It is disheartening that intellectuals are seeing the attack on the personality of the Prophet Muhammad as an academic exercise. More than that, it has to do with passion people have for their faith and this cuts across all faiths of the world. Those who wrote the film and executed it had a motive of harassing and provoking the Muslims among others, the effect of which, I am certain they did not think of. If some Muslims perceive the action as being borne out jealousy of the fame Islam continues to gather in spite of oppositions from many fronts, other may see it as affront which must be confronted. The response of the latter group is what we have seen in Egypt and Algeria and may just be starting. The Muslim intellectuals may have no reasons to respond to malicious activities against the Prophet in any form-be it in cartoon, play, book or whatever but no one will be able to stop the emotional Muslims from reacting emotionally when provoked. The answer to this question is an enlightenment to those who provoke others to stop the provocation. This may appear crude but it is the truth of the matter.
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