Extreme Overreaction

They don't make it easy for themselves, do they, those Muslim extremists? I mean, if you or I were offended by a video on You Tube, we'd give it a 'dislike', or maybe send Google send them an e-mail asking for it to be withdrawn. There's a clear procedure. There's really no need at all to burn down the US Embassy in Benghazi and murder the Ambassador. Trust me, You Tube won't accept that as a complaint. But these guys just don't get. Hell, we'd love to embrace them as brothers in the global struggle against corporate imperialism and commercial pop culture hegemony, but you just can't rely on these crazies. If they overreact like this to some amateur video, imagine how ape shit they'll go when something really bad happens? Obviously their mothers never gave them the valuable advice mine imparted to me - namely that one should always rise above insults like those in allegedly perpetrated by this film. Not only that, but as it was Mohammad supposedly being insulted, shouldn't it be for him to strike down the infidels responsible?

But seriously, the sight of hordes of heavily-bearded religious maniacs running around the Middle East burning down embassies is a public relations disaster. Not least for the extremists themselves, of course, as it reinforces every Western stereotype of crazed suicide bombers. But it is also a PR disaster for those Western governments trying to tell us that all those costly and unpopular interventions in the Middle East can be justified by the fact they've put the region on the path to democracy. Clearly, that's going well. But at the end of the day, it comes back to the fact these guys have to stop being so sensitive. I mean, just how offensive could a film called Ramadan-a-Ding-Dong: How The Mullahs Stole Christmas, possibly be? Damn it, that action finale where Jesus whips Mohammad's arse in a martial arts fight which demolishes half of Jerusalem is a knock-out.