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While Western Media is busy selling papers, grabing eyeballs, or whatever it is they’re doing with the story of Muslim backlash to provocative depictions of Muhammed, a small voice if reason from the Arab Quarter is not being heard.

Listen to it.

It is dangerous and, frankly, more than a little stupid to view world-scale political issues through a microscope. The tiny things one sees are blown way out of proportion, while the vast majority of happenings are lost in the unseen periphery. Such is one of many problems with the media today; endless repeats of few happenings, looped every ten minutes to drown out the shy voice of reason. After all - reason never sold a newspaper.

The price of “Freedom” and the cost of “Democracy” is not to be taken lightly. What we “Amuricuns” take for granted is how much we’ve already paid for our perceived rights. Meanwhile, a quarter way around the globe, we see the price is much higher than we would prefer to believe.

NY Times has a great graphic depicting all the deaths in January due to the “insurgency” in Iraq.

A nice word - insurgency. It kind of make us forget that they’re actually fighting for their way of life, for the safety of their homes and families, and for their jobs against an imperialist superpower. Didn’t this used to be called a “rebellion?” But then rebellions, we’ve learned, sometimes are worthy causes. Better use a new term…