In 2007 Barack Obama made the argument that the day he was inaugurated Muslim hostility would ease.
What arrogance!
Guess not.
Muslim protesters hit caricatures of U.S. President Barack Obama and Florida pastor Terry Jones with brooms during a protest, against a U.S.-made film they consider blasphemous to Islam, near U.S. consulate-general, in the southern Indian city of Chennai September 15, 2012. (REUTERS/Babu)
Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani, center, attends a protest after the Friday prayer, on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, while a worshipper holds up a poster of US President Barack Obama, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. (AP /Vahid Salemi)
Muslim protesters hold a caricature of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against a U.S.-made film they consider blasphemous to Islam, near the U.S. consulate-general, in the southern Indian city of Chennai September 15, 2012. (REUTERS/Babu)
Protesters torch an effigy of Barack Obama in Afghanistan. (AP)