why is it that one scenerio garners such disparities in reaction from different groups of people?

why has a scant cartoon triggered off such an extensive chain of attacks, some on targets hardly related to the source? why has it claimed the lives of so many? why has it prompted the muslim world to call out in unison for the execution of the cartoonist?

if there was a publication of a similar cartoon on prophet elijah or moses, what would the reaction be? probably nothing more than a few laughs and some individual protests.

is this disparity attributed to the difference in our devotion to our faith? do muslims love Allah more than christians love Jesus?

or are muslims under such intense oppression from the west that, like an enclosed room continually pumped in with butane gas, the slightest spark will produce an earth-shattering explosion?

how much of this violence from the muslim world is our own fault?

how can the middle east be expected to trust the US to step in to "bring peace to the region as a friend", when the acquiring of a few ports are immediately seen as "opening the shores of our great nation to terrorists"?

how can we say "equality of man!" and not feel ashamed of ourselves?

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8:18 PM