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VOA常速英语听力2012年09月合辑（文本）：Mideast-Protests-Spark-Debate-Over-Free-Speech-Religion CAIRO — Violence this week in Libya, Egypt and Yemen has once again brought to the fore inherent tensions between free speech, however offensive, and religious dignity. Some political analysts in Cairo invoke the dictum that the remedy for such speech is more speech. The attacks on U.S. missions in Libya, Egypt and Yemen highlight how easily passions against the nominal ally of those countries can be ignited. An obscure, crudely-made American video mocking the Prophet Muhammed triggered rage and murder. 揟his is the pprice of extremism. If those who made the film wanted an extremist reaction, they got it. They succeeded,?said Said Sadek, a professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo. Sadek argues extremists on both sides got what they wanted: for one, proof that Islam is violent, for the other, that America is the enemy of their religion - points scored at the expense of those in the middle, including slain U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens. 揟he majority of people, Muslims and Christians, are not extremists but theyre captives of those extremists on both sides. Each side is provoking something and then the others are responding and they try to push the silent majority into extremism and suspicion and intolerance,?Sadek said. Sadek says its an anti-Western political agenda easy to deploy. 揟here is a misunderstanding in Muslim countries [about] the relationship between government and media, he said. They still believe its like in autocratic regimes: the government orders the media to do this or to do that. President Obama did not order that movie about Islam is made. In fact, he is being accused in America that he is pro-Muslim.? Libyas government was clear in its condemnation of the Benghazi attack. Egypts initial response made no direct mention of the death of Ambassador Stevens, although a day later it rejected the``unlawful acts against foreign embassies. 揑 don