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The Islamist extremists in al Qaeda, Ansar al-Shariah, Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups targeting U.S. interests around the world are religious supremacists who believe they alone possess the truth and have no tolerance for disagreement.
Whatever real rage was generated by "The Innocence of Muslims" came from the perception that their one true faith deserved special protection from insult -- and no laws made by man could be allowed to stand in the way.
Next time you wonder why there's hardly any tolerance in Muslim-majority countries for religious differences, here's your answer:
By not vigorously and explicitly defending freedom of religion, speech and conscience, Clinton, like Obama and other officials in his administration, surrendered those values to the anger of the mob -- and in the process sent a clear signal to billions of people around the world that the extremists' ideas trumped America's.
Then, by ordering Nakoula's arrest, the Justice Department made the awful optics even worse -- how many people outside the United States really understood that the arrest was for a probation violation and not for the video itself? A handful?
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