The convicted California scam artist -- whose crude anti-Islam film sparked protests and killings against the United States across the Muslim world -- was sentenced to a year in jail today (November 7, 2012) over probation violations stemming from his role in the video, according to the Reuters website.
The Egyptian-born Coptic Orthodox Christian -- who has been publicly identified as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, but whose legal name is Mark Basseley Youssef -- admitted to several probation violations during a hearing today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
The 13-minute film -- titled "The Innocence of Muslims" and attributed to Youssef, 55 -- portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a fool and a sexual deviant, although cast members have said they were misled by Youssef into appearing in a film they believed was an adventure drama called "Desert Warrior."
The film touched off a torrent of anti-American unrest in Muslim countries. The start of the violence on September 11 coincided with an attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in the Libyan city of Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
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