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Originally Posted by powerclown
We will all recognize sincere condemnation when we see it, as it will be on the front page of every major world newspaper, on every world radio and tv news program, and the subject of discussion for every major politician involved.
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Then you had better start writing some letters to the editor of those papers to start publishing these words of condemnation that I have seen...
The fact is that the voice of moderation has been systematically crushed in the middle east. The regimes in power are largely not democratic and do not have provisions for free speech. In fact it is these regimes that control much of the debate (such as it can be called a debate) in the local media.
As these regimes cracked down on the moderate and censored any attempts at free (or freer speech) the only place where dissent was allowed was in the Mosques and largely in mouths of Fundamentalists... fundamentalists who see moderates as soft and ineffectual in bringing about change.
Ironically, a lot of this situation has come to pass due to Western intervention either in the guise of propping up regimes like the Sauds or instigating coups like in Iran that ousted Mossadegh and re-installed the Shah.
Where are the moderates now? Largely they do not have a public voice. Largely they have immigrated to the west.
So no, you are not likely to see the moderates splashed across the front pages of the western media... you will find them in most stories but you probably didn't notice them for the splashy violence that keys into our ADD addled brains.