… and even further back behind this is the fundamentalist provocation between one religious hate group’s agit propaganda action and another religious hate group’s reaction.

The film itself was evil, even though it’s protected free speech. To try to pretend that fundamentalist provocations don’t have dire real life and real death consequences is to play in the ball courts of the Clash of Civilizations league, and it doesn’t matter if you wear the the uniform of the shia, sunni, jewish, coptic, or catholic teams, real people are still going to die and you are still playing their game by their rules.