[Dave S]

have to understand that no Muslim will tolerate a bad word spoken against the Koran, Allah, or the Prophet. They cannot allow anyone to say anything disparaging, so they see that as "hate speech."

I seem to remember some Christians that considered the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" to be hate speech.

[Morrigan]

I'm sure they did. But that didn't stop the movie from coming out, or people going to see it.

The Muslims want this sign stopped. They don't want people to see it. And, IMO, they will probably get their way.

But is it right that they get their way? I don't think so.

[syriacus]

I seem to remember some Christians that considered the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" to be hate speech.

But no fatwa was declared against those involved in "the Last Temptation of Christ."

I seem to recall reading this...

• On February 14, 1989, the day before Rushdie's book was to be published in the United States, the spiritual and political leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa against Rushdie. In Islamic law, a fatwa is a declaration issued by a legal authority.
  Khomeini's fatwa shocked the world:

  I would like to inform all the intrepid Muslims in the world. . . that the author of the book titled The Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed, and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran, as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, have been declared madhur el dam ["those whose blood must be shed"]. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them, so that no one will dare to insult Islam again.

  . . .
• In 1991, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was stabbed to death.
• Shortly afterward, the Italian translator was also stabbed, but survived.
• In 1993, the Norwegian publisher of the book was injured in a gun attack.

Investigators suspect that all these incidents were tied to the Iranian fatwa.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I seem to remember some Christians that considered the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" to be hate speech.

No, they considered it blasphemy, and rightly so. That said, those Christians did not riot and kill and issue a fatwa calling for the filmmakers' death.