Imagine that you hear some people are plotting now to do something aimed at provoking you and making you react angrily and show your worst side instead of continuing in the new way paved by the Arab Spring revolutions. Here you have two choices: either not to provide them with this opportunity and surprise them with a different and positive reaction, or to confirm your image in their mind, on which they have built their provocative act in the first place. Unfortunately, that was the case with the crisis called ‘the anti-prophet movie’.

Imagine that you hear some people are plotting now to do something aimed at provoking you and making you react angrily and show your worst side instead of continuing in the new way paved by the Arab Spring revolutions. Here you have two choices: either not to provide them with this opportunity and surprise them with a different and positive reaction, or to confirm your image in their mind, on which they have built their provocative act in the first place. Unfortunately, that was the case with the crisis called ‘the anti-prophet movie’.

Amid all of this anger at the movie, which perhaps led to the killing of the American ambassador to Libya and lay siege to the American Embassies in Cairo and elsewhere, no one has stopped to think of obvious facts: does the USA have anything to do with the movie?  What is the relationship to the director to Hollywood?  Is the USA supposed to control each and every camera that shoots movies throughout all of its fifty states?

The USA doesn’t censor movies, and up till this moment, all have distanced themselves from the movie. Consequently, there are certainly better ways to respond, but this argument didn’t reach the protestors around the American embassies.  All information confirmed that the offensive movie just aims at provocation; artistically, it is so poor that no movie theatre would show it.

It has been confirmed that the movie was shown only once, last July in Los Angeles and very few people attended the screening. The $ 5 million budget of the movie can not be taken seriously because it was shot using Chroma Key, and the actors are amateur with very poor acting skills.    

But now, any movie theatre can advertise the movie under the pretext of protecting freedom of expression, which is now threatened by the angry Muslim protesters. People in the Arab countries get angry if someone defames God or his Prophet but they don’t get upset about any of the issues they are ordered to support by Islam, such as Palestine’s occupation, human rights and the injured of the revolution.

Instead, protestors have given the producer a golden opportunity and pushed the whole world to watch his movie of which only 13 minutes are available on YouTube. These short minutes are loaded with outright lies and insults to Prophet Muhammad and Muslims in the past and the present.

Many of those who have taken part in the movie have disavowed it after the reactions proved to be deadly.  Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress in the movie says the producer misled her and told her the movie was about the Egyptians who lived 2,000 years ago, and entitled ‘Desert Fighters’.

It is worth mentioning that the movie is available on YouTube under many names including “Muhammad’s Real Life”, “Prophet Muhammad”, “Muslims’ Innocence” and “Islam’s Biggest Scandal”. Garcia’s statements to gawker.com reveal that she lacks a minimum level of education, as she didn’t understand what the movie was all about and repeated the offending lines without knowing their meaning.

Garcia also confirms that some of her lines had been altered during editing and that it didn’t occur to her that what she was doing what would kill innocent people, in reference to the painful end of the American ambassador.

Thus, we have been deceived where we should have been careful.  If protests had sent complaint reports on YouTube, the famous website would have been forced to remove all the links to the available movie clips. Even though moviemakers agree that it is not a professional movie, it has entered history thanks to the anger’s revolution.