Contrairement à ce que les médias occidentaux ont rapporté, ce ne sont pas les islamistes qui ont jeté de l’huile sur le feu avec le film sur Mahomet.

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Emad Mekay, Columbia Journalism Review

But a closer examination shows that the effort to stir people up about the Innocence of Muslims video came not from Islamist press outlets but from an entirely different camp: several secular outlets of the Egyptian media, largely run by Mubarak-regime supporters bent on discrediting the Islamists in the new government. Secular pro-Mubarak supporters lit the match. If we are to understand Egypt and the Middle East properly, that recent history should be reconsidered in that light.