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Jailed for incitement?

“Four Muslim men have been jailed for their part in protests at the Danish embassy in London, against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.”

While it goes without saying that the things that these men were promoting were disgusting and wrong, this case still worries me somewhat. Were their calls to bomb Britain and Denmark, for instance, really inciting anyone to violence? Is it likely that anyone would actually go out and bomb somewhere because of what they said? And if not, why have they been jailed? To protect the public, or to make an example of them? From BBC News, here.


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