(Re-sent with a typo correction.)
I was disgusted looking at a 14 minutes trailer of the video, "Innocence of Muslims", on the internet. I do not see anything good in this video. I do not see anything good that the makers of this video could accomplish here. I do not see anyone learning anything good from this video. I do not see any good sense of entertainment here. I do not see how this video could help any class of people in any way.
I express my strong condemnation of this video. I am also pleased that the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has expressed her disgust after watching this video.
While I strongly believe that religious people, both the innocent and the hate-monger kinds, need education in rationality, I do not think this kind of insults and mocking of religions helps any cause in any way. It does not help educate or advance any kind of people in the world. It only alienates and antagonizes the followers of religions. It can make religious people stubbornly defensive against, and hostile to, not only people who committed the insulting, but also who are not followers of the religion in question.
Having said the above, I also think that the violent demonstrations against the video, especially targeting people who had nothing to do with the video, were wrong, and indicate a poor state of human development of the demonstrators. I am pleased that only a protest demonstration, with no violence, took place in Bangladesh due to this video.
Sukhamaya Bain
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