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From Man Who Insulted Muhammad, No Regret

posted on November 27, 2012

Serge Kovaleski and Brooks Barnes of The New York Times profile Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind the YouTube video “Innocence of Muslims,” which caused outrage and mass protests throughout the Muslim world. Mr. Nakoula, an Egyptian born Coptic Christian, does not regret the violence that his video caused. He insists that the film conveyed “the actual truth” about Muhammad. “I thought, before I wrote this script,” he said, “that I should burn myself in a public square to let the American people and the people of the world know this message that I believe in.” 

Read at The New York Times