You can destroy the Arab Spring and its states with five million dollars. This is the belief of those standing behind the film Innocence of Muslims as it was named by its Israeli-American director Sam Bacile, or International Judge Muhammad Day as it was named by the Copts who produced it in the United States. According to Bacile, five million dollars which were donated by one hundred Jews were enough to fund the film that attacks “Islam not Muslims"! But what is the link between the Arab Spring and its states and a film that is offensive to a religious doctrine and was produced in a democratic superpower? It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Muslim Brotherhood era in Egypt should worry about the possible and gradual loss of its understandings with Washington, in case the incident featuring the lowering of the American flag at the United States embassy in Cairo were to be repeated, in the context of a wave of anger which might emerge vis-à-vis the film that is offensive to Muslims and religion. It would also not be an exaggeration to imagine the size of the dagger with which the incident of the American consulate in Benghazi stabbed the Libyan revolution in the back – with Benghazi being the city that witnessed the first spark of the rebellion against dictatorship and earned sympathy from the Americans who contributed to the Colonel's toppling. Indeed, this is the same city where the American ambassador died of suffocation in a fire triggered by anger against the movie. Was it a mere coincidence for this film to be aired on the commemoration of the September 11 attacks which caused the death of Americans? If it is intentional, then hypocrisy brought together – in a dubious way – an Israeli director, one hundred Jews and some Copts in the United States among those who were disowned by the Coptic Church in Egypt, and including, as it is said, Maurice Sadek who did not deny his implication in the making of International Judge Muhammad Day. Clearly, among the goals of the movie is to turn Egypt's Muslims against its Copts, and plant a massive mine in the country that survived numerous traps following the January 25 revolution, regardless of the Muslim Brotherhood's approach and whether it is supported or rejected. In other words, the offensive movie is seeking once again the achievement of what some of the remnants among the supporters of the former Egyptian regime failed to accomplish. At this level, each of the Arab Spring states features its remnants, and each in its own way. So is it just a coincidence that the transitional phase in Yemen was undermined by Al-Qaeda's bombs and booby-trapped cars and that national unity in Egypt was once again destabilized by religious tensions that might soon turn into sectarian ones in case the Jihadists or those trying to push them to the street were to fuel them? Is it a coincidence that faith in the spring of the Tunisian revolution is shaken due to the Salafis' attempts to push the modernists towards despair? And if it is true that the suffocation of American Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was an incident falling in the context of the anger caused by an American film's offense towards the Islamic religion, then the use of rockets to bomb the Benghazi consulate to vent out this anger is an expression of the size of the militias' predicament sweeping a revolution that cost the Libyans tens of thousands of dead, in order to reap the fruits of freedom of expression which is necessarily peaceful, and averse to violence. Naturally, we are not saying that the Muslims in Libya and Egypt among others should protest through whispers against Bacile's and Maurice's action, to avoid aggravating the Americans or losing their promises to some spring states. However, sliding towards hatred and destructive spite of what is left of the dialogue of civilizations and religions under the pretext of defending religion, is like burning one's own home so that the thief cannot rob it. In the era of hatred and its plague which is eliminating all that is rational in favor of all that is instinctive, the desecration of a mosque in France yesterday and the warning by Al-Qaeda to America's Muslims against holocaust are not a coincidence. Is anyone still duped about – or disregarding the reality of - the great holocaust in which Al-Qaeda is using all the Muslims as fuel? Bacile's film is yet another weapon of mass destruction threatening the Arab spring, its revolutions and states. Hatred only generates hatred, and as long as the revolution is generating justice, its enemies are lurking to spread segregation in the region, between Muslims and Christians, Muslims and Copts, Sunnis and Shiites and Sunnis and Alawites. This is pushing each sect to stay among its likes for safety, which is the best recipe for the restructuring of societies within groups in which racism will prevail. Is this not Israel's case? It is as though the goal is to render it the role model.
