The American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other diplomats were killed yesterday in the Libyan city of Benghazi after unidentified armed men stormed the US consulate, shooting at buildings and throwing handmade bombs into the compound.
Stevens is reported to have died sometime after the initial attack from asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation.
Their actions were a reaction to a US made anti-Muslim film called the Innocence of Muslims, which negatively portrays the prophet Muhammad.
While I think it was stupid and unnecessary to make an anti-Muslim film that insults Muhammad, I also fail to see what killing a US ambassador who had no involvement in the making of the movie, or who probably hadn’t even heard of it until the consulate was stormed, really achieves.
How does killing representatives from the world’s great superpower accomplish anything other than to provoke it and force it to do something in retaliation?
Those responsible for this sadistic and senseless attack are reported to be a militia group, who operate with complete separation from the new Libyan government, but it still happened and it raises serious security concerns about stability in Libya and the ability of the new Libyan government to maintain security.
While they maybe in a minority these militants have shown that despite the attempts by several nations across the Arab world to end violent dictatorships and bring democracy, law and order to their societies (which America have supported), there are still those that are clearly living in the past and are using archaic ways of dealing with things, the sooner their ways are devolved the better.
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