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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Then They Came For The Mohammed Filmmakers And I Did Not Speak Out Then They Came For The Mohammed Filmmakers And I Did Not Speak OutSeptember 28, 2012 Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 28, 2012 @ 12:44 pm In The Point
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind The Innocence of the Muslims, has been officially arrested. His official crime is breaking probation, his unofficial crime is making a movie. Had Nakoula made a movie four years ago denouncing Bush and been picked up afterward for probation violations, then the ACLU and every media outlet would be up in arms declaring that we now live in a police state. And now after Muslims murdered four Americans and rioted across the world calling for Nakoula's arrest, they got what they wanted and the media will cheer.
Congratulations America, we are now officially a moderate Muslim country. After all he's only getting two-three years in prison for
What danger might we ask does Nakoula pose to the community? His convictions were for fraud. Is he going to spend the time until his trial tricking people into buying the Golden Gate Bridge?
No doubt. Safe as houses. There was a poem that the left revived around the time of the Bush Administration. They meant to use it on behalf of Muslim terrorists, but perhaps we should start using on behalf of those who offend Muslims.
"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world". Barack Hussein Obama Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/then-they-came-for-the-mohammed-filmmakers-and-i-did-not-speak-out/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------The Nakoula Case has Completely Discredited the ACLU Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 6, 2012 @ 5:47 pm In The Point | Since Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was interrogated, arrested and charged as a show of appeasement to the Muslim world and a warning to those who would exercise their right of free speech to offend Muslims, a number of civil rights groups have spoken out on the subject. The ACLU has not been one of them. The Electronic Freedom Foundation and the First Amendment Center have made clear public statements on the dangerous and troubling actions of the Obama Administration, but the ACLU has been completely absent in the greatest free speech case of this century. A search of the ACLU site reveals only one mention of the case and it is a laborious defense of Obama that, to its credit, does argue that the video cannot be censored. That's all. The ACLU's Ben Wizner has condemned the movie and Nakoula while giving only lip service to the censorship questions raised by Obama's request to Youtube to take down the video and the imprisonment of the Mohammed filmmaker. Gene Policinski, the executive director of the First Amendment Center, on the other hand has seriously addressed the issues here.
Not to mention that the Nakoula case appears to be being handled by a top Federal prosecutor. How often does that happen with probation violation cases? I certainly don't agree with many of Policinski's positions or those of the First Amendment Center, but in the Nakoula case, the FAC has shown that it honestly does care about freedom of speech and government censorship. The ACLU has shown that it does not. And Policinski's statement on the riots is something that we can all agree on.
The First Amendment Center has stepped up to the plate while the ACLU has stepped down. Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/the-nakoula-case-has-completely-discredited-the-aclu/ |