US diplomatic outposts in Egypt, Libya attacked over inflammatory anti-Islam film financed by Sam Bacile, Israeli-American real estate developer

The film is laughably bad. You'd see better acting and story lines in bargain-bin smut or even in a Kirk Cameron feature.
 

The movie was made by Sam Bacile, an Israeli-American real-estate developer, according to the Wall Street Journal, and promoted by Koran-burning Florida evangelist Terry Jones.

Bacile -- who wrote, directed and produced the film -- said he wanted to showcase his view of Islam as a hateful religion, the Journal reported, citing a telephone interview with him.

     Bacile, 52, told the newspaper that to make the film, he had raised $5 million from about 100 Jewish donors, who he declined to identify. He said he made the two-hour movie over a three-month period last year in California, using about 60 actors and 45 crew members, the Journal reported.

Proving once again that he is clueless about international diplomacy and ruthless about putting politics above statesmanship, Mitt Romney pounced on US diplomatic efforts to diffuse the situation by claiming that the Obama administration's first response was "to sympathize" with the attackers (because it deplored efforts to denigrate religion.)
     An Obama campaign spokesman responded by saying they were "shocked" that Romney would "choose to launch a political attack" shortly after the death of a U.S. official. A State Department officer was killed in Benghazi, Libya, after armed protesters stormed the consulate.