{"id":4006,"date":"2012-11-08T03:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/anti-islam-filmmaker-jailed-in-us\/"},"modified":"2012-11-08T03:49:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:49:04","slug":"anti-islam-filmmaker-jailed-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/anti-islam-filmmaker-jailed-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Islam Filmmaker Jailed in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1794 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/anti-islam.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{The man behind the anti-Islam video blamed for sparking widespread protests in the Muslim world was jailed for a year Wednesday for breaching the terms of his probation for a previous offense.}}<\/p>\n<p>Mark Basseley Youssef will serve the sentence in federal prison after he admitted four allegations of using false identities, violating the terms of his probation for a bank fraud conviction in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old was identified as the main man behind &#8220;Innocence of Muslims,&#8221; which triggered a wave of protests in September, and was initially blamed for an attack which killed the US ambassador to Libya. <\/p>\n<p>In February 2009, a federal indictment accused Youssef and others of fraudulently obtaining the identities and Social Security numbers of customers at several Wells Fargo branches in California and withdrawing $860 from them.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in September for eight probation violations. At a hearing last month he denied all counts, but on Wednesday he admitted to four, in return for the other four being set aside.<\/p>\n<p>US. District Judge Christina A. Snyder said Youssef, who has already spent five weeks in custody, must spend 12 months behind bars, followed by four years of supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>Youssef was previously listed as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, and known as Sam Bacile when the protests about the video emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The amateurish film depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a thuggish deviant offended many Muslims, and sparked a wave of anti-US protests that cost dozens of lives and saw mobs set US missions, schools and businesses ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>It was also linked to the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. <\/p>\n<p>Assistant US Attorney Robert Dugdale said Youssef had &#8220;betrayed&#8221; the actors involved in the &#8220;Innocence of Muslims,&#8221; by not telling them he was a &#8220;recently released convicted felon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian-born Coptic Christian also deceived them by dubbing anti-Islamic dialogue over their lines after the movie was shot. &#8220;He made that choice for other people,&#8221; the prosecutor said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The man behind the anti-Islam video blamed for sparking widespread protests in the Muslim world was jailed for a year Wednesday for breaching the terms of his probation for a previous offense.}} Mark Basseley Youssef will serve the sentence in federal prison after he admitted four allegations of using false identities, violating the terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}