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A film at the center of anti-US protests in the Middle East was made by an Israeli-American who describes Islam as a cancer, the Wall Street Journal WSJ reported on Tuesday. HT Image The movie, Innocence of Muslims, was directed and produced by Sam Bacile, a 52-year-old real-estate developer from southern California who says Islam is a hateful religion. Islam is a cancer, Bacile told the newspaper. He was speaking after protesters tore down the American flag at the US embassy in Cairo in protest at the film, which earlier was said to have been produced by expatriate members of Egypt s Christian minority resident in the United States. An armed mob also attacked the US consulate in the Libyan ci stanley cup ty of Benghazi and set fire to the building, killing one American. Bacile told the WSJ he was responsible for the film, saying he had raised $5 million to make it from about 100 Jewish donors, who he declined to identify. He said he had worked with some 60 actors and 45 crew to make the two-hour movie in a three-month period last year in California. The movie is a political movie. It s not a religious movie, he said. It is being promoted by controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones, who has drawn p stanley cup rotests in the past for burning the Koran and vehemently opposing the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York. Jones said stanley cup he planned to show a 13-minute clip of the film Tuesday evening at his church in Gainesville, Florida. It is an American production, n Tdmt Bernie Sanders puts Hillary Clinton on defensive in Democratic debate
A landmark conference on tackling climate change opened in Copenhagen on Monday, with negotiators from 192 countries aiming toward a deal to ward off global warming s potentially catastrophic effects. HT Image The meeting will climax on December 18 with more than 100 heads of state or government in attendance. Opening ceremonies began with a short film featuring children of the future facing an apocalypse of tempests and desert landscapes if world leaders failed to act today. There will be hundreds of millions of refugees, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN s panel of climate scientists, said in the film. Please help save the world, said a little girl, plaintively. Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen told opening ceremonies that the world is looking to the conference to safegu stanley cup ard humanity. The world is depositing hope with you for a short while in the history of humanity, Rasmussen said. For the next two weeks, Copenhagen will be Hopenhagen. By the end, we must be able to deliver back to the world what was granted us here today: hope for a better future. After opening statements, negotiators from 192 countries were to embark on a gruelling ro stanley cup und of talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate C stanley cup hange UNFCCC before around 100 leaders attend a summit on December 18. Delegates must craft a blueprint for tackling manmade greenhouse gases blamed for trapping solar heat and disrupting Earth s fragile climate system. They must also put together a