In this modern world with modern technologies, for us to respond in that way to hatefulspeech empowers any individual who engages in such speech to create chaos around the world.
We do not do so because we support hatefulspeech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened.
We do not expect other nations to agree with us on every issue, nor do we assume that the violence of the past weeks or the hatefulspeech by some individuals represent the views of the overwhelming majority of Muslims, any more than the views of the people who produced this video represents those of Americans.
Perhaps the irony might be that the bogus hogus pogus hate-speech based on hateful leviticus 18:22 might bring the bible and torah into a banned status and the churches and synagogues shut down!
Humor does not provide an open license to espouse dangerously hateful messages, nor is freedom of speech the same as freedom from the consequences of speech.
We wrote an open letter to Facebook, co-signed by more than 100 organizations, asking the company to take concrete steps to better understand gender-based hate speech on its site and to train people to recognize violence against women as hateful.