{"id":481,"date":"2012-09-13T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-09-14T02:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T02:25:57","slug":"the-whole-thing-may-just-be-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/09\/13\/the-whole-thing-may-just-be-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Thing May Just Be a Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"

“[Sam] Bacile, the producer of the film, is not Israeli, and most likely not Jewish, as has been reported, and that the name is, in fact, a pseudonym.”<\/p>\n

There’s more from The Atlantic<\/I> on the search for the folks behind the anti-Muslim film trailer here: “Muhammad-Film Consultant: ‘Sam Bacile’ Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name”<\/A>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/B> [13 September 2012]: “The AP Solves the Mystery of the Man Behind Innocence of Muslims<\/em>“<\/A>.
\n“That man is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55-year-old Coptic Christian with a criminal past who lives in California.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“[Sam] Bacile, the producer of the film, is not Israeli, and most likely not Jewish, as has been reported, and that the name is, in fact, a pseudonym.” There’s more from The Atlantic on the search for the folks behind the anti-Muslim film trailer here: “Muhammad-Film Consultant: ‘Sam Bacile’ Is Not Israeli, and Not a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[111,108,110],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nakoula-basseley-nakoula","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-steve-klein"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Whole Thing May Just Be a Hoax - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/09\/13\/the-whole-thing-may-just-be-a-hoax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Whole Thing May Just Be a Hoax - 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