Actually, what I said has nothing to do with the latest activities in Lybia. Lybia is a mess but that's what happens when a strongman is replaced by radical groups.
What I refer to is something that is actually quite real, such as the ordeal that someone like Salman Rushdie had to go through. Or the Danish cartoon maker from a few years past.
Libya, not Lybia.
I agree with you; bombing Libya and murdering Gadaffi was a huge mistake, it should have been solved diplomatically. However, the reasoning behind, which was that Gadaffi wanted to sell oil for gold instead of US dollars, or even Euro - since Libya would benefit a lot more from such - it would have ruined the Petrodollar and plunged even larger parts of the West into further economic chaos because our currencies would be even less worth due to not being traded for oil. When Gadaffi announced the plans for a Gold Dinar and urged the other African and Arab nations to follow, French president Nicolas Sarkozy calling Libya a threat to the financial security of mankind. No wonder that both US/EU intervened.
The whole "ordeal" with Salman Rushdie and Kurt Westergaard are only two individual episodes born by reactions to actions taken. The reaction from the extremist Muslims isn't any different from what the Right Wing
CHRISTIAN nut-jobs in the US have spewed in the media regarding Julian Assange (or simply look at Ireland, Spain...) They're all equally dangerous and a problem, extreme left, extreme right or extremist Muslims. Yet, all these radicals and extremists are minorities on the grand scale. The majority of people want peace and prosperity.
Westergaard is btw one of the most open and friendly people, he has consistently let people of all races and religions live in his house, and that is why plenty of Muslims have spoken out against the attack(s).
If you "hate" Muslims or think it is OK to invade sovereign nations and bomb villages with drone technology due to any of those two episodes then you are the problem too, not the extremist Muslims, they're reacting to actions taken against them. What are you doing?
WE, the West, are radicalising the Middle East (more than ever before) with our wars, bombings and interference in internal matters.
The Middle East (or Latin America... or Asia...) used to have loads of
peaceful elected governments until the US (or Britain) propped up some dictator in order to either control the Oil or squash Political ideology that didn't favour US foreign relations, such as Communism.
Pick up a history book.
