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

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40. I agree, EXCEPT it appears that the filmmaker may have committed a crime

or at least some extremely unethical behavior that SHOULD be a crime, if it isn't.

Not merely for "insulting" someone's god-figure.

This is what I am referring to:

http://www.onthemedia.org/blogs/on-the-media/2012/sep/12/religious-references-innocence-muslims-dubbed/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.html

If what they did isn't illegal, it should be.

And I do think they should be prosecuted for THAT to the fullest extent possible.

But I agree about the First Amendment and rule of law. There is no reason on this earth that people should get away with trying to justify violence because of someone else's sick ideas that they made the mistake (for the rest of us) in putting into film or print. I do think it's a "clash of civilizations" or at least fundamental concepts of civilization, when you have a group of people thinking it's a-ok to murder people based on an insult, and especially when the murdered ones are people who had absolutely NOTHING to do with the insult. That is a sick view of the world that we should not accept.