Best Analysis on the Recent Events in the Middle-East:

David Kirkpatrick, in today's New York Times, explains the uproar around the dispicable film that Google has continued to allow to be seen on UTube. (Umph! That was a mouthful.)

Kirkpatrick does his best to explain the Muslim view of the blasphemous film. Muslims in the region have little understanding of freedom of speech, it seems, at least in Western terms. For them, insulting their religion and their community violates their rights far more seriously than murdering four people.

That's as hard to grasp for westerners as our willingness to accept blasphemous talk is for them. Some westerners should find it remarkable that Egyptians object to films and books that are critical of Christianity as well, particularly puzzling in light of the fact that the anti Muslim film now showing on UTube is apparently made by Coptic Christians from Egypt.