Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Was Meth Cook

If you watched clips of Innocence of Muslims—the low-budget anti-Muslim flop that sparked the attack on the US Embassy in Libya—and asked yourself what kind of drugs would compel a man to make such a thing, the answer is meth. Nakoula Bassleley Nakoula, who hid behind the alias "Sam Bacile" throughout the film's production, pleaded guilty to a charge of intent to manufacture methamphetamine in 1997. Nakoula, who calls Islam a “penis-driven religion” and a “cancer,” raised $5 million from Jewish donors to make the movie that depicts the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer, pedophile and a homosexual. He claims to feel bad for the death of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, but doesn't feel it was his fault: “I feel the security system [at the embassies] is no good,” he says. “America should do something to change it.” Actors in the film claim they were led to believe they were making a movie called “Desert Warriors” and that the anti-Muslim lines were dubbed in later.