Anti-Muslim film to stay on YouTube after judges dismisses second bid from actress to take it down

Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who appeared in the anti-Muslim film blamed for sparking violence in the Middle East has lost another legal bid to have the trailer taken down from YouTube.

Cindy Lee Garcia, left, was the first actor in the film to speak out against it following the deadly protests in the Middle East, while Anna Gurji, right, agrees they were misled over the film's true contents

A federal judge in Los Angeles denied a motion for injunction on Friday by Cindy Lee Garcia. The judge's ruling means the 14-minute film, which has been blamed for sparking deadly violence, can continue to be viewed online.

Garcia said she was duped by the man behind the film, Mark Bassely Youssef aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Ms Garcia claims the script she saw referenced neither Muslims nor Mohammad. She also said her voice had been dubbed over after filming.

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Garcia lost a similar legal challenge in state court when a judge rejected her lawsuit in September. It wasn't immediately known whether Garcia's attorneys would file an appeal.

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Alleged anti-Muslim filmmaker arrested

The alleged filmmaker behind the video that sparked protests across Muslim countries was arrested and detained without bond on Thursday, as a US judge said she feared he would try to flee.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the alleged director/producer of Innocence of Muslims, appeared in court in Los Angeles after being arrested for breaching the terms of his probation for a 2010 banking fraud conviction.



Prosecutor Robert Dugdale said the 55-year-old had allegedly made eight breaches, including making false statements to probation officers and using at least three different names.

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Anti Muslim Film: Google Refuses to Remove YouTube Video

Despite the outrage expressed by the entire Muslim world and the Muslim community in the USA against the airing of the anti Muslim film and White House officials' asking YouTube to review an anti-Muslim video Friday, the Google-owned site doesn’t have any intention of taking it down, according to The New York Times.

Google told the publication that the “Innocence of Muslims” video does not violate terms of service for YouTube regarding hate speech because it is focused on the Muslim religion and not the people who practice it. Although Google put up a temporary block on the clip in Egypt and Libya due to local violations in those countries, it still remains accessible to most worldwide.

The 14-minute video, which was a trailer for an upcoming “Innocence of Muslims” film thought to be created by an American man — upset the Muslim community for insulting the religion’s Prophet Muhammad.

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Anti Islam Film: Saudi Arabia joins world wide condemnation

Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday a film Muslims consider blasphemous to Islam while denouncing the violent anti-American protests it sparked in some Middle East countries.

"Saudi Arabia has expressed... its condolences to the United States of America for the victims of violent actions in Libya that targeted the American consulate in Benghazi," state news agency SPA reported citing a senior official.

Arab outrage over the virulently Islamophobic film, "Innocence of Muslims", spread to Yemen earlier in the day when hundreds of angry protesters stormed the US embassy in Sanaa. 

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Anti-Muslim film: Afghanistan bans YouTube

Afghanistan banned the YouTube website on Wednesday to stop Afghans watching a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad that sparked protests in North Africa and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

"We have been told to shut down YouTube to the Afghan public until the video is taken down," Aimal Marjan, general director of Information Technology at the Ministry of Communications, told Reuters.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the film, in which Mohammad is portrayed as a philanderer and a religious fake, saying its makers had done a "devilish act" and that insulting Islam was not allowed by freedom of speech.

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