Washington: US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticised on Friday the makers of “Innocence of Muslims”, the film that sparked protests across the world, and said it was a “a terrible idea”.
Romney said it was wrong for producers of the film to put out a movie that would offends peoples’ faith.
“I think the whole film is a terrible idea,” Romney said in an interview on ABC that aired early Friday.
“I think him making it, promoting it, showing it, is disrespectful to people of other faiths. I don’t think that should happen. I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment — the good judgment — not to offend other people’s faiths.”
The self-proclaimed producer of the film is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55-year-old Coptic Christian living in California.
The most high-profile victim of the protests so far is US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens who was killed along with three other US officials during a mob violence in the country.
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