The incident exposes the deep vein of anti-US anger
Dave Lefcourt, the author of "Deceit and excess in America, how the moneyed interests have stolen America and how we can get it back," argues that the Arab Spring which had the affect of removing the shackles and giving voice to the people in these countries should not be seen as contributing to anti-American demonstrations.
He believes that the motivation behind the video that inspired these protests in Muslim countries was the provocative intentions by an anti Muslim Egyptian American and Coptic Christian who expected his video would likely spark anti American protests in the Muslim world with the larger hope of tainting ALL Muslims as radical jihadists and terrorists.
Yet as happened previously when the American fundamentalist Minister Jones burned the Quran and the American soldiers in Afghanistan burned the Muslim holy book earlier this year that provoked outrage among Muslims, it is readily apparent there are certainly anti Muslim fanatics and ignorant Americans who have no respect for Arabs, Muslims or any of the indigenous peoples in the Muslim world that we have invaded, occupied, committed torture against and killed innocents with our drone attacks and missile strikes, Lefcourt pointed out.
To borrow Prof Lawrence Davidson of West Chester University in Pennsylvania, this incident has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world. "This anger is nothing new and we continue to ignore it at our peril. The Muslim world continues to be a tinder box that someone resident in the West, someone like Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, can throw a match into and spark something akin to another 9/11."
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