Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Expresses President Obama's Appreciation to Egypt's President Morsi for the Rotary-Club-Like Moderateness of His Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt in Seeking Only Moderate Death Penalties for Blasphemy.·

By Jim Wrenn, Editor, PoliSat.Com , PoliticalXray.Com . 
September 23, 2012--

            Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expresses President Obama's appreciation to Egypt's President Morsi for the Rotary-Club-Like Moderateness of his Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt in seeking only moderate death penalties for blasphemy.  In the wake of Egypt's issuance of criminal arrest warrants against Americans in the United States who participated in making a movie insulting Islam, some (if not many) progressives (for two examples go here and here) rush to assert that the making of a movie expressing what is known to be deemed blasphemous by Muslims is the equivalent of "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre" rather than free speech protected by  the First Amendment.   

            Defenders of the progressively nuanced nature of Obama's response to Islamic demands for criminal punishment of blasphemy defend his approach against criticism by the right-wing crazies (who foolishly think blasphemy should be protected by the First Amendment) by stressing the "brilliantly nuanced" nature of Obama's diplomacy in the context of the Arab Spring in the Middle East Middle Ages.  Meanwhile, in a "tribute" to the role of Egypt in the "Arab Spring," Obama's critics are shouting in unison (as they again seek to completely escape bondage via the Red Sea:) "We must let our Pharaoh go in 2012":