Anti-US protests - What we don't see

The current round of anti-US unrest in the Muslim world, in protests against the incendiary US-produced film, Innocence of Muslims, has been manufactured. This past week Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, openly condemned the film and its contents. His speech effectively started the ball rolling with protests first reported in Egypt and then in Libya. Gomaa is also partly responsible for fanning the flames of the 2006 Prophet Muhammed caricature unrest which led to protests and attacks on Danish embassies across the globe. The political forces in Egypt, notably Muhammad Mursi, the current president, and the second largest Islamist party, al-Nour, have attempted to hijack this growing anti-Western sentiment for their own gain. They have called for mass protests. This issue now threatens to snowball further as conservative Islamist groups from Morocco to Bangladesh call for similar anti-US demonstrations today. The film itself is an insult to every film maker on the planet. It is poorly made and produced and its screenplay is banal and void of any logical progression. That this came to spark the level of opposition in the Muslim world, clearly indicates a hidden hand and ulterior motive.