Egyptian paper puts Their Leader infront of World Leaders

So these two photos have been goind round wild in the internet all because of a photoshopped image on a Egyptian newspaper A photo from this month's Middle East peace talks is at the centre of a controversy after it was discovered that Egypt's biggest newspaper had doctored the image to put President Hosni Mubarak out in front of other world leaders.

Photoshopped image

Real image
The switch-around was spotted by an Egyptian blogger, Wael Khalil, who promptly posted both images on his website.
I dont get the mentality of switching the position of their president in the picture...but I did get why it has caused such a stir.. Muslim being leader leading among world leaders. I dont get why people have to be so negative about that?