Scenes from the crudely made anti-Muslim video are explicit: Men dressed in head coverings and robes beat and slash a girl wearing a cross and burn the homes of “forsaken Christians” as Egyptian police do nothing.

Excerpts from the amateurish, California-made video — called “The Innocence of Muslims,” although it is not clear that a complete film exists — have set off days of violence in the Middle East, and provoked condemnation from U.S.-based members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority.

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