It should come as no surprise to anyone
that there are protests against this film and incidentally no
surprise, that these protests will continue and spread. The Innocence
Of Muslims, depicts Mohammed as a fraud and shows him having sex and
calling for massacres. The makers, supporters and financiers of this
film care nothing about the "Freedom of speech" argument.
Their motive was to be provocative and to generate hostility amongst
Muslims throughout the Middle east and perhaps elsewhere, which in
turn would result in mass protest. Their other objective was to
promote reaction in the west against such protests, and to encourage
the growing hostility in many people towards Islam and its followers.
In this, the film makers and supportive politicians, have been
encouraged by a generally Islamophobic western media who will jump at
any opportunity to promote the perception of Islam being the greatest
threat of the age. The deaths of the American diplomats are a
regrettable consequence of reaction and are rightly condemned.
However, to immediately link this event with a pre planned Al Qaeda
action, is indicative of the lengths to which the Western governments
and media will go in order to divert attention from the real issue,
and to perpetuate the myth of the Islamic threat making a tenuous
link of such events with the continuing “war on terror”.
Cultures, lifestyles and beliefs of
different peoples are diverse. What we consider to be the right of
free speech to lampoon aspects of our societies, politicians,
religion or values, others would and do, consider as totally
unacceptable and offensive in the extreme.
It is with this reality in mind that
the film “The Innocence Of Muslims” has been made. The
intervention of Terry Jones was a deliberate attempt to add fuel to
the fire already created by the film makers, financiers and
distributors in their sinister objectives of creating reaction in the
Muslim world. In this respect they have been singularly successful.
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