I had forgotten about that one. Foreigners who “don’t know” that we have freedom of religion here can’t be blamed for committing violence on people exercising freedom of religion...
So the judge, to boil this down to the essence, said that ignorance of the law *is* an excuse. Huh?
That was basically it. He said this man was raised in a culture where insulting Mohammed or Islam is a capital offense, and he didn’t know any better than to attack somebody who did it here. I think the judge actually ended up fining or putting in prison the atheist for insulting Mohammed, IIRC.
The judge was a guy who had been elected because he ran as a military patriot. What he apparently didn’t tell anybody was that he converted to Islam while in the Middle East and was willing to let his empathy for Muslims direct his rulings.