Cassi Creek:
Yesterday I wrote about the historical origins of the
current Arab readiness to engage in mindless mob behavior over things that
modern nations descended from what is know n as “Western Civilization” take in
stride. Writing on religious books,
cartoons about religious mythical beings, and other events of that nature are
not valid reasons to engage in mob behavior.
There is evidence, according to CNN that some of the “protestors”
in Egypt were paid to take part in the protests.
“Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's prime minister said some of the
thousands involved in days of protests near the U.S. Embassy got paid to
participate, state news reported Saturday, the same day riot police managed to
force demonstrators from the area.
Prime
Minister Hesham Kandil said "a number" of those involved in the
tense, sometimes violent protests, which began Tuesday, later confessed to
getting paid to participate, according to the state-run Middle East News
Agency. He noted, too, that some of the demonstrators were acting on their own
and weren't paid to vent their anger against the United States over an inflammatory anti-Islam film that was privately produced in that
country.
Kandil
did not say whether the government knew or suspected who paid the
demonstrators, according to the MENA report.”
With this in
mind, I chose the title for today’s post quite deliberately. What does it mean,
why did I use potentially inflammatory terms to describe the Egyptian
government, Egyptian citizens, and particularly the mob from Benghazi? Look it up if you need to. While you’re prowling through the dictionary,
look up, also, the acronym, “Whiskey, Indigo, Mike, and Papa.”
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