An incendiary video about the prophet Mohammad, Innocence of Muslims,
was blamed for the mob attacks on our embassies in Libya and Egypt
(and, later, Yemen). In Libya, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three
other Americans were murdered. The video stirred some passion here in
America as well.
Over at MSNBC, a riot of consensus broke out when contributors Mike
Barnicle and Donny Deutsch as well as University of Pennsylvania
professor Anthea Butler all agreed that the people behind the video
should be indicted as accessories to murder. “Good morning,” declared
Butler, “How soon is Sam Bacile [the alleged creator of the film] going
to be in jail folks? I need him to go now.”Barnicle set his sights on Terry Jones, the pastor who wanted to burn the Koran a while back and who was allegedly involved in the video as well. “Given this supposed minister’s role in last year’s riots in Afghanistan, where people died, and given his apparent or his alleged role in this film, where . . . at least one American, perhaps the American ambassador, is dead, it might be time for the Department of Justice to start viewing his role as an accessory before or after the fact.”
Deutsch helpfully added: “I was thinking the same thing, yeah.”
It’s interesting to see such committed liberals in lockstep agreement with the Islamist government in Egypt, which implored the U.S. government to take legal action against the filmmakers. Interestingly, not even the Muslim Brotherhood–controlled Egyptian government demanded these men be tried for murder.
Now, I have next to no sympathy for the makers of this film, who clearly hoped to start trouble, violent or otherwise. But where does this logic end? One of the things we’ve learned all too well is that the “Muslim street” — and often Muslim elites — have a near-limitless capacity to take offense at slights to their religion, honor, history, or feelings.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/316842/misplaced-blame-embassy-attacks-jonah-goldberg
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