Protests Get Violent Across the Middle East Over Anti-Muslim Film: Should the Film Have Been Made?

by AdriHead Posted 2012/09/14 19:00:00

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	Yes, it's free speech	1,742 votes	70%
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As if the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. officials wasn't enough, violence continues in the Middle East in protest of an American-made, anti-Muslim film that portrays Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer, killer and child molester.

Clashes between protesters and security forces outside the U.S. Embassies in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Sudan have resulted in a handful of deaths so far. Protesters continue to burn U.S. flags and attempt to storm U.S. Embassies across the Middle East.

Do you think the controversial film should have been made in the first place? Or was it a poor move considering the hyper-sensitive relationship between the East and West right now?

CBSNEWS.COM reports:
Clashes outside U.S. Embassies in Sudan, Tunisia and Cairo; At least 3 dead in demonstrations held in several nations after Friday prayers, as protesters denounce anti-Islamic film

3 dead demonstrations nations friday prayers protesters denounce anti-islamic film

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Heisenberg 2012/09/14 20:02:19 (edited)

I'm not sure

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1. It was not an 'anti-Muslim' film. It was a youtube clip critical of Mohammed.

2. The murders and riots are not anti-film, they are anti-US

3. The liberal narrative is to blame the movie because if they did not, it would lead them to the obvious conclusion: Obama's foreign policy of bow and scrape generates more violence against Americans.

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jlott069 to Mwanga ... 2012/09/18 16:23:55
sidramone@ymail.com 2012/09/18 05:08:41

Yes, it's free speech

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jaybay3 2012/09/18 05:04:38

Yes, it's free speech

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truth is the violence is not over the film only in middle east, but mainstream Media of lies has to many suckers brainwashed like the sheetheads islam cult brainwashed muzzy's to follow writings written for the illiterate child rapist muhammed 6:298
http://www.youtube.com/watch?... - Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
http://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

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jlott069 2012/09/18 05:02:53

Yes, it's free speech

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Yes that is free speech. It's not even "anti-muslim". Its just telling the truth. At the end of the day, Muhammad was a violent pedophile - even by the standards back then. In Roman, Greek, and Egyptian societies, taking a young bride was typical, because it ensured virginity, and therefore ensured legitimacy of children. They still waiting until the young girl had hit puberty. Typically in their younger teens. It is not a poor move. Why should people hold their tounge because others may get angry? That is nothing but cowardice. The fact of the matter is that the violence over it is only proving how negative the Islamic religion really is. And no, Christianity is no better. 2000 years of persecution kinda prove is.

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Mwanga ... to jlott069 2012/09/18 06:59:37

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Why should people hold their tongue because others may get angry? Yes. And they'll start killing people around them. Which is happening..................I don't see how it doesn't make sense to you Americans. If it was your father who died in the middle east you wouldn't have been defending that piece of ignorance you're calling free speech.

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ivegotl... to Mwanga ... 2012/09/18 08:44:21

Ignorance? Can you explain then, the wife procedure in Mohammed's time?

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jlott069 to Mwanga ... 2012/09/18 16:20:36
Gothpirate 2012/09/18 04:35:36

No, it's a politically sensitive time right now

Their is a difference between Free Speech and Free Expression and just being an idiot, the Islamic reaction aside whoever created this film did so purely to cause chaos with no respect for the responsibility one must use when they have freedom and spit in the faces of people who have very little. If the coward who made this film had come forward from the start and stated a real argument for their film I may have supported their right to free speech but they hid behind the anonymity of the internet like the cowards they are.

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jlott069 to Gothpirate 2012/09/18 05:09:39 (edited)

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You mean like the Islamic cowards who are proving the video right and hurting innocents? The act of having a religious belief does not make it above reproach.

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jaybay3 to Gothpirate 2012/09/18 05:25:45

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The wars been since the birth of our nation.
It's free speech on nutty truth of that islam cult of the child rapist muhammed.
bukhari 6:298- proof she was 8 year 9 months muhammed was 54
Oh or like Koran 8:39 says get that fitnah on an kill us or slay our feet fingers off like Koran 8:12. Or beat your girl, she's only half your value anyway Koran 4:34 & Koran 4:11
http://youtu.be/M86ndC4V7EQ - Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
the muslim nuts over the film is lies
http://shop.wallbuilders.com/... - get cd and research facts told since our start as a nation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

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☆stillthe12c☆ 2012/09/18 04:33:13

Yes, it's free speech

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At least in America. Thing are changing though. If you hold Christians that could be hate speech soon.

