The article "What Now for Muslim Western Relations?" was written on September 22 by a former US diplomat David
Mack. The article discusses the condition of a relations between Western and
Islamic countries after a notorious amateur film "Innocence of Muslims"
which caused not only a great number of meetings resulted in numerous killed
and injured people, but also in a dramatic worsening of relations between
Islamic countries with the European ones as well as with the USA. It is
necessary to note that the Western diplomatic
missions in Muslim countries are on high alert as the protests spread.
Nevertheless it is interesting to emphasize that in Pakistan, the government
declared Friday a national holiday to allow people to protest peacefully.
However it didn't yield expected results and there were clashes in Peshawar and
Karachi, and demonstrators have tried to storm the US embassy in Islamabad. It
is necessary to point out that the US has bought airtime, to the tune of
$70,000, on Pakistani television to run a series of ads which resulted in a
public anger. Trying to explain the situation, Victoria Nuland, the US
state department spokesperson, made the announcement, saying: "In that
environment it was Pakistani recommendation that we buy some airtime to make sure
that the Pakistani people would hear the president's messages and the
secretary's messages." There are also a lot of comments of the theme of
the ethics and the US embassy in Islamabad also sent out street interviews
conducted with Americans to local media. It is an open sector that all those
interviews have one very clear message: that the video does not represent
American values. On the other hand according to Blake
Hounshellit, the editor of Foreign Policy magazine,
it is unlikely that an advertising campaign like this will make any
difference to those showing anger towards the US. For him these protests seem
to be orchestrated by hardline Islamic groups that aren't really sympathetic to
these kinds of messages coming from the US government. The author includes
his article with his own thoughts "I
think the impact is going to be an extended one ... because when people cross
over from peaceful protests or even insults and then engage in violent acts,
terrorist acts, kill diplomats, firebomb embassies, the reaction of my
government, fully supported by the US people, is to close down those
embassies."
As
for me, I agree with David Mack that this film causes and will cause a lot of
problems in the USA-Muslim Countries relations as well as in a political
situation in the world as a whole, and day after day we receive the proof of
it.
Well done!!!
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