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The Innocence of Muslims

Death to America prevails across the Muslim world at the present time.  Not that the present time is much different from what usually prevails, truth to tell.  It is simply more overt, more acute, and far more deadly at this time.  There are what might politely be termed mass rallies in Tunisia, Nigeria, Lebanon, Gaza Strip, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

In many of these places the masses that are rallying are in full-blood irrationality, sharing a mass psychosis of blame against the non-Muslim world, hatred and a wish to avenge themselves.  The reason is simplicity itself, they have been spurned.  Scorned.  Their most sacred relic of spiritual thought, their reason for existence, to which and to whom they turn five times daily in rapt piety has been impudently, outrageously, scorned.

As with the cartoons out of Denmark that spurred a mass paroxysm of hatred and mob violence in one country after another, causing plentiful deaths and destruction, the occasion of a release back in July of a video on the Internet has been carefully nurtured in the minds of Islam-obsessed Muslims as yet another assault upon Islam, one which will not be tolerated without exacting its toll of satisfyingly avenging misery.

An analysis of what occurred in Libya has led to the conclusion that this absurdly-produced and -scripted film, amateurish and inept, has so enraged the faithful that the Benghazi U.S. consulate's Lebanese-engaged security guards deliberately faded from view when the attack against the Americans was launched.  A conspiracy between like-minded avengers after 9-11, spurred by a video?
"There were definitely people from the security forces who let the attack happen because they were themselves offended by the film", according to the commander of the Libyan government's Shield Brigade.  "They would absolutely put their loyalty to the Prophet over the consulate."  This, in the purportedly most "moderate" of the Arab Spring countries.

The anti-Western violence that has erupted throughout the Muslim world is irrational, and deafeningly passionate, conditions for which there are few remedies.  Any single individual who lives in the West who can make a public pronouncement of holding Islam in contempt - and as far as any Westerner may be concerned, with reason enough given Islam's wild-card excesses from mob violence to jihadist slaughters - that any mullah can use as proof of Western intolerance toward Islam.

There are no logical answers to illogical circumstances and propensities.  And yet the West continues to excuse all these Muslim outrages that culminate in wildly berserk reactions creating mass havoc and placing lives in jeopardy.  Attempts at conciliation of red-hot emotional injuries only serve to plunge those emotions deeper into enmity and outraged blame, for these attempts to assuage anger only spur it to greater excesses.

Western media have declined to publish or play the offending video, in respect of the sensitivities of those who would be offended.  The West has its eye on shielding Muslims from insult, in return Muslims interpret Western motivations as insulting Islam, and there is no escape from the heights of offended fury.

Labels: Chaos, Communication, Conflict, Diplomacy, Human Relations, Islam, Political Realities

posted by Pieface @ Monday, September 17, 2012