It's "inflammatory" to ask whether Muhammad "was a child molester and a murderer" -- inflammatory enough to get you deported from Spain. Does that mean Spain will ban Sahih Bukhari, the hadith collection that Muslims consider most reliable?
Child molester: "The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)." (Bukhari 7.62.88)
Murderer: Regarding the poet Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf, who had mocked him in his verses, Muhammad asked: "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?" One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama answered, "O Allah's Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?" When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab)." Muhammad responded: "You may say it." Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka'b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Bukhari 5.59.369)
Free Speech Death Watch Alert from Eurabia: "Spain revokes asylum status of anti-Islam filmmaker," from El Pais, December 27 (thanks to Twostellas):
The Interior Ministry has decided to revoke the asylum status of Imran Firasat, a Pakistani national living in Spain since 2010 who on December 14 announced his intention to release a video in which, among other things, he asks whether Mohammed "was a child molester and a murderer."Spanish authorities contacted those in the USA to alert them over Firasat's association with Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who excited the rage of the Islamic world when he laid out his plans to burn copies of the Koran and circulate a video of the event.
A Madrid court banned the release of Firasat's inflammatory work and elected to rescind his asylum status on grounds of a threat to the security of the state. Firasat can appeal the decision but if it is upheld by the judge, he will have to leave the country. The governments of Belgium, France and the US had expressed their concern over the ramifications the release of the video could produce. Belgium raised its security alert level after Firasat announced his intention to upload it to the internet. He had already released a trailer filmed in Madrid's Plaza de Colón with the Spanish flag in full view.
Firasat, who describes himself as an "ex-Muslim," has a weighty police record including an Indonesian warrant for kidnap and murder and has been arrested in Spain for alleged involvement in a robbery. In interviews Firasat has claimed that he is being persecuted for his religious ideology and has said that he has received several death threats. He believes that Islam should be made illegal.
Maybe he really does have that "weighty police record," but if it really includes murder and robbery, why did he have asylum status up to now? Why did it take his making a video about Muhammad to get it revoked?
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Firasat, who describes himself as an "ex-Muslim," ...believes that Islam should be made illegal.
I'll go alone with that. And I'd like to explore the possibility of US production of the film (it may or may not viable and worthy.