Anger Over Mohammed Cartoon

[Kitsune]

The Muslim world is protesting? Maybe not as many as you might think.

Muslims have every right to protest, but the overreaction was unnecessary. In reality, the number of original demonstrators was tiny: 300 in Pakistan, 400 in Indonesia, 200 in Tripoli, a few hundred in Britain (before Saturday’s bigger reconciliation march), and government-organised hoodlums in Damascus burning an embassy. Beirut was a bit larger. Why blow this up and pretend that the protests had entered the subsoil of spontaneous mass anger? They certainly haven’t anywhere in the Muslim world, though the European media has been busy fertilising the widespread ignorance that exists in this continent.

Ooo, scary! ~1,000 over-reacting protestors worldwide! Why is that the media, here, tends to make everyone think it is damn near all of them? Wouldn't this, you know, perpetuate the cycle?

In other news, the freedom of the press takes another turn. It seems a lot of people that are sure that we should have the right to publish some insulting cartoons think there are some photos that shouldn't be published. Or what about video?

I guess cartoons "don't hurt the troops", so that makes it okay.