Judge Rules Anti-Islam Film Can Stay On YouTube

The anti-Islam video that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world can remain on YouTube, a California judge ruled on Thursday.<br /><br />Actress Cindy Lee Garcia had sought to have the film removed, saying she was tricked into taking part, and had since received death threats.<br /><br />[Cindy Lee Garcia, Actress in Film]: <br />"I think that we need to take it off because it's going to continue to cause more problems and it's going to continue to not only cause more problems in the Middle East but in my life as well. It's a horrible thing that they put on. It had nothing to do with anything that was filmed. I want it off for my sake, I'm a moral woman. I want it off of there. It's degrading, demoralizing and it affected our country, our ambassador over there, our Navy seals were killed behind this. It was a horrible thing to happen. I think it needs to come off. I think that America needs to stand behind us on this and take it off of YouTube. Yes we have a right of freedom of speech, but what he did was wrong. It was wrong in so many ways and so many people were affected by it." <br /><br />The YouTube video "Innocence of Muslims" depicts Mohammad as a child molester and a thug, causing riots in the Muslim world.<br /><br />In Libya, the U.S. Embassy was stormed, with the U.S. ambassador and 3 other Americans killed.<br /><br />[Cindy Lee Garcia, Actress in Film]: <br />"And I called Sam Bacile and I asked him why he did this, why did you do this to us, why did you do this. He said, Cindy, tell America, tell everybody that you're innocent, tell them the writer of the script did this because he was tired of radical Muslims killing innocent people. And that was the end of our conversation. He's the one, Sam Bacile, he wrote the script. Whatever his other names are, he wrote the script, he had every intent, I believe, to dub over us, make this little thing he wanted to make and put it out there to make a point. I don't know what his reasons were." <br /><br />Last week, Google, who own YouTube, rejected a request by the White House to remove the video.<br /><br />This week, YouTube stated that the video did not violate the website's guidelines and would stay online.<br /><br />But access will be restricted in countries where it is illegal, such as India and Indonesia, and also in trouble hotspots Egypt and Libya.