1. In southern California in 2011, a Christian Egyptian immigrant made an amateurish, no-budget, anti-Islam film called Innocence of the Muslims. Why you make a movie suggesting Muhammad was gay and into animals, I don't know. No surprise, it was never released. This July, the filmmaker posted clips of it on YouTube, where it sat roundly ignored for a couple months. Nothing happened . . .
2. Until a couple days ago, when suddenly these videos went viral and provoked violent mob reactions in Egypt, Libya, and in other parts of the Islamic world. The American Embassy in Egypt issued a statement criticizing the film. Some time after that, four American diplomats were killed at our consulate in Libya. How a crappy cheap-ass movie can spur such mayhem, I don't know. But some Islamic hotheads -- a tiny minority --- go ape-shit over the smallest perceived insult, and it doesn't take much in the way of a cartoon, book, or movie to piss 'em off. Anger management, anyone?
3. Incredibly, Mitt Romney claimed that Obama was trying to appease Muslim extremists. The Glove said the statement from our Egyptian embassy, which came before the attack in Libya, was "akin to an apology", and any "apology for American values is never the right course." What American values? Those expressed in some moronic movie? And Mittens, old boy, any married man can tell you that a policy of never apologizing is truly foolish.
Twisting a tragedy in a pathetic attempt to score “foreign policy” points -- that's really nice, Mitt. Now go to the Billionaire Store and buy yourself a sense of shame, you nit-wit!
No comments:
Post a Comment