I would like to ask how is it possible that people get so upset for a movie. I just can not find any explanation or any logical flow of thoughts, why people should burn down an embassy as a reaction to a movie which contains a message or some sentences they do not agree with.
I can somehow, difficulty, find at least a shade of a way to understand what is the problem in the case people do not agree to foreign military bases on the territory of the own country. In this case, people do not agree to the decision taken by the own government. Many different folks have demonstrated against similar decisions of their politicians in this regard, in a diversity of ways and with different results. Few times, the demonstration exceeded the state boundaries, as if the fault would be of the foreign country which has been authorized to put own military bases, and not of the country who allowed the other one to do so. So, even if some reactions do not really make sense, at least the motivation is quite clear.
Now, the motivation for burning down an embassy is apparently a disagreement on a movie. I can think of examples of factual dictatorships where movies, books and a lot more are banned and people are investigated, punished, tortured, imprisoned for their ideas. But I can not really think of the case in which people of one country condemn another nation because they do not like a movie realized, distributed and authorized in it. What will be next step? All Earth will have to follow the rules dictated by one country (chosen how and why, by the way) in order to preserve their embassy, or maintain diplomatic fairness, or commercial contacts?
I think that a disagreement on a movie is not a motivation to initiate any action which goes over a fair discussion. More than that: I don't think I can find right now any motivation which should go over a fair discussion. But this is much more complicate topic...
I can somehow, difficulty, find at least a shade of a way to understand what is the problem in the case people do not agree to foreign military bases on the territory of the own country. In this case, people do not agree to the decision taken by the own government. Many different folks have demonstrated against similar decisions of their politicians in this regard, in a diversity of ways and with different results. Few times, the demonstration exceeded the state boundaries, as if the fault would be of the foreign country which has been authorized to put own military bases, and not of the country who allowed the other one to do so. So, even if some reactions do not really make sense, at least the motivation is quite clear.
Now, the motivation for burning down an embassy is apparently a disagreement on a movie. I can think of examples of factual dictatorships where movies, books and a lot more are banned and people are investigated, punished, tortured, imprisoned for their ideas. But I can not really think of the case in which people of one country condemn another nation because they do not like a movie realized, distributed and authorized in it. What will be next step? All Earth will have to follow the rules dictated by one country (chosen how and why, by the way) in order to preserve their embassy, or maintain diplomatic fairness, or commercial contacts?
I think that a disagreement on a movie is not a motivation to initiate any action which goes over a fair discussion. More than that: I don't think I can find right now any motivation which should go over a fair discussion. But this is much more complicate topic...
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