The Muhammad Movie Riots
Muslims in twenty-one countries demonstrated against a YouTube movie about Muhammad Friday. Adding to the death toll that began with Ambassador Chris Stevens and his associates in Libya, three people were killed as Islamic supremacists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tunisia, and one was killed in Lebanon as Muslims marched from a mosque, stoned police, and set fire to a KFC restaurant, apparently as a symbol of the hated United States. The savage and random murders were all in service of an overarching goal: to intimidate the United States into abandoning the freedom of speech. And worst of all, Barack Obama seems willing.
Islamic leaders worldwide called for an end to the freedom of speech. Dr. Ahmed el-Tayyeb, the grand imam of the most prestigious and influential institution in Sunni Islam, Al-Azhar in Cairo, on Saturday asked the secretary general of the United Nations to pass a UN resolution that would “prohibit insulting symbols and sanctities of Islam by some fools and misguided, who do not know the value of social peace among peoples and agitate seditions among them.” Tayyeb called for “criminalizing insulting symbols of Islam and other religions” and “punishing those who committed such heinous acts and insulted Prophet Muhammad of Islam,” although he didn’t specify what punishments he had in mind.
Meanwhile, Arab News reported that Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, “called on the international community to criminalize acts of abusing great prophets and messengers such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.”
The Muslim Brotherhood said that “hurting the feelings of one and a half billion Muslims cannot be tolerated, and the people’s anger and fury for their faith is invariably predictable, often unstoppable,” and declared that “assaults on the sanctities of all heavenly religions” should be rendered illegal.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), the 57-government Muslim body that has been pushing for years now at the United Nations for restrictions on the freedom of speech, was in I-told-you-so mode, saying that the violence “demonstrated serious repercussions of abuse of freedom of expression that OIC had consistently been warning against.”
In response to all this, Barack Obama did not reaffirm the importance of the freedom of speech. He did not explain that it is the right to say things that are unwelcome and unpopular that safeguards Western societies against authoritarianism and tyranny. He did not say that in pluralistic societies, we all have to put up with speech that we dislike without resorting to censorship or violence.
I saw the video, which was basically a few skits. I thought it was kind of funny. Just a very short satire on Mohammed.
Most intrinsically, when a totalitarian ideology, cloaked in religious grab, is allowed to steer the west’s discourse, and is not even exposed, by western leadership, as the fascist ideology that it is, is it any surprise that the boot of Islam is nearing its goals of submission, firstly via free speech?
Holy smokes!
Few understand what the price of freedom costs, and what happens when it is extinguished without a fight. And fewer ever dreamed, that a leader of the free world would work in concert with said totalitarians!
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/20/western-dhimmis-bow-again-to-islamic-supremacists-when-where-will-this-end-the-jury-is-out-on-said-results-brief-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Freedom of speech/expression is curtailed by throat slitters and head choppers, with nary a whimper – and with assistance too – from western authorities.
Dhimittude is near complete.
No it ain’t–I’m still alive!
So freedom dies, not with a bang, but with a whimper…
Not here, not while we defend it. And I will. Volo!
What a wonderful opportunity for Romney – if he has the sense and the guts to take it.
He should stand up for free speech and shout
“The first duty of a president of the United States of America is to protect our constitution. To protect our rights. To protect our freedoms.
The first Amendment MUST be upheld at all costs!”
Still waiting.
Nakoula may seem to be the fall guy for daring to offend the crybabies, but when you consider that Muslims have a long and selective memory with a propensity for holding a grudge and an attraction to violence, the real victims will be the Egyptian Copt hostages.
“assaults on the sanctities of all heavenly religions” should be rendered illegal.”
So how do all the Islam-tolerant, atheist liberals feel about that?
I am thinking about making a film of me (in a balaclava to honour Pussy Riot) barbecuing my Bible, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, and Hawkins’ The God Delusion for the sake of all-inclusiveness, all together and all at once, and then posting the clip on YouTube. After all, I can alway go to a bookshop and buy some more copies if I feel like it. That ought to out-Jones Terry Jones and put things in the right perspective.
You gotta give credit to those Muslim leaders for including other religions in their “Don’t be mean to Islam” referendums, even though they appear to be an afterthought:
“It is a criminal act to insult the symbols of Islam and Muslims. And that Jesus fellow. Okay, Moses too. *sigh* Is that everyone? We good?”
