[the anti-liberal]

I rarely post, but I think Eugene Volokh's comments on this issue can contribute meaningfully to this discussion.

If there are any excerpting requirements related to 'The Volokh Conspiracy' I apologize for not properly adhering to them.

[the anti-liberal]

And fwiw, I really don’t think the movie in question is the cause of all of this, that it’s been used as a pretext, and I’m ashamed that our administration and press haven’t come to this conclusion themselves.

[Tennessee Nana]

WANTED: MOHAMMAD the INFIDEL

For murder, child rape, plunder, mayham, religious hate crimes

Considered dangerous: Shoot on sight

[Lurker]

It would lead to more deaths because Americans would get tired of seeing their friends and neighbors hauled away and they start shooting the folks who were doing the hauling. Just sayin’.

[Hardraade]

We should take their blasphemy-definitions and stuff them down their throat. With lard.

[Joseph Harrolds]

Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place. [Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long]