The Innocence of Muslims film trailer posted on YouTube has raised a lot of questions. Its content is provocative and aimed at inciting a wave of rage among the Muslims. Some clips of the movie trailer depict Muhammad as a mean fool, a homosexual and a child molester among many other things.
Who needs this sickening concoction? There is someone who really needs it much.
The result was immediate. A wave of indignation hit the Muslim world that led to the death of US ambassador to Libya (Benghazi) and three American members of his staff. Large-scale protests took place in Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Palestine, where an angry crowd burnt a US flag at the UN office building in the Gaza Strip.
The events have just started to unfold; nobody knows what it would lead to.
No doubt there will be consequences. It’s not the first time somebody acts to offend and wound the feeling of religious Muslims. Before that the controversial cartoons of Muhammad had appeared in the Netherlands, a Koran had been burnt in the USA. It had also been used as toilet paper by US Marines in Afghanistan.
The Muslim response was absolutely predictable: the attacks against US and European offices, pogroms, victims. It’s too naïve to guess the idiots like US Marines, were behind it. Somebody wants the Islamic volcano to erupt. Perhaps the Muslim world turning into a huge burning pot meets the interests of the behind the scenes world politics managers?
What is the specific feature of the new provocation? First, some sources report the Copts, native Egyptian Christians, may have relation to it.
Morris Sadek, a US Egypt-born citizen, President of the National A Coptic Assembly, confessed he took part in shooting the film.
It immediately gave rise to the assumption that the Egyptian Copts had ties with the movie producers. The Copts are a significant minority in Egypt, many of them feel strong anxiety after the Muslim Brothers took the helm in the country.
Under the conditions the appearance of the Innocence of Muslims may become a planned strike against the Christians in Egypt and give rise to bloody interreligious enmity.
Some Sam Bacile appeared as the movie creator at first, he even talked on the phone with the Independent. Now he has vanished in the hays.
A thorough check conducted by journalists proved this character never existed. Steve Klein is a veteran anti-Muslim organizer with close ties to the Christian right in California. He was the "Innocence of Muslims" consultant and distributor. But he has no idea of either who the director is or who is Sam Bacile.
One way or another, the provocation worked effectively.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a little panicky stating no country’s citizens had any relation to the movie calling the producer “complete loose cannon, and an unspeakable idiot”. No wonder, Israel has a reason to be concerned about the ongoing events.
US State Secretary Hillary Clinton did nothing better than to call the movie “disgusting”. I wonder! Somehow there is no statement coming from Washington saying it was a provocation aimed at undermining the US interests in the Muslim world jeopardizing the US citizens’ lives and posing a threat of inciting an interreligious war…
Why such diplomatic awkwardness? Is it because the State Department doesn’t set much store by the fraud movie? But US flags are burnt and defaced in all Arab states today. The violence against US citizens will not stop after the first few killings. There is somebody who’d have to pay for a violation of Islamic belief! Though it depends. It’s ordinary US citizens – diplomats, missionaries, tourists and the like – who’ll pay… The protestants have no guts to get at the “higher ups”. They are out of anyone’s reach.
But who would help the governments, hit by the “Arab Spring’s” road roller, cool down the people’s anger and quell the flashes of religious riots? Who should they address for aid and money? Where is the money? It’s in Washington.
That’s why the US – style “Arab Spring” prolongation may become the most logic explanation of the provocative action. The forces, that would better be called “demo-terrorists”, are brought to the top by the “Spring”.
Former dictators no more, they have got the reins now. But these new rulers have no political experience and are full of unneeded ambitions. They are not easy ones to deal with. So the time has come to put a US “tight leash” on them. (The dog breeders use the term for a leash with spikes on the dog’s collar). Let them sit and not move. It makes Washington more appeased this way.
If the “Innocence of Muslims” producers will not be found – it means they really have the forces behind them that manage the world politics. Having put a “tight leash” on, they’ll have no pity.
