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Your argument would be more compelling had not the Muslim world also went crazy over a certain cartoon. Unless you're suggesting the Dutch are also the Great Sa

Your argument would be more compelling had not the Muslim world also went crazy over a certain cartoon. Unless you're suggesting the Dutch are also the Great Satan. And no offense, the US government makes quite literally, thousands of requests to private companies every year and always have. It isn't more threatening because it is the White House instead of the FBI or State Department. Clearly Google had no problem ignoring it.

smsm42 14y ago
There's always something to go crazy about. In the same vain, UK and Germany embassies are under attack, though they had absolutely nothing connecting them to the film: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/witnesses-police-fire-on-protesters-near-u-s-embassy-in-yemen/?hpt=hp_t1 http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/witnesses-police-fire-o... But if not film, there's always something more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121025.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121025.stm Teddy bear named Muhammed - riot! http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132513576.html http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132513576.html False accusation of Koran desecration - riot! http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/rushdie-update-its-friday-and-you-know-what-that-means/ http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/rushdie-update-its-fri... Rushdie knighted - outrage! http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/02/seething-muslims-rage-against-snack.html http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/02/seething-musli... Snack may have traces of alcohol - outrage! http://mosquewatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/wikipedia-refuses-to-remove-photo-of.html http://mosquewatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/wikipedia-refuses-to... Wikipedia pubishes fotos of 14-th century relics - offense! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576554/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576554/posts Valentine's day - violent protest! http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2006/03/01/77857/Police-fire.htm http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2006/03/01/77857/Police-f... Playing cards - violence! http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=4336983 http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_worl... Watching soccer? Death to you! There's always something, and pretending it is always only the immediate excuse for violent outrage does not make much sense. The Satan here is everybody that does not conform to their very narrow, very fundamentalist, very oppressive medieval version of Islam. The reason-du-jour will be different, the cause is always the same - you should not behave in ways they do not approve, and if you do - they are justified to violently suppress you, or at least hurt somebody they associate with you.

smsm42 14y ago

There's always something to go crazy about. In the same vain, UK and Germany embassies are under attack, though they had absolutely nothing connecting them to the film: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/witnesses-police-fire-on-protesters-near-u-s-embassy-in-yemen/?hpt=hp_t1 http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/witnesses-police-fire-o... But if not film, there's always something more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121025.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121025.stm Teddy bear named Muhammed - riot! http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132513576.html http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132513576.html False accusation of Koran desecration - riot! http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/rushdie-update-its-friday-and-you-know-what-that-means/ http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/rushdie-update-its-fri... Rushdie knighted - outrage! http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/02/seething-muslims-rage-against-snack.html http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/02/seething-musli... Snack may have traces of alcohol - outrage! http://mosquewatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/wikipedia-refuses-to-remove-photo-of.html http://mosquewatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/wikipedia-refuses-to... Wikipedia pubishes fotos of 14-th century relics - offense! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576554/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576554/posts Valentine's day - violent protest! http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2006/03/01/77857/Police-fire.htm http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2006/03/01/77857/Police-f... Playing cards - violence! http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=4336983 http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_worl... Watching soccer? Death to you! There's always something, and pretending it is always only the immediate excuse for violent outrage does not make much sense. The Satan here is everybody that does not conform to their very narrow, very fundamentalist, very oppressive medieval version of Islam. The reason-du-jour will be different, the cause is always the same - you should not behave in ways they do not approve, and if you do - they are justified to violently suppress you, or at least hurt somebody they associate with you.