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davidg2e 2012/09/18 04:31:06

Yes, it's free speech

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Free speech has nothing to do with political sensitivity. That is just a euphemism for craven political correctness. History, the real history, seems to substantiate much of the film's content. I think the film should have been released because it deals with an environment the media are loathe to describe because it puts the liberal left in a bad light. I refuse to call them progressives because that is the one thing they are not. Refusing to acknowledge the real threat of violent Islam is just a ticket to the Middle Ages and the yoke.

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jaybay3 to davidg2e 2012/09/18 05:27:37

The wars been since the birth of our nation.
It's free speech on nutty truth of that islam cult of the child rapist muhammed.
bukhari 6:298- proof she was 8 year 9 months muhammed was 54
Oh or like Koran 8:39 says get that fitnah on an kill us or slay our feet fingers off like Koran 8:12. Or beat your girl, she's only half your value anyway Koran 4:34 & Koran 4:11
http://youtu.be/M86ndC4V7EQ - Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
the muslim nuts over the film is lies
http://shop.wallbuilders.com/... - get cd and research facts told since our start as a nation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

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andrew.micheals.353 2012/09/18 04:27:54

Yes, it's free speech

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Why oh why does it seem that extremist Muslims overreact to everything? I am just sick to death of it all. If anyone says anything against Islam they want to kill someone. I am going to open a business selling American flags to the middle east and make a mint. These people have nothing better to do.

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jaybay3 to andrew.... 2012/09/18 05:21:45

The wars been since the birth of our nation.
http://youtu.be/M86ndC4V7EQ - Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
the muslim nuts over the film is lies
http://shop.wallbuilders.com/... - get cd and research facts told since our start as a nation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

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AdmrlLocke 2012/09/18 04:22:37

Yes, it's free speech

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How come, when a film is anti-Christian, liberals never have to ask if it's free speech?

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jlott069 to AdmrlLocke 2012/09/18 05:11:33

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How come idiots like you are more worried about the label "conservative" or "liberal" than the actual issues?

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AdmrlLocke to jlott069 2012/09/18 09:06:22

How come idiots like you pretend you're not liberal and insult obviously intelligent people with whom you disagree?

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jlott069 to AdmrlLocke 2012/09/18 16:26:27

Because I'm not you . There is nothing intelligent about putting more emphasis on a label than the actual issues. I am not liberal, I am not conservative. I have opinions on both sides of the fence - because it is more important to look at the issue itself than it is to worry about the label on it .

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AdmrlLocke to jlott069 2012/09/19 11:26:15

If you weren't a liberal, you wouldn't have called me an idiot for pointing out liberal hypocrisy. So that makes you a transparently-lying liberal as well as an idiot.

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AdmrlLocke to jlott069 2012/09/18 09:16:51

Stephens: Muslims, Mormons and Liberals
Why is it OK to mock one religion but not another?

http://online.wsj.com/article...

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jlott069 to AdmrlLocke 2012/09/18 18:05:19
Ryan Christopher Naymik 2012/09/18 04:21:32

Yes, it's free speech

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But, the film is a ridiculous propaganda piece. You could make something like it about Christianity. Bible says it's okay to beat your slave as long as you dont kill the slave. It says you must marry your rapist and pay the father of the victim with silver.
AND The reason the Middle East is pissed off isn't because of this video. It's because we've been bombing them and installing puppet dictators there for decades. Saddam being a great example. We sell him weapons and he kills his own people with them. It's our occupations, wars, drone strikes and propping up oppressive regimes that are pissing them off. If you can't see the bigger picture, you need to look into it further. "Blowback" Google it.

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Roger47 2012/09/18 04:05:53

No, it's a politically sensitive time right now

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Originally, I was n the free speech camp. But with the passage of time I have seen it for what it is: An act of religious hatred designed to provoke our enemies to violence. It is Hate Speech. And there is no legitimate interest to be protected here, where the predictable result is to embolden and encourage our enemies to harm us and hutrt our interests abroad. I now see it as treason.

