Well first, It wasn't "just" a movie. It was a movie, depicting Mohammad a pedophile, and several other manners of nasty.
I have every reason to believe that every Muslim was upset about it. They hold the prophets, Not Just Mohammad, but also Moses, and in their eyes Jesus, as well as other prophets of the Christian Old Testament in high regard, and feel that by creating a likeness of their image is blasphemous and idolotry. Create a film like that and replace Mohammad with Jesus, and you are going to have a whole knew group of angry God loving Humans ready to riot. It will probably draw out some of the crazies from under their beds as well.
As for who actually carried out the killing, reading CNN.com's take, there is talk that Libyan Extremists stormed the compound in the middle of a protest being carried out by normal muslims.
And like Jester pointed out, do you blame every christian for the horrible atrocities that their extremists have carried out? We'll use not so ancient history as our gauge.
We'll start in the 80's, when "Christian Extremists" bombed multiple Abortion Clinics, and murdered Doctors who had performed abortions. Do you villify all christians because of those nutjobs?
We can then move to the late 80's, and the 90's, when "Gay Bashing" was not just "Speaking poorly about Homosexuals", but was really "Bashing" as in beating them severely, and in some cases, to death. Do you blame all christians for that?
We can then fast forward to the most recent decade, and stare in pure amazement at the Westboro Baptist Church. Do you think all Christians are like that?
I was born, and raised in a lot of the batshit crazy 80's and 90's. My father was a pastor, who left his church when the batshit crazy got to a point where even he, a shrewdly religious man who holds the values of the bible as laws for life, just couldn't defend some of the actions anymore. Trust me, there are extremists everywhere, but the Media fearmongering machine has really done a job on the Muslim community.
Extremists do not define any "religious group" any more than extremists in politics define their political parties. They end up being the loudest, and most bombastic, because they will go to... "The Extreme" for their beliefs.
I have every reason to believe that every Muslim was upset about it. They hold the prophets, Not Just Mohammad, but also Moses, and in their eyes Jesus, as well as other prophets of the Christian Old Testament in high regard, and feel that by creating a likeness of their image is blasphemous and idolotry. Create a film like that and replace Mohammad with Jesus, and you are going to have a whole knew group of angry God loving Humans ready to riot. It will probably draw out some of the crazies from under their beds as well.
As for who actually carried out the killing, reading CNN.com's take, there is talk that Libyan Extremists stormed the compound in the middle of a protest being carried out by normal muslims.
And like Jester pointed out, do you blame every christian for the horrible atrocities that their extremists have carried out? We'll use not so ancient history as our gauge.
We'll start in the 80's, when "Christian Extremists" bombed multiple Abortion Clinics, and murdered Doctors who had performed abortions. Do you villify all christians because of those nutjobs?
We can then move to the late 80's, and the 90's, when "Gay Bashing" was not just "Speaking poorly about Homosexuals", but was really "Bashing" as in beating them severely, and in some cases, to death. Do you blame all christians for that?
We can then fast forward to the most recent decade, and stare in pure amazement at the Westboro Baptist Church. Do you think all Christians are like that?
I was born, and raised in a lot of the batshit crazy 80's and 90's. My father was a pastor, who left his church when the batshit crazy got to a point where even he, a shrewdly religious man who holds the values of the bible as laws for life, just couldn't defend some of the actions anymore. Trust me, there are extremists everywhere, but the Media fearmongering machine has really done a job on the Muslim community.
Extremists do not define any "religious group" any more than extremists in politics define their political parties. They end up being the loudest, and most bombastic, because they will go to... "The Extreme" for their beliefs.
nobody ever slaughtered an entire school with a smart phone and a twitter account – they have, however, toppled governments. - Jim Wright