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Coptic Church condemns anti-Islam filmCNN's Brian Todd reports on a link between the anti-Islam film and the Coptic Church. The church condemns the movie. New details emerge of anti-Islam film's mystery producerBy Moni Basu, CNN (CNN) - Some time in the summer, a small theater in Los Angeles screened a movie to which hardly anyone came. It was a clunky film filled with scenes in a desert and in tents. The characters were cartoonish; the dialogue gauche. The actors who'd responded to a July 2011 casting call thought they were making an adventure film set 2,000 years ago called "Desert Warrior." That's how Backstage magazine and other acting publications described it. The American-made movie, it turns out, was hardly an innocent Arabian Desert action flick. Read the full story about the director behind the anti-Muslim filmMy Take: A deadly link between Islamic and anti-Islamic extremists
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN What should we make of the attacks on the U.S. consulates in Egypt, Libya and Yemen, and the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens? It depends on who you mean by “we.” From the perspective of those who stormed the embassies, taking down the American flag in Egypt and replacing it with a black flag reading, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger,” theirs was an act of justice on behalf of the One True Faith. Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Thursday, September 13By Arielle Hawkins, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech CNN: Ambassador's killing shines light on Muslim sensitivities around Prophet Mohammed |
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