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In reply to the discussion: Film That Sparked Cairo, Bengazi Protests The Work Of An American-Israeli [View all]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Coptic activists in Egypt called for a vigil Wednesday in protest against a film deemed offensive to Islam that sparked violence outside U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, they said in a statement.
The Maspero Youth Union and the Coalition of Coptic Egypt condemned all sorts of contempt or disdain against any religion, as well as to the sowing of sedition between people who embrace different religions, the statement said.
The MYU said it would be holding a vigil Wednesday night in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in protest against the film.
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In Egypt, however, the perception in the media inflamed by fundamentalist Muslim preachers on satellite channels is that the film was made by Egyptian Copts living in the U.S.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Sep-13/187717-egyptian-copts-to-protest-against-islam-insult-film.ashx#ixzz26Ik62AC3
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
now I'll give you that it may have been Egyptian Copts in the US that translated the film into Egyptian Arabic but what about this guy Klien that HuffPo interviewed, he isn't neccassaryly Jewish but I'd wager he isn't an Egyptian Copt either
oh BTW the paragraph I snipped out restated the allegations about the film being made by an American Israeli Jew