What makes all this particularly worrying is that the Obama administration is currently helping the Saudis and the multinational lobby they host in Jedda, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a longstanding campaign to criminalize expression that offends Muslims.
It is because they want to be re-elected and they need the big political donations from those who lobby for the insurance industry, the medical device industry, the pharmaceutical companies, the commodity producers and a host of others.