Ideological Struggle Seen In Middle East Attacks

By ROBERT F. WORTH, New York Times
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:40pm

Some analysts see the protests as less about Muslim intolerance than about extremists’ exploiting popular anger to draw attention to political goals.

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