By Jamal Boubakri
By Jamal Boubakri
Morocco World News
Washington, D.C., September 28, 2012
On Thursday, a US federal judge ordered the producer of the controversial anti-Islam movie to be held in jail without bail, considering him as a danger to the community. On his first court appearance, the filmmaker identified himself as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. He was handcuffed and shackled during the court hearing.
The chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal ruled that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, could be held for eight alleged probation violations, including false statements to a federal officer. Nakoula was convicted in 2010 for federal check fraud.
When Nakoula produced his controversial movie “Innocence of Muslims,” he identified himself as Sam Bacile. The anti-Islam movie went viral when someone translated the script of the movie into Arabic.
After the media in the Arab world discovered the movie on YouTube, protests broke out across the Muslim world from Tunis, Benghazi, Cairo, to Khartoum to Indonesia. On September 11, angry Libyan protesters attacked the embassy in Libya, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, among them the ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Google has said in a statement last week that the movie being on YouTube doesn’t violate their terms and conditions and refused to delete it “since it respects the freedom of expression” as enshrined in the US constitution.
