People looking for the provocateur, because we’re all powerless to touch the Islamists who attack and kill at the drop of a religious provocation, are digging up information on “Sam Bacile,” who likely is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Here and here, for instance. (H/T Doug Masson).

He’s supposedly a Coptic Christian, though the Copts have disowned the film and deny his observance of their faith, even if he may have been baptized Coptic Christian.

My money (but not much of it) is that he’s some kind of Krustian ideologue associated with apocalyptic thought. He appeared to be trying to stir up animosity between Jews and Arab Musilims. Peggy Noonan calls him “Princip.”

But only I have his picture!

Finally, although I early defended the movie trailer as “free speech,” I’m having more trouble doing that when the author won’t own up to it, it appears deliberately intended to provoke violence if not outright Middle East war, and it hardly seems to fit the mold of getting very unpopular opinion out through an anonymous pamphlet.