Obama Administration asks YouTube to pull Muhammad video

The murderous riots were not about the film. The film was found and used as a pretext to push the West into discarding the freedom of speech, so that the jihad against the West could continue unimpeded. And the Islamic supremacists are getting what they want. First Amendment Death Watch Update: "'Innocence of Muslims': Administration asks YouTube to review video," by Dawn C. Chmielewski for the Los Angeles Times, September 13 (thanks to EH):

Administration officials have asked YouTube to review a controversial video that many blame for spurring a wave of anti-American violence in the Middle East.

The administration flagged the 14-minute "Innocence of Muslims" video and asked that YouTube evaluate it to determine whether it violates the site's terms of service, officials said Thursday. The video, which has been viewed by nearly 1.7 million users, depicts Muhammad as a child molester, womanizer and murderer -- and has been decried as blasphemous and Islamophobic.

YouTube blocked access to the video in Egypt and Libya, where protests in Benghazi erupted in violence that claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other embassy workers. However, the video remains on the site. Protests have spread to Yemen, where hundreds stormed the U.S. Embassy.

“We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to express different opinions," YouTube said in a statement released Wednesday. "This can be a challenge because what's okay in one country can be offensive elsewhere."

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharpened her criticism of the film that led to the protests. She called the film "disgusting and reprehensible" -- but said that the U.S. would never stop Americans from expressing their views, and that the movie is no excuse for violence, according to reports from the Associated Press....

Earlier in the week, YouTube said it found that the video was "clearly within" its guidelines, which bar sexually explicit content, gratuitous violence, hate speech and what it termed "bad stuff" such as animal abuse, under-age drinking and bomb-making.

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Okay, now we get to see who's a Profile in Courage and who's a Profile in Putty.

Will Google, You Tube, Live Link, et alia, bend?

"Hillary Rodham Clinton sharpened her criticism of the film that led to the protests. She called the film "disgusting and reprehensible" --"

No, the film is not necessarily disgusting and reprehensible, anymore than a film about the life of Adolf Hitler is disgusting and reprehensible.
If the film is not based on truth, THEN it is disgusting and reprehensible but if it speaks the truth then all it does is show that the Prophet Mohammed and the early Muslim leaders were actually the ones who were disgusting and reprehensible.
The truth is the truth and in this case that is all that is important!

I agree, Softly Bob. Depicting Mohammed as "a child molester, womanizer and murderer" is just telling it like it is (was). Truth is indeed the new hate speech. Damn pathetic, I have to note again, that so many people, i.e., Muslims, have great admiration for someone with such a despicable character as Mohammed. It's part of the reason why I have to conclude that while not every Muslim is evil, though many are, every Muslim is certainly confused. You can't admire and want to emulate Mohammed and not be a confused human being.

One could obtain an injunction banning any and all government entities with YouTube accounts from flagging anything. Require that the government at least get a court order to flag some item. This is not a perfect protection but is a protection that is similar to that of requiring a warrant to do all sorts of nasty government business.

Exactly. And Obama and Clinton, in their condemnation of the film, are not standing on truth or principal!

Amazing we have so many in high political office who are not keeping faith with the Constitution.

They should be ashamed at their betrayal.

Dhimmis of the US government are out in full force. These
lilylivered cowards make fore father patriots our country turning in their graves. Disgusting!

Hillary calls the Mo film disgusting - yeah, the guy was disgusting as is truthfully portrayed a child molester, murderer, rapist in the film. Does she even know the truth about Mo and Islam that she makes this judgement?? she is disgusting!!

Hi guys! In light of these events I was doing some research and i came across this article which says that:
"Numerous passages in the Qur’an prohibit idolatry, and worshipping statues or pictures, but there is not even single verse in the Qur’an that explicitly or implicitly says not to have any pictures of Muhammad. This bears repeating: There is not a single verse in the Qur’an that prohibits making or having pictures of Muhammad or people or animals or trees. In fact, there are some verses in the Qur’an which mention images in a positive context and which therefore presuppose that some statues or images were approved by God"
Is it true?

"The video ... has been decried as blasphemous and Islamophobic."
Islamophobic: Having a fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.

Wait - videos have fear/hatred? They're sentient???

"violence that claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other embassy workers..."

Claimed the life? Like a piano fell on them because some goofy locals used old rope?

They were MURDERED. Their lives were TAKEN.

Unbelievable! For the ignorant, unaware of the many American lives lost for the sake of freedom across the globe, it might look like this is a country of cowards. Get rid of him, Please! Vote! Vote right!

