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UPenn prof calls for imprisonment of filmmaker Sam Bacile; Update: Butler locks her Twitter account
Twitchy ^ | September 12, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 09/12/2012 11:55:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Butler@AntheaButler

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...

12 Sep 12

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:

@AntheaButler

And yes, I know we have First Amendment rights,but if you don't understand the Religion you hate, STFU about it. Yes, I am ticked off.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

But it is clear that she gets most excited when arguing that those rights are highly circumscribed:

@AntheaButler

@blmoyer And people do to jail for speech. First Amendment doesn't cover EVERYTHING a PERSON says.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

@AntheaButler

I am all for free speech, but you better damn well understand that actions have consequences, and what you mock is another persons belief.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

@AntheaButler

@jason_a_hines the murder of the Ambassador and the employees is wrong, wrong. But Bacile will have to face his actions which he had freedom— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

Sounds like Anthea Butler, Sally Kohn, and Mike Barnicle would get along swimmingly.

Related: Twitter users call for the arrest and murder of Terry Jones

Update: Butler has gone into CYA-mode and locked her Twitter account.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academia; antheabutler; egypt; inquisition; islam; libya; muslims; obama; palin; pennsylvania; univpennsylvania; upenn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe Obama and the democrats are the ones who really riled up the muzzies with all their bragging at the DNC convention about killing Osama bin-Laden.

After all - the muzzie mob was chanting Obama’s name, not the names of Sam Bacile or Pastor Terry Jones.

Maybe Obama, the Obama administration, and all the blood thirsty democrats who were spiking the ball over killing bi-Laden should be accused of inciting the crazy muslims to commit murder.

(got this idea from Rush)


21 posted on 09/12/2012 12:04:43 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, she looks pretty angry to me.

22 posted on 09/12/2012 12:04:58 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: chris37

“The answer is because Americans hate themselves.”

Well, at least the 43% who are stupid/corrupt/lazy enough to be 0bama supporters.


23 posted on 09/12/2012 12:04:58 PM PDT by henkster (With Carter, the embassy staff was still alive.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The reason why liberals love Muslims so much is because Muslims hate America as much as they do


24 posted on 09/12/2012 12:04:59 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do you think she would support punishing anyone who insults Christ or his followers?

of course not.


25 posted on 09/12/2012 12:06:01 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And the 0bama Fascists go marching along


26 posted on 09/12/2012 12:06:32 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: swpa_mom

Your absolutely right, the protestors NEVER mentioned the movie. They weren’t cheering death to the filmmaker, all the chants were about Obama, NOT the film


27 posted on 09/12/2012 12:06:35 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Anthea, we don't put people in jail because they exercise their First Amendment rights. Of course Muslims kill them for it.

[image of Anthea Butler]
Anthea Butler

28 posted on 09/12/2012 12:06:51 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Apply the same standards to Michael Moore and we'll talk.

Calling GWB a 'war criminal' while American troops are in harm's way warrants a jail sentence far more than some amateur filmmaker mocking the 'religion' of our avowed enemies on Youtube.

29 posted on 09/12/2012 12:07:29 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s OK to mock Christians, though, because they won’t kill you for it.


Exactly. Christians are safe targets for the “courageous” liberals who diss them. After all, Christians do very bad things—like oppose abortion and gay marriage.

But these same people will lick the boots of Muslims—because Muslims are “devout” and need to be respected.

The hypocrisy simply boggles the mind.


30 posted on 09/12/2012 12:07:45 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: swpa_mom

exactly
this had nothing to do with the movie, ,honestly the left since 2000 have become unhinged , have no idea what laws and the constitution is about and we have these kind of idiots in our colleges , stunning.


31 posted on 09/12/2012 12:09:01 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lawdy.
32 posted on 09/12/2012 12:09:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: rbg81

so most of us here in the south and the midwest and AK start to fight back , go after the homostapo at their parades and lets see if the lunatic left is alright with that and stop mocking and being bigoted towards Christians


33 posted on 09/12/2012 12:11:04 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anthea Butler: That is one fat and ugly woman...

Must remember I am not allowed to use the “N” word; the “Murdering Muslims” words; the “Obama is an Kenyan” words, the “Mohammad is a Pedophile” words.....All can result in your legally sanctioned murder and/or imprisonment.


34 posted on 09/12/2012 12:11:48 PM PDT by BilLies
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wouldn’t bet the ranch on that. It’s possible that day may come.


35 posted on 09/12/2012 12:12:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: I Drive Too Fast

Throw a burka on her.


36 posted on 09/12/2012 12:13:02 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: liberalh8ter

Note how often vocal libs are ugly angry looking people. They identify with everything twisted and bent because they are angry, ugly, evil human beings whose character is stamped on their visages.


37 posted on 09/12/2012 12:14:45 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any embassy is sovereign soil so this is the same as attacking America. It happened in a foreign country, so it’s not some shadowy group or somewhere out at sea. So with this in mind when do we start bombing Libya?


38 posted on 09/12/2012 12:22:38 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Foolish prof doesn’t understand that Muslim savages commit murder because, well, they’re Muslim savages.

Any pretext will do.

“Today is Wednesday. Let’s commit an atrocity, because that’s what Mohammed would do.”

“Oh, the sun is shining, I think that I will murder an infidel, or if I can’t find one, I will call someone else an apostate or a blasphemer, murder him and then rape his wife - because my holy book commands it and I want to go to paradise.”

“I can’t believe that it’s September already. Time to murder someone in the name of Allah.”


39 posted on 09/12/2012 12:26:36 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What ever happened to;

Sticks and Stones
May Break My Bones
But Words
Can Never Hurt Me


40 posted on 09/12/2012 12:27:52 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again")
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