Complex sentence: Director Akkad faced resistance from Jewish-dominated Hollywood which equated Islam with Palestinians, to making a film about the origins of Islam and had to go outside the United States to raise the production money for the film.
Split into simpler sentences: Director Akkad faced resistance from Jewish-dominated Hollywood which equated Islam with Palestinians, to making a film about the origins of Islam. Al Akkad had to go outside the United States to raise the production money for the film.