Decency, Honesty, and Justice ask the American electorate to pull the Obama Administration from office.

Because YouTube has ALREADY reviewed the video and made public statements that it's well within its guidelines, it's hard to say if the Obama administration is just trying to play lip service to Islamic supremacists or if it's trying to actually pressure YouTube into being sharia compliant. If it's the former, then they look weak. If it's the latter, then Obama is handing his opponent(s) a club to beat him with on the campaign trail which may be big enough to end his hopes for reelection.

In either case, Obama looks really bad over this. Worse if YouTube pulls the video.


What we need is an INFORMTION BLITZ!!!
If everyone who posts comments on Jihad Watch and believes that Islam is evil/a threat to civilization would gather facts in support of this and disseminate them widely, we could educate millions of naive Americans about the dangers of Islam. Write 10 different posts with facts, figures and quotations on your word processor. Use copy, cut and paste. Then send these posts to a hundred different news outlets that allow comments, one at a time, when the news stories are relevant. Please be accurate and factual and no hate speech. We already hear enough hate speech from Muslims. BTW, I think most people who skim the comments only stop on the shorter ones.
Do this before it's too late and our freedom of speech is curtailed.
Let me start it off with a couple of my old favorites:
Obama Admits He Is A Muslim =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=related

The Iranian threat = http://www.iraniumthemovie.com.

While I'm at it, I also nominate Robert Spencer for president.

I second that nomination! Robert Spencer for president!

(OK, I'm British, not American, but apparently the rules in this area are no longer being applied as stringently as they used to be, so maybe my vote can count...)

Although I'm not a US citizen, I am still appalled at the Obama administration trying to get You Tube to pull this video. The fault is not with the filmakers or anyone else in the USA the fault for the disturbances lies with the muslim rage boys who are rioting.

To see a US president trying to shut down free speech is disgusting.

"In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad and Obama."

Tell 'em we'll take down the true, but low budget movie, when both PIGS FLY, AND ISLAM, THE CONCEPT AND GANG, IS NO MORE!

The whole thing is becoming creepy - she is sitting there with a Muslim Brotherhood aide - whose family and associates have close ties to or are involved in groups which aim to bring America under Sharia - and make it a part of the wider Saudi satellite states - and this intrusion on our freedom is not offensive -

but what is - is a video that shows the Prophet Muhammad's life as laid out in the Hadith - where descriptions of the Prophet as far worst or graphic than the film which uses humour shows.

They dropped the ball in Libya. And banning a film is not going to change that reality.

And we will keep telling the whole truth and true history of the ridiculous criminal gang until that day comes when: "ISLAM, THE CONCEPT AND GANG, IS NO MORE!"

It's long overdue that they, each and every muslim, see their own history and the full truth of crimes and reject the whole damn concept of worshipping crime, as though it were a religion! They, just as we Free people, need to have their senses fully exposed to the awful truths about their inexcusable pasts and present, and future, until they see and accept The Light of Life!

Other gangs have existed and are gone, by force more often than seeing the Light of Life, and one existed for about 5 centuries, murdered about 2,000,000 souls, known as the thuggees, and afflicted the Indian peoples, like the islam gang does, even worse to all, including their own kind......

More, muslims in their corrupted nations, cannot be expected, by anyone or any diplomat, nor any other government individual, elected or appointed, to be able to rise up to achieve democracy, or a republic, in which precious Freedoms reign and are achieved,such as of speech, religion, and the rest of our exemplary Freedoms, as long as they are islams. It is not possible, it is mutually contradictory, to the eternal core of islam's criminal dictating existence.....Islam "requires and orders" and is the supreme dictator, allows no "free choice" of the individual. Under islam, no one dare on pain of death or beatings, to commit the muslim offense that is the exercise of Freedom, of speech, religion, or choice, absolutely none. We here and elsewhere, all over the world, know that.

Such individuals, serious muslims, cannot hardly be able to even understand Freedom, it is so beaten and brainwashed from their minds, from childhood onwards. We see this daily, many, many times over, all over the world, from America deeply into the world of intense darkness, from which islam boil over.

To imagine and proclaim the arab spring could result in a democracy, with Freedoms, is IMHO a definition of insanity, and perhaps gross neglect of duty, if reality is to be considered part of ones duty.

To "hope and cope" is the very definition of the "amateur", unprepared, unprofessional, and inept inexperienced......

Such criminal behaviors, as muslims demonstrate countless times and ways, the world over, is the complete opposite, of all actual legitimate religions, the world over, no matter Sikh, Budda, Hindu, Jew, Christian, even including atheists, and agnostics.

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