I'm Not Giving Up My Free Speech Rights Because Some Cretin Made An Anti-Muslim Film

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30. Freedom of speech is not the issue

That's a distraction. Of course you have a right to say almost anything, barring some time and manner restrictions or actual threats.

It's a matter of judgment. If someone's pointing a gun at you of course you have freedom to call him as asshole. But if you find yourself in that position, you may not elect to do so as a matter of judgment.

After the riots over the cartoons, etc., anyone who wants to make fun of Mohamed is free to do so but knows they are going to upset somebody to an extreme level. Something about our society or freedom makes us able to handle insults to Christ much better, apparently. It's a cultural thing we have trouble understanding.

But I see no reason to provoke Muslims on this, other than to provide "proof" they are inferior to us. That seems to be the whole point of doing these things.