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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eranga_rama" data-source="post: 13432052" data-attributes="member: 85571">Anti-Islam film: Press views on West and Muslim world ties<img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62896000/jpg/_62896063_015970571.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Papers in the Middle East  and beyond are pessimistic about the relationship between the West and  the Muslim world after a film that mocks Islam sparked violent protests  in the Middle East and North Africa. There is renewed talk of a "clash  of civilizations" and even of a possible World War III.         Looking for causes, some question the US policy of supporting  pro-democracy movements in the Arab Spring, while others believe that  the violence is the latest manifestation of deep-rooted anger in the  Muslim world.   Middle East       Egypt's pro-government Al-Ahram daily says the  killing of the US ambassador to Libya "wasted an opportunity" for  Muslims to gain the West's solidarity by peacefully protesting against  the film. Instead, it convinced Western and US public opinion that "Islam is the religion of terrorists".         Writing in Egypt's pro-government Al-Jumhuriyah,  Muhammad Isma'il fears that "the fight against dictatorship in the  region will turn into a confrontation with the US and the West" and  warns America and Europe "against the risk of playing with fire".         Imad al-Din Adib in the pan-Arab Saudi-owned Al-Sharq al-Awsat  agrees that the killing of the US ambassador and three of his aides "is  a humanitarian and political catastrophe" with implications for  "Washington's ties with the region as a whole".         A commentary by Abdulrahman Bijash in Yemen's government-owned Al-Thawrah argues that "the problem lies in us, not in our religion. It is our behaviour and reactions that distort the image of Islam."         However, Nazih Leqsus in Jordan's Al-Dustur  plays down the significance of the film, which "will not affect Islam or  the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world". "It is not the first film and  will not be the last... as long as the West, as we well know, falsely  claims to respect the freedom of expression," the paper says.         An editorial in the Jerusalem Post says the  attack in Benghazi "seems to send out the message that even when the US  does the right thing - joining a coalition of Western countries in  helping the Libyan people free themselves from their hated dictator - hatred for America and all it stands for remains unchanged", a "sobering  lesson" to be taught on 11 September 2012.   Europe       An article by Viktor Feshchenko and Vladislav Vorobyev in Russia's state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta  warns that "no matter how 'rose-coloured' the intentions and speeches  of revolutionaries [in North Africa and the Middle East] may be, they  shed just as much blood as their opponents".         Writing in the Russian daily Izvestiya,  historian Stanislav Khatuntsev says sarcastically that "the events in  Cairo and Benghazi are an appropriate expression of gratitude to the USA  for its help in bringing down the regimes" in Egypt and Libya.          An editorial in France's Le Monde regards  the killings in Benghazi as part of "a long series of crimes which has  not insignificantly contributed to giving Islam the image of a religion  of sectarian violence and intolerance".         Writing in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,  Guenther Nonnenmacher says the fact that "a primitive concoction of a  film... has once again acted like a spark in a powder keg shows that  there is a difference between cultures which, if used as a political  tool, can quickly lead to a 'clash of civilizations'".         Huseyin Gulerce in Turkey's Zaman warns that  the killing of the US ambassador "shows us how fragile our world is,  especially bearing in mind those who want a clash of civilizations". A  "catastrophe such as a third world war" is "not a remote possibility",  according to the paper.         Two other Turkish papers plead for understanding. Koray Caliskan in Radikal  says "the massive reactions are the signs of an unbearable situation"  faced by Muslims rather than their intolerance, and Taha Akyol in Hurriyet says the reactions are "caused by being defeated by the West" and reflect "cumulated anger at being treated unfairly".    Asia       An editorial in Beijing's Global Times says  that Arabs demand that the United States respect their culture, but the  warships being dispatched to Libya "will not serve that purpose". "Even  if Washington can catch and punish the assailants, the cultural clashes  still remain. US warships can only generate more hatred from the Islamic  world," it warns.         Writing in the overseas edition of the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Renmin Ribao, Zhang Hong says there is a "big question mark" over whether the United States is any safer 11 years after the 9/11 attacks.          And Pakistan's Urdu-language Daily Express  says events in Libya show that "hatred against the US still exists among  people there" and warns of "more killings" unless the US and Europe  fail to stop people from committing "anti-Islamic practices".<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19600346" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19600346</a><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/oo.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":oo:" title="Oo    :oo:" data-shortname=":oo:" /></blockquote>

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