Saturday, March 18, 2006
Protesting Turks
Every now and then I stumble across a paragraph in a wire service story that strikes me as more important than everything else. In the very last paragraph of the Reuters article about the demonstrations in France over the loosening of the labor laws, there was this arresting sentence:
Isn't that exactly analogous to Germans demonstrating against a memorial for the Holocaust? Where's the outrage? Are we so jaded to Muslim brutality that we have given up all pretense of holding them to the same standards as the West?
Astonishing.
UPDATE: As a commenter points out, the linked article deleted the relevant paragraph in the write-through. However, Reuters has a longer story on the encounter between the Turks and job protestors here.
Unexpected violence broke out in Lyon when a march of about 2,500 Turks protesting against a memorial to Armenian victims of a 1915 massacre in the then Ottoman Empire crossed paths with the anti-CPE demonstrations.
Isn't that exactly analogous to Germans demonstrating against a memorial for the Holocaust? Where's the outrage? Are we so jaded to Muslim brutality that we have given up all pretense of holding them to the same standards as the West?
Astonishing.
UPDATE: As a commenter points out, the linked article deleted the relevant paragraph in the write-through. However, Reuters has a longer story on the encounter between the Turks and job protestors here.
2 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Mar 18, 05:21:00 PM:
I could not find the paragraph when I linked to the Reuters article.Time 5:19 EST
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Sat Mar 18, 05:26:00 PM:
"Are we so jaded to Muslim brutality that we have given up all pretense of holding them to the same standards as the West?"
Yes.
