By September, the amateur low-budget film had been dubbed into Arabic and brought to the attention of Muslims by Egyptian blogger Morris Sadek. Morris Sadek is an Egyptian American Coptic Christian lawyer and activist who reportedly brought YouTube video "Innocence of Muslims" to the attention of the Arabic-speaking world, where it was denounced by protesters at American embassies and consulates.

His Egyptian citizenship had previously been invalidated for promoting peace with Israel and attacking Islam. On September 6, 2012, he is reported to have sent out mails to journalists containing the link to the 14-minute version of the film "Innocence of Muslims". Innocence of Muslims is an anti-Islam video, thought to have been written and produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, using the pseudonym of "Sam Bacile".

The 2011 film's original working title was "Desert Warrior", and told the story of "tribal battles prompted by the arrival of a comet on Earth." Though the story had no religious references, anti-Islamic content was added post production by overdubbing, reportedly without the actors' knowledge. 

According to a self-described consultant to the film, the full-length feature film was shown only once to the public to an audience of fewer than ten people at a rented theater in Hollywood, California. Videos, each approximately 14 minutes in length, claimed to be "trailers" of a longer film were uploaded to YouTube in July 2012 by the user "Sam Bacile" under the titles, "The Real Life of Muhammad" and "Muhammad Movie Trailer".

In a statement obtained by CNN, the film's 80 cast and crew members denied the film, saying: "The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer. We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose." It further explained, "We are shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred."

According to Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress in the film, "Bacile" claimed to be an Israeli real estate tycoon. Later, however, he told her he was Egyptian and she heard him speaking in Arabic with other men on set. Initial reports described "Sam Bacile" as a 56-year-old (52-year-old according to the Wall Street Journal) real estate developer from Israel. 

By September 13, 2012, "Sam Bacile" was identified as Nakoula Basseley, a Coptic Christian immigrant from Egypt living in, California, near Los Angeles. In 1990s, Nakoula served prison time for manufacturing methamphetamine. In 2010, he was entreated to bank fraud and was sentenced to 21 months in prison; he was released on probation from prison in June 2011. Authorities said Nakoula told the police that he had written the movie's script while in prison and, together with his son, rose between $50,000 and $60,000 from his wife's family in Egypt to finance the film.

As the film surfaced, the Muslim world echoed with demonstration as thousands of enraged protesters burnt US flags and chanted anti-US slogans, burnt public and private estates and strongly condemned the production of the sacrilegious video, which desecrated the sanctity of Islam and mocked the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as well as portraying Islam as an oppressive religion. Protests erupted in several countries including Egypt, Iran, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan in response to the sacrilegious film.

In Afghanistan too, Protests against a blasphemous movie spread across several Afghan cities, with demonstrators blocking highways, burning the US president's effigies, and demanding the death penalty for the moviemaker. President Hamid Karzai said the filmmakers had committed "a devilish act".

I do assert that the film, indeed, is highly offensive to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and his companions, held in high respect by around 1.6 billion Muslims, accounting for over 20% of the earth's population.
Nevertheless, the huge losses rendered as a result of demonstration, ranging from personnel, economic and infrastructural is incalculable. The violent retaliation displayed across the Muslim countries, reflected the maligned pro-peace image of Muslims and their delayed comprehension, retaliating the conspiracies discreetly.

In the aforementioned case, the freedom of speech can't be questioned, with the hate and reactionary conduct of a religiously bigoted person, was personal and ill-intentioned, meant to create chaos and anguish in Muslim world. The flawed course we chose to retaliate violently escalated our agony instead of lessening.

I believe that every freedom comes with an equal responsibility. Such expression, may be as a reflection of one's beliefs, is presented in a manner that can lead to direct and presumably intentional harm towards an individual or group or may inflame violence, therefore, is a crime.

The film, in short, has nothing to do with freedom of expression. It is in poor taste, of poor quality, and a deliberate insult to Islam and Muslims. No doubt about that. It is utterly unacceptable; however, that so much violence should erupt because of an obscure movie which would have remained obscure had Muslims not created such a protest about it.

If the filmmakers were misinformed, either deliberately or not, then Muslims are responsible for not explaining the true nature of their faith to the world, or marketing its true values. They are to be blamed for letting terrorists like Osama bin Laden hijack Islam and ruin its name.

The response to the film is a very far cry from what Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was all about, being compassionate, just, having sound family values, and strong faith. When terrorists using the name of Islam strike the heart of New York, or detonate bombs in the London Underground, this makes it more difficult to defend that Muslims promote peace; though Islam preaches peace and denounces violence.

As this tale continues to unfolds, I pray that we do not demean ourselves in the process by indulging in the same sort of religious offence and revulsion that the producer of this film indulged in. While using all our resources to bring the culprits to justice, already provided within the law, I hope that we do not take law into our own hands.

The genuine way out is filing petition in the international court of justice, asking for immediate severe penalty to a criminal who shattered religious harmony, breaching international peace. Another intelligible response may be the creation of a film, containing educational value, to the portion of world, living in the shadow of ignorance and one dimensional indulgence.

A good movie about Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), similar to the 1976 classic production Messenger of God (made by the Syrian-based Hollywood director Mustapha al-Akkad) would have done the Prophet more justice than the riots we witnessed in many Muslim countries. 

A good word of advice is to think big and avoid the accessories of critical articles, cartoons, or sick movies. Islam and the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) are much greater than these small, really small, tiny, issues.