Posted on 09/12/2012 12:42:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The material I have viewed, said to be linked to the US embassy attack, is purely and simply an incitement to religious hatred.
I have just watched a YouTube video of clips from a film which, it is claimed, provoked the attack on the American embassy in Libya. It is impossible to completely authenticate them at this stage, or exclude the possibility the clips could have been doctored in some way by the uploaders. However, we do know that the film has been linked to riots in Egypt and the attack in Benghazi in which four embassy staff, including the ambassador, were killed. It's a really nasty piece of lying propaganda: something which deserves to be called hate speech, since hatred is its wellspring and the propagation of hatred is its goal.
It is – obviously – blasphemous to Muslims. Less obviously, it offends against the central values of liberal democracy. The justification of free speech put forward by John Stuart Mill is that the remedy for bad speech is better speech. But this presupposes an interest in truth, and perhaps some agreed means of deciding on it. It's a system that breaks down when confronted with determined and malevolent liars.
The film portrays Muhammad as a pathetic fraud, a child molester. He is an unwanted bastard at birth, and only gains his self-confidence after an older woman summons the cringing young man to her tent and pushes his head under her skirts where he nuzzles her crotch. When he emerges, he has seen visions...
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Does he want medal?
I want a Medal!
I just watched it too.
It was BEYOND Bad.
I'll never get those minutes back :)
One good thing about this article is that by incorrectly invoking John Stuart Mill it disproves Mill. Well, actually it doesn’t, since I don’t agree. But it does argue against him in his name, which is fun.
And .. it has been noted that during the dem’s convention, the statement, “... killed Osama bin Laden” was mentioned 21 times.
Geeeeeee .. ya think that was the reason for the “coordinated attacks” on Americans.
I firmly believe the attacks were coordinated - because there were staff inside the embassy who led the Ambassador to a “safe” house; and then they informed the people conducting the raid .. where to find him .. and they killed him.
I took a look at the video in question. It seems to have been rather easy on the demon-infested, child-molesting Mohammed.
“The glass jaw is nowhere so evident as with Mecca. Blow the place to hell, render the kaaba radioactive dust, and watch the roaches scurry under any rocks available. Islam will cease to exist.”
It’s worth a try. Just show me which button to press.
If they were to do an actual objective documentary on the life of Muhammah and what is actually written in the Koran, it would be as “hate” speech-whatever that means.
Perhaps if every time Christians heard the name of our Lord Jesus taken in vain, rose up and beheaded people, they be treated with more respect.
It is impossible to completely authenticate [the YouTube clips] at this stage, or exclude the possibility the clips could have been doctored in some way by the uploaders. However......that won't stop the repulsive, anti-libertarian shill author of the op-ed to blame premeditated murder on someone OTHER than the murderers. It is my wish that he be dragged out and have his miserable lying head chopped off on TV.
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