Anyone arguing the gawd-awful “movie” Innocence of Muslims needs to be shown in Canada to teach Islamic extremists a lesson about the Western concept of free speech apparently has never heard of the Internet.

Type “Innocence of Muslims” into your Google or YouTube search engine and you’ll be able to spend the rest of the 21st century watching this hate-filled piece of crap denigrating Islam.

Innocence of Muslims is so amateurish, it makes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the century-old, book-length Russian hoax purporting to expose Jewish plans for world-domination, look like a PhD thesis.

That said, anyone who knows “cat” is spelled with a “c” and not a “k” knows neither the Innocence of Muslims, nor any other film, book or cartoon ever justifies the murder of anyone by Muslim fanatics.

Given these painfully obvious realities, that anyone could defend the public airing of Innocence of Muslims as an exercise in free speech — as, for example, right-wing fanatics are in Germany — is most likely motivated by one of two things

Either they’re idiots, or their real agenda is not a love of free speech, but a hatred of Muslims.

People who take them seriously don’t understand that in a democracy, just because you have a right to do something, doesn’t mean you should.

In the West, we have the right to mock and insult pretty much anything.

We can buy a Qur’an and burn it, if we choose.

But most of us have no interest in doing so not because we’re afraid of being murdered but because we know it would be needlessly offensive to Muslims.

Similarly, the malicious twits behind Innocence of Muslims had the right to make their execrable film, just as sane people have the right to ignore it.

The problem is many of the same people who are the first to take offence when a film mocks their religion, are all for airing one that mocks Islam.

Their argument is that because Muslim fanatics are using Innocence of Muslims as an excuse to kill non-Muslims, they must be reminded of western values such as free speech.

Right. How about we cut the crap? Muslim fanatics don’t need a film as an excuse to kill innocent people.

If you made a list of all the things Muslim fanatics use to justify killing innocent people on the grounds of “insulting the Prophet Mohammed,” it would be as long as the phone book.

The reality is many Muslims living in large parts of the Islamic world, where most, although not all, of these atrocities occur, live under fanatical Islamic regimes, or under corrupt secular governments that fanatical Muslims, who use terrorism as a weapon, are trying to overthrow.

Many Muslims (not all) who live under such regimes, often in constant terror of being killed themselves, to say nothing of growing up in poverty and ignorance, are easily incited to kill others.

The issue isn’t what sets them off, it’s that their lives are so filled with rage and despair, they can be driven to murder by organized religious or secular fanatics, who are often educated and wealthy.

Do we really need to see Innocence of Muslims to remind ourselves of this? Do the people saying we do, really think we’re that stupid? C’ mon.