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andrew.... to Roger47 2012/09/18 04:29:21

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Are you for real. What does it actually say?

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Kizzume to Roger47 2012/09/18 06:03:10

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Making fun of a religion is treason? You've got to be kidding me!

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Mwanga ... to Kizzume 2012/09/18 07:15:49

Actually if you take it this way; Obamas foreign policy clearly shows that he is reluctant in going to war with other countries especially middle eastern countries to preserve the peace that you Americans cried for after the wars during Bushs Reign. This thing could have been made by the opposition to put Obama in a fix. Will he go to war during election times or will he "sit back like the coward he is"<----Something Romney would say. In fact what he has been saying.

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dacsayshi to Roger47 2012/09/18 07:47:25

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Get real Free Speech

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Edie 2012/09/18 04:04:26

Yes, it's free speech

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When will America learn that these arab countries have been at war for years before Christ they will still be killing each other and other countries years from now? After living in a Arab country certainly taught us how they live and we should respect their choice, stay out of their business and not try to impose our way of life on them in their country. However, if they choose to live the muslim belief they need to go to a muslim country to do so.

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☆stillt... to Edie 2012/09/18 04:36:06

Mohammad came long after Christ.

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Edie to ☆stillt... 2012/09/18 18:49:28

It does not matter the fighting is still going on and will continue this is not over something so stupid as a 2nd rate movie this is an excuse to continue the terrorist activities they thrive on.

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☆stillt... to Edie 2012/09/18 19:06:24

You are correct and what we see is really not about the movie. It is being used as a tool. Very few of the people have ever seen the movie. They are being manipulated. My thought are that we need to get out of many of the countries and leave them to there own demise and encourage those here to go home before we have problems here. I was against them being brought here in the first place.

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Edie to ☆stillt... 2012/09/20 02:15:44

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I lived in a Arab country for two yrs (my husband's job) believe me when I say they do not care about their own country. All they want from the USA is Aid if we stopped the supply of money.weapons and quit letting them enter our country this terrorist mess would stop real fast. Obama is not Africa American he is white and Arab nothing more.

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☆stillt... to Edie 2012/09/20 02:31:59

You are correct.

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Edie to ☆stillt... 2012/09/20 04:46:10

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Have you seen the pictures of the Ambassor Stephens being drug thru the streets, he was sodomized and beaten? I rec. them from one of my friends that I worked with in Aerospace. I was so shocked that the Adminstration said on the news that he died of smoke inhalation. These pictures were nevef shown on any of the news channels. Obama still says they deserve to rec. aid something really wrong with this picture when we have so many here without food to feed the kids and no jobs.

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☆stillt... to Edie 2012/09/20 05:25:35

I saw the picture that you are talking about. It look like he had been beaten to me. I read that he had been sodomized with a foreign object. I could easily shot someone that would do such a thing and sleep very well that night.

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Edie to ☆stillt... 2012/09/21 01:55:25

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After spending the two yrs we did in an Arab country nothing surprises me. I just do not want a President that I can see that cannot offer even an excuse for the lack of protection at the Embassy. We will always have a different outlook on life in the middle east after being home safely. My husband did his job thank God we had a president that made sure that we had protection everywhere we went and certainly at home.

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☆stillt... to Edie 2012/09/21 02:07:38 (edited)

Sorry I post in the wrong spot here. I reposted down below

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Edie to ☆stillt... 2012/09/24 21:10:03

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I totally agree with you however, as long as the USA continues to send money to these countries that hate us we will continue to have these problems. Time to kill them all and let God sort them out that is the only language these ragheads understand. The biggest guns and the one that dies with all of the weapons win regardless how the war was won the most money and bribery. That my friend is life in the Arab countries.

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☆stillt... to Edie 2012/09/24 21:18:49

There was a time that the muslims were saying that Allah was with the Jews. The last time that Israel went in to Lebanon and was not that effective has embolden them. When we just take out a few leaders has no effect on the masses. It even seems to encourage them.

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