What really motivated the embassy attacks?

michaelrubin.org

• The September 11 murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, a mob's sacking of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo demonstrate the war against terrorism is far from over. Disturbingly, 11 years after al Qaida's devastating attack on New York and Washington, neither the White House nor the State Department appears to recognize what the fight is about.
• The idea that the riots were spontaneous shows detachment from the reality of the Middle East.
• The White House and diplomats may wish to believe a distasteful, provocative, and inflammatory film motivated the violence in both Egypt and Libya. It is comforting for politicians and officials to ascribe the root cause of Islamist terrorism to grievance because if grievance motivates terror, then resolving the grievance could provide the solution.
• Free speech? An excuse to kill. Simply put, when the grievance is Western freedom, there can be no compromise. It is time that President Obama and the men and women representing the United States abroad understand that.
  
  The war on terrorism and, more specifically, the fight against Islamist radicalism, is an ideological battle.

The Salafists are using the movie in order to get political concessions from Obama.  They've already got an apology for the movie, now Morsi is demanding prosecution of the makers of the movie.  This is clearly impermissible under our Constitution.

Actually, Morsi should be persona non grata until he apologizes for the violence and brings to justice those who initiated it.  The situation is ass-backwards and it is because of this administration's policies that it is so.  Morsi would not be so bold if it weren't so.  He may not even be in power if it weren't so.  Obama's policies put him there.  Obama's policies freed the Salafists who were behind this.  Obama's policies enabled this situation.