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Again it doesn't matter. Its what the Imams are doing that matters.

 Frazzled wrote:

Freedom of speech, means freedom of speech.

Except, of course, when it means "freedom to spend money."

 Frazzled wrote:

In other words, you don't have freedom of speech in Britain. You can say what you want until someone else doesn't like it. Got it.

That's the same freedom of speech we all have. The difference between Britain and here is that the government is legally prevented from imposing consequences on speech of most kinds.

Which means its NOT the same. If government can stop speech there, because its offensive to others, then its not freedom of speech.

@CT GAMER

That post is so fraught with irony, I wonder if you shouldn't have a Union Jack rather than the Stars & Stripes by your name.

 Frazzled wrote:
Which means its NOT the same. If government can stop speech there, because its offensive to others, then its not freedom of speech.

You mean its not American freedom of speech.

And you're right, American freedom of speech is not the same as English freedom of speech, but the basic idea that we can only speak free of consequences until some authority or opposition prevents us from doing so is the precise freedom of speech that we all have.

1. How will 'death sentence' be carried out?
- Firing Squad
- Stoning
- Hanging
- Cruxification
- Decaptitation
- "Five Horse' dismemberment; Quartering by motorized vehicle
- Burning alive (Inquisistion 'iconic judgement' against Heresy, Judaism, and Islam in Renaissanace era)
2. Does the current regime of post-Mubarak Egypt internationally recognized?
3. If the defendants are 'rescued' before the final verdict. will the regime carry an assassination or instigate any riots in muslim quarters within the territory of 'Christian ruled nations'. the riots that will ultimately surpassed the great riots of L.A. in 1992

You would have thought that the US would have worked out that the film was a bad, bad idea and...You know, apologized?

nah. in the 'Prophet film crisis' the minimum demands any muslim protesters issued to the US government is that the said movie should be banned in the US as well as worldwide. I don't think that the 'apology' issued by the US government to the said protesters will calm them down.

Handing over the blasphemer is out of question. the Egyptian 'government' can issue such demand to the US government but they can expect the answer. NO, the US will not hand over the 'crimina' because the offense on religious ground doesn't apply to the extradition pacts (and I don't think the USA and Egypt signed that pacts either!) so the only thing the Egyptian authority can do to have a hand on the 'arch enemy of God' is by force. either by using assassins, black gangsters, or instigating a 1992 level uprising will the 'retribution' carried out.