If we're not supposed to condemn the jerks that made the anti-islam movie

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152. There is a massive and fundamental difference between this movie and the ones you cited.

Movies like The Eternal Jew or books like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are created to vilify living people. Both of those works painted Jews as part of some grand conspiracy against the world, and were designed to foment hatred toward every Jewish person in the world.

Movies like this new one don't do that. It certainly attacks the founders of the religion itself, but it doesn't paint Muslims as part of any conspiracy, doesn't smear modern Muslims, and doesn't defame or attack any living person. It simply says, "The person who founded this religion was a nut."

An non-Muslim equivalent would be a movie painting Abraham as a schizophrenic or Jesus Christ as a violent womanizer. Either of these would be highly offensive to Jews and Christians. Still, if some Muslim made a movie depicting Jesus Christ as a womanizing manipulator who designed his religion as a con for the gullible, and a bunch of Baptist fundies went on a rampage and shot up a mosque in response, would you blame the filmmaker for the violence? Should the filmmaker be sued or jailed?

If an atheist is interviewed on TV and says "I think that Abraham, Jesus, and Mohammed were all nuts", and Muslims riot and kill people because of it, should that atheist be held liable? Should one faith (or lack of faith) be forced to bury their opinions simply because it conflicts with the opinions of another more violent faith?