A fatwa should be issued on Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh. He refers to Jesus as a prophet. This is blasphemy to a Christian. Jesus was the savior. John the Baptist was the last prophet. He needs to be condemned for this view.
You’re right—I feel like rioting now.
I saw the trailer. I was all set to see this film that set off a storm of murder and rioting. Stand up for free speech and all that. What a let down. There needs to be a new word for thin skinned to the tenth power for these muzzie types. Yes, there were some trenchent points made. I guess the truth is the enemy to a religion of lies.
As a Christian I am confident that My God and Savior can withstand any of the slings and arrows that Anyone out there can hurl against him.
I further note that it is My Awesome God who will deal with the purpetrators of any Blasphemy when the time comes, so I don’t have to.
The correct response to the Mohammedans fulminating about insults to their repulsive death cult masquerading as religion should be an all-out attempt to be maximally offensive.
OBAMA’S GAY AMBASSADOR TO BENGHAZI
Obama vilifies a video which mockingly tells the truth about the Prophet Mohammed because it’s deeply offensive to Moslem believers; but he sends a gay ambassador to a city of Moslem homophobes which is offensive to practically everyone living there. By doing this how did Obama show respect for Islam? Is this not emblematic of the incoherency and confusion of Obama’s Middle East Moslem outreach policies? Is it any wonder it’s going up in flames?
All these hurt Muslim feelings — from the guys who call Christians and Jews sons of pigs and monkeys and begrudge the air of Hindus and all the Chinese infidels. Send in the clowns — no, maybe they’re here.
It’s not enough for the President (as if this one would) to stand up for free speech. Anyone who threatens the lives of Americans should be told they are now on a hit list. That is how a serious president drone would act.
Mr Spencer, I would love to read your analysis of the film, in reference to Islamic texts,
Yes Mr Spencer, please give us your analysis of the film
The obvious precedent for this incident is the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses.” That Rushdie’s novel was unreadable does not mean that he should be extended more protection for his anti-Muslim opinions than whoever made this video, which is apparently mildly funny at the sophomoric/sit-com level. Whatever the Obama administration says, we cannot allow foreigners to dictate what can and cannot be said in the US.
I bothered to read that long and tiring novel. Aged me, it did. I find it funny that this movie that they are protesting tells stories taken from their holy al-Hadith and Qur’an. Although it was too painful to watch much of it, I didn’t see anything worth murdering anyone over.
Islam ” The Religion of Peace “, Sharia Law for everybody. Freedom Not Included. Anybody who believes these riots, Acts of War attacking our embassies, and the killing of our people does not know much about Islam. Learn what is going on around the world and in your area.
Mr. Spencer, along with some others above I wish you could take the time to watch this reportedly lousy fourteen-minute film trailer and list for us the charges that it makes against Islam and Muhammad and whether those charges are supported in the Qur’an and hadiths.
I do think that materials about Islam should be done with the attention to the Islamic texts which your books give us. This kind of trashy trailer doesn’t really help anybody — although I certainly support the First Amendment rights of the people who made it.
“assaults on the sanctities of all heavenly religions” should be rendered illegal.
That’s funny. How many synagogues, churches and temples have been desecrated, if not destroyed, by Muslim ‘assaults’ in just the last century? Ancient treasures have been looted. Works of art have been destroyed. When did Muslims ever show restraint toward other religions?
So we can assume Muslims who attack and vandalize churches or synagogues will be prosecuted by Islamic governments? That’s a laugh riot.
There is no freedon without Freedom of Speach, and Freedom trumps all!
How about a film over pedophilia in Talmud
and about goym not being human beings, and
Jesus in Hell, in a pool of boiling excrements?
Nice talmudic stuff, for a nice movie…
I am Catholic from south africa and do not condone violence of any sort.i do not think that God would want us to bomb and shoot each other,no matter what!i would never criticize anyone’s religon,but the acts of violence is another story.how would your maker receive you into his kingdom knowing you have destroyed his creations?how can you watch a video then turn around and kill any foreigner who might not even have been aware of this pathetic video?words are not acts,ignore blasphemy,ignore statements,criticism etc,these things does not,and cannot change your beliefs!i would also take offence if people were to mock Jesus in such a way,but NEVER would I even think of killing people because of it.to take another life is a sin,period.so how can you commit sin in the name of religon.8 south africans were killed because of a movie made by a criminal and porn star.how is that fair?those men were pilots and engineets,scarce skills in our country.their wives and kids bid them goodbye,not knowing they would return in coffins.how sad is that!remember,if you kill,you go to hell.lets respect each others religions and not speak ill about customs we do not understand!
