May 22, 2013
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Innocence of Muslims is reportedly a 2012 anti-Muslim film about the Prophet Muhammad, the trailers for which triggered the September 11, 2012 storming of the United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and a rocket attack on an embassy personnel car of the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in at least four deaths of US diplomatic personnel, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The film's exact origins are unclear, although it is said to have been produced and directed by an individual named Sam Bacile.A September 12 article in Buzzfeed questioned whether the entire film had ever existed at all, suggesting that only the film's 13- or 14-minute "movie trailer" that was posted to YouTube ever actually existed. They suggested that most of the names in the trailer were overdubbed, suggesting that it could have been assembled from several films using little more than Final Cut Pro. An International Business Times article also asked in a headline, "Is it all a hoax?"
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