I think that's what's happening today: you as Muslims are following only half of your prophet's ways, the rest of humanity is asking and exploring who Mohommed was and based on the conduct of his sworn followers what his teachings are.
What it boils down to is that Islam is, or has become, the religion of no-risk mob violence against innocents, for glory, power, and profit. That attracts some and repels others. Of course, once everyone in a culture is that kind of Muslim, their violence must then turn inward - hence all the bombings and corruption Pakistan experiences today.
Please, shut up, Solomon. It may not appear on your country's media, but those protests have actually been small and they are, of course, very recent. If people are going to take conclusions of a millenia-old religion on the basis of something that has been happening over the past 5 five days in localized protests, then they are idiots -- as I suspect you are, and very much so. And apart from an idiot, you also have some personal beef against Muslims due to your own background and attachment to Israel. No wonder you have a penchant to take only the worst conclusions about Islam and Muslims. What happens in Pakistan, by the way -- the work of Taliban and other militants against minorities which doesn't even of necessity reflect the attitudes of most Pakistanis -- doesn't happen in the majority of Muslim countries. Ever hard of Muslims going about massacring Buddhists in Malaysia, for example? Countries are influenced not only by religion, but also by geography and local culture. If you can find so many instances of ethno-religious hostility in Pakistan, it's not of necessity because of Islam, or only because of it, but perhaps because this sort of strife has been common in South Asi, including in the non-Muslim parts of it. See, in India, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and the anti-Christian pogrom of 2008 in Orissa; and also the habitual anti-Muslim and anti-Christian riots in Burma; the Buddhist radicalization in Sri Lanka, etc. See also how that doesn't necessarily happen in more distant Muslim countries.
Anyway, can I ask you how are the people protesting the film seeking glory or profit? Perhaps because you're Jewish, you see everything from the perspective of profit-seeking, but I don't think you're on to something here.
By the way, did you know that a large percentage of the neocon establishment in the US media and government is of Jewish extraction? How would you feel, then, if I asked why Judaism, historically a religion of greed and profit seeking, provokes so many wars over the world -- for instance, in Iraq now trying one in Iran -- specially if you consider that so few Jews are willing to do the dying themselves instead of sending in the Goyim?
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