Hollywood producer who made a pro-Mohammad movie is killed by Islamic terrorists

Reuters:

Hollywood Arab film director Moustapha Akkad has died in hospital from wounds sustained in this week's hotel bomb attacks in Jordan, Arab television stations said on Friday.

One of the few Arab directors known in the West, the Syrian-born Akkad had been staying in one of three luxury hotels hit by suicide bombers in Amman on Wednesday, killing at least 56 people, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya said.

His daughter was killed immediately in one of the blasts.

Akkad was executive producer of the "Halloween" horror films and directed a 1976 English-language movie about the Prophet Mohammad starring Anthony Quinn, "The Message".

In his controversial epic about early Islam, Akkad faced the challenge of shooting a movie where viewers neither see nor hear the main character because of Islam's ban on images of Mohammad.

Quinn played the Prophet's uncle Hamza.

Born in Aleppo in 1935, Akkad also directed the 1981 film "Lion of the Desert", in which Quinn starred as Libyan anti-colonial fighter Omar Mukhtar.

"Halloween" producer Moustapha Akkad of LA dies in Jordan blasts

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