Let's turn this on its head for a minute. If the billboard had said "the Islamic world" instead of "America", and it was for a season of films say out of Jordan and Egypt, you'd dismiss the hue and cry from the Muslim community as being an unjustified whinge on their part.
Why is it that you have to be just as sensitive as Muslims about this series of ads, as they are, say about Pope Benedict's remarks?
Regards, Ivan
I'd be insulted, but I wouldn't threaten to burn down the British embassy nor behead the ambassador. I'd just boycott.
And yes, I would see it as inflaming the Muslim world and wouldn't call it oversensitivity. I wouldn't blame them.
It's WHAT you do with your negative reaction that is the crux as to all the outrage AT the Islamic world for us in the West