(US Admin 2) Excerpt: ABOUT A YEAR AGO, on September 10, 2012 I was invited to sit on a panel to discuss Islamic Law and the Constitution. The next morning, as I drove home from my hotel room, I heard on the radio that there was rioting in Islamic nations. Apparently an “anti-Muslim filmmaker in California” had made a YouTube video which offended the delicate sensibilities of Islamosavages, such that they were left with no choice but to riot, loot, rape, kill, throw stones, shake their fists, storm embassies, burn flags and yell “Death to America”. Soon after, my Facebook in box was flooded with explicit death threats from followers of the Religion of Peace. Then they started posting these threats right not my FB wall. A year later, after hundreds of my friends complained to FB and the FBI conducted an investigation into the threats, those FB accounts remain active, the Islamists have gone unpunished. In the fog of it all, someone PhotoShopped a “bounty” on my head. Several foreign newspapers reported that I was “the filmmaker” of the hit Islamo-comedy “The Innocence of Muslims”. And I was advised to leave my home immediately and move to a safe house. There was some coverage of this in the blogosphere before any of us bothered to count all those zeros and realize that the bounty was not in fact 10,000,000 rupees, but a Quadrillion dollars. Hardly a real bounty, or what some were calling a “Fatwa”. Nonetheless, the explicit death threats from Muslims, many here in the United States, continued, sometimes as often as one new threat per hour. I filed reports with every level of law enforcement. The FBI told me they could not protect me, but that I should stay indoors and consider hiring private security.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:58:54 +0000
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