Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) said this morning that the “stupidity” of the filmmaker whose Muhammad film sparked mob violence is no excuse for the deadly attacks on U.S. installations in Libya and Egypt.
“The violence in Cairo and Benghazi is unacceptable and unjustifiable. The stupidity of one filmmaker, no matter how offensive, is not now, and never, a rationale for violence,” Kerry said in a statement. “A despicable act like this hurts us all –Americans and peaceful people who aspire to build their own democracy.”
“This is one of those moments when Americans must unite as Americans. It is exactly the wrong time to throw political punches. It is a time to restore calm and proceed wisely.”
Kerry called the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others “heartbreaking.”
“It’s easy for a lot of people to forget that our diplomats are on the frontlines of the world’s most dangerous places and they’re there trying to make the world safer at great risk to themselves and their families. Chris Stevens was all that and more,” he said. “He was a foreign service professional down to his toes, a guy who had served on the Foreign Relations Committee and embraced tough odds and tough assignments overseas. He had the guts and grit to serve as our envoy during the rebellion, and his presence there reminded Libyans that America stood with them for freedom in the face of violence”
“He was continuing that noble work as Ambassador with enormous skill,” Kerry added. “He was an important part of the work we are doing in Libya, and we will not let this deplorable violence turn back the progress he helped make possible.”
There has been more than a few Hollywood films I have seen that have offended me. And more than one or two that have offended Catholics, Christians and many religions. In America that just makes a film more profitable. If we protested like the Libyans, there would be no one left in Hollywood. But then again, that might not be a bad thing.
Should Catholics throw a violent hissy fit because of Nikki Manaj’s anti-Catholic performance at the Grammy’s (or one of those Hollytard award ceremonies)? No, because it is not how Christian’s roll. Unfortunately that is how Muslims roll abetted by their entourage of apologists.
Usually, he is for something before he is against it. Now, I guess, he is simultaneously for it and against it. Not much of an improvement.
“This is one of those moments when Americans must unite as Americans. It is exactly the wrong time to throw political punches.”
An unsurprising position to take for the side so completely deserving of taking those punches.
Self serving hot air from the most fatuous member of the US Senate
Yeah, the 1st Amendment allows “stupidity.” Kerry should know as he exercises it so frequently.
Radical Islam is alive and Chris Stevens is dead.
When a political party embraces Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, but falls silent about the brutalization of Coptic Christians, it has no moral ground to stand upon to lecture Americans or the world about incitement of hatred.
When it boos God and Jerusalem, it has no moral ground to stand upon to lecture anyone about insults toward the holiest of holy.
Not ONCE did they condemn the “stupidity” of Michael Moore, Oliver Stone or Sean Penn. Not ONCE did they condemn Bill Ayers putting his dirty boots on the American flag. Not ONCE have they renounced the boos of just this past week.
Instead, they embraced them. Let them live with the results of that embrace.
Radical Islam is alive and Chris Stevens is dead.
“This is one of those moments when Americans must unite as Americans. It is exactly the wrong time to throw political punches.”
Translation: “Please don’t be too hard on our gross incompetence and outright criminal dereliction of duty!”
– he has never practiced that himself, beginning with Vietnam.
Blind pig finds acorn. Film at 11:00!
The traitor speaks. STFU and go sell out our country to some other hell hole.