A bunch of thoughts rush through my still very tired head tonight, many of them focusing on the idiocy of Terry Jones and the U.S./global news media. Then, sneaking in, comes a sense of the real lack of understanding between Islam and the U.S.
The media make me maddest–so busy jonesing for drama and controversy that they bloat the ambitions of an attention-seeking idiot. No, Terry Jones makes me maddest, for being an attention-seeking idiot. No, the media for absolutely fanning the flames of the controversy; no Jones himself (idiot) for threatening to light those flames…
And then I think about the part of Islam in this story. Certainly, Muslims are entitled to be enraged by idiots like Jones, but there is also something extremely unsympathetic in the idea that Islamic outrage at the insignificant, if idiotic, Jones would be so extreme as to genuinely put lives at risk across the world
A lot of anger, a lot of attention-seeking, worrisome.
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