Henry Rollins on the protests and violence going on:

henryrollins.com

You make a film that you absolutely know will cause riots and unrest in the Islamic world and release it. The creator of the film chose to do this. Every second of the film was to trigger a reaction. Why is the film maker in hiding? Why isn’t he proud of his work? He’s getting what he wants, right? Americans and others are getting killed over this. What do you think was going to happen. This man does this on his own and it’s the president’s fault? Perhaps this film maker should meet the parents and relatives of the fallen Americans and explain himself. I am sure he would be able to get his point across, it being so valid. Perhaps he should be arrested and charged with multiple murders.

This film was not an exercise in freedom of speech, it was the abuse of that freedom. It was, sadly, what you do out of hatred and intolerance. This is what you do when your side is losing and you want to try and turn things around. This is what you do when you are a coward. That’s the worst part about it, the stunning cowardice.

Now we can look forward to the vandalizing of mosques in America. We can look forward to peaceful, law abiding American citizens getting hassled, injured or worse because of their religious affiliation or country of origin, real or perceived.

This what it is. It is a plain as the nose on your face. If anything, you now see just how small the world really is. You now can understand without a doubt that we are all connected and how you conduct yourself matters. The rest is up to you.