>> Au contraire!!  Muslim media does much worse (eg, reporting as if fact that 
>> Jews ritualistically kill children [1]) and the West is all but unfazed.
>
> Ummm, if by "unfazed" you mean dropping a lot of bombs on them and generally 
> pursing policies of "regime change," then yes.

Ooh, we've opened a can of worms!  I believe the blood libel example was 
from Egypt or Saudi Arabia.  We can accuse the US government of a lot, but 
violence as response to free expression, no.

PS: I added a straw poll about the cartoons to the improvetheworld page.
     http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/improvetheworld

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