koshergrl
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From the NYT no less:
"I dont like to see anyones faith insulted, but we need to make two things very clear more clear than President Obamas team has made them. One is that an insult even one as stupid and ugly as the anti-Islam video on YouTube that started all of this does not entitle people to go out and attack embassies and kill innocent diplomats. That is not how a proper self-governing people behave. There is no excuse for it. It is shameful. And, second, before demanding an apology from our president, Mr. Ali and the young Egyptians, Tunisians, Libyans, Yemenis, Pakistanis, Afghans and Sudanese who have been taking to the streets might want to look in the mirror or just turn on their own televisions.
They might want to look at the chauvinistic bile that is pumped out by some of their own media on satellite television stations and Web sites or sold in sidewalk bookstores outside of mosques insulting Shiites, Jews, Christians, Sufis and anyone else who is not a Sunni, or fundamentalist, Muslim."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/opinion/friedman-look-in-your-mirror.html?_r=2
"I dont like to see anyones faith insulted, but we need to make two things very clear more clear than President Obamas team has made them. One is that an insult even one as stupid and ugly as the anti-Islam video on YouTube that started all of this does not entitle people to go out and attack embassies and kill innocent diplomats. That is not how a proper self-governing people behave. There is no excuse for it. It is shameful. And, second, before demanding an apology from our president, Mr. Ali and the young Egyptians, Tunisians, Libyans, Yemenis, Pakistanis, Afghans and Sudanese who have been taking to the streets might want to look in the mirror or just turn on their own televisions.
They might want to look at the chauvinistic bile that is pumped out by some of their own media on satellite television stations and Web sites or sold in sidewalk bookstores outside of mosques insulting Shiites, Jews, Christians, Sufis and anyone else who is not a Sunni, or fundamentalist, Muslim."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/opinion/friedman-look-in-your-mirror.html?_r=2