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.
THere wasnt upheavel world wide. Thats what irriatated me about this story. Looking at the TV you would think millions of muslims werew protesting. They werent. There were not 100,000 muslims protesting. I kept seeing the same demostrations with the same signs for a week. The arab street didnt explode at all. The culprits were the same ole folks that were always protesting ans causing trouble.
As to the UAE MInister. I dont expect his job is to make it more US friendly. The people of his country prob didnt like it he expressed it and now they are moving on. I mean part of the freesom of speech deal is we cant expect them to adopt a attitude of oh go ahead do it. The whole thing was overblown. Most moslems didnt give a darn. Most were not protesting. I know the USA and others were expecting or demanding mass demostrations of muslims protesting mmuslims that protest cartoons but really why should we demand that. Are we that important. I expect most folks said I have more important things to do such as be with my family