Well I dont expect the UAE to suddenally publish the cartoons in their papers. I can see how muslims were offended. The point was how that outrage was played out. In my view this was used by Govt to get the bad news off their front pages. IN fact it appears Saudi Arabi that really started the ball rolling on this did it to get the fact that their incompetence at handling crowds got 345 people killed at mecca. Evid that was becoming quite a issue. Well the jennie got out of the bottle and other govts saw hey lets get our problems off the public mind and their it went
This thing was alot more orchastrated than people think. Well at the end of the day there was a crisis etc and after a few weeks the Arab Govts are going through the motions to reverse this stuff while saving face.
The whole cartoon thing is a distraction. Hopefully, people at the State Dept willcatch something like this early on next time and tell them its a extremly bad idea
The point being the UAE guy went yeah the cartoons were horrible. People protested some and got back to work.
Let's face facts here, those cartoons were entirely benign, at least the original ones. If the muslim world hadn't had a Hitleresque tantrum then the rest never would have surfaced.
I can see how the muslims were offended too. But I've been given a hell of a lot more reason to be offended in my Christian faith, and LOTS of that has to do with muslim doings, and yet you don't see me or other Christians lining up to do what they did.
You say that the whole thing was a lot more orchestrated than we think. Why do you think that is?
I agree, although I wouldn't say that it was "specifically" orchestrated. What is orchestrated is opportunities for world wide upheaval, chaos, riots, etc. with Islam merely "looking for an excuse" ala the LA Riots not too many years ago.
The more we cater to this crap, about "not offending them," the more it's gonna happen. It's just a different form of terrorism, nothing more!
"tThe thing was a distraction" politically, but societally and prophetically, it's merely a harbinger of things to come as Islam spreads throughout the free/westernized world!!!
Meanwhile, you're making excuses for the UAE foreign minister. He could have made his statements a lot more "US friendly" while still making his (the UAE's) statement clearly.