This whole fiasco surrounding the Innocence of Muslims movie is really strange. If the guy who is responsible is basically a giant crook who is actually Egyptian, then the whole thing is nothing more than a bunch of Muslims yelling at Americans because we allow people to post YouTubes. Guess what? In America, we can post YouTubes. You want us to change that? Don’t you want to be able to post YouTubes, too?

I understand that the material is highly offensive. But the Prophet Mohammed can take it. His honor and reputation aren’t going to be harmed by a crappy YouTube. His honor and reputation are being harmed right now by people who are killing and threatening innocent people who had and have nothing to do with the crappy YouTube.

I know that my opinion of Islam is not enhanced when my countrymen are killed because somebody posted a crappy YouTube. We have Nazis and Klansmen in this country who say and do things that are deeply hurtful to some of our most vulnerable and scarred citizens. We allow them to do it because we can take it.

If you kill my countrymen and trample and burn my flag and destroy my country’s property just because my government won’t police YouTube, I am going to start getting angry myself.

And that’s not good. Because I’m way far on the tolerant side of American public opinion. When my fellow Americans get angry and scared, they generally don’t act very nice. Ask Saddam Hussein about misguided vengeance.

We have a level-headed president at the moment, who is even familiar with Islamic culture, thanks to spending some formative years in Indonesia. That’s good, because he can think clearly and he knows where you’re coming from. But he ain’t gonna change our laws so that no one can ever say a bad word about the Prophet. We don’t do that for Jesus Christ. Respect how we roll.

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