is a stupid movie about mohammad by a softcore porn director starting WWIII?

shit is out of control

it's too bad for humanity that we can't just put all the american fundies and the islamists on a really really big island together and seal it off like in some john carpenter movie.

the island is EARTH DO YOU SEE?!?

we at orange alert yet or what?!?

shouldn't this be a poll?

it's this kind of stuff that makes me want to cry:

“We want the U.S. government to prove that there is justice by stopping this movie and punishing the director and his staff,” said Sheik Ahmad al-A’ani, a preacher at a mosque in Baghdad.

i mean coming from their sociopolitical paradigm i can see why this seems like a total reasonable request; from their POV it seems unimaginable that the US won't punish the people who made this.

of course from our perspective it seems unconscionable to imagine a government punishing someone for exercising a right to free speech.

does this already seem much worse than the flap over the danish newspaper cartoon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWjbJX8f38Y

where is that?

yes, this is way worse than that danish shit already

ban religion, ban movies, ban cartoons, ban the internet.

i would not have ww3 started any other way frankly

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i'm not sure, i grabbed it from the NYT rolling updates page: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/updates-on-protests-over-anti-islam-film/?hp

there's also this lovely man, in dc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAKiDPdnmw

not sure why that's at the top of the page (it's from 2 years) other than to reinforce the "humans r stoopid" vibe

sorry, it's from 2 years AGO, i meant.

from NYT

Embassies of U.S. and Allies Under Siege in Muslim World

Protests expanded to nearly 20 countries, as demonstrators breached the American Embassy in Tunisia and protesters in Sudan broadened their targets to include Germany and Britain.

A Hindu group plans to screen the anti-Islam film in Toronto; two demonstrators are reported killed in Tunisia; a protest in Chennai, India, turns violent.

Pope Benedict Arrives in Lebanon Amid Turmoil

this sounds like it's going to get worse before it gets better

good post http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/obama-plays-hardball-and-egypts-morsi-folds.html

likewise http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/romney-jumps-the-shark-libya-egypt-and-the-butterfly-effect.html

In opinion polling in Eastern Libya, the United States has a 60% favorability rating, while the Salafis or hard line Muslims stand at only 28% favorable.

this sounds like it's going to get worse before it gets better

― the late great, Friday, September 14, 2012 7:33 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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