• "Innocence of Muslims" filmmaker jailed for probation violations
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20247187[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]A US man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to mass protests in the Middle East has been sentenced to a year in jail for probation violations.[/B] Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was sentenced by a judge in California after admitting four violations which stem from a 2010 conviction for fraud. Nakoula, 55, was arrested in September weeks after going into hiding. Dozens of people died in the Middle East in protests over the film the Innocence of Muslims. Prosecutors had been seeking a two-year sentence for Nakoula. After the 2010 conviction he had served most of a 21-month jail sentence for using more than a dozen aliases and opening about 60 bank accounts to conduct a cheque fraud scheme, prosecutors said. Nakoula also goes by the name of Sam Bacile, Nicola Bacily and Mark Basseley Yousseff and is believed to be an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian.[/quote]
Perfectly fits a movie plot where this sentence is in fact a set-up just to get rid of him for causing so much trouble. I guess I have no choice other than to trust that this isn't the case in reality though.
I hope the BBC knows that the film isn't the main reason for the protests.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was some kind of way to protect him until people forget about him. What better way to make sure someone is safe than putting him in jail?
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38361806]I wouldn't be surprised if this was some kind of way to protect him until people forget about him. What better way to make sure someone is safe than putting him in jail?[/QUOTE] I wouldn't even be surprised if they paid him to violate his probation and he lives a super deluxe life in prison for a year now.
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38361806]I wouldn't be surprised if this was some kind of way to protect him until people forget about him. What better way to make sure someone is safe than putting him in jail?[/QUOTE] You can't protect him when a list of all the names he goes by is floating around for anyone to see, and a radical extremist isn't going to simply forget about him
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