US ambassador killed over a film

[shoju]

You people are still skirting the real issue here.

What kind of people go nuts in the tens or hundreds of thousands over a movie? Any movie. It is irrelevant as to the movie being right or wrong. It is the reaction. No sane individuals would ever go crazy like this over a movie.

I totally agree with you on this point. I posted this Onion link earlier in this thread (which hits the nail right on the head), but I guess no one saw it or otherwise cared to comment.

Except Catholics have gone out in droves in recent memory to protest films that were far less offensive.

And there is a massive culture difference between fundamentalist and non fundamentalist countries.

And the film was unbelievably offensive to them. Seriously. To get to this level of offensiveness for a catholic / christian, you would have to make a film about jesus where he went into the temple, and was tag teaming mary magdaline with john the baptist, while they did incredibly awful, things to children.

Then, we might be getting to the point where it would be offensive, but not quite, because Christianity allows people to "make art" of Christ, while Islam expressly, and specifically forbids it. Even in a "positive light".

If you actually take the time to understand what the religion is all about, and how they do have this incredibly strict code of things, and then add in that it isn't just a religion in this part of the world, it is the way of life, and you can begin to fathom why it is such a big deal to them.