More cartoon fallout

[qatarperegrine]

Here's a more disturbing local reaction: Jews, Christians wage war on Muslims: Scholar.

Six months ago this scholar called "dialogue with the other monotheistic religions a 'duty for all Muslims.'" Hmm.

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I don't know a thing about Quradaghi, so I can't say.

The Abu Ghraib comment seemed particularly strange to me, though. If it hadn't been for 60 Minutes, The New Yorker, etc., would Abu Ghraib have turned into a scandal at all? How many people are subjected to similar treatment in countries where there is no scandal about it, because there is no free press to tell us about it?

I want to be clear that I'm not saying that "our" torture is in any way justified, or that our response to it was ideal -- but it seems weird to me for someone not to see that if you really want to stop government abuses, you need a free press!