I’m Sam Muslim from Yemen and I would like to clarify the misunderstood about Islam. Firstly and foremost I strongly condemn the violence against innocent people and burn the properties of any country. In addition freedom is the main principle in my entirely life. However my freedom should be ended when other people freedom started. However I’m against people who used the freedom as peg to insult other people and offend their symbols or sanctities.
“In addition freedom is the main principle in my entirely life…..However I’m against people who used the freedom as peg to insult other people and offend their symbols or sanctities.”
Then Sam, no matter what you tell yourself and others, you don’t really believe in freedom.
One of the problems, Sam, is that “offense” is very subjective and is being used in our politically correct world now as a reason to block one peoples’ speech while promoting others. That will never work; it is the playground for tyrants.
In fact, Muslims often talk about how they deplore freedom, yet they are clearly free to utter their disgust at other peoples’ freedoms. That is tyrannical and dishonest behavior. Muslims aren’t the only people free to follow or speak their beliefs. God made all people free. Perhaps Muslims are unhappy with God, but they do practice his inborn freedoms daily.
Isn’t that interesting.
Our Response should be:
“The United States, its government and its people, will not even consider, will not even discuss, the idea of limiting the American peoples freedom of speech, as it concerns Islam, Allah and his prophet Muhammad, until such time as A) Muslim leaders, both national and religious, begin calling for an end to the Jihad against the United States and the western world. B) Until Muslim extremists stop killing American citizens, stop attacking, burning and destroying American property, especially our embassies and high rises, and stop burning the American flag. Until the Muslim world has begun working on these few, small items, the United States will not even consider any ideas, coming out of the Muslim world, of denying the American people their God given right to freedom of speech. Thank you and have a nice day.”
People, on behalf of all Muslims around the world, I apologize for the killing of ambassador Chris Stevens in Yemen, and of all innocent people killed due to to the rioting. It was cruel, unjust and you have every right to condemn it.
I would just like to bring to your attention that the “Muslims” who are doing these actions, are violating the very principles of the religion they believe they are honoring. Islam does not advocate this – rather, it condones it, it condemns it, it is a religion of peace. You will not see educated Muslims supporting this violence; you will in fact see them highly ashamed of the actions of the rioters.
The fact is, if you would be so kind as to watch the video in question, the video does attack the religion of Islam and the character of our Prophet(PBUH) in a very intentional way that is hurtful and seems intended to instigate such violent rioting among the more emotional and impulsive people of our faith.
For how many killings will you apologize, Mr. Ahmed. This is not for the first time that Muslims killed an innocent human; neither will it be the last. Your Koran can mock and orders to kill the followers of other religion, plunder their wealth and women, and still you feel that we will believe that Islam is a religion of Peace. Your religion never condones or condemns killing of Kafirs (and sometimes even Muslims) and none of your brethren from the Ummat stands up with courage and say that we are wrong. Even in this post of yours, you apologize not as a confession but with as warning that if provoked, it can be repeated. You feel proud to insult other religions and its customs while expressing superiority of Islam but get violent when your religion is questioned. It was not blasphemy when statues of Buddha was destroyed, it was not blasphemy when innocent people get killed just because Muslims cannot fight with the democratically elected governments . It is not blasphemy to send a suicide bomber in a kindergarten school. It is not blasphemy to train mujtahids to indiscriminately kill citizens of other nations just because Muslims cannot win a war with Kafirs. It is not blasphemy to issues Fatwas to kill a cartoonist, novelist or painters but is it blasphemy to highlight shortcomings of your peaceful Islam.
What exactly was untrue about the “film”? Muslims should know their Qur’an and Hadiths enough to be able to point to specific slanders against Mohammed.
What was repulsive to them and if it was, how do these allegedly repulsive acts contradict Mohammed or Allah?
Interesting that we don’t hear any specifics on this obscure video thrust into the limelight by our government officials.