PARIS – Violent attacks on US diplomatic outposts across North Africa and the Middle East have once again raised the question of how to respond when Americans and other Westerners engage in provocative expression that others consider blasphemous. Though the attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three members of his staff were murdered, may well have been planned, as the State Department has maintained, the killers clearly exploited the opportunity created by outrage at an anti-Muslim film produced in the US.
巴黎—北非和中东地区袭击美国使领馆事件再次激起了一个问题：当美国和其他西方人做出其他人所认为的渎神言论时应该作何反应？美国驻班加西领事馆遭袭导致大使史蒂文斯（J. Christopher Stevens）和三名工作人员被杀，但美国国务院认为，杀手显然是利用了一部美国拍摄的反伊斯兰影片所引起的激愤情绪。