Condoleezza Rice says:
I don’t have any doubt that given the control of the Syrian government in Syria, given the control of the Iranian government – which, by the way, hasn’t even hidden its hand in this – that Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiment and to use this to their own purposes, and the world ought to call them on it.Er, Condi?
On Thursday, the Saudi government said it had recalled its ambassador "for consultations in light of the Danish government's lack of attention to insulting the Prophet Muhammad by its newspapers". Danish food producers Arla Foods said the anger sparked by the cartoons had prompted a boycott of its dairy products in Saudi Arabia. Arla director Finn Hansen said there had been calls for boycotting Danish products in Friday prayers and on Saudi television and in newspapers.Er, Condi (via)?
He [Sheikh Osama Khayyat, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah] commended the Saudi government for taking a firm stand against the cartoons that defiled the Prophet and his teachings. “This goodly government has warmed our hearts with its clear Islamic stance,” Khayyat said in the sermon aired by state television. “It showed its extreme displeasure, did justice to the Prophet and warned of the dangers of continuing this grave hostile path,” he said.I'm sure she meant to say Saudi Arabia too. An oversight, that's what it'll have been.
*Whistles ABBA classic "Money, Money, Money"*
Don't have any doubt that given the control of the Saudi government, Condi's capacity to ignore their part in this while explicitly blaming Iran and Syria - which, by the way, she's just done in front of the whole world - shows that the US administration has gone out of its way to inflame sentiment against Iran and Syria and to use this to their own purposes, and the world ought to call them on it.
I call! I call!
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