I had the facts wrong on yesterday's post. It was actually a Israeli-American filmmaker who made the film that got folks hot and bothered in Egypt; a Coptic-American merely blogged on it, which them got notice from anti-Coptic Egyptian Muslims looking to have something to rouse the rabble with.
Rouse the rabble it did; while the Egyptian protests were largely peaceful, Libyan's rabble wasn't quite as civilized, killing the US ambassador and three others. Amb. Chris Stevens looks like a young Jack Ryan in CNN's picture, an earnest diplomat looking to help the Libyan people ditch Gaddafi. To the rabble of the Libyan street, that and $2 will buy a latte in Hell.
To borrow from SNL-it's always something. There seems to be no shortage of outrage-able moments in the west to make Muslims mad at. All it takes is one rabble-rousing cleric to put the sparking news item (or non-news item in this case) into his Friday sermon and point the crowd to the embassy of the country in the news; this one happened on a Tuesday, so the meme didn't quite work to script.
Here's a change worth noting. When Iranian rabble seized the US embassy back in 1979, they didn't kill anyone. What a difference a third of a century makes.
The Arab democrats might be setting themselves up for glorious isolation if they want to divorce themselves from the world by letting these events happen and make them a no-go zone for westerners. Killing off ambassadors is something the dictators of the area haven't done to date, but they at least wanted to interact with the rest of the world.
It appears Sam Bacile is fictional, and seems to want to pin this on 'Jewish donors.'
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Posted by: Bene D | September 13, 2012 at 02:47 AM