An "Innocence of Muslims" movie sparked the riots between America and the people of Lybia. The riots started out in Lybia, so the Amercians sent in their ambassador to aid Lybia. In turn they burned down the U.S flag and replaced it with one representing the "Al Qaeda" and killed the U.S ambassador. Islamists-Sakafists wanted an ultra conservative religious state in Lybia so they started/enforced riots. These people did this by taking the movie made by the American and connected it to their economic uncertainty and unemployment. The people who are unemployed have nothing to do, which just led to more riots because they had nothing better to do. The Al Qaeda terrorists also started riots because they want a society where Islamic law is the rule of the day...they want a state that is run by their religion. Mean while all of this is going on, in the eyes of the Arabs, they were feeling hurt and angry because their religion was mocked in the movie. The arabs want to see "change" in their country so they feel you have to hurt other people sometimes to see "change". They are also embarrassed, because the Arabs are very close to the U.S ambassador because he stood with them when they needed him, when everyone else was running away. The U.S ambassador made him self look "equal" to all of them.
I agree that this is definitely a poor decision on the part of the Libyans since the United States will now be less willing to aid in future conflicts throughout the Arab Spring movement. I feel that this violent act will lead to negative effects for their country and others involved in the movement.
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