Britexpat--born foreigners but educated in the US and later becoming US citizens. It's the American way.
Eagley--I sympathize with your views, but they aren't going to alter their constitution. It goes to the fundamental question of who decides what is decent? A bunch of protesters in a foreign country? To be fair, the American constitution protects individual's rights to criticize the US within the US, including burning the US flag. Christianity is also widely criticized along with Judaism and Islam.
More important, why should the American people give up their rights so as to accommodate fundamentalists in other nations? They don't like their domestic affairs being interfered with any more than you do.
If other countries don't like American free speech then simply block it and don't watch it. If the US embassies were giving public viewings of the film, then fair enough to riot, but this film trailer has been around since July and only became and issue when the Islamic EGYPTIAN media started showing extracts and publicizing it. Which I think raises all sorts of questions.
I find many things morally repugnant in this world, but I simply choose to ignore it. There is far more offensive stuff against Islam on the web than this film, which is not in theaters, has not been released on video, and is so badly produced that no sane person could take it seriously. The first virtually all Americans had heard of it was when the riots erupted.
Britexpat--born foreigners but educated in the US and later becoming US citizens. It's the American way.
Eagley--I sympathize with your views, but they aren't going to alter their constitution. It goes to the fundamental question of who decides what is decent? A bunch of protesters in a foreign country? To be fair, the American constitution protects individual's rights to criticize the US within the US, including burning the US flag. Christianity is also widely criticized along with Judaism and Islam.
More important, why should the American people give up their rights so as to accommodate fundamentalists in other nations? They don't like their domestic affairs being interfered with any more than you do.
If other countries don't like American free speech then simply block it and don't watch it. If the US embassies were giving public viewings of the film, then fair enough to riot, but this film trailer has been around since July and only became and issue when the Islamic EGYPTIAN media started showing extracts and publicizing it. Which I think raises all sorts of questions.
I find many things morally repugnant in this world, but I simply choose to ignore it. There is far more offensive stuff against Islam on the web than this film, which is not in theaters, has not been released on video, and is so badly produced that no sane person could take it seriously. The first virtually all Americans had heard of it was when the riots erupted.