If they think they are scosring brownie points with those people thay are frikin' crazy.
It still appears to be official policy to not antagonize the muslim world, even if a small per centage of their adherents are murderous lunatics. Wouldn't want to offend them . . . even as they torture and threaten to kill yet another female hostage.
Ordinarily that might be a prudent policy, but the problem with that thinking is that it is unrealistic after 9/11.they have committed one outrage after another since then. So it would be something like the president in the movie 'Fourth of July' persisting in debating the alien in the act of exterminating him, and us.
Do they really think radical muslims, like the ones carrying those despicable signs will eventually decide: "Oh, I never really saw it from your perspective."
Incredible, isn't it, that the Euros are ahead of us on this issue: that free speech means just that?
"Land of the free, home of the brave." Mebbe we should add "and smarter than framing hammers, too" somewhere in the anthem. Our state department. Absolutely incredible.