"Concerning the recent developments in the Arab World and the outrageous parody of the Prophet Muhammed, I should say that it was a deliberate provocation aimed at disrupting society," the official said.
Innocence of Muslims is an anti-Islamic video, reported to have been written and produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, using the pseudonym of "Sam Bacile". The 14-minute video clips were initially uploaded to YouTube in July 2012, under the titles The Real Life of Muhammad and Muhammad Movie Trailer. Videos dubbed into the Arabic language were uploaded in early September 2012, and were promoted by Morris Sadek by email and on the blog of the National American Coptic Assembly. On September 9, 2012, an excerpt of the YouTube video was broadcast on Al-Nas TV, an Egyptian Islamist television station.
Demonstrations and violent protests against the film broke out on September 11 in Egypt and Libya, and spread to other Arab and Muslim nations and some western countries. According to U.S. and Libyan officials, an armed attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012 that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, may have been a pre-planned attack unrelated to the videos.
