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UPenn prof calls for imprisonment of filmmaker Sam Bacile; Update: Butler locks her Twitter account
Twitchy ^ | September 12, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 09/12/2012 11:55:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Butler@AntheaButler

Good Morning. How soon is Sam Bacile going to be in jail folks? I need him to go now.When Americans die because you are stupid...

12 Sep 12

Anthea Butler is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of her most recent book, The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right, gives you a pretty good idea of where she stands politically.

This morning, she strongly implied that Sam Bacile is responsible for yesterday’s embassy attacks and, as a result, should be tossed into jail.

Bacile is an Israeli filmmaker who lives in California and has gone into hiding. He made the crappy movie that is being used as a pretext to justify the violence that erupted in Egypt and Libya yesterday.

But is making a movie that makes Muslims angry a crime? Butler appears to think so.

Of course, like any academic, Butler purports to support free speech rights:

@AntheaButler

And yes, I know we have First Amendment rights,but if you don't understand the Religion you hate, STFU about it. Yes, I am ticked off.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

But it is clear that she gets most excited when arguing that those rights are highly circumscribed:

@AntheaButler

@blmoyer And people do to jail for speech. First Amendment doesn't cover EVERYTHING a PERSON says.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

@AntheaButler

I am all for free speech, but you better damn well understand that actions have consequences, and what you mock is another persons belief.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

@AntheaButler

@jason_a_hines the murder of the Ambassador and the employees is wrong, wrong. But Bacile will have to face his actions which he had freedom— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

Sounds like Anthea Butler, Sally Kohn, and Mike Barnicle would get along swimmingly.

Related: Twitter users call for the arrest and murder of Terry Jones

Update: Butler has gone into CYA-mode and locked her Twitter account.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academia; antheabutler; egypt; inquisition; islam; libya; muslims; obama; palin; pennsylvania; univpennsylvania; upenn
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To: LibLieSlayer

You’re far too kind.


61 posted on 09/12/2012 3:40:01 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let a thousand insults bloom on YouTube. No, make it a million.


62 posted on 09/12/2012 3:45:50 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe we should start and they’ll finally shut up.


63 posted on 09/12/2012 3:53:15 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useful idiots.)
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To: liberalh8ter
It's those danged etiquette classes that I have been taking. I apologize.

LLS

64 posted on 09/12/2012 4:05:09 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: freedumb2003

Never forget .... this is insulting but PISS CHRIST IS ART!


65 posted on 09/12/2012 4:45:34 PM PDT by willyd (Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I should have known without looking—one of the perpetually pissed affirmative action coven.


66 posted on 09/12/2012 4:48:24 PM PDT by miserare
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To: LibLieSlayer

LOL. I think you’re getting your monies worth. ;P


67 posted on 09/12/2012 4:50:24 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: I Drive Too Fast

Too many letters....you are limited to four and they must rhyme with “OOP”.


68 posted on 09/12/2012 5:43:09 PM PDT by BilLies
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Anthea Butler is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of her most recent book, "The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin's Tea Party Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right", gives you a pretty good idea of where she stands politically. This morning, she strongly implied that Sam Bacile is responsible for yesterday's embassy attacks and, as a result, should be tossed into jail.
Anthea Butler has her head up her ass, and should be fired and blackballed. Miserable, hateful, bitch ping.
69 posted on 09/12/2012 9:00:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s arguing that free speech should be circumscribed? She’s equating people’s criticism of the Moslem religion with the shouting of “Fire” in a crowded theater.

And yes, Christianity is mocked and reviled daily in this country, and no one bats an eyelash.


70 posted on 09/12/2012 9:12:42 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

ought to ask them about a cross in a jar of piss, and what they would think about the koran in similar situation.


71 posted on 09/12/2012 9:15:56 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: thecodont

Maybe Christians should do some push-back. Yes, I understand “turn the other cheek” but Our Lord also said “he who is without a sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one.”


72 posted on 09/12/2012 9:19:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What would Geert Wilders do?


73 posted on 09/12/2012 9:21:58 PM PDT by thecodont
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