Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
I'm usually very quick to say that Islam is a good religion and that it's simply the acts of a few that are spoiling it for the rest. However, this one has really started to get to me. I have no problems with them being pissed and rioting over the cartoon. It's their right if they are offended and I can't criticize them for that. What this has had me asking though is, why aren't they this upset about the killings of innocents in the Mideast? Where are the riots for the beheadings? Where are the images of bin Laden being burned for his distortion of Islam? They seem to be picking their outrages in a rather questionable manner.
You have hit the nail squarely on the head TC.

I have also in the past been quick to point out to those who decry Islam as a religion of small-minded, violent, fanatics that they are making a broad generalization against the moderate majority based on the actions of the extremist minority.

This whole sad saga has made me doubt my previous position very seriously.