Mr. S, you already know the answer. They hate Mel for his work with the "Passion" movie so he has to PAY!!!!!! Also, the glorification of celebrities makes his faux pas so much worse.
Secondly, again, as you know, Muslims are to be treated special, so Mr. Jihad can shoot up a few Jews - no prob.
Yeah, but...
There once was a trial. I may get a fact or two slightly off in here, buit the story is true. A woman had failed to secure her vicious Rottweiler on numerous occasions, and never dealt with the problem despite many complaints from the neighbors. Some days while she was at work the thing would just roam the neighborhooduntil she came home. One day it chased two brothers. They oldest one stayed on the ground so he could make sure his little brother made it up a tree. The dog mauled him to death while his little brother watched helplessly. We'll call the dead boy Johnny Smith.
After establishing beyond reasonable doubt that the woman was a bad actor who knew the dangers and didn't care, the prosecutor could have gone into closing arguments, reviewed a few facts, and won his case. Instead, he finished his closing argument by pulling out a $5 padlock he had bought at a discount store. He held it up, clicked it closed, and said "A five dollar lock, and Johnny Smith is still alive."
Sure, I know why Mel was roasted over a slow fire while the media ignored an act of terrorism...but consider this column my $5 Wal-Mart padlock.