What makes it funny is the prejudices the West seems to have about Arabs, and how expendable they are if we fear them enough.
What makes this funny is racism.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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