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(25,699 posts)Because as far as I can tell, you're so bent that you're talking into your own ass.
There is such a thing as protected speech. This is forms of speech that are covered by the first amendment.This distinction allows that there are also un-protected forms of speech, which are not guaranteed by the first amendment. For instance, I cannot threaten the life of an elected official and pretend that, so long as i don't carry through the first amendment protects me. it oesn't, that's not "protected speech." Libel, slander, intimidation, incitement.. .these are forms of unprotected speech.
The filmmaker isn't "poking fun," he's not "criticising," he's not the clear-eyed visionary and crusader for freedom and liberty that you and these other dumbfucks are trying to cast him as, in your own desperate attempts to pat your own backs over how tolerant and open-minded you are.
This film is a creation of a filmmaker whose agenda is clearly stated, to "expose Islam as a cancer" that needs to be wiped out. it doesn't say Mohammed is "full of shit" (well, it DOES say that, but there's more). It expresses the notion that Muslims - ALL MUSLIMS - are violent, evil, subhuman scum, driven to wanton death and destruction, because all Muslims glorify a rapist and mass-murderer as god. because of this, all Muslims are evil, evil, evil creatures, and should be cleared away for the good of mankind.
Yes, one point five billion human beings are all rapacious, beady-eyed subhuman monsters that the world would be better-off without. That's the message you're so vigorously defending here, and I hope you're proud to be marching to that tune.
There's satire - Life of Brian, for instance, or The Infidel - an then there's incitement. If you make a film that posits that nearly a third of the human beings on the planet are evil monsters that need to be gotten rid of, no, you DON'T get to shrug it off when that message results in people getting hurt. Especially not if your intent is clearly to cause that very reaction.