But without the production values.
It's hard to believe this high school dramatic production gone awry has set the Islamic world on fire. I have to disagree with Mrs. Clinton. This isn't disgusting or reprehensible. In fact, this is marginally funny but mostly really stupid.
And it does, no doubt about it, pull out all the stops in its febrile attempts to mock Islam.
So what? This comes out of a culture in which mocking Christianity or Judaism is fair game. It's something we call freedom of speech. That's a concept that applies to the most exhalted exhortations about liberty and justice as much as it applies to the most juvenile expressions of artistic license.
I think the reason embassies are going up in flames throughout the Middle East has next to nothing to do with this so-called movie. It's about a half century of resentment over 1948 and 1953 and the occupation and the settlements.
It's about Iraq and Afghanistan and the millions of Muslims who have died for the Western world's insatiable thirst for oil.
It's about resentment over the last seventy-five years of American bullying of all things Islamic.
This "film" is a catalyst. It has tapped that well of resentment.
The wheel of Karma turns...
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