Issue Guide: Muslims Protest Depictions of Mohammed
Issue Guide: Muslims Protest Depictions of Mohammed - Council on Foreign Relations
The attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed a U.S. ambassador and three diplomatic employees, have raised new questions about the region’s prospects for stability and security. As protests, initially sparked by an anti-Islam film made in the United States, continue to spread across the region, hopes that the crisis can be contained grow dimmer—especially after caricatures of Mohammed were published a week later in France. Some experts see the emerging tensions as a product of the fraught political situation in new Middle East democracies, while others see it as the work of religious extremists and political opportunists looking to propagate a new anti-American narrative post-Arab Spring.
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