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ORIGINAL: cloudboy There's a book out called AN ATHEIST IN THE FOXHOLE. It was written by a guy who worked 8 years for Fox News. His last year or two was with O'Reilly, and he made the point that in order to garner audience attention, the victim of any crime had to fit a certain profile. In the formula, a white, blonde woman was always the best victim. (For Fox News, that is.) The media sensation in Paris is heightened because its a terrorist attack in the WEST and because the media itself was targeted. Another thing that galls the WEST is terrorists attacking journalists. This is now quite common in violent, strife ridden Islamic countries. There is little Free Press as we know it in the Middle East -- and journalists are at risk of death and imprisonment if they tell certain stories. So,tThis last attack, without a doubt, was an attack on free speech, and that transcends the loss of the individual lives lost. That is a challenge to our core beliefs and way of life. I might also add that the West was quite horrified by the Taliban attack on the Pakistani school. No one looked the other way on that. The West was also horrified by Malaya being shot for trying to go to school. The points you make are valid ones, and on the whole I agree with them. However, they apply only to this particular terrorist incident in Paris. Your post fails to negate my student's more general point that Muslim lives are undervalued compared to Western lives. And it makes no response to the question of whether Muslims might react more favourably to Western demands if perceptions of differing valuations of life were rendered invalid. You have no point, your premise is stupid. Man bites dog is newsworthy, not vise-verse. Muslims are always massacring each other, but when their bloodshed spills out of Islamic lands into the West people here notice and it naturally becomes more newsworthy Turn your spurious bullshit around, why dont Muslims care when Jews are massacred, when Christians Hindus and Sikhs are massacred by Muslims... Because it is common, and it is a basic tenant of Islam that non-believers are subhumans who must either convert or be destroyed anyway Just dog bites man
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