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People tend to go crazy about how Islamic regimes abuse their women or about how Israel oppresses the Palestinians, yet we see little of that same enthusiasm outside of the middle east. When's the last time a bunch of activists tried to sail a boat full of pamphlets about democracy into a Chinese port? When's the last time the Security Council had an emergency session to condemn the killing of a handful of people in Burma, or Rwanda, or Congo? As bad as Palestinians or women under sharia law might have it, they have it better than people located in the CAR or Somalia or any of two dozen other places.
Woman in an Islamic country gets 50 lashes for going out on a date without a chaperone = International outrage, threads here
Israel kills 15 activists who are trying to break an embargo = International outrage, threads here
The LRA attacks 10 villages, kills 350 civilians, rapes the women, kidnaps 250 people = Yawn, "what's the LRA?"
Woman in an Islamic country gets 50 lashes for going out on a date without a chaperone = International outrage, threads here
Israel kills 15 activists who are trying to break an embargo = International outrage, threads here
The LRA attacks 10 villages, kills 350 civilians, rapes the women, kidnaps 250 people = Yawn, "what's the LRA?"