YouTube may show 'Innocence of Muslims' film: U.S. court

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Source: Reuters

Google Inc should not have to remove an anti-Islamic film from its YouTube website because a woman complained that she was duped into performing in the film that depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a pedophile, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.

In a case widely followed for its potential impact on the entertainment industry, an 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said an injunction prohibiting Google from broadcasting the film should be lifted.

A three-judge panel had ordered Google to remove the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims." Billed as a trailer, it triggered anti-American sentiment among Muslims in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in 2012.

For many Muslims, any depiction of the prophet is considered blasphemous.


Read more: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAKBN0O31R220150518

[valerief]

1. I'm so fuckin' sick of religion. nt

[barbtries]

2. amen.

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