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Thread #88465   Message #1662210
Posted By: GUEST,dianavan
05-Feb-06 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
Subject: RE: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
Teribus do you think that the people who are rioting have been educated in secular schools? I doubt it.

The problem is that they are "susceptible to the type of hate-mongering and manipulation" fomented by radical clerics. With so much negative attention already focussed on their religion and the people of the Middle East generally, its not a great leap to see how they were set-up.

I think the magazine who comissioned the cartoons and the radical Muslim cleric are both to blame. They are the educated people in this situation and they knew exactly what would result. The PM of Denmark, who is also educated, should have taken the opportunity to meet with the ambassadors and hear their concerns.

There is plenty of blame to go around in this situation but the people in the streets have been manipulated to do exactly what they are doing. Any educated person should have known this would happen.