Religious Studies Prof. at U. Penn. ready to give up your free speech to appease the mobs
As news broke of the attacks on American embassies in Egypt and Libya, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania Anthea Butler tweeted the following message.
Good Morning. How soon is Sam Bacile going to be in jail folks? I need him to go now.When Americans die because you are stupid…
Butler was referring to the (fake) name of a filmmaker who created a YouTube video which was nothing more than a ruse for the embassy attacks.
Twitchy.com has the full report.
Anthea Butler is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of her most recent book, The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right, gives you a pretty good idea of where she stands politically.
This morning, she strongly implied that Sam Bacile is responsible for yesterday’s embassy attacks and, as a result, should be tossed into jail.
Bacile is an Israeli filmmaker who lives in California and has gone into hiding. He made the crappy movie that is being used as a pretext to justify the violence that erupted in Egypt and Libya yesterday.
But is making a movie that makes Muslims angry a crime? Butler appears to think so.
Of course, like any academic, Butler purports to support free speech rights.
UPenn professor Anthea Butler calls for imprisonment of filmmaker Sam Bacile; Update: Butler locks her Twitter account (Twitchy.com)
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Her premise is wrong, to begin with. Americans didn’t die because Sam Bacile (has it been established that there is such a person and if so, that he’s Jewish and/or Israeli?) may be stupid. They died because Muslim mobs murdered them.
And did everyone notice the president’s reaction. Inter alia, he rejected attempts to denigrate religion. I assume he meant to add, “except Catholics and Baptists.”
Liberals always cry for “free speech” until it is inconvenient for them (usually because they can’t win an argument on the merits). Then they scream for “government oversight.”
Not ONCE do they ever say the words “personal responsibility” of the speaker. For to do so would expose the lie that people are more than the product of their upbringing and must take responsibility for the content of their own character.