Memo to Muslims Free Speech is as Sacred in America as the Prophet Mohammed is to Islam
Now that the insanity has subsided in the Muslim world after almost a full week of protest, it is maybe time to think about what happened and take time to consider future U.S.-Mideast relationships.
I think we can all agree that everyone involved here, the U.S. government, Muslims, and Muslim governments, mishandled the situation. America should not have apologized to anybody. Muslims need to learn to take time to think twice before flying their Al Qaeda flags in the air and burning the flag of the nation that funds most of the foreign investments in their lands.
It is still unclear why the protests happened at all. Some might argue that it’s because of the low-budget movie on Youtube right now, The Innocence of Muslims. The movie included humor as it related Muhammed, but also satirized secular Western practices too, which can be seen in the way the characters spoke to each other and acted. You see a Muhammed that not only looks Western, but also talks Western and acts Western, all to offend Muslims. Muslims, nowadays, feel a constant angst about melting within a fast-spreading secular Western culture, which only pushes them towards more alienation from the West in general and toward Islamic fundamentalism to identify themselves as a separate ethno-religious group.
Away from the movie itself, let’s take a look the reactions this week. After their diplomatic missions in the Middle East were raided and vandalized, the U.S. government had to step down and apologize for the movie to tame the protests and protect U.S. citizens abroad. Muslims were more than enthusiastic to find a new excuse to burn more American flags and invade American embassies. Muslim governments’ apathy to protect both their own citizens and U.S. missions led to deaths across the region and damage to U.S. diplomatic missions in Sudan, Tunisia, and Egypt.
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