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  1. I also saw a similar discussion on the subject on AlJazeera with similar justifications in which one of the commentators, an American “progressive” managed to squeeze in with complete seriousness and a straight face: “The Arab spring is completely misunderstood and any discerning student will know that it is an Israeli plot to destabilize the Arab world and fragment it from the current established, strong, stable democracies into small, weak tribal states”. Don’t you just love it?

  2. @ Laura:
    Years ago I read an interview with a writer born in a British Protestant home. He became a foreign correspondent and fell in love with PA and Gaza Arabs. Then he went on to write mystery stories with that location as a setting. ~~~ What really struck me from that interview was a phrase he used. He said he had never felt so alive as when he was in the PA or Gaza. “I felt so alive, everything was so exotic to me—the sights, the sounds. I love the dirt and the dust and the way people speak to each other.” – http://www.themanoftwistsandturns.com/2009/10/16/affable-and-trim/ (Paragraph 13). ~~~ There is something really twisted in the way some people feel excitement and attraction for violent and depraved criminals and rebels.

  4. The other day I listened to an interview with a Syria expert on either CBC radio or NPR (sorry, I can’t find it now) discussing the video of a Syrian rebel eating a soldier’s heart. The expert said that rebels have gone through so much trauma watching civilians getting killed, that he lost it. Stress and emotional trauma made him do it. That was the gist of his elaborate argument. No condemnation but a lengthy and sympathetic explanation.

  6. The late Charles Schulz was conservative and a devout Christian. He would likely have approved of the political content of this cartoon.