This week there was a barrage of violent out breaks in Tunisia and Sudan over a movie that has swept across their land. The New Islamic President went on the national news and discouraged the violence; he tried to urge his people to not fight against the U.S. embassies over there. However, not many of his people listened to him. There were all kinds of different attacks on the U.S. people, from stone throwing to being shot at by automatic rifles. The police were able to hold back some of the protestors by shooting tear gas at them and by using armored vehicles to push them back. The worst damage came in Sudan where a radio station urged people to march on the German embassy and then to protest the film at the U.S. embassy. The movie that caused this out break came out of the U.S. and was seen by the Middle Eastern people via internet; the movie denigrated their prophet Muhammad. This happening was a huge smack in the face of their culture and religion. Had a movie came out of there doing the same thing to our American God our nation would have been offended, but I don’t believe that we would have done anything like the attacks they did to our people over there whose only purpose was to help them. This though could also show that religion is much more important to them with them being in another part of the world. I still don’t think protesting like that, and hurting people was the right thing to do. Who am I though to tell them how to feel about their God? Maybe I would’ve done the same thing if I believed what they do.
http://news.yahoo.com/anti-film-protests-spread-across-muslim-world-164455189.html
Sorry for the wrong time. i submitted it at 4:44 p.m. 9/14/2012.
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