[Otataral Toblakai]

Situated right in the midst of this all, I thought I'd share an insider opinion.

1. None of these people care about the Prophet, Islam etc Indeed, Islam means 'peace' and that is what was promoted, that made up the essence of his philosophy. Instead, this is simply an outlet for frustrated populations manipulated by power hungry politically minded clerics who simply needed a reason to increase their power base and spread chaos. If they truly cared about this all, they would either have ignored it or simply flagged the YouTube video en masse and asked for its removal through YouTube application.

2. A large proportion of the population is actually against such violent protests (refer to Obdi's link)

3. When inflation is optimum, their is no electricity, no jobs, a population is frustrated and easily puppet to power hungry politicos and clerics, with their own agendas.

In the end, this is all political. One man's (who's actually an Egyptian) insults are turned into those of a nation, and the unfortunately oppressed and ignorant masses who are suffering, are used to channel their frustration into violence. True religion - and any religion at that - hardly preaches violence. But what needs to be understood that nations have been made to suffer just because of one man (Bin Laden) and, as some celeb tweeted, are you surprised that something like this has hit back.

And so, my message: peace to all. Americans, please don't think bad of these people because of the acts of certain propagandist power hungry 'behind abysses'.

BTW, Obama's pretty cool, particularly post-Reddit AMA...!

[Terez]

Are you in Libya?

[Otataral Toblakai]

Not Libya. Several hundred miles East..!

[Terez]

Egypt was my next guess.

[Otataral Toblakai]

An excellent overview by BBC. Read it for a chronological account of it all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-19606155