Egypt, Libya and Yemen cannot even pretend to have a free press.
The Egyptian President, who was quick to tell us that WE needed to do something about some nut making a glorified home movie about Muhammad quite infamously cracked down on any semblance of independent media in Egypt.
There is a reason why this obscure movie became MUCH MORE FAMOUS in the Middle East than it would have otherwise EVER have been in America (where we at least value good production professionalism) - and that is because the governments in Egypt, Libya and Yemen WANTED it to be famous.
They acted as the publicity agents for this obscure home movie - then tell US that we have to do something about it.
How about if WE tell THEM to shut the hell up about what some obscure nutbag does in America?
They incite a riot on 9-11 using this obscure home movie as the flimsiest of pretexts - and our media plays along either blithely unaware of or entirely uninterested in the fact that nobody in the Middle East (or anywhere else for that matter) would have ever heard of the ‘film’ if not for the publicity given to it via full and direct approval of the governments of Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
I suppose the question is why would they do that?
And our red line will be to cut off your $$$ and let you sink into the real RED when your people turn on you.
If the film is so offensive, whomever allowed it to be screened in a Muslim country has sinned greatly and by their logic, that person should be swinging by their scrotum by now. Wasn’t this shown on Egyptian TV? Who authorized it’s screening? This was absolutely deliberately planned.
So, go kill the guy that made the film. It was not a government based movie.
Not only are they barbarians, they are stupid.