





Nakoula (seen above) was sentenced to 21 months in prison to be followed by six months in a halfway house. Upon completion of the custodial term, he was placed on probation for five years.





Snyder’s eventual sentence was about a year less than the punishment sought by probation officials and federal prosecutors.

According to the transcript of Nakoula’s sentencing, his lawyer provided Snyder with a character letter from a “Mr. Henanin,” who “knows the defendant on a personal basis, goes to church with him.” Attorney James Henderson added that “Henanin” described Nakoula as “a God-fearing man whose first priority is his family.”

The mention of “Mr. Henanin” is likely a reference to Zakaria Botros Henein, a radical Coptic cleric whose followers in southern California include Nakoula and two other men linked to “Innocence of Muslims.”

A September 16 Los Angeles Times story reported that Henein is “known around the globe for insults to the prophet Muhammad that are strikingly similar to those in the film.” The preacher, the Times added, is “sometimes called Islam's Public Enemy No. 1,” and has taught that “Muhammad was a necrophile, a homosexual, and a pedophile.”