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Saturday, February 18, 2006
Cartoonish Coverage
I've been following the cartoon riots by Islamics on a peripheral level. But I think this graf from Slate pretty much sums up the coverage:
Protests continued in Pakistan over cartoons depicting Muhammad, with three dying from the violence on Friday. Ten people were killed in demonstrations in Libya yesterday. Meanwhile, a Pakistani cleric announced a $1 million bounty for the killing of any Danish cartoonist responsible for caricatures of the prophet. Officials in the Russian city of Volgograd ordered the local paper to be shut down yesterday after publishing a Muhammad cartoon.
I'm not seeing much coverage of the fact that the Abu Grahaib torture pics are being shown 24/7 in the Arab world, and that perhaps this may be playing a part?

I find it hard to believe that the uproar by the Islamic public is just because of the cartoons. If the Arab world felt that they were treated justly by the west and not subject to BushCo's Christian crusade, I suspect the outcry would have been far more muted. If so, why does the media continue to ignore the underlying story?

Duh.
Written at 10:09 AM by Greyhair.
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