Why is there so much outrage in the middle east over insults to Islam?

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18. "In our world, the video was trivial, repugnant and free speech.

In parts of the Islamic world, it was a serious attack on their religion that required reaction."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81137_Page2.html

“Libya is unstable,” Crowley said. “Everyone has a gun; everyone has an RPG.”

He also pointed out that the possible inciting incident in both Libya and Egypt — an Internet video said to be made by an American denigrating Islam — showed the “tension traditional societies have in trying to deal with the modern world.”

In our world, the video was trivial, repugnant and free speech. In parts of the Islamic world, it was a serious attack on their religion that required reaction.

“But violence can never be an appropriate reaction,” Crowley, a retired Air Force colonel and now a professor at The George Washington University, said.


I wrote something similar yesterday in a thread comparing our view of the video versus the perspective of people in other parts of the world, who in some cases mistake the film for official US policy. For this I was excoriated by a few DUers.

In her speech (today?), SoS Clinton made a point of stating the video does not reflect US policy and was not produced by the government, pretty much affirming what I suggested yesterday.