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“The movie defaming Muhammad wasn’t a movie, it was just a trailer. We are the movie.”

Liberal activists like Mr. Aggour started the Arab Spring revolts. Now they are taking to the social media to express their dismay that a contentious film trailer could generate more attention and outrage than bloody oppression and threats to the freedom that they have risked their lives to obtain.

Some liberal activists say the latest unrest is further proof that Islamists have seized the gains of the revolution. Others, though, suspect that far-right provocateurs are fueling the rage and argue that the protests highlight the continuing struggle between moderate and extreme Islamic forces…

“We begged our Arab ‘brothers’ to protest against Bashar’s crimes against humanity and Islam. Nope, they’d rather protest against Obama!” Shakeeb al-Jabri, an editor of a Syrian activist news site who is based in Beirut, wrote on Twitter, referring to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

The circumstances surrounding the film have fueled activists’ suspicions.

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suspect that far-right provocateurs are fueling the rage and argue that the protests highlight the continuing struggle between moderate and extreme Islamic forces…

totalitarians are far left by definition.

newrouter on October 4, 2012 at 8:40 PM

“There is a large number of unemployed, politically unanchored, socially marginalized youth, many who may have played a part in the Arab Spring,” he said. “They haven’t benefited, and are likely not to benefit for some time, making them easy prey for the Salafist movement.”

See! In the end, no one was responsible for their own actions in ‘Slum land. It’s the lack of progressive measures doled out by those in power…..or something.

BL@KBIRD on October 4, 2012 at 8:47 PM

Is there a crack in the wall, and is it getting bigger?

OldEnglish on October 4, 2012 at 8:48 PM

Yawn. That entire part of the world is a cesspool.

KMC1 on October 4, 2012 at 8:53 PM

Yawn. That entire part of the world is a cesspool.

KMC1 on October 4, 2012 at 8:53 PM

Yawn. Same thing could be said about the ‘Merica that elected Obama and will elect him (or Romney) again (both scum).

Point is, its important to remember that there are always people, even if only a few who are genuine, right, and don’t deserve to be callously thrown under the bus because their neighbors are a bunch of retards. Not that there’s anything to be done about it, but nothing wrong with acknowledging this fact.

Daikokuco on October 4, 2012 at 9:21 PM