The most depressing aspect of the whole cartoon affair is not the intolerance for press freedom exhibited throughout Muslim lands. It is the willingness of so many Muslims — even those who would never burn a consulate or threaten a newspaper editor — to scapegoat the West for their own failures. Muslim nations will never make any progress unless they stop focusing on the offenses, real or imagined, visited upon them by the outside world and start looking within for what ails them."The West as scapegoat." By Max Boot, latimes, 2/15/06.
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February 21, 2006
Muslim scapegoating.
Max Boot reports on a conference in Kuala Lumpur sponsored by New York University and the Malaysian Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations:
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