THE VIDEO OF MOHAMMED
AS A HATE CRIME
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com
September 12, 2012
I have
just listened to US Secretary of State Clinton responding to the death yesterday
in Bengazi of the ambassador to Libya, a foreign service officer and to other
nationals (Marines I’m guessing) in the US consulate. The attack there and on the US embassy in
Cairo was in protest against a video on the internet caricaturing Mohammed. Ms. Clinton decries the murder of fellow
citizens on US diplomatic territory. She
avoids characterizing the video.
I’m not
a fan of putting criminal labels on acts, but if under US law the killings in
Libya were murder, why isn’t the video a hate crime just as much as painting a
swastika on a temple and posting a picture on the internet? Regrettably, the USG is blind to its own
racism. Love and peace, hal
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