I watched the video when it was first mentioned, had to search for it.
It wasn’t “anti” Islam insofar as what it did was explain what Islam was IMO.
Of course that makes people anti Islam (for good reason) when they see the truth.
And the lefties/commies see it as Islamophobia. Which is a misnomer, fearing Islam is not an unfounded, irrational fear.
Of course the term phobia, like the word gay, has had it’s meaning changed over the years.
Mormons react the same way when posts have quotes from their own writings that they are not familiar with.
As you say the video was hardly inflammatory. I didn’t see it until sometime later but some FReeper who did says it had no more than 100 hits at the time. His handle slips my mind. Did you notice how many hits it had when you watched it?
The most ridiculous thing about it is that there are (and were) literally hundreds, if not thousands, of Youtube videos that are incredibly derogatory about Islam. That fact is what got my attention from the start, and undoubtedly the attention of many others, that the excuse was some extremely smelly BS.
It sits squarely in the realm of insanity to think that video got muslims killing mad and the thousands of worse videos do not.