An expert on Islam asserts that the U.S. media is not giving Americans the entire story on the violence in the Middle East that has killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others. He expects the violence against Coptic Christians to get worse.
Media reports blame the recent murders and ongoing violence against U.S. embassies in more than 20 countries on the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims, which ridicules the prophet Mohammad and Islam. But Joe Carey of Radical Truth says that claim is far from the case.
"It was not the spontaneous result of a group of ordinary street Muslims angered over a video," he asserts. "The weaponry that was used in Benghazi was very sophisticated -- not something your average Muslim on the street would have."
DEBKAfile reports that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is rated by terror experts as the most "ambitious outrage al Qaeda has pulled off in the last decade." Officials are still investigating whether the attack was a planned event under the guise of public protests.
"It was no doubt a reprisal timed to coincide with the celebration of 9/11 and was actually a reprisal attack for a U.S. drone attack that occurred a few months ago that killed a senior al Qaeda leader," Carey contends.
He points out that intelligence sources had warned the U.S. that an attack was imminent, and reports now show that a top secret safe house about which only insiders knew was also attacked the same night.
Now, the Radical Truth founder believes Nakoula Basseley Nakoula's anti-Muslim film will generate more violence against Coptic Christians, as the California filmmaker reportedly identifies as such. (Listen to audio report)
"It's unfortunate that our media has identified the person who created that video as a Coptic Christian," Carey states, as "that has no bearing on the video. What it has done essentially is put all Coptic Christians, particularly in Egypt, their lives are now at stake, because Muslims are going to associate Coptic Christians with this video that supposedly was released that insulted Prophet Mohammad."
Coptic Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church and were once a majority in Egypt, but they now make up roughly ten percent of the country. Still, the group is the largest Christian community in the Middle East.
"Mohammed himself personally ordered many of his detractors to be beheaded, to be slaughtered -- killed, essentially. So, Mohammed is the one that set the pattern of behavior for anyone who dares to insult the prophet," Carey reasons. "So, that's why we see Muslims doing the same thing today."
The bishop of the church Basseley attends has declared that he does not agree with the views portrayed in the anti-Muslim film. He insists it is wrong to blame all Coptic Christians for the film.