Friday 24 May 2013
The video at the centre of the violent demonstrations across the Muslim world, is undoubtedly "reprehensible" (in the words of Hillary Clinton), but it pales into insignificance against the abuses that the US and its allies have perpetrated in the Middle East - particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is those abuses which have made the West so despised by Muslims that the slightest provocation leads to violence.
J MARSTRAND
By e-mail
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