to have been killed in premeditated al-Qaeda attack, Annie Robbins http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/amb-christopher-stevens-appears-to-have-been-killed-in-premeditated-al-qaeda-attack.html

There is good reason to ban the hateful anti-Muhammad YouTube clips, Andrew Brown http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2012/sep/12/libya-anti-muhammad-youtube-clips

Timeline of the Confusing Statements on Libya and Egypt http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/heres-a-timeline-of-the-confusing-statements-on-libya-and-egypt/262264/

The tragic consulate killings in Libya and America’s hierarchy of human life, Glenn Greenwald http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/12/tragic-consulate-killings-libya

Twitter users question existence of anti-Muslim film producer http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/twitter-users-bloggers-question-existence-anti-muslim-film-producer

Vatican, Israeli Rabbi Condemn Anti-Muslim Film http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/141834/vatican-israeli-rabbi-condemn-anti-muslim-film-.html

Vatican spokesman, responding to Libyan violence, decries provocations against Islam http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=15559

White House: anti-Islam film ‘truly abhorrent’, Josh Gerstein http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/09/white-house-antiislam-film-truly-abhorrent-135407.html

Who’s Who of the Innocence of Muslims Film http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/13/friends-of-sam-bacile-a-whos-who-of-the-innocence-of-muslims-film-project/#ixzz26lLbo5xy

YouTube Terrorism, Bruce B. Lawrence http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6387/youtube_terrorism

Muslim Voices Against Extremism and Terrorism

Question: Where are the Muslim voices?
Answer: They are listed here!

TAM began this section in 2001 and it has expanded to become a relatively comprehensive resource.

This resource of The American Muslim has received positive mention in the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University’s recently released report on internet-facilitated radicalization entitled: ”NETworked Radicalization: A Counter-Strategy”. It is also listed as a resource on many other sites, and the new logo has already been picked up by 15 sites. We hope that many more will do this, and that all the organizations working on related projects will be able to connect and work cooperatively.

One hand clapping cannot make enough noise to drown out the extremists, but all of us together can make enough noise to be heard around the world.

AMERICAN MUSLIM RESOURCES (collections of articles and references which are updated regularly)

MUSLIMS DENOUNCE EXTREMISM & TERRORISM

Simply click on the logo on the homepage to go to a lengthy collection of Muslim denunciations of terrorism, extremism, and violence.

A Spiritual Jihad Against Terrorism (5 parts), Sheila Musaji
Muslim Scholars Appeal to Christian Scholars for Dialogue and Peace - “A Common Word”, Sheila Musaji
Muslim Violence, Christian Non-Violence: People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Words, Sheila Musaji
Muslim Voices Against Extremism and Terrorism
list of article collections and resources
- Part I & II Fatwas & Statements by Muslim Scholars & Organizations against extremism and terrorism
- Part III Statements & Articles by Individuals
- Part IV A few Quotes A-K, and L-Z
- Part V Muslim Voices Promoting Islamic Non Violent Solutions
- Part VI Qur’an & Hadith Against Extremism and Terrorism
- Part VII Selective Hearing of Muslim Voices Against Extremism and Terrorism
- Part VIII Religious terrorism is an oxymoron, Sheila Musaji
- Part IX Throwing Stones at the Qur’an From a Biblical Glass House, Sheila Musaji
- Part X Claim that all terrorists are Muslims ignores history
- Part XI Hirabah - Jihad - Terrorism - Violence - Just War - Crusades article collection and resources from TAM and Loonwatch - updated 7/6/12

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