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The events in Libya call to mind Shakespeare’s Macbeth: …a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. A video, which itself may or may not exist, played by actors who say they were duped, causing “spontaneous” eruptions of religious anger in two different countries at the same time with the same target, US consular buildings. The fury, as in Macbeth, will require hand washing, but not hand washing that will work, also like Macbeth, for “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this…hand.” Macbeth Quote (Act V, Sc. I).
This is the rankest madness, throwing over thuggery the veil of religion and that of religion scorned. No world can contain those whose beliefs are so weak that even crude humor can sully them. They will never rest, never find peace. And if, as I suspect, this was not religion scorned but a moment seized to justify murder, then the world can contain those even less.
It’s time for all sane citizens, no matter their religious conviction, no matter their national or tribal affiliations, to say enough. Let’s stop this.
