U.S. Embassies Attacked on 9/11: A Shocking Revelation
U.S. embassies in Libya and Cairo were attacked today. The Islamist attackers said they didn't like a movie that was produced in the U.S. The movie "portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, pedophile and fraud."
There was apparently no connection to 9/11. Even so, there's a connection. The connection is between the sort of people who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the people who attacked the embassies.
The film, "Innocence of Muslims," was directed and produced by an Israeli-American California real-estate developer who called it a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam.
I'd bet most of us aren't shocked by this so far. But what might and maybe should shock Americans is the comments by the U.S. State Department:
"We cannot confirm any connection between these incidents," a senior State Department official said.
Really? How about the fact that these were Islamists. That's not a connection?
But it gets worse. Check out this statement by the U.S. State Department:
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo invoked the First Amendment rights to free speech, but said the film constituted an abuse of those rights. "The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions," it said in a statement. "Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
What sort of twisted interpretation of the First Amendment do we have here? I don't know about you, but I find this shocking. These people represent the government of the United States, I suppose. But they can't possibly represent Americans - at least Americans who know and understand the First Amendment.
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There was apparently no connection to 9/11. Even so, there's a connection. The connection is between the sort of people who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the people who attacked the embassies.
The film, "Innocence of Muslims," was directed and produced by an Israeli-American California real-estate developer who called it a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam.
I'd bet most of us aren't shocked by this so far. But what might and maybe should shock Americans is the comments by the U.S. State Department:
"We cannot confirm any connection between these incidents," a senior State Department official said.
Really? How about the fact that these were Islamists. That's not a connection?
But it gets worse. Check out this statement by the U.S. State Department:
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo invoked the First Amendment rights to free speech, but said the film constituted an abuse of those rights. "The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions," it said in a statement. "Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
What sort of twisted interpretation of the First Amendment do we have here? I don't know about you, but I find this shocking. These people represent the government of the United States, I suppose. But they can't possibly represent Americans - at least Americans who know and understand the First Amendment.
More...
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