Swiss Catholic bishop tells Google to remove anti-Islam movie

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A Swiss Catholic priest has censured the release of a blasphemous US-made film that insults Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), calling for its removal from the Internet.Bishop Pier Giacomo Grampa told the Swiss SonntagsZeitung newspaper in a recent interview that the “Google officials should remove this byproduct” from YouTube.Grampa further highlighted that the West must not take advantage of freedom of speech to insult other people’s beliefs.Google claims that its policy is to remove content only if it represents hate speech, violates the company’s terms of service, or in case of a request by the US government or a court order.Google also says that it did not consider the highly offensive Islamophobic video as a hate piece.However, millions of protesters across the Muslim world consider the video as one of the most inflammatory contents to circulate on the Internet.Google’s action, according to US observers, has raised fundamental questions about the control that Internet companies have over online content.The Muslim world has been outraged over the $5-million movie that was reportedly financed by more than 100 Zionist Jews.Over the past days, anti-blasphemy demonstrations have been held across the Muslim world and several non-Muslim countries, with protesters in some countries marching on the US embassies and torching US flags.Protesters demand that Washington apologize to the Muslim world over the film. They also call for the punishment of the perpetrators of such insults. /129