Your editorial ("Outrage at video was predictable", September 16) proposes a moral equivalence: that the video Innocence of Muslims bears equal responsibility for deaths as do those who did the killing.
What you are saying in effect is that a video, made legally in the United States, is the same as the illegal killing of embassy personnel - that video producers are the same as murderous mobs.
In defence of this moral equivalence you say that there are limits to free speech "such as the sensibilities of the audience, that must be taken into account".
But what a slippery slope that is.
For the "sensibilities" which you say ought to be taken into account are those of the more extreme fringes of the Muslim world.
The attacks in Libya were well planned by al-Qaeda and affiliate Ansar al-Sharia.