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I imagine that it's hard to be outraged by daily occurrences, even if they are blatantly evil. Did you protest and riot after Tianamen Square? How about after the massacre of the Salvadoran priests in 1989? They were Christians (obviously); why didn't Americans and Europeans spill into the streets? More recently, why didn't the massacre of 18 members of a family in Mexico in a drug deal gone wrong make national headlines in the US?
Just like it is in the US, for the Egyptians and Jordanians, this is happening at arm's length in another country. It's also not entirely clear who did this or why. This attack was on Iraqis in particular and not on Islam in general, which is how the cartoons were perceived.
Try again.
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