Tom Freeman gets it to some degree. No Nelson for him.
On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, to protest an insulting cartoon published in Denmark, is it fair to ask: Who in the Muslim world, who in Pakistan, is ready to take to the streets to protest the mass murders of real people, not cartoon characters, right next door in Mumbai?
Good question, its been asked on the right for years and ignored, lets see if that changes when asked by a columnist of the New York Times?
Oh and if you are too young to understand the title of this post read this.



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